Nominations queries, part two

Jul. 14th, 2025 01:22 am
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Hello again, and continued thanks to everyone who has submitted nominations so far! The nominations period is nearing a close, with a little under two days remaining at time of posting. As I continue approving nominations, I'd like to take the time to clarify a few nominations that have been made since the previous query post.

If you see one (or more) of your nominations in this post, please comment on this post by the end of the nominations period, 22:00 UTC on 15 July (countdown) so that I can approve your tag(s) appropriately. Thank you!

Crossover Fandom
  • Caroline Bingley (P&P)/Any Austen Hero

Before I can approve this nomination, there are three points I would like to clarify: (1) Which version of Pride and Prejudice are you interested in for this tag? (2) Does 'Any Austen Hero’ includes the hero from Caroline’s canon (i.e., Fitzwilliam Darcy) or only heroes from other canons? (3) Does ‘Austen Hero’ refer exclusively to the version of the hero in Austen’s original work, or are adaptations included? Would, for instance, Caroline Bingley (P&P - Austen)/Henry Tilney (NA 2007) be a valid fill for this tag?

To ensure that the tag accurately reflects your preferences, please respond to this post by 22:00 UTC on 15 July. In the absence of a response, I will approve the tag as Caroline Bingley (P&P - Austen)/Any Hero From Another Austen Book (Any Other Austen Book).

  • Elinor Dashwood (S&S - Austen)/Any Austen Hero

Similarly to the above nomination, I would like to clarify (1) whether 'Any Austen Hero’ includes the hero from Elinor’s canon (i.e., Edward Ferrars) or only heroes from other canons (2) whether adaptation versions of heroes are included in the tag.

To ensure that the tag accurately reflects your preferences, please respond to this post by 22:00 UTC on 15 July. In the absence of a response, I will approve the tag as Elinor Dashwood (S&S - Austen)/Any Hero From Another Austen Book (Any Other Austen Book).

Emma - Jane Austen

  • George Knightley/Other(s)

While this is a canonical tag, I don’t feel confident that its meaning will be clearly and compatibly understood by all interested participants. Would a tag like ‘George Knightley/Any (Emma - Austen)’ or ‘George Knightley/Original Character (Emma - Austen)’ accurately express your meaning?

Of note, you may adapt ‘Any’ and ‘Original Character’ tags to narrow down the kind of character you mean. For instance, you might wish to specify the character’s gender (e.g., ‘Original Female Character’) or profession (e.g., ‘Any Clergyman’).

If one of these options sounds right, you may edit your nomination accordingly. If none of the proposed tags reflects your interpretation of the tag, please comment with an explanation of your expectations for how this tag might be used by 22:00 UTC on 15 July. In the absence of a response, I will accept the tag as ‘George Knightley/Any (Emma - Austen)’.

Jane Bennet (P&P) & Emma Woodhouse (Emma)
  • Jane Bennet (P&P) & Elinor Dashwood (S&S)
  • Jane Bennet (P&P) & Elizabeth Bennet (P&P) & Henry Tilney (NA)
Before I can move forward with these tags, I would like to know which version of each canon you are interested in. If you nominated these relationship, please leave a comment on this post indicating your preference or edit your nominations to include the appropriate disambiguations [e.g., ‘(P&P - Austen)’ or ‘(S&S 1995)’].

Additionally, it appears that you have listed one of your desired relationship tags as the fandom for this set of nominations. In this case, ‘Crossover Fandom’ is the appropriate fandom tag. When you enter the nominations editing interface, there should be text to the left of ‘Jane Bennet (P&P) & Emma Woodhouse (Emma)’ indicating that it is currently listed as a fandom. Once you edit the text in that slot to read ‘Crossover Fandom’, you may add the previous tag to the first available relationship slot.

If all of this sounds too complicated, no worries—just let me know your preference regarding the version of each canon you’re interested in, and I can sort out the rest from my side.

If I don’t hear from you by the 22:00 UTC on 15 July, I will add the following tags to the tagset under the fandom ‘Crossover Fandom’: ‘Jane Bennet (P&P - Austen) & Emma Woodhouse (Emma - Austen)’,  ‘Jane Bennet (P&P - Austen) & Elinor Dashwood (S&S - Austen)’, and ‘Elizabeth Bennet (P&P - Austen) & Jane Bennet (P&P - Austen) & Henry Tilney (NA - Austen)’.

Please note that for technical reasons, if the necessary changes are not made to the fandom, your nominations page may not fully reflect these acceptances. Rest assured that they will all appear in the tagset before the sign-up period begins.

