Just a quiet corner of the garden.

[irisreticulata]

March 1, 2026 - May 31, 2026 June 30, 2026 23:59:59 UTC

The AO3 Collection is now open: Voices of Glory: A QZGS Podfic Event (2026)

A 3-month long QZGS focused Podfic Event to encourage the creation of podfics within the QZGS English Fandom as requested on the TKAA Discord Server! There will be Raffle Tickets to be earned by creating podfics to put towards Raffle Prizes.

Please see the (2026) Event Guidelines, Raffle Rules/Prizes, and Resources document for the rules of the events, raffle rules and prizes, and more resources for making podics. It's the main stop and will link you to the QZGS Podfic Event Resources Drive that includes event info but also resources for creating podfics, including some amazing recordings to help with name pronunciation etc.

The Voices of Glory Carrd is honestly much less helpful but it exists as mainly for links to helpful resources (sorry I kind of gave up on trimming the info for it as I failed and was rushing.)

Current Raffle Prizes include :

1-Fullbody w/ Background Chibi Commission by Chuna (subject to Chuna's usual terms and conditions)

1-Copy of the QZGS Prequel Zine

Thank you to Chuna for the beautiful work on the HST art used for the event logo!! <3

[irisreticulata]

Real life, other events, and announcements likely put this event on the back burner for many people. People seemed amendable to it, and it shouldn't cut TOO much into RBB territory. So, announcing that a month long extension has been added for the Voices of Glory this year. I guess we'll just do an entire Spring and some cushioning.

The new end date will be June 30, 2026 23:59:59 UTC, and that is for podfics posted in order to earn Raffle tickets. Ticket form will as such be open an additional 24 hours into July.

I'm also lowering the minimum word count a podfic must be to be able to earn raffle tickets. I'm thinking it might be easier for newbies or out-of-practice returners to maybe record a shorter fic. The new minimum is 500 words per podfic. I'm thinking of what to do for the longer podfics, there might still be an incentive small merch items Raffle for tickets. That's still under construction on trying to figure out what to do.

Anyway, it's been quiet from me as I didn't want to interject to remind during active other events. So, hopefully this will help people find time if they wanted to make a podfic but forgot because of all the fun events we've had going on! Also to make up for me being a bad host oof.

Bottom line: we have about 40 days left in the event. Good luck everyone, and please feel free to reach out to me here or on Discord or the event email if you need help or even just help asking permission from an author etc.

[irisreticulata]

March 1, 2026 - May 31, 2026 June 30, 2026 23:59:59 UTC

The AO3 Collection is now open: Voices of Glory: A QZGS Podfic Event (2026)

A 3-month long QZGS focused Podfic Event to encourage the creation of podfics within the QZGS English Fandom as requested on the TKAA Discord Server! There will be Raffle Tickets to be earned by creating podfics to put towards Raffle Prizes.

Please see the (2026) Event Guidelines, Raffle Rules/Prizes, and Resources document for the rules of the events, raffle rules and prizes, and more resources for making podics. It's the main stop and will link you to the QZGS Podfic Event Resources Drive that includes event info but also resources for creating podfics, including some amazing recordings to help with name pronunciation etc.

The Voices of Glory Carrd is honestly much less helpful but it exists as mainly for links to helpful resources (sorry I kind of gave up on trimming the info for it as I failed and was rushing.)

Current Raffle Prizes include :

1-Fullbody w/ Background Chibi Commission by Chuna (subject to Chuna's usual terms and conditions)

1-Copy of the QZGS Prequel Zine

Thank you to Chuna for the beautiful work on the HST art used for the event logo!! <3

[p1ss]

[ejacutastic]

I DIDN’T LEARN ABOUT THIS IN DRIVING SCHOOL

[biszumletzten]

Stop says the red light, go says the green

Wait says the yellow light, twinkling in between. 

KNEEL, SAYS THE DEMON LIGHT WITH ITS EYE OF COAL  SAURON KNOWS YOUR LICENSE PLATE  AND STARES INTO YOUR SOUL

[demonsnakes-deactivated20160829]

THIS IS ALWAYS FUNNY

[brightlotusmoon]

@irritatedlifeguard I agree with your tags.

[consulships]

i do think theres something sad about how largely only the literature that's considered especially good or important is intentionally preserved. i want to read stuff that ancient people thought sucked enormous balls

[literaryreference]

Time to take this post entirely too seriously:

I often wonder if this is why you so commonly see the sentiment that we are in an era of uniquely bad literature, or at least that the fact that most books don't have artistic aspirations and are not aiming to be anything other than mindless entertainment is new. In fact what's new is the idea that everything is worth preserving (and also the internet making it easier to preserve it). The dumb artistically unambitious trash books of the past have survived only sporadically, because people thought of them as literally disposable.

