Volunteers for August
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writethisfanficThis takes us into September, just makes it a wee bit easier on my end. I'm not available for hosting duties during weeks 1 and 2 as I have family visiting during those weeks.
Week 1: 3rd to 9th
Week 2: 10th to 16th
Week 3: 17th to 23rd
Week 4: 24th to 30th
Week 5: 31st to 6th
Week 1: 3rd to 9th
Week 2: 10th to 16th
Week 3: 17th to 23rd
Week 4: 24th to 30th
Week 5: 31st to 6th
August sign up
Jul. 27th, 2025 01:46 pmlilly_c in writethisfanficIt's time to sign up for the August WIP challenge! Some people join the challenge mid month, or comment on check-in posts without signing up, which is fine -- I'm glad there's a way for the challenge to be useful in a variety of ways. For those of you who find the commitment of signing up useful, please leave a comment with the below information.
Sign-ups will be open until the end of August.
Copypaste below:
The post for hosting the daily check-in is here and thanks to everyone who helps out with this. If you're interested in helping out and there are still slots available the post remains open until the last week of the month and we generally run our week Sunday to Saturday, I'm happy to chat via PM on DW for anyone who might need it.
If you have ever completed a fic through this challenge we have a collection on AO3 and on SquidgeWorld both collections are open and unmoderated. Should there be an issue with adding a work, let me know and I'll see if there's a fix for it.
Sign-ups will be open until the end of August.
Level of challenge: 1 chapter, 1000 words, 1 fic finished, whatever you like
Fandom(s) involved: if you know at this point
What you're looking for from the challenge: this could be as vague or specific as you like: someone to be accountable to, someone to remind you to write, someone to bounce ideas off, etc.
What you could offer other participants yourself: ditto!
How people should contact you: DW message, e-mail, IM etc.
Time zone: useful for seeing who might be up for a writing session at a time convenient to you
Copypaste below:
The post for hosting the daily check-in is here and thanks to everyone who helps out with this. If you're interested in helping out and there are still slots available the post remains open until the last week of the month and we generally run our week Sunday to Saturday, I'm happy to chat via PM on DW for anyone who might need it.
If you have ever completed a fic through this challenge we have a collection on AO3 and on SquidgeWorld both collections are open and unmoderated. Should there be an issue with adding a work, let me know and I'll see if there's a fix for it.
Blackout Bingo 2x2 Western
Jul. 27th, 2025 01:15 pmsmallhobbit in allbingoTitle: When Plan A Fails Try Plan B (or Plan C...)
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes (ACD)
Ratings: G
Pairings: Sherlock Holmes, Dr Watson, Ferret, Mouselet, Aemelia Vole, Ocelot, Poley the Moley, Sloth
Prompts: Rattlesnake; Sunbonnet; Chasing a Dream; Armadillo
When Plan A Fails Try Plan B (or Plan C...) on AO3
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes (ACD)
Ratings: G
Pairings: Sherlock Holmes, Dr Watson, Ferret, Mouselet, Aemelia Vole, Ocelot, Poley the Moley, Sloth
Prompts: Rattlesnake; Sunbonnet; Chasing a Dream; Armadillo
When Plan A Fails Try Plan B (or Plan C...) on AO3
AO3 Stats Meme
Jul. 26th, 2025 08:35 pmreeby10Snagged from tellshannon815
If you’ve written fics for more than one year on AO3, go to your statistics page. Click on the different years at the top to see the categories of statistics for each year.
1. Which year did you write the most words? Do you know why? e.g. you had more time; you were caught up in an exciting new fandom or pairing; you got a rush of ideas etc.
I'm forever behind on posting fic, so not all posted in one year was written that year and not all written in one year was posted that year, but taking that into account... 2015 was my year with the most words, at almost 119k. Which is wild considering my current output! I was only working a few hours a week most of that year, basically unemployed, so I guess I did have more time to write.
