kendochick-moor

[kendochick-moor]

"Japanese Granny's FD goes to Mazda!" Dudes, she bought this car (Mazda RX-7 FD) in 1999 after reading the "Initial D" manga. The "Initial D" manga about racing cars. TT_TT

[kendochick-moor]

The 2025 Fanfic Reading Challenge

Welcome to another year of the Fanfic Reading Challenge (FRC)!

I won't bore you with the history of the challenge, this year, but I will welcome you to check out past posts that do explain some of it, as well as include a brief overview of what, exactly, this challenge is, though it does change year to year. (Essentially you read fics to complete goals and win bragging points and an artsy badge.)

This year is especially different, as I had the extreme pleasure of having @noxsoulmate as a partner in crime in keeping me hostage on track to completing this year's FRC. Another valued member of the mod team is @jandjsalmon and speaks for all of us if you need questions answered!

As for the challenge....

This is, indeed, a challenge. Of course.

First of all... you must obviously read fanfiction. As if you don't already!

You also need to download and make your own copy of the spreadsheet, which can be found here, as well as below in the important links section.

To participate in the challenge, you read fics that match the tasks in the challenge. An example of a task can be: "read a fic with a title containing the word purple in it." Should be easy! Of course, there are harder ones.

Which is why there are different modes of challenge to the FRC. These are as follows:

Participation (Complete 1 task)

Regular Mode (Complete 80 tasks)

Hard Mode (Complete 150 tasks)

Extreme Mode (Complete 220 tasks)

Complete (Complete 250 tasks)

The challenge lasts from January 1st, 2025, to December 31st, 2025.

There are badges that go with the modes completed, and even a secret 6th badge that will be fairly obvious if you look at the spreadsheet! Doesn't mean it'll be easy to complete though. *smirks* (Blame Noxy)

Most important of all: this challenge operates on the honour system. We don't check your work, or your reading logs (see below), so I mean, I guess if you want to be slippery with the rules, you do you, and that's on your conscience, but honestly it's so much fun to see how much you can get done by following the letter of the law/tasks! You can be slippery even with following the tasks fully. It's great fun. ;D

I think that's enough for an intro, really, maybe too much.

Important Links and Reading Logs/Trackers

As there is a component of the FRC that includes tracking numbers of words read, most of us use a reading log/tracker to keep count of how many fics we read, including data such as words, of course, chapters, month completed, ship, author, title, fandom, link to the fic, and such. It's a great place to mark what fics you want to read in the future as well!

This year we have FOUR trackers on offer, quite different from one another, so take a look, play around with them and check out their "intros", and choose according to what you think will work best for you!

Fic Tracking Sheets

Juulna's 2025 Reading Log

Noxy's 2025 Reading Log

2025 Jandy's Fic Tracker

Taru's Fic Tracker 2025

Discord

We have a blast on Discord. From general chatter to sharing pet pics to being there for each other during the tough times to forming lasting friendships and making friendships you’d never make in a ship- or fandom-specific Discord, to asking for help ‘rolling the dice’ (pick a number between 1-10!) to choose the next fic to read, to finding some of the really challenging task fills in fandoms people might not have ever read but are willing to try, or finding fandoms someone has never read and is very tentative about stepping out of their box, but they’re being 100% supported and know they don’t need to complete the fic for it to count for the task, stepping out of their comfort zone… we’ve formed a very odd group of, if not friends, then companions (but there are definite friendships that have formed!! Just ask the people who have started watching NHL and NFL together in our off topic channel!).

In any case, our Discord is not necessary, but it is a worthy and tactical element to completing many of the tasks of this challenge. 💙

And.... without further ado....!

The 2025 Fanfic Reading Challenge! (link)

There is an info/rules page as the first sheet on the spreadsheet that should fill in any further questions you have. It also has more contact info than just this page if you have any further questions and perhaps need a more immediate answer for your needs.

*Occasionally you will run into something that looks like an error, and it may in fact be one! Let us know if you see it. It's hard not to make a mistake on as large a spreadsheet as this.*

Please, first of all, have fun and just read fanfiction that you enjoy! I (Juulna) did that last year and didn't even come close to completing the entire challenge, and I still had a blast because I was enjoying what I was reading and rereading. Others took the challenge right to the completed end. Others forgot about it halfway through but still had fun, and some even went back and filled in the sheet for a really good showing! The challenge is what you make of it, what you want from it. So... just have fun. Read fic. Smile. Enjoy. :)

Second of all... well, we would love if you signal boost this post!!!!

Third of all, we do have our pinned post that includes a link to this page and that will include a link to our Discord and all our trackers as well, including past links for memento and informative purposes.

Thank you, and a blessed 2025 to all!

