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Philon Award Nominations Cheat Sheet

Nominations are open for the Kirk/Spock Philon Awards! Fanworks (fic, art, podfics) completed between August 1, 2025 and July 31, 2026 are eligible. Nominations are due by August 15 - and you can edit them after submitting: meaning you can do yours NOW so you don't forget and make updates later if you have time!

I made the following filters for myself, to look through the eligible fic for each category and thought I'd share them here for others. They are not perfect, but hopefully a decent first pass. SEE BELOW FOR DETAILS on what is/isn't included:

Category: Ficlet --- (word count under 1,000) - about 311 stories

Category: Short Fic --- (1K–5K words) - ~576 stories

Category: Medium-length fic --- (5K–10K words) - ~179 stories

Category: Long Fic --- (10K–20K words) - ~131 stories

Category: Novella --- (20K–50K words) - ~65 stories

Category: Novel --- (word count over 50K) - ~43 stories

Category: Podfic --- ~73 podfics

Category: Poetry --- ~17 poems

Notes on the filters: The fic in these filters (1) is complete and in English, (2) is sorted from oldest to newest, unlike the default AO3 search, to help resurface works forgotten in the past 12 months! [NB: Weirdly, that search parameter vanishes if you edit the filter. To add it back, go to the 'Search within results' field near the bottom of the filter panel and add (without quotes) 'sort:>updated '.] (3) It filters OUT McSpirk (Kirk/Spock/McCoy), a pairing I obviously love as per my own AO3!, but one that usually means the focus isn't on Spirk, which I believe renders it ineligible. And (5) some works are specifically excluded after being accidentally caught in the filter, but any keyword/word count exclusions are not intended to target any individual!

Let me know if you see any major errors, but importantly, you can change any of these parameters using the filter bar on the right side of the page. So you can filter out certain ratings or only include TOS fic or avoid SNW spoilers, etc. (See italicized note above if you make edits and want to keep the oldest-to-newest sort order.)

Fanart: I haven't created searches for fanart, because I'm not sure how well works get tagged for the traditional vs. digital art distinction (and because I suspect a lot isn't on AO3!). But if someone else figures out a good set of AO3 filters, message me with the details or tag me in your own post and I'll reblog!

the-zine-directive

Contributor Spotlight: ELDAR OF ZEMLYA

Above is a sneak preview of @eldar-of-zemlya's contribution to TZD, our print K/S fanzine. Ordering begins August 2026, so don't miss out: Follow @the-zine-directive for updates!

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many of you have already had the (immense 😏) pleasure of experiencing @eldar-of-zemlya (he/him)'s art. if you have, you'll know why we're so excited, and if you haven't... well, you're seriously missing out. he's drawing for us from all the way from russia, and we couldn't be more thrilled about it! read more about him and his art below!

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✴︎ Most important question: Kirk, Spock, or Bones?

I’m a sucker for blonde, muscular men (pun intended), so Kirk!

✴︎ What is your “specialty,” or favorite thing to draw?

Porn. Backgrounds! I absolutely love studying references of actual ST sets and trying to recreate their shapes and textures. Maybe it’s my filmmaker brain, but I feel like set design in artwork really helps me translate the scene from my head into something "real".

… Also, porn.

✴︎ What is something you've made that you're particularly proud of and why?

This comics page I did for the 2025 KiScon Zine, where Jim ends up in sickbay for the night and Spock is trying to find the silver lining 😏 I’m especially proud of it because this was when I started leaning more into a semi-realistic style, and I managed to nail Kirk’s famously elusive face on the first try :D Also, I love having my Spock a little flirty and adventurous in bed… especially when it’s a biobed.

✴︎ How has it felt to be a contributor in a fanzine?

I’m always excited to try new styles, so it was a really fun challenge to translate my quite detailed semi-realistic style into something that would work well in b&w print. It gave me a great excuse to explore halftones!

✴︎ What does K/S mean to you?

Comfort would probably be the best word to describe it. I rediscovered my passion for K/S when I became a refugee and was going through a difficult time in my life, and immersing myself in stories of the beautiful relationship between these two men wrapped me in a blanket of comfort, love, and belonging ❤️

✴︎ Any other information you would like to provide or be included?

Back in 2013, William Shatner used to follow me on Twitter and discuss Samstiel fanfiction with me, lol

✴︎ Where can people find you?

Tumblr | Ao3 | Instagram | Deviantart

vulpesmellifera

Murder, Mycelium, & Other Things

Here’s me maybe possibly resurrecting my tumblr.

Some things I’ve been doing:

I got promoted to a full time director position three years ago and it stole all my brainpower, plus I’m raising a family and taking care of a home, so fanfic had to take a backseat for a while. (Yes, hello teens who think it’s weird for adults to have hobbies. I am ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE. My partner knows, my friends know, even my mom knows, so take your weirdly misguided and close minded ideas and throw those in the sea; let acceptance and whimsy and intergenerational delight into your life!)

