Genuary 2025

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Genuary 2025!

This is the Genuary Tumblr page. Genuary is a multifandom fanfic event focused on boosting the visibility of gen fic (i.e., fanfic where a romantic relationship is not the focus of the plot). It (formally) takes place during the last two weeks of January (for 2025, Jan 19-Feb 1). Genuary is an event for both new fic and boosting older works that have been overlooked. To follow Genuary on social media, please follow the #genuary or  #genuary 2025 tag on Tumblr, Twitter, and Bluesky, follow this Tumblr, and/or join the official AO3 collection To participate, please read the FAQs and the Rules/Guidelines. 

To blacklist and/or check answers to previous questions, you can look in the #answered tag for this blog.  NOTE: Mobile users may have difficulty viewing the FAQs and Rules/Guidelines on Tumblr. You can read both on the AO3 collection Profile page

[genuary-fic-event]

will this event ever run again?

As and when I have the time for it. I work in an academic position and my availability for this event varies depending on my service expectations for the year.

I welcome anyone who wants to boost/continue this event on other social media to do so!

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Chapters: 15/15Fandom: The Amazing Spider-Man (Movies - Webb)Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Peter Parker/ Gwen Stacy, Peter Parker & Curt Connors, Gwen Stacy & Curt Connors Characters: Peter Parker, Gwen Stacy, Original Symbiote Character(s) (Marvel), Symbiote, Curt Connors, Rajit Ratha, May Parker (Spider-Man) Additional Tags: Oscorp (Marvel), Canon Disabled Character, Science Experiments, Dubious Science, mentor and apprentice, Blood and Violence, Hurt and humor, Not as much Spider-Man as you might think, Horror, Body Horror, Humor, Humorous Ending, The summary really sums it up

Summary:

What if Dr. Curtis “Curt” Connors had gained a Symbiote rather than turning himself into The Lizard?

(No beta, completed)

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Liyue's Tiny Zombie Savior!

Fandom: Genshin Impact

Relationships: Qiqi & Ningguang

Tags: Missing Scene, Canon Compliant, Missions

Summary:

A week before the Rite of Parting, Lady Ningguang entrusted Qiqi with a critical task: to help evacuating Liyue Harbor in case of an emergency.Qiqi might not fully understand what’s going on - but that doesn’t mean she’s not determined to do her best!

A little in-between piece about how Qiqi ended up in safeguard duty, and what she was doing during the events of the Liyue Quest’s final act.

Words:  2479

AO3 Link (+ now in the Genuary 2025 collection!)

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Fandom: ACD Sherlock Holmes

Characters: Sherlock Holmes & Dr. John Watson

Relationship: QPR or friendship (interpret as you like)

Summary: Watson has a nightmare about the war and Holmes sits with him in the living room until dawn.

Warnings: Mention of death, gunshots, bombs, war, blood, PTSD

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at the edge of every green lies an ocean 

Fandoms: 学園ベビーシッターズ | Gakuen Babysitters  

General Audiences

No Archive Warnings Apply

Gen

Complete Work

25 Dec 2024

Tags

No Archive Warnings Apply

Kashima Kotarou & Kashima Ryuuichi

Kashima Kotarou

Kashima Ryuuichi

Morinomiya Youko

Grief/Mourning

Bereavement Center

Summary

“He’s a very perceptive kid,” the lady says. “Children his age are typically already aware of their circumstances, especially if patiently explained to them by their primary caretakers. Have you explained to him that your parents are dead?”

Kotaro and Ryuuichi attend a session in their local youth bereavement center. Told from the POV of Kotaro.

Language: English Words: 1,432 Chapters: 1/1

a brand new sky to hang the stars upon

Fandoms: Hunter X Hunter  

General Audiences

No Archive Warnings Apply

Gen

Complete Work

10 Feb 2024

Tags

No Archive Warnings Apply

Kaito | Kite & Kurt | Colt (Hunter X Hunter)

Kaito | Kite (Hunter X Hunter)

Kurt | Colt (Hunter X Hunter)

Spinner Clow

Stick Dinner

Lin Koshi

Monta Yuras

Banana Kavaro

Podungo Lapoy

Reina | Shidore (Hunter X Hunter)

Kurt | Colt’s Mother (Hunter X Hunter)

Family Reunions

Summary

Kite wishes they know what to say next, but what is there to say, really, to the man who raised you hoping you would grow to be someone else?

They try to say “thank you” to that, but neither those words nor the sentiments behind them feel right. So instead they put the labor over words aside. Instead, they clean fish and cook it in hot broth with a colorful slew of vegetables, serve it with steamed rice, and tea. They know that it is Colt’s favorite meal. When Colt asks them where they learned to cook this, they give him a generous lie. “I remember.”

