Nominations are open!
Because of a slight scheduling conflict, the tagset is open a little early.
You can nominate here.
Nominations guidelines can be found here.
General rules here.

祝日 / Permanent Vacation
styofa doing anything
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#extradirty

Product Placement
Peter Solarz
Not today Justin
Game of Thrones Daily
d e v o n
todays bird

roma★
i don't do bad sauce passes

titsay
taylor price

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trying on a metaphor

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Misplaced Lens Cap

blake kathryn
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
seen from United States
seen from Puerto Rico
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@pretendtofly
Nominations are open!
Because of a slight scheduling conflict, the tagset is open a little early.
You can nominate here.
Nominations guidelines can be found here.
General rules here.
Schedule 2026 - Round 2
Welcome to the All But Romance Fanwork Exchange, a gen multifandom gift exchange run on AO3 focused on all kinds of platonic relationships - familial, friendships, colleagues etc. During the exchange you have to create at least a 2k fic meeting the requirements, or at least a clean and detailed lineart.
We're focusing on fanworks with no romantic or sexual content, so for the purpose of this exchange we decided not to accept relationships indicated by a / (slash).
THIS YEAR WE'RE STARTING A LITTLE EARLIER!
Schedule: Nominations: 6 April – 16 April 2026 (in your timezone) (in your timezone) Signups: 20 April – 3 May 2026 (in your timezone) (in your timezone) Soft check-in: 15 – 21 June 2026 (in your timezone) (in your timezone) Default deadline: 5 July (in your timezone) Posting deadline: 2 August 2026 (in your timezone) Work reveal: 14 August 2026 (in your timezone) Creator reveal: 21 August 2026 (in your timezone)
NOTE THE CHANGE OF THE TIMEZONE THIS YEAR! All deadlines are at 20:00 UTC+1 | CEST
Subcollection 2026 | Nomination Guidelines | Tagset | Rules and Guidelines | AO3 Magic App (with easy access to sign-ups) TBA | Treats for Pinch Hitters TBA
The mod e-mail is: [email protected]
There have been some changes in the rules this year, for the full breakdown please check out full posts (nomination guidelines and rules and guidelines), most important ones:
Nominations
Where applicable, please use the canonical tag (so whatever shows from the drop-down menu on ao3) There were changes to nominating Original Works (regarding how to tag characters) We're allowing Recursive fandoms now Nominating multiple characters in one tag limited to 4 characters (groups still ok)
Rules and guidelines
From this year, we'll be enforcing a ban for defaulting after the default deadline, see details in the rules and guidelines. To be unbanned, you will have to do a make-up assignment. Extensions changed from 48 hours to 7 days. There will be a soft check-in (not mandatory) this is for this round only for now. We'll have Do-Not-Match requests for max. 2 users THIS IS ON TRIAL BASIS, if it doesn't work or is too much work for us, we'll not do this next round.
It's my 15 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳
Hello all my beautiful Empyrean friends!
The Winter Promptfest, hosted by the lovely Rider's Quadrant discord server, has just wrapped up and submissions have been pouring in all week. With over 70 submissions for the event, I wanted to compile them all so people could easily browse all the entries (which consist of not only so many amazing fanfics, but also beautiful art and even a thoughtfully curated playlist).
Please browse through the works and leave some comments and praise for any you enjoyed ❤️ So many amazing creators put their hearts and souls into creating beautiful pieces for this event (and during an insanely busy time of year for so many!), so lets spread that holiday spirit and shower them with love!
Browse the Masterlist here!
Find the AO3 Collection here!
Happy holidays and happy reading, riders! 🐉 ❤️
The Empyrean as shitposts (part 6)
I will keep making these until the sun explodes.
Xaden Riorson
Violet Sorrengail
Sloane Mairi
Major Varrish (I hate to include him, but this was too funny to me)
Mira Sorrengail
Fen Riorson
Imogen Cardulo
Jesinia Neilwart
Andarna
Brennan Sorrengail
Ridoc Gamlyn
Garrick Tavis
Liam Mairi
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
fourth wing ch. 11 // iron flame ch. 45
ridoc screaming with his whole chest: did you all know my good friend violet she's so talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique, completely not ever been done before-
Fic In A Box 2024
Schedule
August 9-16: Nominations Pre-Gaming (participants can load tags from last year’s tagset into this tagset)
August 17: Tag Nominations Open
August 24: Tag Nominations Close
August 25-26: Nominations Cleanup
August 27: Signups Open
September 1: Swap requests open
September 7: Signups Close
September 10: Assignments Out By This Date
September 11: Swap requests close
October 20: Assignments Due
October 27: First Extension Due Date
November 3: Final Extension Due Date
November 10: Last Day To Submit Makeup Assignments
November 16: Work Reveals
November 30: Creator Reveals
All times 10pm Eastern
What is Fic In A Box
A gift exchange is an event where participants create fanworks to gift to each other. Fic In A Box is a fanwork exchange with a large minimum gifting requirement and several unique features. Gifts can include fic, art, audio, video— and much much more.
How It Works/The Nitty-Gritty:
All participants in Fic In A Box are requesting 10,000 words of fanfiction by default, but can opt in to other mediums to give their gifter options. Mediums can include writing structure things like "in-world rpf" for your gift, or include creative formats as far away from fic as different types of art, knitting patterns, logic puzzles, and so on. There were 288 mediums to choose from last year, and we add more every year.
For mediums other than the written word, pretty much any medium will be accepted, as long as it can be digitized for delivery and we can agree on a clear and easily checked equivalent to 1k of written fic. Participants who primarily work in non-writing mediums are very welcome and will get specially matched (as long as they give the mods a heads-up) so they'll have an assignment they can complete. If your art form is fannish cross-stitch? We'd love to have you join us.