Nominations will remain open here until 15 July at 22:00 UTC. Thanks again!

Sunshine Revival Challenge #4

Jul. 13th, 2025 10:25 am
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[community profile] sunshine_revival's next challenge is:
Fun House
Journaling: What is making you smile these days? Create a top 10 list of anything you want to talk about.
Creative: Write from the perspective of a house or other location.
Birds always make me smile, so let's do a bird list! To narrow it down a bit, I'll talk about a few of the birds I only got to know after I left San Francisco and moved to New England. The order is going to be arbitrary because of course all birds are equally fantastic, but I'll play along with the top 10 theme.

Top Ten New England Birds [photo heavy] )

Foundation 3.01

Jul. 13th, 2025 11:26 am
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In which we make another time jump, the Foundation is now in its monarchical phase, while Empire seems to approach its version of the Third Century Crisis. Also: Demerzel is still my favourite.

Spoilers are explaining the Three Laws of Robotics and the Zeroth Law )
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Fandom: Stargate Atlantis, Stargate SG1
Characters/Pairings: Teyla Emmagan, Cam Mitchell, John Sheppard, Jack O'Neill, Ronon Dex, Daniel Jackson, Sam Carter, Miko Kusanagi, Rodney McKay, Teal'c
Rating: Gen
Length: 1505
Creator Links: LtLJ on AO3
Themes: Working together, Teams, Humor, Action/adventure

Summary: Five things that happen on missions where SG-1 and SGA-1 go through the gate together.

Reccer's Notes: A great example of the 5-things format - five dramatic, telling, and sometimes amusing times when members of the premium gate teams of Earth and Atlantis worked together. The last one's an absolute classic!

Fanwork Links: Five Joint Missions, Post-Retrograde on AO3
and I podficced it, here.

get down, get down

Jul. 12th, 2025 09:52 pm
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As I may have mentioned, Baby Miss L loves potatoes, so when I saw a t-shirt on Etsy that said, "Potatoes gonna potate!" around a picture of a potato, I thought, I have to get it for her! Unfortunately, it was only available in neon green, which I did not like the look of. Luckily, many other vendors were also selling t-shirts with pictures of friendly potatoes on them, so I got her this one that says, "Tater tot!"

This morning, I received a series of glamour shots and a video of Baby Miss L thoroughly excited about wearing the t-shirt. It was so great!

I also learned that The Muppets covering Jungle Boogie is one of her current favorite videos. AMAZING!

On all counts, her vibes are immaculate.

Tomorrow, I'm going to a birthday bbq at my brother's, and I'm bringing her the Batman and Robin t-shirts, plus some toddler books about Batman and the Justice League. Hopefully she enjoys them almost as much! (I also recently sent her a Captain America t-shirt, which I believe she wore for the 4th, and I also got pics of her in the Superman dress, with her arms up like she was flying. 😍😍😍)

In other news, I found this review of the new Superman movie really moving. Will I venture out to a theater to see it? Probably not, but I will be very excited to watch it when it makes its way onto HBO in a few months.

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1 week delay & 1 current pinch hit

Jul. 11th, 2025 11:11 pm
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Hi, all--we're so close to the finish line! I'm announcing a 1 week delay at this time to ensure all our pinch hits are covered. The new reveals date is 26 July at 23:59 US Eastern. We have one pinch hit currently available, with upcoming deadlines on the 13th and the 18th.

Anyone who isn't signed up but is only pinch hitting can leave prompts at our treats for pinch hitters post! This is a great place to look if you're interested in creating treats.

This pinch hit is due 25 July at 23:59 US Eastern time, one day before our new reveals date.

If you can claim this pinch hit, please comment with your AO3 name. All comments are screened.

PDPH 10 - The West Wing, Neko no Ongaeshi | The Cat Returns, Severance (TV) )

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Fun with idolatry and "I'm doing Avoda Zara" jokes! The perek ended yesterday but RL is being busy.

The absolute requisite note on Avoda Zara is one that gets stressed constantly, which is that this is referring specifically to the religious groups amongst whom the tanaim and amoraim were living, and only them. Among the reasons the commentators have said this for a long time is 1) actual real differences between the avoda zarah described in the mishna/gemara and the goysche practices they lived amongst, combined with 2) because if they kept to all of this, there would be many practical problems, because they were a lot more interconnected by that time and working in specific professions, and 3) the outside world thinks it gets a say in Jewish religious texts and would be violently offended if this refers to them.