Kite wants to take the hunter exam again in their new body. Colt wants to accompany them.

Language: English Words: 2,437 Chapters: 1/1

Turn Back Time

Fandoms: Captive Prince - C. S. Pacat  

Teen And Up Audiences

No Archive Warnings Apply

Gen

Complete Work

27 Nov 2024

Tags

No Archive Warnings Apply

Laurent & Nicaise (Captive Prince)

Laurent (Captive Prince)

Nicaise (Captive Prince)

Paschal (Captive Prince)

Damen (Captive Prince)

Regent (Captive Prince)

Time Travel Fix-It

Nicaise Lives (Captive Prince)

Additional Warnings In Author’s Note

Spoilers

Summary

A scream pierces through the castle walls: a scream of a boy, seemingly on the brink of death.Laurent lowers the whip. “Nicaise.”

When Nicaise is killed, he is thrown back to the very beginning. He is given another chance to live.

Series

Part 21 of Comfy-vember 2024

Language: English Words: 1,520 Chapters: 1/1

the warmth that flowed through you in life 

Fandoms:原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)  

General Audiences

No Archive Warnings Apply

Gen

Complete Work

06 Nov 2024

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Alhaitham & Nahida (Genshin Impact)

Alhaitham (Genshin Impact)

Nahida (Genshin Impact)

mentioned established relationship haitham/kaveh

Summary

The first person Alhaitham tells when he’s finally gotten together with Kaveh is the first person he’s ever wanted to tell his stories to. But she’s been dead for quite a while, so he goes and visits her grave.

Alhaitham talks to his grandma. An archon eavesdrops.

Series

Part 6 of Comfy-vember 2024

Language: English Words: 1,084 Chapters: 1/1

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Two Lodish Genfics!

the invisible tug between you and everythingFandoms:原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)  

General Audiences

No Archive Warnings Apply

Gen

Complete Work

06 May 2024

Tags

No Archive Warnings Apply

Nahida & Scaramouche (Genshin Impact)

Scaramouche refers to himself as Wanderer

Nahida refers to wanderer as Hat Guy

Found Family

Slice of Life

Wanderer’s Akademiya Arc

Wanderer adopts a cat

Summary

“This way,” Wanderer said, already flying towards the sound. It grew louder and louder the closer they got, and it didn’t take him long to figure out what was making such a noise, and where.Nahida gasped, looking up at the tree where the creature hugged a thin branch. “A kitten! Oh, you poor thing, how did you get up there, where’s your family?”

On an afternoon walk with Nahida, Wanderer rescues a stray kitten. He then contends with naming, feeding, and caring for it, all while staying on top of his academic coursework.

Language: EnglishWords: 2,082Chapters: 1/1

  the strange region of a foreign heartFandoms:原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)  

General Audiences

No Archive Warnings Apply

Gen

Complete Work

16 Nov 2024

Tags

No Archive Warnings Apply

Nahida & Scaramouche (Genshin Impact)

Scaramouche is Called Hat Guy (Genshin Impact)

Nahida’s Birthday

Summary

Nahida doesn’t usually need to read anyone’s minds anymore. Humans are quite vulnerable, and she doesn’t like taking advantage of them in any way. Reading their minds is a violation of their privacy, and—she’s learned, much later on—it is also a violation of their trust.

On the month leading up to Nahida’s birthday, she notices that everyone’s been tiptoeing around her. Everyone—including one of her closest friends, Hat Guy.

Series

Part 14 of Comfy-vember 2024

Language: English

Words: 1,350

Chapters: 1/1

[genuary-fic-event]

Hey; saw this and just wanted to check: I mostly read gen fics and am in a couple of fandoms that are *awesome* about posting them. Can I just go ahead and make posts of some favorite fics of mine and tag this blog? Or is there a special format or channel I have to go through...? Thanks for hosting this either way!

I would prefer you submit them via the Submission option, but you can also post them as an ask.

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So I have three rec lists, all about DC (centered on the batfam), each : - Dysfunctional Batfamily (contains abuse in a majority of stories - 4 fics): https://www.tumblr.com/norefs/739873186045411328/more-gen-fic-recs-for-genuaryficrecs-fandom-dc - Humour (7 fics): https://www.tumblr.com/nolanfa-fanart/740883348035092480/funny-batfam-gen-recs - the Batfamily has Issues (miscommunication, neuroatypical batfam, funny dumpster fires - 4 fics): https://www.tumblr.com/nolanfa-fanart/766580878318157824/gen-non-romantic-fics-recs-dc-the-batfamily and a marvel fic I love (specifically as a gen fic, because it is longform and hits all the good relationship development bits on an unambiguously gen relationship that is not about family members or a family-like relationship) (linking the tumblr post so you have the full rec and not just the AO3 link): https://www.tumblr.com/norefs/739439628790153216/gen-fic-recs

Also thank you for hosting gen events!