Anyway, here are some fics I’ve sort of been working on over the years:

1. This scifi story with Ineffable Husbands is nearly done on AO3. I love this story and I’m really proud of it. There’s intrigue and drama and adorable crows!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/79911991/chapters/209740036

2. I found a Thanksgiving Mystrade in my WIPs nearly done. So look for that in November, I guess? And yes, I did say Thanksgiving Mystrade, and I do dunk on marshmallow-topped sweet potato casserole because that’s a traditional dish that deserves controversy.

3. And I have nearly finished writing a Christmas Johnlock involving one of my favorite tropes: jealous John. There’s a befuddled Sherlock, oblivious child Rosie, and a third Watson who is the cause of conflict.

4. I have fallen into the Rabbot Pitt. Er. Warren? But yeah, I watched two seasons of the Pitt and then a friend wouldn’t stop talking about it and now I’ve read every fic that appeals to me and as much as I want to shake some sense into Michael “Robby” Robinavitch, he and Jack Abbot have hijacked my brain. I’ve outlined some six or seven chapter story with emotional reckoning, Jack whump, and sex. Coming soon. 😉

5. I posted a Hannigram story set in haunted Appalachia. If you like myth, mystery, serial killers and ghosts, you might like this fic; you do not need to have seen NBC Hannibal to read it.

Anyway, I’m stuck at an airport in Nashville right now, and there’s been a two hour delay. I will spend the time working on Rabbot fic and entertaining the child, because this is how we do.

Please say hi if you’re still active here, or if you want to be Rabbot moots!

#rabbot #mystrade #johnlock #hannigram #ineffable idiots #vulpesmellifera

miyudeesper

Star Trek: The Voyage Home is absolute cinema imo 🐳 Yapping below if anyone wants to read all that

#miyudeesperart #star trek #spirk #star trek the original series #traditional illustration #the voyage home #the one with the whales #I love Italian and so do you #tos spock #tos kirk

somekindofparadoxhere

Holmes and Watson are not gay 😡

Turn back, oh foolish traveler, for thy commentary is an abomination unto my sight.

stellacartography

Keep crying into our tea, anon. Your tears really bring out the tannins.

#Paradoxanswers #Sherlock holmes #John Watson #holmes and watson #johnlock #canon is dead long live fanon

meontix

>young assholes

#mycroft holmes #greg lestrade #mystrade #bbc sherlock #meontix's stuff

kaleidoscopic-storyteller

Happy Mystrade Monday y'all!!

This is my first published fanfic, so any feedback is always welcome.

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

@mystradepromptsandscenarios for the prompt "I needed a reason."

#mystrade #mystrade monday #fanfic #mycroft holmes #greg lestrade

mymystrade

Greg Lestrade from Sherlock BBC animation

HI GUYS I HAVENT POSTED IN A WHILE I MISSED YOU LOTS. ❤️

#greg lestrade #rupert graves #bbc sherlock #sherlock holmes #fanart #animation #mystrade

gendercensus

The 2026 Gender Census is now open!

[ survey.gendercensus.com ]

The 13th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 13th August 2026.

It’s short and easy, for most participants it takes 5 minutes or less.

After the survey is closed I’ll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a report summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like we’re part of a huge and diverse community.

If you think you might have friends and followers who’d be interested, please do reblog this blog post, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks. Every share is extremely helpful!

Survey URL: https://survey.gendercensus.com

The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesn’t fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.

Thank you so much!

[ Link to survey ]

PS: You can see some regularly-updated statistics about incoming data here, with lots of demography and graphs to peruse!

PPS: Image credits, bark and grass.

redgoldsparks

I've been following this survey for many years, and it's always cool to see how the results evolve over time! Take a look if you have a gender that is not easily defined by the binary :D

#GC2026 #gender #gender census #gender census 2026 #survey

taturaii

quiet day

#Sherlock Holmes #John Watson #acd holmes #acd canon #Johnlock #fanart #taturaii

digihowl

more ppl need to get hooked on this drug called album in order. not enough people on album in order these days

doggirl-girlcock

Album in order is a beautiful girl and she wants to give you a special kind of kiss through the ears

peterfeline

album in order my one true love

#music #album in order #I tried album in order and I got hooked #can't get enough album in order #side effects include #increased creativity #spinning musical artists around endlessly in my head #writing to album in order #being influenced by the themes of album #reduced insomnia #trying to spread album in order to friends and loved ones

chriscalledmesweetie

28: From Angelo

For Sherlock and John, on this day, The present from Angelo may Give both men a kick When lighting the wick — ‘Cause it’s more romantic that way!

