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Title: Getting to Ray
Author:

lucy_roman
Rating: Teen and up
Summary: After receiving a threatening letter Fraser has gone to find Ray
Pairing: Fraser/RayK
Word count: 566

( Getting to Ray )

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Challenge 270:
PRIDE

...goes before a fall?

Pride isn’t always a bad thing, of course. Confidence in yourself, satisfaction in a job well-done, open self-acceptance – all of those might fall under the category of being proud, and those are generally good things! But taken too far, pride can make things difficult; too much pride might stop you from accepting help, be off-putting to friends or family, or even turn into dangerous overconfidence.

Are your characters proud, justifiably or otherwise?

Write a story about pride.

BONUS GOAL: “What are you worried about? It’s me.”

If your submission features this line, it will earn an extra point to be tallied in voting!

Challenge ends Monday, August 11 at 9:00PM EST.

• Post submissions as new entries using the template in the profile
• Tag this week's entries as: [#] submission, 270 – pride
• If you have questions about this challenge, please ask them here

beatrice_otter posting in

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Fandom: MCU
Pairings/Characters: Steve/Bucky, Sam/Steve
Rating: explicit
Length: 127k
Creator Links:

ChibiSquirt
Theme: marriage of convenience, pretend couple, happy endings, genderfuck

Summary: Sarah “Gwen” Rogers was nineteen when she married Bucky Barnes, and she knew at the time just how stupid it was: it wasn’t exactly a brilliant move to marry a man who could never love her, even—or especially—when she knew that she was in love with him.

Neither of them could have predicted the war that came, and if they had, then they sure as hell couldn’t have predicted what would happen when Gwen volunteered for Project: Rebirth.

Reccer's Notes: This is one of the more interesting Captain America genderswaps: what would it do to the essential closeness and devotion of Steve and Bucky's relationship if Bucky was 1000% gay, and Steve was a cis woman? But they still cared about each other as much? They decide to get married, to protect Bucky from gossip, and things go from there. This is such an interesting take on their relationship, on how being a cis woman would affect "Sarah" (especially once she wakes up in modern America after being frozen for seventy years), and her relationship with Sam. All while telling the basic events of the movie.

Fanwork Links: You Would Be In Clover

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Title: tethered
Fandom: Thunderbolts* (MCU)
Characters: Robert "Bob" Reynolds & Yelena Belova
Rating: Teen
Length: 200 words
Content notes: hints at mental health issues
Summary: Bob gets lost in the crowd

( tethered )

garryowen posting in

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Fandom: Star Trek AOS (Reboot)
Pairings/Characters: Kirk/Spock
Rating: Teen
Length: 4,249 words
Creator Links:

waketosleep
Theme: Marriage of convenience

Summary: Kirk nearly turns a simple trade mission into a diplomatic incident. Luckily, Spock will do a lot to cover his captain's ass.

Reccer's Notes: What I love about Kirk and Spock is that there are so many different takes on who they are and how they'd act, and, in the hands of a good writer, every one of those is believable. In this story, Kirk is a totally obnoxious doofus who makes a major diplomatic blunder (as he does) and has to marry Spock to save face and a dilithium trade deal. Spock is tolerant and eye-rolly.

Kirk/Spock is one of my favorite pairings for marriages of convenience because these two are so married already, and they usually have a high degree of love (even if platonic) for one another at the time of the marriage. That quality is on display here.

This is the first story waketosleep wrote in this fandom. It's short and sweet, and worth revisiting even if you read it in 2009 when it was originally posted.

Fanwork Links: Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known

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Theme Prompt: 269 - Self Indulgence
Title: Nails
Fandom: Final Fantasy XII
Rating/Warnings: G/None.
Bonus: No
Word Count: 147
Summary: Penelo helps Fran with a relaxing little ritual.

( Nails )

beatrice_otter posting in

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Fandom: Captain America
Pairings/Characters: Bucky/Peggy, Peggy/Steve, Steve/Bucky
Rating: teen
Length: 37k words
Creator Links:

crackdkettle
Theme: marriage of convenience, kidfic (has kids, accidental baby), pretend couple,

Summary: The Commandos find Bucky in a Hydra facility just days after Steve crashes. A few months later, Peggy comes to Bucky for help: she’s pregnant with Steve’s child and she wants him to claim the child as his so the SSR won’t experiment on it to try to crack Erskine’s formula. Over the next several years Bucky slowly learns how to navigate the life that was meant for Steve — as a husband, father, and founding member of SHIELD — while never giving up the search for the man he lost and still loves.