2. Which year did you write the least words? Why was this? e.g. lack of time, too busy, no inspiration etc.
Same as above, and also taking out 2011 and 2025 as they're not full years on AO3. 2012 was my year with the least words, with 6.5k. I was in college that year, plus did a summer study abroad program, plus had a terrible soul-sucking roommate in the fall, so I guess that explains the very low word count.
3. Which years did you get most hits, kudos, bookmarks and fic subscriptions? Do you know why? (e.g. popular fandoms, lots of words written.) Are there years where you have the same amount of bookmarks and subscriptions?
Most hits was 2015, with almost 663k hits. Most kudos was also 2015, with almost 15k kudos. Most bookmarks was 2017, with almost 2.5k bookmarks. Most fic subscriptions was 207, with over 500 subs. My two most popular fics by hits were posted in 2015 and my most popular fic by kudos was posted in 2017. All of which were HP fics, when that was still wildly popular lol
4. Which years did you get least hits, kudos, bookmarks and fic subscriptions? Do you know why? (e.g. niche fandoms, not many fics written.) Do you have any other conclusions?
Least hits was 2024, with almost 19k hits. Least kudos was also 2024, with almost 2k kudos. Least bookmarks was 2013, with less than 300 bookmarks. Least fic subscriptions was also 2013, with less than 40 fic subs. 2013 was all short fics under 1k words and 2024 was a lot of poetry, which never gets much attention. Just my guesses on why the numbers are lower, since mostly the fandoms/ships were fairly similar in terms of popularity.
tellshannon815 If you’ve written fics for more than one year on AO3, go to your statistics page. Click on the different years at the top to see the categories of statistics for each year.
1. Which year did you write the most words? Do you know why? e.g. you had more time; you were caught up in an exciting new fandom or pairing; you got a rush of ideas etc.
I'm forever behind on posting fic, so not all posted in one year was written that year and not all written in one year was posted that year, but taking that into account... 2015 was my year with the most words, at almost 119k. Which is wild considering my current output! I was only working a few hours a week most of that year, basically unemployed, so I guess I did have more time to write.
2. Which year did you write the least words? Why was this? e.g. lack of time, too busy, no inspiration etc.
Same as above, and also taking out 2011 and 2025 as they're not full years on AO3. 2012 was my year with the least words, with 6.5k. I was in college that year, plus did a summer study abroad program, plus had a terrible soul-sucking roommate in the fall, so I guess that explains the very low word count.
3. Which years did you get most hits, kudos, bookmarks and fic subscriptions? Do you know why? (e.g. popular fandoms, lots of words written.) Are there years where you have the same amount of bookmarks and subscriptions?
Most hits was 2015, with almost 663k hits. Most kudos was also 2015, with almost 15k kudos. Most bookmarks was 2017, with almost 2.5k bookmarks. Most fic subscriptions was 207, with over 500 subs. My two most popular fics by hits were posted in 2015 and my most popular fic by kudos was posted in 2017. All of which were HP fics, when that was still wildly popular lol
4. Which years did you get least hits, kudos, bookmarks and fic subscriptions? Do you know why? (e.g. niche fandoms, not many fics written.) Do you have any other conclusions?
Least hits was 2024, with almost 19k hits. Least kudos was also 2024, with almost 2k kudos. Least bookmarks was 2013, with less than 300 bookmarks. Least fic subscriptions was also 2013, with less than 40 fic subs. 2013 was all short fics under 1k words and 2024 was a lot of poetry, which never gets much attention. Just my guesses on why the numbers are lower, since mostly the fandoms/ships were fairly similar in terms of popularity.
Check In: Day 26
Jul. 26th, 2025 01:00 pmglitteringstars in writethisfanficHappy Saturday!
How has writing been going?
-Fantastic!
-Great!
-Good!
-Okay/Chugging along!
-Busy/Rest day!
Discussion: Is there a genre you'd love to write but just haven't yet?
How has writing been going?
-Fantastic!
-Great!
-Good!
-Okay/Chugging along!
-Busy/Rest day!
Discussion: Is there a genre you'd love to write but just haven't yet?