Fandoms:

Batman/Batfam

Avengers (Clint Barton & Bucky Barnes

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Hi! Do you accept recs that were submitted in another january gen recs event last year? Because I have a couple themed rec lists I could submit if you do.

Sure!

[starroamer08]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

My first Genuary fic is posted! It's going to be a collection of a bunch of Sailor Moon ficlets that I (hopefully) finish by Feb 1! They'll all be from Usagi's POV, and all taking place in one week. (in the SM world, not irl.)

@genuary-fic-event (not sure if I'm supposed to tag it but eh)

[drelizabethgreene]

Showcasing another genfic as @genuary-fic-event continues!

In this Coburn family fic, Janet suffers a concussion and Caitlyn stays with her to look after her while she recovers. However, things get tense when Caitlyn’s anxiety and concern becomes more visible than it should, and she has to re-learn how to best support her mother and understand her needs.

Can easily be read fandom blind. Good fic if you like role reversal (daughter taking care of her mother), doctor as the patient, hurt/comfort and fics about healing from an injury.

This was one of my favorite fics to write because it’s always a good challenge to put Coburn in a vulnerable position and see how she responds (slight spoiler alert: she is not a good patient).

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[tinglecannon]

How to survive the night after your brother gets sucked through some stupid ass portal

Rating: T

Word Count: 711

Relationships: Stan Pines & Ford Pines

Additional Tags: Post-Portal Incident (Gravity Falls), Grief/Mourning, Swearing, Stan Pines Needs A Hug, Loneliness, Character Study, Self-Worth Issues

Summary:

A decade of outrunning cops, angry mobs, angry loan sharks, angry exes, and anyone else with a beef against him has created an ongoing stint of very noisy nights.

But tonight is eerie in its silence.

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Despite being a huge gravity falls fan and rewatching the show yearly I've never written anything for it before, so to line up with both stanuary and @genuary-fic-event to do a Stan fic was great timing! The way Stan says he "didn't get much sleep that night" in his retelling of events in ATOTS was the most genuine he sounded during it all and it's always stuck with me every rewatch, so enjoy this short thing about it.

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Hey, I'm not quite sure how submissions for genuary work, (also because I post my fanfiction on a side blog and I don't know how to send asks from that one) but here is the link to the fic I'd like to submit. Hope I did it right...

From the author:

Stop trying to find me a wife! -

Aroace! ACD Sherlock Holmes oneshot

Summary: Holmes angrily makes it clear to Watson that he is Aroace and that Watson should stop trying to find a partner for him. (The word aroace isn't used since it didn't exist back then)

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Title: Even on My Weakest Days

Fandom: ER

Summary: It's 1996, and Janet is returning to work after deciding to get sober and spending over a month in rehab. But things are different now both at County and in her personal life, and nothing seems to make sense. Where does she go from here? How will she rebuild her reputation and try to be a better mother after her husband asks for a divorce? And most importantly, how does she live with the fact that no matter what, she will always be an alcoholic?

Over the next 12 years (plus two), she'll try to figure it all out (with a little help from some friends) as life throws her more curveballs and seemingly endless change along the way.

[drelizabethgreene]

For my first submission to @genuary-fic-event I chose my project from NaNoWriMo 2023, and my first fic of over 100,000 words. This fic spans 13 years from 1996 through 2009 (with an epilogue set in early 2010) and goes through the ups and downs Coburn faces at work and in her personal life while she goes through recovery.

While it is in the ER fandom and contains references to canon events and includes friendships with canon characters, you can read fandom blind if you’re so inclined, as there are also plenty of original characters and a lot of character development for Coburn that isn’t in the show.

TW: heavily reliant on themes of alcoholism, some references to depression

https://archiveofourown.org/works/48562348/chapters/122495539

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Fandom - Sailor Moon (Live Action)

Title - PGSM Season 2: The Black Moon

Rating - T

Warning - Major Character Death

Status - Ongoing, New Episodes Monthly

Link - https://archiveofourown.org/works/59828260/chapters/153728743

A direct continuation of the live-action "Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon" series!

One year after Usagi and Mamoru's wedding, the Sailor Guardians have gone their separate ways and live ordinary, powerless lives. Their quiet existence is upended when a mysterious girl from the future arrives and pulls them back together. As each Guardian grapples with her own destiny, their personal lives become an intense battle against the future.

When a new threat emerges, they must embark on a journey to reclaim their lost powers and save the world. With time travel in the mix, nothing is as it seems, and all bets are off...