Thanks, Mila and bunny Meiling! Mila writes, "Meiling has a very grounded, connective presence! She is extremely attentive and loves to interact with people. Having her actually feels somewhat similar to having a dog and in fact, she is bigger than some small-sized dogs! She is an absolute sweetheart! <3"
Content Notes: Dip pen and nib, the ink is Diamine's Merry and Bright shimmer, which I couldn't get to shimmer for you. The bits that do shimmer are gold against the green but it's a subtle one. Usual, no pencil, no rubbing out, and just something that vaguely came out of my head. I probably should've looked at some references. But why start now?
Flower Power 2 - Voting We have over forty fabulous icons. Thank you very much to all the participants! Voter Guide Anyone is welcome to vote. Please choose five (5) icons for the main placements and one each for the categories Best Color (Coloring), Best Image Crop & Best Composition. Please, don't vote for your own icons or ask others to vote for your icons. Please try to vote for the best quality icons, not only the subjects, fandoms or makers. Important: Please vote for a different icon for each of the categories (Color, Crop, Composition). There is a checkbox & text answer combo poll. Voting will be open for one week. Thank you for voting. If any icons are missing, please view a screen shot of the icon table in the comments.
Since trans headcanons and the portrayal of trans characters can be personal for many people, writers might be nervous to write trans headcanons without invitation. This mini challenge is for people to signal that they would love to receive trans headcanons, as well as to showcase their requested fandoms with canon trans characters.
Note that this exchange is open to nonbinary characters as well.
To participate, simply copy-paste the following into a comment:
AO3 name: Letter link: Likes and DNWs: Fandom: Characters: Details:
If you post a fic for Yuletide with one or more trans characters, tag it with TransTide so people can find it easily
Here’s a list of all poems (including ballads and traditional songs) in the 2023 tagset, with links to texts as best I can find, and a notation of original language if not English. Please let me know of any additions or corrections.
Title: The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches Author: Sangu Mandanna Genre: Cozy fantasy, romance
Happy spooky month! My book club read The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches this month, and it was a fun story about a lonely witch finding a family.
There aren't many rules for witches, but the most important rule is to keep yourself hidden. Another very important rule is witches should not gather together, out of fear of magic going haywire. Mika Moon, a lonely witch, decides to break these rules when a desperate man reaches out to her for her help with teaching three young witches how to control their powers.
This is a sweet story about making your own home, focusing on Mika and the odd inhabitants of Nowhere House, including a grumpy but handsome librarian, Jamie. Thanks to Mika’s cold upbringing, she has few connections with others and feels isolated. As she becomes more comfortable at Nowhere House, she starts questioning the rules she was raised with and fall in love with Jamie. The residents are also misfits of society who are fiercely protective of the safe refuge they made, understand her loneliness and extends their family to her. However, when Mika learns their secrets, she realizes the situation is more complicated than expected.
I am not usually a fan of cozy fantasies, but this was a nice breezy read and I enjoyed the romance. It’s a rather predictable story, but still entertaining with charming characters that you just want to root for. I'm also admittedly a big fan of the Jane Austen references throughout the books!
It is time once more for the Yuletide Madness Drabble Invitational!
Are you going through the tagset, thinking about your signup, and getting lured down plotbunny holes?
Well, if you are entranced by tiny canons, luscious fandom promos, or letters with prompts that you absolutely adore, and you've got to do something to appease the itty bitty plot bunnies that are nibbling at your ankles, the Yuletide Madness Drabble Invitational is back to meet all your "I don't have time or brain enough to do 1000 words, but that idea is still keen" needs.
How does it work?
Write drabbles or drabble series for Yuletide Madness. Proper ones, where the text of each drabble is exactly 100 words, please. Ficlets are fun, but not all ficlets are drabbles in just the same way as not all poems are sonnets. (You can, of course, post a 1000 word tale told in drabbles, where each chapter/bit is exactly 100 words to the main Yuletide collection, if you like. Just be sure that it is eligible to fulfill the main gift rules for that recipient.)
Give them to people.
Add "yumadrin" or "Yuletide Madness Drabble Invitational" to the tags.
That's it!
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As of the start of Yuletide 2025 we have created 939 drabbles, the oldest ones from 2013 when the Invitational. We are so close to a thousand! These little mini-gifts are a lot of fun to give, and to get, and they're fun to create as well. Check out the tag to see what we mean!
There are many ways of queering texts and characters. This challenge is for any and all of them! The widest possible definition of queering is used here. If you think your prompt counts, then so do we. To participate, leave a comment on this post linking to your letter, so anyone interested in queering your canon for Yuletide can find you. Tag any fics for this mini-challenge with Queering The Tide. (I suggest you tag both Queering the Tide and TransTide if the two happen to overlap.)
You can copy/paste this form below for your comment.
<strong>AO3 name:</strong>
<strong>Letter link:</strong>
<strong>Fandom: </strong>
<strong>Any specific fandom details, preferences, comments, etc:</strong>
Challenge 197 is now closed. ⏰ I will post the voting soon and a new challenge later, for October.🎃🦇 Thank you, entrants, for your patience.
P.S. I just learned that the Imgur is blocked in the UK so I will add a screen shot to the voting post if any icons are hosted on it. Opera browser has a free built in VPN if it helps.
Why this piece is awesome: Really fun art style! I love their back-to-back fighting poses, the warm colour palette, and the design choices for their clothes and hair.
What is Family Matters? Unrelated to the sitcom (or anything else, actually), Family Matters is a mini challenge focused on sibling relationships. Whether that be traditional, half, foster/adoptive, or step siblings, siblings of all kinds are welcome. For the purposes of this mini challenge, I am excluding found family (unless there are sibling relationships within) and “I see them as a sibling” relationships (unless, of course, that statement is meant to be literal.) As I won’t be policing anything, please use your best interest and feel free to ask me any questions in the comments.
What about incest? This is NOT the incest mini challenge. Someone made one last year and I'm hoping, for all interested, that it's continues on. However, nothing and no one is stopping you from signing up to both if that’s what you want.
What if [character]’s sibling isn’t in the tagset? Good news! As long as at least one sibling is in the tagset (and you’re requesting them), this won’t be a problem.
How do I participate? Leave a comment with the following details: <strong>AO3 Username:</strong> <strong>Letter Link (if applicable):</strong> <strong>Fandoms & Requested Characters + Their Siblings (not necessary, but it might help to put if they’re in the tagset or not/if you’re requesting them):</strong> <strong>Prompts (optional):</strong> <strong>Any Other Details:</strong> How do I tag for this? The challenge, specifically? Yuletide Family Matters But in general, try some of these, if applicable: Siblings, Sibling Rivalry, Brother-Brother Relationship, Brother-Sister Relationship, Sister-Sister Relationship, Adopted Sibling Relationship, Step-Siblings
Call me Crows. Or Birdy. This journal is an attempt to collect all of my fanworks in one place. Old fanwork is backdated for archiving purposes. >> AO3 >> GoodReads >> GoodReads (Comics) >> Dragon Age World State
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