When I was in college I had a professor who was an expert on detective fiction. He had a longstanding beef with the idea that "Murders in the Rue Morgue" was the first detective story. He thought that it seemed way too polished to be inventing a new genre, and also that the whole orangutan business had the vibe of someone subverting preexisting audience expectations and maybe engaging in a bit of stealth parody. With the help of some student volunteers, he went trawling through old magazines and newspapers and found hundreds of detective stories from the early 1800s that just hadn't garnered enough individual attention to be remembered. This was because most of them sucked balls. He created an online archive of them, so you too can read these mostly terrible stories.

[dedalvs]

When I was an undergraduate English major we asked our grad. student TA what it was like being a grad. student. One of the things he said grad. students would do is review work that has been left out of the “canon” of whatever time period or genre they worked in to assess its value and see if it should be reintroduced. For his time period, that meant reviewing, apparently, a *LOT* of epic poetry about the American revolution. Like, you know how there’s *The Odyssey*, *The Song of Roland*, *El Cid*, *The Nibelungenlied*, or modern wartime novels like *A Tale of Two Cities*, etc.? Apparently it was quite popular in the 1800s in America to write epic poetry about the American Revolution, with the idea that it would be *the* hallowed tale read about the founding of the United States for centuries to come. It was his job to read these vaunted works detailing the heroic deeds of Washington, Jefferson, Adams, and the like.

The result?

There was a *LOT* of utter garbage written about the American Revolution in the 1800s.

And so, essentially, there are also a lot of scholarly works (likely unpublished) of grad. students who have gone back in the archives, taken this work very seriously, read it, evaluated it, and come to the conclusion, some hundred pages later, “We haven’t assigned this to students in the past because it was generally accepted that the work sucked. Having evaluated from a modern perspective, it is my opinion that the work does, indeed, suck, and we shouldn’t bother assigning it to students.”

[writeouswriter]

[tka-calendar]

To all applicants for the 2024 TKA/QZGS Fan calendar: results and invite links have been sent out so please be sure to check your dms and emails!

We've got a smaller number of people this year so it'll be more of a large collaborative event, a more chill type of project.

If you forgot to apply but are interested and would still like to apply, feel free to submit an application! Our sign ups form has not been officially closed yet :)

[tka-calendar]

If you haven't received anything yet, please be sure to check your spam and dms in case it got buried there!

And if you still can't find it, feel free to reach out to @tokaywineandcheese or email us at [email protected]

[tka-calendar]

To all applicants for the 2024 TKA/QZGS Fan calendar: results and invite links have been sent out so please be sure to check your dms and emails!

We've got a smaller number of people this year so it'll be more of a large collaborative event, a more chill type of project.

If you forgot to apply but are interested and would still like to apply, feel free to submit an application! Our sign ups form has not been officially closed yet :)

[tka-calendar]

Masterpost

Welcome to the unofficial The King's Avatar Calendar, a fanmade digital calendar free to everyone.

This is our first year attempting this project so please be patient while we work things out ;-;

Rules and Guidelines

Timeline Schedule // Google Calendar Version

2024 Calendar Sign Ups [Closing September 22, 2023 at 11:59 pm PST!]

FAQ

Mods:

Xan @tokaywineandcheese

Ashley @needs-more-hugs

[tka-calendar]

Join us in creating a free fan-made calendar of our beloved characters from The King's Avatar!

We are planning to create a 12-month digital calendar for 2024, with each month displaying a piece of fanart based around a theme and linking to an associated fic!

(For a better sense of what we're aiming for, here is an example of a similar project from last year!)

We'd like to gauge interest among King's Avatar / QZGS fan artists and writers to see how many people might be interested in contributing!

More details on the proposed timeline, rules and guidelines can be found in the form below but are also linked here.

If you're interested in being a contributor, please fill out the interest check here before June 30th!

[gloryproalliance]

QZGS Rare Pair Week 2023

February is coming, which means love is in the air…but not for our lord and savior Ye Xiu!

Welcome to Rare Pair Week 2023! Ready to play?

This is a straightforward event: no signups, all fanworks, any level of participation! There are no minimum or maximum requirements, and you may post works according to any prompt of your liking, or even a combination of the day’s prompts.

When you’re finished, post your rare pair fanwork on AO3 and any social media of your choice on the corresponding date. Time zones are not of concern.

To see excluded ships and other rules and regulations, please visit: qzgsrarepairweek.carrd.co

Prompts

day 1—Feb 14: past / notorious / drift

day 2—Feb 15: meaning / foreign / accept

day 3—Feb 16: freedom / peak / deliver

day 4—Feb 17: brilliance / color / emanate

day 5—Feb 18: candor / nightfall / hunt

day 6—Feb 19: tension / cave / substitute

day 7—Feb 20: free day!

[isabelcanasauthor]

me today honestly

[spooniestrong]

[funnytwittertweets]

[hollowboobtheory]

ok but status notes on who’s online are literally meaningless to me. I will send you my thoughts as they occur to me and you can respond whenever it’s fine

[amphibianaday]

jelly

___

day 651

[embrace-crab]

Dragons, with jobs

Artist credit to Flamecraft!

[yumbrite]