Reccer's Notes: I love the way crackdkettle handles Bucky and Peggy's mutual grief, and the different ways they handle it, and the slow course of their healing.

Fanwork Links: A Better Version of Our Past

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Hello, Pears! Thanks for your nominations. Rare Pair's tag mods and I have been battling "Retry Later" and "You've made too many clicks" while you've been making nominations and we appreciate your patience!

We have a few queries. If I do not hear back from the nominators 24 hours after the publishing of this post, I will be rejecting the applicable nominations.

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~~Belongs under Crossover Fandom~~

SK8 the Infinity (Anime)
Nanjo Kojiro | Joe/Shindo Ainosuke | Adam (FE3H)

Please correct this nomination with the accurate disambiguations. The fandom should be "Crossover Fandom", not "SK8 the Infinity (Anime)". If this is not corrected, it will be rejected. Completed and accepted with (SK8) disambiguation.

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Belongs under MCU

Please refer to the nominations guidelines before nominating under a big franchise.

The Marvels (Movie 2023)
Brunnhilde | Valkyrie/Carol Danvers (The Marvels)

Please renominate under "Marvel Cinematic Universe". If this is not corrected, it will be rejected. Completed and accepted.

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Queries

The Magicians (TV)
Quentin Coldwater/The Monster (Magicians TV)
Martin Chatwin/Quentin Coldwater (Magicians TV)

Is the Monster Martin Chatwin? (I'm wondering if these are duplicates.)

わが青春のアルカディア | Waga Seishun no Arcadia | Arcadia of My Youth (1982)
Harlock/Maya (Captain Harlock)

There's the Arcadia of My Youth canon and Captain Haddock — Are they the same canon?

Super Mario & Related Fandoms
Princess Daisy/Princess Peach (Nintendo)

We do not accept "& Related Fandoms". I am happy to hear a case for this to remain as is. Otherwise, pease amend this with the specific canon that you are nominating from. If this is not corrected, it will be rejected.

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Disambiguate your nominations

If the below have not been amended/accepted into the tagset, please edit them to include the disambiguation so they can be accepted. If you are unsure of what disambiguations are, please refer to the nominations guidelines.

光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Anime)
"Hikaru" | Fake Indou Hikaru/Tsujinaka Yoshiki
Original Indou Hikaru/Tsujinaka Yoshiki

僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
Aoyama Yuuga/Midoriya Izuku
Midoriya Izuku/Rody Soul

Gundam 00
Saji Crossroad/Setsuna F. Seiei
Tieria Erde/Setsuna F. Seiei

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga)
Pegasus J. Crawford | Maximillion Pegasus/Pandora the Conjurer | Arkana
Yami Bakura/Yami Yuugi | Atem

Persona 5
Iwai Munehisa/Persona 5 Protagonist

SK8 the Infinity (Anime)
Nanjo Kojiro | Joe/Shindo Ainosuke | Adam (FE3H)

Please amend the disambiguation to (SK8).

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Rejected nominations

Tennis no Oujisama | Prince of Tennis
Fuji Shuusuke/Tezuka Kunimitsu

This relationship has over 250 works and is thus not eligible for the exchange.

人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
Liu Qingge/Shen Jiu | Original Shen Qingqiu

This relationship has over 250 works and is thus not eligible for the exchange.

If you find your nomination is rejected, it is because it does not meet the eligibility of the exchange. Please refer to the nominations guidelines for our eligibility criteria.

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Duplicates and errors in tagset

Please let me know if you see any duplicates or errors in the tagset by replying to this post with the fandom and impacted tags. This will help greatly as we are bound to have duplicates due to the number of nominations that are coming through, and because of the "Retry Later" error we're receiving as we check eligibility and approve nominations.

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Remove accent markers from nominations

Please remove accent markers from nominations as this will help us identify duplicates in the tagset.

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If you have any questions, please feel free to comment on this post. Anon commenting is on.

beatrice_otter posting in

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Fandom: All About Eve
Pairings/Characters: Addison DeWitt/Eve Harrington
Rating: Gen
Length: 1634 words
Creator Links:

AuKestrel
Theme: marriage of convenience, future fic, kidfic (has kids), small fandom, old fandom, post canon,

Summary: You see, society and theatre (and aren’t they really the same thing? - someone, please, offer Mrs. Albert Knickerbacker her smelling salts) are built on the sand of lies: lies of omission, lies of commission, old-fashioned deceit, dishonesty, and compounded misunderstandings.