[kendochick-moor]

Updates: Dec 2024

Free-tier Patreon updates have moved to Dreamwidth (moor)

Free-tier DARK/non-con updates have moved Dreamwidth (darkficcollections)

"Forest Fire 2.1 Alt/Dark/non-con ending" is available on Patreon + Dreamwidth

"Bewitched" (Ita x Saku x Minato) Chapter 04 was posted to the applicable Patreon paid-tier folders

"Apparitions" Chapter 01 is posted to Dreamwidth as a sneak peek for any interested

"Blood Tie", my first Black Bird manga fanfic, is also posted to Dreamwidth

So are the HashiSaku one-shot I did back in 2023, the ItaSaku preview I wrote last month, "Bewitched" Chapter 01 as a preview, and the September 2024 drabble

No more fanfic will be uploaded to the Patreon site (only the folders)

My Patreon now has a Discord! If you're a paid Patreon member, you can check it out

"The Words" (Gaara/Sakura/Sasori) chapter 01 is available for Epic-tier and free tier members (see note above about where to find free-tier content now)

"House of Mao", my first Apothecary Diaries fic, has a WIP of Chapter 01 available now for free (see note above about where to find free fic...)

That's 3-4 fanfic updates for this month, not bad

Back in January with a new Kakashi/Sakura fanfic (haven't written KakaSaku in a while). "Steel Crows" is 'Macross'-inspired, if anyone's interested.

Also, following some feedback, there may be additional endings posted for the "Forest Fire" alt-ending. XD We'll see how much my wrists can handle.

Happy reading, all.

[kendochick-moor]

Happy birthday @vesperlionheart~!

[kendochick-moor]

With the exception of the epilogue which I'm tweaking a *tiny* bit, yes, all the chapters of the "Forest Fire" alternate ending are loaded in Patreon and scheduled, ready to go. And yes, every word of this update is free for all members, whether paid or unpaid. :)

36k words, happy reading, all!

(And please, for the love of god, read the squicks/warnings, first!)

[kendochick-moor]

Oh HELLO, feature I've been dying for for years! Multiple tabs in a writing doc—I finally figured you out! LOL

Now this is a game changer...

[kendochick-moor]

You know what we all need more of for the holidays? Dark, NSFW, non-con alternate endings to "Forest Fire II". I hope you enjoy the next eight (8) days of daily, free updates for all members on my Patreon (whether free tier or paid tier). Because this fic has been years in the making and does NOT disappoint. Did I mention new kinks? Because there are fresh kinks.

Nearly 90 pages long, I hope you all enjoy this descent.

Happy festive feasting. ;)

[kendochick-moor]

You CAN do dips, my friend! (2024 Remake to show with slightly more "proper" equipment)

Here are the progressions:

Bent Knee Dips - 3 Sets of 30 Bench Dips - 2 Sets of 25 Elevated Bench Dips - 2 Sets of 20 Jackknife Parallel Dips - 2 Sets of 20 Assisted Parallel Dips - 2 Sets of 25 Parallel Dips - 2 Sets of 15 Straight Bar Dips

[kendochick-moor]

KIDNAPPER: we have your girlfriend

DRACO: my girlfriend? Shorter, curly hair, big brown eyes?

KIDNAPPER: uh, yeah?

DRACO: you don’t have her. She has you. Good luck.

[kendochick-moor]

Patreon friends, thank you from the bottom of my heart for your support this year. With your help, we were able to save Mousse's life and cover chunks of his vet bills (still had to sell my car to cover the rest, but our little guy lives!!) from January through May, cover some of my oldest kid's university tuition, and, after my dad just had heart failure this weekend and was rushed to hospital, we have hopefully enough to get my Dad a tablet and headphones that he will be able to use once his heart surgery ends (it has been going on all day), since he won't be able to be very active for a while.

Y'all know I recently has a collapse at work from my own heart issues + a broken eardrum, so you know it's been a tough year all around. Patreon being able to help my husband, kids and Dad has gone a long way.

Thank you all very, very much.

[kendochick-moor]

Benefits to putting on muscle (even if you have no interest in bodybuilding)

Some people love bodybuilding, and that's awesome.

While others may not, the process of training for muscle can give a lot of benefits that people want from their training. Meaning that the goal itself can help align your process.

Not just good nutrition and sleep, but the ability to control increasingly heavy loads.

Have a wonderful day.

[kendochick-moor]

Patreon Free Tier members, shoot me your fic prompts and I will choose at least one to write for the January 2025 Free Tier fic!

Check out the above Patreon link for more details.

As for other updates, the latest addition to "Bewitched" is loaded and scheduled for release on Dec 1, 2024. :)

More coming for the new ItaSaku soon, also for December!

[kendochick-moor]

Poll now active on Patreon for paid members!

[kendochick-moor]

It looks like gift memberships are now live on Patreon! If you know a friend who misses their fav fic(s), consider making their day/month. :)

This is available for other Patreon creators, too!