Participants have the option to split the 10k words (or equivalent in an opted-into medium) that they owe between several separate works (say, one fic of 3k and a another of 7k) to reach 10k total. The minimum word count per work is 1k by default, but lower wordcount works will count if your recipient has opted into receiving them. (Drabble is a medium that can be opted into!) And initial assignments are 10k for one person, but at the start of the exchange the mods run Swaps which will give you the chance to split that 10k into multiple shorter assignments for multiple recipients!
So when it comes time to turn in gifts, you might turn in 3k worth of art, 4k in fic, and 3k in typesetting a fic (10k total), and then you receive 8k of fic and 2k of map design (10k total). Last year 265 people signed up, and we exchanged 993 gifts at the end of the creation period, everything from fic to reddit posts to logic puzzles to museum catalogues to CYOA stories to colouring pages!
If you cannot complete the full 10k (or other medium equivalent) but are still able to post one or more smaller, complete works, you can default on just the remaining wordcount. You will then be guaranteed (via finding a back up gifter-- "pinch hitting"-- if necessary) a gift equivalent to the amount you were able to submit (rounded down to the nearest 1k). There are also options to "earn back" guaranteed minimum amount by taking pinch hits or completing your original assignment.
Questions?
For more information about Medium rulesets, signing up, nominations of fandoms, relationships, or medium forms, swaps, or much more (questions about how pinch hits work? we have documentation about that), check out the dreamwidth blog!
If you have questions, feel free to ask them here, check the dreamwidth blog for much more documentation, email the mods, or join our discord server. The discord server has a lot of experienced participants happy to answer questions, and you are also welcome to join just to hang out!
Note: you must be 18 or older to join FIAB.
Links
Email: [email protected]
Ao3 Collection (sign up here once signups open)
Tag Set
Dreamwidth Blog
Discord (includes question channel)
911 characters + text posts part idk
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 9-1-1 (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Evan "Buck" Buckley/Tommy Kinard Characters: Evan "Buck" Buckley, Tommy Kinard Additional Tags: Bisexual Evan "Buck" Buckley, POV Evan "Buck" Buckley, Fluff, First Time, (of sorts), Consent, Discussion of sex but no actual sex in this, Soft Tommy Kinard Summary:
"Are you sure?" Tommy asked, stalling the movement of Buck's lips and fingers altogether. He tilted his head to look at the other man through his lashes, trying to appear playful and flirty.
Discovery
DIS
DSC
STD (yes I have seen people use this)
Disco
Full name always
Secret sixth option
✨Madney in their own world✨
This is my gift for @maygrantgf as part of the @911discord gift exchange ♥️
I really hope you enjoy this little piece of madney at their wedding, complettly in their own little world under Maddie's veil.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Twilight Series - Stephenie Meyer Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jasper Hale & Rosalie Hale Characters: Rosalie Hale, Jasper Hale Additional Tags: Canon Compliant, Jasper Hale & Rosalie Hale are Twins, Missing Scene, Ficlet, Complete, Rosalie & her car Summary:
Rosalie & Jasper are presented to Forks as twins. Here they are interacting.
Worthy Wednesday
We see the same (admittedly excellent) stories recommended over and over and over. Let's expand our horizons! Recommend and briefly describe a fic or two or three (or more) that you've never (or rarely) seen mentioned. Extra points if you don't personally know the writer. Tag @trickiwooao3 or #Worthy Wednesday for a fic round-up.
Thank you for tagging me, @trickiwooao3 @mostlyinthemorning @smblmn!
Knits by Twyla by edriss (@pretendtofly): This is a sweet, warm, quiet but powerful story about Twyla knitting gifts for Stevie and Stevie starting to pay attention. I liked thinking about what makes Twyla tick and getting to know her better right along with Stevie.
The Snap Verse series by pennilesspoet: I don’t know a thing about this universe. I gather it’s a superhero situation? But this scenario destroys me. Some people just disappear and David is one of them. Then five years later they return and realize that life has been happening without them. What do you do when your husband has grieved your loss and is somehow living in a future that doesn’t include you? What do you do when you’ve processed your grief and adjusted to your new reality the best you can, and then your husband turns up on your doorstep? It’s haunting. I love it.
Girl Talk by therapychicken: Stevie and Rachel get high and bond at David and Patrick’s wedding in this thoughtful, dialogue-only fic. Rachel has a lot to consider, Stevie has her own perspectives to air, and people are complicated. If you like this sort of rich, perceptive conversation as much as I do, go read all of therapychicken’s writing.
Tagging @flowertrigger @saraminia @five678patty @meadowharvest4856 @statueinthestonetoo @obsessedwithdavrick
💯🙏💛🟨👍
Worst part about this is I've only ever used that yellow square emoji once and it was just to see how it looked. This isn't who I am. However, in retrospect, I suppose it is
Reading through the notes is a surreal experience please keep adding more to fuel my effervescent consumption of non descriptive emojis
#same
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 9-1-1: Lone Star (TV 2020) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Grace Ryder/Judd Ryder (9-1-1 Lone Star) Characters: Grace Ryder (9-1-1 Lone Star), Judd Ryder (9-1-1 Lone Star) Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Domestic Fluff, Married Life, POV Judd Ryder (9-1-1 Lone Star), Soft Judd Ryder, Couple goals, Cozy, Fluff, Canon Compliant Summary:
She cups the back of his hand with her own and for the millionth time he is amazed by how small her hands are, how gentle she is, how loving her touch. He could lay here forever, gazing into her tired eyes with his hand on her face.
OR
Just a soft, cozy morning with the Ryders.