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[valancholia-st-clair]

hello people with no imagination!!

as marshmello once famously said "lately, i've been, i've been thinking... i want you to be happier". you know what would make me happier? more skulduggery pleasant YURI.

currently on ao3 there are 1549 works in the skulduggery pleasant fandom. just 150 are tagged as F/F, many of which are multifandom fics which only include wlw ships from other fandoms.

the thing is, the issue is certainly not that there's NO interest in these ships. wlw ship valancholia (which i am totally not biased towards in any way) won @sp-fanclub's 2025 Skulduggery Ship Wars by a landslide, winning over 73.2% of the 82 voters in the final poll. so clearly... the potential is there. what we need is a motivator. like a splash but it's not a thinly veiled metaphor for drugs.

and so..... may i propose............ SKULDUGGYURI PLEASANT. a dedicated period where we make a collective effort to create skulduggery fanworks that centre relationships between non-men, romantic or otherwise. because there are so many amazing dynamics between characters in this series who are female or gender diverse, and they deserve a little boost :)

NOTE i put writing event in the poll because i'm losing my mind pretend it says fanwork event xxx

would YOU be interested in a skulduggyuri pleasant writing event

yes 😍😍😍

no ❌❌

i would but now isn't a good time for me

unsure if i'd write but i'd love for other people to so i can READ it

stephanie edgley deserved better (other/see results)

Voting ended on2h

also if you have a better name idea. or any other opinion. or would like to help or i don't know have any thoughts whatsoever. comment below ⬇️⬇️

[lambtongue]

I haven't read the books in so long that I sometimes forget that like...they're about Skul and Val rather than the few fringe characters that get like 2 lines but that have lived several full lives inside my head over the years (s/o to Reverie Synecdoche, Dai Maybury and Emmett Peregrine <3)

A couple of times I've gone back to reread and been like. whys there so much about a skeleton in here?

[felinedetached]

Ok so I don't think I would have cared about militsa either way but why is every single development in the militsa/valkyrie relationship off page. They get together off page. They break up off page. We see such nothingburger snippets that I am genuinely unsure that this relationship was even intended to mean anything to me???

[valancholia-st-clair]

honestly (and this isn't a spoiler) 4 books later i'm still not sure

[xalatath]

Everybody in the club Yield to my will

[corpsebanger]

I took your skull off display because my guests kept saying it looked noticeably gayer than the other skulls

[welcometothejianghu]

Small Fandom Summer 2026!

For the fourth year in a row now, it's time for Small Fandom Summer! Join me for Small Fandom Summer! It's real easy to play:

Make a fanwork for something that has fewer than 1000 English-language works on AO3

Post it to AO3

And then you've done it! You've made a thing and you've diversified the fandom ecosystem! You're basically a hero.

Q: The fandom I want to create for has more than 1000 English-language works on AO3, but the specific pairing I want to write for has fewer than that. Does that count? A: Yes! Q: What if it has more than 1000 English-language works on AO3, but, like, just barely? A: Okay! Q: What if it actually has a lot more than 1000 English-language works on AO3, but it still feels small? A: Sure! Q: What if I don't want to post it to AO3? What if I don't even have an AO3 account? Can I post it somewhere else? A: Wherever! Q: What if-- A: Just do a thing, friend. Make a thing. Share the thing. This is not meant to be restrictive; this is meant to be inspirational. Create the fanworks you want to see in the world. Make a stranger happy by appealing to their niche interests. Bring joy.

And if you want to give yourself some silly little Steam-like achievement badges to commemorate your accomplishments, well, you're in luck! I've made a bunch of them right here! You can grab the ones that apply to your work and paste them wherever you like and feel good about what you've done. Here's a few of my favorites:

So you see? This is meant to be silly and fun.

There's nowhere to sign up. There's nothing to commit to. There's zero pressure. You just do it if you do it, and don't if you don't. But if you do want to play (yay!), tag your stuff with #small fandom summer so we can all swoop in and appreciate everyone else's efforts.

Here's to creativity!

[ao3commentoftheday]

Images are white text on a black background with a coloured icon taking up the leftmost third of the image. They are as follows:

Green icon of a magnifying class over a beetle. Who's That Boy? (wrote for a character that previously had no AO3 tag)

Orange icon of a tape measure. Size Matters (wrote the longest fic to date in the fandom)

Grey icon of two women holding hands. Lesbifriends (wrote the first F/F fic in the fandom)

Yellow icon of a smiling face surrounded by hearts. My Special Person (wrote something because you knew that one person who'd appreciate it)

Blue icon of an elephant and a mouse. Lorge and Smol (wrote a crossover between a fandom with more than 1000 works and a small fandom)

Grey icon of handcuffs. Testing the Waters (this had better not awake anything in you)

Yellow icon of two fish approaching a hook. Hooked! (wrote something for the first time and are already planning on writing something else for it)

Green icon of a bag with a leaf on it implying soil or plant food. A Brand-New Bag (wrote for a fandom so small you had to teach AO3 what it was)

[nevermindigotthis]

Melancholia St. Clair (@lassieposting)

[valancholia-st-clair]

happy pride month to everyone in this series except militsa gnosis ❤️ hope she dies in a mostly painless way

[coreywithnoname]

Meritorius: It's pride month, Skulduggery you know what that means.

Skulduggery: Huh. What? Do you want me to like, solve gay crime? What?

[girlfailureinc]

Explain the Skulduggery Pleasant series and/or characters for everyone who doesn't know it but really badly.

Random preteen meets an old ass skeleton man and ragebaits him into taking her as an apprentice. This girl is also the antichrist

[valancholia-st-clair]

what is the collective term for skulduggery pleasant fans? do we have one

[rotund-squirrelmeister]

idk but we’re pretty pleasant fans

[the-four-stars]

What’s Skulduggery Pleasant even about?

[valancholia-st-clair]

i think there's a skull in there somewhere

[valancholia-st-clair]

fandombaiting myself as always but these lyrics from hayley williams' most recent album remind me so much of Skulduggery and Valkyrie

lyrics from: Kill Me, Hard, Blood Bros, Mirtazapine, Negative Self-Talk, I Won't Quit On You, Brotherly Hate

[idekkkkk-newaccount]

I’m calling it right now. Derek Landy is gonna take Valitsa down a Sherlock route, as in, they’re gonna get married and have a kid or whatever, and then it’s gonna be revealed that Militsa was a fucking spy all along, or something crazy like that.

[detective-inspector-person]

Happy Féile na Draíochta!!

Only happens every 72 years but we'll do it today as well!

[coreywithnoname]

Wait, what was that again? ^^'

[detective-inspector-person]

It is the festival where magic is boosted for everyone, it was used when the Faceless Ones were pulling their bull back in dead or alive

[valancholia-st-clair]

derek landy 🤝 ill-advised festivals as plot devices

[lostandbackagain]

[arctic-hands]

I don't have the space to adopt a rabbit, but I've just been made aware that there's a rabbit up for adoption at BARCS whose name is Hoptimus Prime

[Image Description: the listing for Hoptimus Prime, a white rabbit. End I.D]

[valancholia-st-clair]

he would do numbers at Coldheart prison