It takes only a rudimentary understanding and a halfway-capable grasp of human nature to begin to sift the truth from the lies.

Reccer's Notes: All About Eve is a classic 1950s drama about a young actress (Eve Harrington) who advances her career by playing a sweet innocent, attaching herself to an aging star (Margot Channing, played by Bette Davis), and stabbing her in the back. At the end of the movie, Eve marries a witty, snobbish, and super-queer-coded theater critic (Addison DeWitt). This is his perspective on their marriage and their daughter. The narrative voice is very strong, it feels like the movie.

Fanwork Links: Till I have the possession of everything she touches

Mods, can I get a fandom tag?

badly_knitted posting in

fan_flashworks

Title: Noticed
Fandom: BtVS
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Willow, Oz.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 400
Spoilers/Setting: Season Two & Three.
Summary: Willow had always thought of herself as ordinary, but Oz makes her feel special
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 487: Crowd.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BtVS, or the characters.
A/N: Quadruple drabble.

( Noticed... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

mific posting in

fancake

Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, Jeannie, other OCs like John's cousin, mother and sister, and Rodney's nieces.
Rating: Explicit
Length: 12,417
Content Notes: no AO3-type warnings apply
Creator Links: Brighid on AO3, Brighid (aka mz_bstone) on sga_flashfic, librarychick_94 on AO3, librarychick_94 on Audiofic Archive
Themes: Marriage of Convenience, First time, Pining, AU

Summary: A marriage of convenience has some very incovenient complications for Rodney, as he deals with the fact that he's still in love with John Sheppard.

Reccer's Notes: Written for a Harlequin challenge, this has the classic structure with John persuading Rodney to marry him so as to access an inheritance and get control of his family's aeronautics company, and Rodney, who's carried a torch for John since childhood, going along despite fearing John will break his heart. It's mostly a complete AU although Rodney used to be in the Stargate programme, and John used to be in the Air Force, so I guess it could be a very divergent canon-divergent AU. The writing's fresh and amusing and of course it has the requisite happy ending. As it dates from 2005 (and is anyway an AU) several details differ from canon, like Rodney's and John's families. A fun, romantic read, and an SGA classic.

Fanwork Links: The Convenient Husband pt 1 & part 2, and an excellent podfic read by librarychick_94

beatrice_otter posting in

fancake

Fandom: MCU
Pairings/Characters: Katy Chen/Shang-Chi
Rating: Mature
Length: 53k
Creator Links:

NyxEtoile,

OlivesAwl
Theme: marriage of convenience, AU, going home, friends to lovers, everyone thinks we're dating, competence, characters of color,

Summary: As they walked out, she could feel Shaun stewing and probably pissed off beside her, but he didn’t say anything, so neither did she. Instead she pulled out her phone and googled San Francisco marriage license.

They were in the elevator before he finally spoke. “This is not something I’m willing to let you do.”

“Okay, well, getting deported back to fucking China is not something I’m willing to let you do, so where does that leave us?”

Reccer's Notes: Shaun has a problem with his immigration status. His best friend Katy offers the obvious solution: a green card marriage. This changes many things, but others stay the same. This fic explores Shaun and Katy's life together, from marriage to school to the Snap to the events of the movie, in a fun and engaging way. I love the way both characters are written, but especially Katy--she really gets a chance to shine, when she's not shoved into the Funny Best Friend role.

Fanwork Links: Sing You a Song of Devotion

beatrice_otter posting in

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Fandom: Endeavour (TV)
Pairings/Characters: Endeavour Morse/Joan Thursday
Rating: teen
Length: 57k
Creator Links:

Pink_Dalek
Theme: marriage of convenience, kidfic (has kids), AU, fork in the road, small fandoms, domestic, friends to lovers,

Summary: An AU starting from when Joan came to Morse's flat in "Harvest." What if he'd told her what he felt wasn't pity? What if she'd told him about the baby? Things could have been very different. No Series/Season 5 spoilers.

Reccer's Notes: In the show, Morse and Joan have a flirtation and chemistry and some light pining, but nothing ever comes from it because we know from the other shows (Endeavour (TV) is a prequel) that Morse never married. Instead, Joan had an affair with a married man, got pregnant, miscarried due to abuse, became a social worker, and married someone else. There are a lot of AUs where Morse and Joan get together, and this is one of my favorites. When he finds out she's pregnant, Morse asks Joan to marry him, and off they go from there. Both of them have a lot to learn about life together, and I enjoy watching them and their children grow and change.