'Tis a Gift is on AO3.

I wonder if you think you know What gift that could be? Well, if so, Please share it with me And fill me with glee By putting your guess down below!

Tags under the cut. Thanks for reblogging!

#sherlock #johnlock #chriscalledmesweetie

calaisreno

221B: What's up there?

I'm going to be pedantic. Just thought I should put that out there. Not in a pissy way, but in a "plagued by a small mystery that won't let me go" way. And there's no actual answer, but that never stops me from speculating, because speculation often yields plot bunnies.

To begin with, here are John and Sherlock meeting outside 221B on January 29, 2010. We know it's actually 189 North Gower Street, where the exteriors of the building were filmed for BBC Sherlock, because the real 221B Baker Street is a tourist destination with too many Sherlock Holmes signs that would need to be concealed.

Fun Fact: When ACD wrote A Study in Scarlet, 221B Baker Street did not exist. When Baker Street was extended, 221 was part of a block owned by Abbey National Building Society. People used to write letters to Sherlock Holmes there, and the company had a full-time secretary to answer his mail.

You will note that the door of the building displays the address: 221b. In most fanfiction I've read (and written), "B" is the flat where Sherlock lives. Mrs Hudson lives in A, and C is the basement flat, where nobody lives.

First mystery: why does the door show a flat number, if the entire building is 221?

I do have an answer for this one: when ACD moved Holmes into the building in 1887, 221b was the address of the building. No flat numbers. At that time, when new buildings went up between existing (already numbered) buildings, it was common to attach a letter to the address. So the fictional 221b was a building that went up between 221 and 222 (which also didn't exist at the time). In some places, such addresses have "1/2" appended.

(Also: the Sherlock Holmes Museum, which is at 221b Baker Street, is physically located at 234 Baker Street, a fact which causes my OCD to flare.)

So (to be pedantic), Sherlock's flat doesn't have a number. Nor does Mrs Hudson's. The building is 221b.

Here is the exterior of 221b Baker Street:

And here is the exterior of 189 North Gower Street:

Note that they are both Victorian terraced row houses with four storeys.

Second mystery: Speedy's occupies the ground floor, with Mrs Hudson's flat behind. Sherlock lives on the floor above (the 'first floor' if you're a Brit, the 'second floor' if you're American). And John's bedroom is on the floor above that.

So: what's on the floor above John's room?

Why hasn't Mrs Hudson rented out the rest of her building?

Also: does John's room take up the entire second (third) floor?

What's up there, on the top floor?

That's where my plot bunnies live, on the top floor of 221b Baker Street.

Tagging a few people:

@lisbeth-kk @meetinginsamarra @copperplatebeech @lhrinchelsea @totallysilvergirl @keirgreeneyes @redmondcollege @naefelldaurk @chinike @peanitbear @raina-at @7-percent @readingwithgwen @helloliriels @a-victorian-girl @chriscalledmesweetie @stellacartography @thegildedbee @otterpuff11 @mydogwatson @ghostofnuggetspast @solarmama-plantsareneat @inevitably-johnlocked

#bbc sherlock #221b baker street #calaisreno #fan questions #inquiring minds want to know

batmanisagatewaydrug-deactivate

just once I want to see a good post critiquing makeup culture that doesn’t turn out to be made by some janky radfem blog

oh hey!! I’m not a janky radfem I can do it myself!

makeup culture is wack and normalizes a ludicrously high bar as the bare minimum women can do. I saw a “lazy"makeup tutorial the other day that listed 22 separate goddamn products. you’re supposed to buy and know how to use 22 different things on your face just for the privilege of being considered lazy and that’s uuuuuuh what’s the word? bullshit.

Really, five products could work, even 3. Just frame the face, eyes, lips, and you’re done.

0 products also works great

because I’m gonna be real here, the idea that 22 products is a minimum sucks but it’s really upsetting that any amount of makeup is the bare minimum at all

I would really just suggest some powder foundation, concealer, mascara and lipgloss/lipstick, or tbh just mascara works too, but that’s up to you

I’m sorry if I didn’t express this clearly enough in the original post but I’m not really looking for more concise makeup regiments. my intention was to point out how it’s Bad that makeup is considered a bare minimum at all, regardless of individual feelings on the matter

no face should be “required” to have “a minimum” of makeup. makeup has no health benefits and does nothing but fill the pockets of companies that prey on women and our insecurities.

makeup should not be seen as hygiene because it isnt. get that shit out of your head.

this post: makeup culture is ridiculous and 22 products should not be considered a minimum requirement for someones face. no one should have to do that

the notes: so like……. what youre saying is……. we need to make the minimum about 5 or 6 instead… i gotcha

Really the only makeup you need is eyeliner but that’s just my personal opinion

okay

where did we lose you