But definitely there were times when dealing with Artscroll commentary when I had to snap and actually look up when the Meiri lived, and it's like, ah, 13th century France, I understand completely.


Read more... )

Meme Friday

Jul. 11th, 2025 10:41 pm
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21) How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting?

Usually two or three times, I think. I'm not big on revising, to be honest.

The rest of the questions are here.

the read on the speed-meter says

Jul. 11th, 2025 03:20 pm
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Two guys came and measured the space for my new dishwasher and it will apparently fit, but there are as always several - okay, 2 - unexpected wrinkles: 1. the current machine is hardwired into the electric, but the new dishwasher needs a plug, so the installers are going to have to build an outlet? These 2 guys didn't seem to think it was a big deal but it is another $75, which at this point is whatever, fine. Secondly, they were concerned that the installation might damage the drain pipe under my sink, and I was like, can we wrap it in something to protect it from being dinged? and they were like, "Eh, maybe, but if it breaks you're responsible for fixing it." Which, thanks. I suppose I can get under there and wrap a towel around it if necessary.

So we'll see how this goes on Tuesday. Keep your fingers crossed that it doesn't completely wreck my kitchen!

Speaking of wrecking my kitchen, my current HGTV viewing is "Help! I wrecked my house!" which I'm enjoying, but oh my god, the sheer hubris of some of these mediocre white men, who think they can demo a kitchen or a bathroom down to the studs and then figure out how to put in a new one, and then have to call Jasmine because of course they can't. I don't understand these people, tbh. There is nothing wrong with asking a trained professional to come in and do that kind of work, especially if you're not particularly handy. (And even you are handy in the "can change a washer in the faucet" variety, what makes you think you can install a shower from the ground up??? WTF?) On the other hand, I am really sympathetic to the folks who did hire a contractor who turned out to be shady and didn't do the work properly and stiffed them of their money to boot!

In other news, I am now on vacation and very excited about it! Except shit, I forgot to set up my out of office message. I will have to log back in and do that.

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Murderbot TV, season the first

Jul. 11th, 2025 01:51 pm
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So I hated the first part of episode 10, and liked the last ~8 minutes, those were great, truly great. But I really didn't need what came before that; I liked how Murderbot slipped away at the end of the first novella. Oh well.

In general, overall, I really enjoyed Murderbot The Television Show, although there were parts of it I had to skip or not watch. They did a really good job at translating a novella into a tv show; the changes were understandable and made sense for the medium, even when they were ones I disliked. The show fleshed out the characters very well, and they had just so so so so much fun with the in-universe tv shows.

If this show has one thesis, it is Murderbot = Gurathin, and with my complaints about the first part of episode 10, I did like how it went so, are you not convinced that Murderbot = Gurathin yet? Here, let me show it to you again.

Anyway, I assume five seconds after the end of ep10, ART says hello. (okay that's probably not ART. But it would make sense to begin s2 immediately after s1 ends)

"Cutting Teeth" by Chandler Baker

Jul. 11th, 2025 08:09 pm
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A school teacher is murdered. Children start to bite their parents – mostly their mothers – and drink their blood. Things are getting a bit...unhinged.

I liked this for the most part. It was a pretty bleak look at motherhood through the lens of something very weird happening. The characters weren't all that likeable but they all made sense. The escalation of things felt horrifying but also natural once things were set into motion. I also liked that despite the horror movie set-up, most of the twists and bad stuff actually happened because of the very mundane ways people can be shit.

I wasn't a fan of the weirdly positive parts at the end but I think the author might have intended them to be the counterpoint to the final twist at the end.
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In this first book of a hard SF trilogy, nanomaterials expert Wang Miao is recruited to help investigate the suicides of several prominent scientists. His inquiries lead him to a strange VR video game called Three Body, in which the player is challenged to solve the mystery of why the game's simulated world keeps falling victim to unpredictable changes in climate that cause its civilizations to inevitably collapse. Interwoven with the book's near-future narrative is a story of the past, in which an astrophysicist who lost everything in Mao's Cultural Revolution is assigned to a secret military base that she comes to realize is dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial life. These two seemingly unrelated threads come together to reveal a multilayered conspiracy of world-ending stakes.

I had this on my TBR list for so long that I'd completely forgotten what it was about, and I think that worked out well for my experience of it. I never knew where it was going to go next, and I thoroughly enjoyed the ride. Liu has a flair for creating epic set pieces of jaw-dropping cinematic scope that nonetheless follow naturally from the speculative science. I consumed a lot of popular science media in the 2000s, specifically, so for me the science in this book felt... oddly nostalgic? Not that it's obsolete, necessarily, but the particular preoccupations of that era and what was cutting-edge are strongly represented here. It made me want to go read a Brian Greene book.