Blackout Bingo 2x2 Winterfest in July
Jul. 26th, 2025 12:29 pmsmallhobbit in allbingoTitle: A Slightly Different Christmas
Fandoms: Spooks (MI5)
Ratings: G
Pairings: Lucas North/Adam Carter
Prompts: Using Holidays Theme: St Nikolaus Day; Winter Solstice; Christmas Day; New Year's Eve
A Slightly Different Christmas on AO3
Fandoms: Spooks (MI5)
Ratings: G
Pairings: Lucas North/Adam Carter
Prompts: Using Holidays Theme: St Nikolaus Day; Winter Solstice; Christmas Day; New Year's Eve
A Slightly Different Christmas on AO3
Disney_20in20 - Round 11 - Kida
Jul. 25th, 2025 10:09 pmreeby1020 Kida from Atlantis: The Lost Empire icons for disney_20in20
Preview:
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Check In: Day 25
Jul. 25th, 2025 07:30 pmglitteringstars in writethisfanficHappy Friday!
How did writing go today?
-Fantastic!
-Great!
-Good!
-Busy/Rest!
Discussion: What are the techniques you use for brainstorming?
How did writing go today?
-Fantastic!
-Great!
-Good!
-Busy/Rest!
Discussion: What are the techniques you use for brainstorming?
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Jul. 26th, 2025 12:20 amtellshannon815Challenge #7
The Ferris Wheel
Journaling: Life in fandom goes through ups and downs. Reminisce about the "wild ride" of your time in fandom or in other online communities.
Creative: Create an image or a photo with the theme "let's go for a ride".
If you've known me a while, you probably know a lot of this, so you can feel free to skip. But for those who haven't, here's a long boring waffle. I was first aware of the existence of fandom round about 2002, when I was in my second year at St Andrews and my then-boyfriend had some friends who were active in the Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings fandoms. I wasn't really active at that point, especially once I went no contact with this friendship group (this was an "ex kept the friends" situation) and if anything I avoided it a bit so as not to bump into The Piss Artist Formerly Known as Xander (one of my ex's friends posted her fics under that name and went along with it for ages when people assumed Xander was her real name, then started a relationship with this woman in Australia letting her think she was this Xander dude as well)...yeah, there were reasons I remained no contact with that lot.
Flash forward to a couple of years after my graduation, at which point I started getting into Lost, which is the first fandom I was really active in, and is still my top one. (I'll get to my all time top five later, the other four are more recent.) I found myself wanting to expand on the backstories, especially for those characters where canon barely touched them. If you've known me a while, you probably know my "I Think This Flashback's Mostly Filler" pet peeve where it's always bugged me when too much focus is placed on the same old characters while others are pushed aside (yes, Jack's tattoos, I'm looking at you, although Once Upon a Time did flog Regina vs Snow to death a bit as well. I've had this pet peeve since I was about 13, was reading this series about a group of teens on an island off the coast of Maine, and got seriously annoyed at the amount of focus on this one character who I grew to find really irritating). And I wanted to correct certain canon cockups, such as certain character deaths. So that was how I started out in fandom.
Over time, I was active in more fandoms, Fringe, Doctor Who, Vampire Diaries-verse, Arrowverse, Supernatural, Once Upon a Time, How To Get Away with Murder, Roswell New Mexico, Riverdale-verse, Lucifer, Buffyverse, Harper's Island, Cruel Summer, The Wilds, Hunger Games, Pretty Little Liars, Teen Wolf, iZombie, Game of Thrones-verse. At this point in time, my ultimate top five are Lost, Dark, From, Yellowjackets and School Spirits (the last four being shows I got into in the last couple of years, but the ones I'm most active in right now.)