Fanwork Links: An Unexpected Family

beatrice_otter posting in

fancake

Fandom: Vorkosiverse (Ethan of Athos)
Pairings/Characters: Terrence Cee/Ethan Urquhart
Rating: Mature
Length: 20k
Creator Links:

fresne
Theme: marriage of convenience, worldbuilding, small fandoms, book fandoms, old fandoms, rare pairings, telepathy, pretend couple, post-canon, family,

Summary: Terrence Cee had spent most of his life feeling like a jumpship caught in the gravity well of a blackhole. Engines on full bore. Only able to keep out of the crushing center, but never able to escape. Now in his new life on Athos, he found himself unsure of how to find a new pace.

Ethan wondered if there was a way to get his love life gestating again. Not frozen like zygotes stored in a bio-freezer against some eventual future.

Reccer's Notes: Ethan of Athos is a largely stand-alone book set in the Vorkosigan universe. It tells the story of Ethan, a reproductive specialist from an isolationist planet that is entirely men (because they believe women are inherently sinful). When they need new ovarian cultures, Ethan is sent off into the larger galaxy to purchase them, and ends up having an adventure. Along the way, he meets a man named Terrence Cee, genetically created in a laboratory to be a telepath, who tried to slip telepathic genes into Athos' ovarian cultures because he believes that if telepaths are a minority, they will always be feared and exploited. Since everyone on Athos reproduces artificially, putting telepath genes in their ovarian cultures will mean that future generations will be entirely composed of telepaths. At the end of the book, Ethan agrees to use the telepath cultures, and invites Terrence to live with him and be a co-parent--a relationship which can be sexual, but isn't necessarily.

This story is a lovely exploration of what happens next. The worldbuilding is excellent, taking the hints from the book and expanding them into a fully-realized world. The characters are all well-written, and the relationships feel real, as Terrence tries to adapt to Athos, and both of them try to figure out what they want from each other and how to work towards it.

Fanwork Links: Time Enough

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Compare and Contrast.

( Employee's Husband Sent Us Revenge Porn )

( 4. Delivery person uses our lunchroom )

Current Mood: shocked

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Only two entries this week, so it'll be the usual Amnesty until Wednesday. Stay tuned for your regularly scheduled new challenge at the usual 9pm EST!

infinitum_noctem posting in

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Title: These Moments Matter
Fandom: Women's Soccer RPF
Pairings: Hope Solo/Kelley O'Hara
Characters: Hope Solo, Kelley O'Hara
Rating: G
Length: 104 words
Summary: Hope misses being on the field sometimes, but these moments matter more.

( Read more... )

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Dear Carolyn: A friend and colleague has been MIA at work and in our friend circle for weeks. She claims she hurt her back, is in pain and having procedures and and and… And this has her missing meetings and deadlines and happy hour and dropping all the balls. She has not told anyone exactly what happened with her back. She said she was doing some light housework when it just hurt all of a sudden, which sounds ridiculous to me and everyone else I know. We don’t know what “procedures” she has had. We don’t know when she will get back to normal. We’re not talking about an old person here; she is 43! I called her the other day and I could hear the TV on, during the workday, which she turned off or muted when she took my call.

I feel like she is lying or exaggerating to get out of work — while not taking formal leave or PTO, because we can work remotely — and she is blowing off her friends and colleagues while we pick up the slack for her at the office and make her excuses at social functions. How do I figure out what’s really going on with her, and get her to do her own work again so I don’t have to fill in for someone who is home watching TV while I’m busting my you-know-what?

— Busting My You-Know-What

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[#270 | Pride] Challenge Post

Multifandom: Fandom With Benefits (monthly events)

Captain America: You Would Be In Clover by ChibiSquirt

Thunderbolts*: Fanfic: tethered

Star Trek AOS: Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known by waketosleep

[#269] Nails (Final Fantasy XII)

Captain America: A Better Version of Our Past by crackdkettle

Nomination queries #1.

All About Eve: Till I have the possession of everything she touches by AuKestrel

[ MULTIFANDOM ] - RARE PAIR EXCHANGE NOMINATIONS ARE OPEN!

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Fanfic: Noticed

SGA: The Convenient Husband by Brighid

Shang-Chi: Sing You a Song of Devotion by NyxEtoile and OlivesAwl

Endeavour: An Unexpected Family by Pink_Dalek

Vorkosiverse (Ethan of Athos): Time Enough by fresne

Ask a Manager: Two From The Same Column

Admin Post: [#269 | Self-Indulgence] Amnesty

Women's Soccer RPF: Fanfiction: These Moments Matter

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