The translation by Ken Liu reads nicely and I appreciated the informative but not excessive footnotes helping with some points about Chinese culture and history. I love that they let him write an afterword about the translation process!

The book is definitely more interested in ideas than people, and it's particularly weak on female characters. I was not entirely surprised to hear that the Netflix adaptation makes some of the male characters women, including Wang Miao. (I guess it also changes the nationality of a lot of characters, which makes less sense to me since the Chinese setting seems crucial to the book's themes, but I haven't actually watched the adaptation so it's not for me to say how well it works.)

I do plan to continue with the trilogy, though I have a suspicion that it might turn out to be too pessimistic in its outlook on the future for my taste? But I guess it depends on where the story ends up. My library hold on the second book just came in.

2025 Schedule & Rule Updates

Jul. 10th, 2025 10:54 pm
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Hello friends! Below is the schedule for FIAB 2025, which will run Late July-November instead of August-November.

Schedule changes, in brief:

  • We've added in extra time for mod admin tasks such as tagset clean up and request checking.
  • We've given you a full 2 week sign up period
  • We've added a couple days of extra time to the creation period.

This extra time will help us utilize our helpers better because we won't have such tight scheduling! It will also allow for the possibility that the swaps puzzle will take longer than in previous years – we don't want to punish swappers with less creation time if it takes us longer than usual to get swaps out, so just building a little extra time into the creation period seemed best.

The rest of this post will cover:

  • Updates to several specific medium tags and medium rules.
  • A slight change to the way OCs can be nominated.

Discord server reminder! Fic In A Box is a complex exchange even for exchange veterans, so we thought that if we were going to invite a bunch of new people to the exchange we should provide a space where they can ask lots of questions throughout the process. This server is open to everyone (we won't kick you out if you've been doing FIAB for years already) but its purpose is to help people participate in the exchange, so it will probably be most useful/enjoyable if you're kinda confused about the exchange. Like FIAB itself, the server is an 18+ Choose Not To Warn space.

Join the FIAB Newbie Discord! (link)

2025 Schedule:

July 24th-August 2: Nominations Pre-Gaming (participants can load tags from last year’s tagset into this tagset)
August 3-12: Nominations
August 13-16: Nominations Cleanup
August 17-August 31: Signups
August 20: Swap requests open
September 6: Assignments Out By This Date
September 7: Swap requests close
October 19: Assignments Due
November 9: Last Day To Submit Makeup Assignments
November 15: Work Reveals
November 29: Creator Reveals

All deadlines are at 11:59 PM EDT except for those in November, which will happen at 11:59 PM EST

New In 2025

Mediums Rules Updates

Art Ruleset

We'll be adjusting the language for the ruleset to make it clear that if multiple characters are requested they must all be visibly within the artwork.

We will also be adding "Papercraft" (creating an image using layered paper cut into the necessary shapes) as a style to the ruleset. This will be a possible style for any art tag that doesn't specify another style (such as "Drawn") and can be requested specifically by nominating the desired art tags with at "Papercraft - " prefix.

Multimedia Works

We'll be adding more guidance for the requirements if combining two different requested medium tags into a multimedia work in the Posting Guidelines.

Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Printable Sticker Page Layout

We are changing the rules for stickers to clarify a medium-checking issue we had last year. New rules will set a minimum number of stickers per sheet (five unique stickers per sheet), for an equivalent of 2k per sticker sheet.

Medium Opt-In: Audio - Fanmix
Medium Opt-In: Audio - FST (Fan Soundtrack)

These tags will be merged into the tag "Medium Opt-In: Audio - Fanmix/FST (Fan Soundtrack)"

Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Cross Stitch Pattern

We will be updating the rules for this medium to clarify that you can't auto-generate a cross stitch pattern from pre-existing art.

Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Web-based choice-based IF not hosted on AO3
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Twine
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Ink
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Interactive Fiction - AO3 style Choose Your Own Adventure
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Visual Novel

We will be restructuring all of these tags into the following four tags:

  • Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - AO3-style Choose Your Own Adventure
  • Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Choice-Based IF Not Hosted On AO3
  • Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Illustrated AO3-style Choose Your Own Adventure
  • Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Illustrated Choice-Based IF Not Hosted On AO3

Length Opt-In: Drabble
Length Opt-In: Double Drabble
Length Opt-In: Triple Drabble

These are being changed to the following:

  • Length Opt-In: Drabble (100 Words Exactly)
  • Length Opt-In: Double Drabble (200 Words Exactly)
  • Length Opt-In: Triple Drabble (300 Words Exactly)

Length Opt-In: Drabble Series

We are removing this tag because it caused some confusion last year. If you'd like to request drabble series please mention it in your optional details. Drabble series of over 1000 words are opt out (similar to other fic formats such as 5+1 things), and for drabble series of under 1000 words you may opt-in within your optional details while requesting a drabble tag.

Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Craftwork

These tags will be adjusted to have an equivalent of 2k.

Medium Opt-In: Instructions - Recipe book
Medium Opt-In: Instructions - Cocktail Recipes

For clarity these will be singularized into:

  • Medium Opt-In: Instructions - Recipe
  • Medium Opt-In: Instructions - Cocktail Recipe

In addition it will be clarified in the rules that recipes are required to be the original creations of the poster.

Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Sheet Music - Arrangement of Music From Canon
Medium Opt-In: Audio - Arrangement/Cover Music
Medium Opt-In: Audio - Song Parody
Medium Opt-In: Audio - Commentary Track
Medium Opt-In: Audio - Commentary Track - MST3K Style

It's been brought to our attention that someone received a warning from AO3 for posting an arrangement of sheet music from a canon song. The last thing we want to do is risk anyone getting a copyright related warning from AO3 due to a medium in this exchange, so since all of the above tags involve copyrighted music or audio in some way, we're removing them from the tagset.

Nominations Rules Updates

Original Character(s) nominations will not be accepted. This is because "Original Character(s)" is meant to mean either Original Character (singular) or Original Characters (plural) but we've seen some evidence that people who want just one or the other are selecting this phrasing simply because it's common in canonicals.

Tentatively, we will try out simply editing these nominations to be singular if they come up on the AO3 interface, but if that's too burdensome we will reject like all other incorrect tags.

Click here to view tag examples!

Elmo & Original Character(s) (Sesame Street)
Big Bird/Original Character(s) (Sesame Street)
Solo: Original Character(s) (Sesame Street)

Not allowed per this new rule.

Elmo & Original Character (Sesame Street)
Big Bird/Original Character (Sesame Street)
Solo: Original Character (Sesame Street)

Allowed! These tags will get you a work with one OC, plus other listed characters if there are any.

Elmo & Original Characters (Sesame Street)
Big Bird/Original Characters (Sesame Street)
Solo: Original Characters (Sesame Street)

Allowed! These tags are phrased as plural, but per our other nominations rules "Original Characters" counts as an ambiguous group so requests with this phrasing could be filled with 1 OC or 2+ OCs.

Note that you can't limit the number of OCs if you pick a tag like "Big Bird/Original Characters (Sesame Street)" so if you're really only interested in a threesome but not a foursome, you should instead nominate like…

Elmo & Original Character & Original Character (Sesame Street)
Big Bird/Original Character/Original Character (Sesame Street)

Allowed! These tags need to be filled with as many OCs as are listed in the tag. Per other nominations rules, you can list up to 6 characters in a relationship tag.

If Big Bird and five other characters isn't a big enough orgy/polycule for you, you can A) list the last character as the plural "Original Characters" to leave yourself open to more than 5 OCs, or B) use your optional details to opt into more OCs at your creator's discretion. (We suggest you do this in the AO3 optional details box so it's easy for us to find, rather than buried in a letter.)

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Hi everyone!

We'd like to get your input on a suggestion we received after the previous round.

Our current rules allow participants to request/offer any combination of the seven permitted drabble types. This means that a participant could theoretically opt out of requesting or offering single drabbles (i.e., a drabble of exactly 100 words). In other words, participants could exclusively request longer drabble types if they wished.

We received feedback that it may be more in the spirit of the exchange if participants could not opt out of single drabbles. We think this makes sense, and have drafted the following rule change:

Potential rule change: Participants cannot opt out of receiving or writing single drabbles. Rather, single drabbles are a default drabble type in any request or offer—and participants can add other drabble types if they'd like.

Under this new rule, you would still be able to request/offer the full range of drabble types we permit in this exchange—you would just not be able to opt out of single drabbles, specifically.

Your input: Here is a StrawPoll where you can express whether you support this change. While we think this rule change would be a net positive, we'd love to hear whether you support it or not—and why, if you'd like to share.

If you feel there are additional factors or perspectives we should consider, please do leave a comment below, email us, or leave a comment on the Mod Contact Post (where it will be automatically screened).

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