I've had my peaks and my troughs - 2013 is what I refer to as the zombie year after having basically gone through it on autopilot (bit of context for anyone who doesn't know, since Dad wasn't in my life as much after about the early 1990s, my grandad effectively took over as my father figure, and that was the year he died after a short illness), while 2019 was the year I briefly lost confidence after getting trolled. I now know this troll was someone calling themself 0 who was trolling lots of people in the Arrowverse fandom at the time, asking for very specific requests and then leaving repeated rude comments and "corrections" for anyone who didn't write them. (Corrections in inverted commas because for me, what 0 was trying to correct weren't mistakes - a character changing her name in an alternate timeline that was going to be fully explained in a later chapter, a character's reaction to something that was written and posted before that character found out about it in canon so I didn't have that to work with, but the troll was reading after it aired, did have that context, didn't spot that date and decided I was wrong - but if I was being more generous to 0 than I really felt, I could see how they wrongly assumed they were mistakes. Apart from the other one which was just a difference of opinion rather than anything being wrong in the first place.) And 2020 is pretty self explanatory.
The Ferris Wheel
Journaling: Life in fandom goes through ups and downs. Reminisce about the "wild ride" of your time in fandom or in other online communities.
Creative: Create an image or a photo with the theme "let's go for a ride".
If you've known me a while, you probably know a lot of this, so you can feel free to skip. But for those who haven't, here's a long boring waffle. I was first aware of the existence of fandom round about 2002, when I was in my second year at St Andrews and my then-boyfriend had some friends who were active in the Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings fandoms. I wasn't really active at that point, especially once I went no contact with this friendship group (this was an "ex kept the friends" situation) and if anything I avoided it a bit so as not to bump into The Piss Artist Formerly Known as Xander (one of my ex's friends posted her fics under that name and went along with it for ages when people assumed Xander was her real name, then started a relationship with this woman in Australia letting her think she was this Xander dude as well)...yeah, there were reasons I remained no contact with that lot.
Flash forward to a couple of years after my graduation, at which point I started getting into Lost, which is the first fandom I was really active in, and is still my top one. (I'll get to my all time top five later, the other four are more recent.) I found myself wanting to expand on the backstories, especially for those characters where canon barely touched them. If you've known me a while, you probably know my "I Think This Flashback's Mostly Filler" pet peeve where it's always bugged me when too much focus is placed on the same old characters while others are pushed aside (yes, Jack's tattoos, I'm looking at you, although Once Upon a Time did flog Regina vs Snow to death a bit as well. I've had this pet peeve since I was about 13, was reading this series about a group of teens on an island off the coast of Maine, and got seriously annoyed at the amount of focus on this one character who I grew to find really irritating). And I wanted to correct certain canon cockups, such as certain character deaths. So that was how I started out in fandom.
Over time, I was active in more fandoms, Fringe, Doctor Who, Vampire Diaries-verse, Arrowverse, Supernatural, Once Upon a Time, How To Get Away with Murder, Roswell New Mexico, Riverdale-verse, Lucifer, Buffyverse, Harper's Island, Cruel Summer, The Wilds, Hunger Games, Pretty Little Liars, Teen Wolf, iZombie, Game of Thrones-verse. At this point in time, my ultimate top five are Lost, Dark, From, Yellowjackets and School Spirits (the last four being shows I got into in the last couple of years, but the ones I'm most active in right now.)
I've had my peaks and my troughs - 2013 is what I refer to as the zombie year after having basically gone through it on autopilot (bit of context for anyone who doesn't know, since Dad wasn't in my life as much after about the early 1990s, my grandad effectively took over as my father figure, and that was the year he died after a short illness), while 2019 was the year I briefly lost confidence after getting trolled. I now know this troll was someone calling themself 0 who was trolling lots of people in the Arrowverse fandom at the time, asking for very specific requests and then leaving repeated rude comments and "corrections" for anyone who didn't write them. (Corrections in inverted commas because for me, what 0 was trying to correct weren't mistakes - a character changing her name in an alternate timeline that was going to be fully explained in a later chapter, a character's reaction to something that was written and posted before that character found out about it in canon so I didn't have that to work with, but the troll was reading after it aired, did have that context, didn't spot that date and decided I was wrong - but if I was being more generous to 0 than I really felt, I could see how they wrongly assumed they were mistakes. Apart from the other one which was just a difference of opinion rather than anything being wrong in the first place.) And 2020 is pretty self explanatory.
