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[juuls]

Yeah @magic-gps I took some tine out of resting from whooping cough and put together properly cropped screenshots that should help you. If I run into an image limit, I’ll just continue to another reblog.

Hope this helps.

One more reblog…

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!

[zivazivc]

the @sing-it-togetherzine is coming near you soon!!!

my first time participating in any fan zine and I am so excited for it to be published and for you to see what we've been up to. from what i've seen from other artists and writers myself it's already looking great and bound to be incredible. :D

[trashytracktales]

Can someone please agree with me lando would SOOO be into recording “sex tapes” ofc only for his eyes and he’d definitely watch them when he’s away at races and your not with him

Hold up, let’s analyze this properly because imo, this one is a bit tricky, and I need my glasses ☝🏻🤓

On one hand, Lando’s passion for photography and his past experiments with shooting short films definitely set the stage. Like, it wouldn’t be completely surprising to find out he’s into it (lando.jpg & land0.mov as my witnesses), strictly for his eyes only, of course. All I'm saying, there is vision & potential, and he knows what to put the focus on.

However, we also have to factor in how cautious he is about privacy. He's a guy that values keeping his personal life out of the spotlight, especially when it comes to his romantic relationships (lately), so he might hesitate... But then again, if it’s just between the two of you, completely secure, and something you’re both into? DOT DOT DOT 👀

Lastly, if he does end up doing it and taking the MATERIAL with him while traveling for races, he would definitely be super cautious. Like, password-protected devices, hidden folders, the whole nine yards. Because as fun as it is to imagine Lando smirking at his phone while... hm, risky behavior, sir.

Final verdict,

[beentobeetle]

hello,,, you asked for noels and arthurs and oscars,,,

Oscarrrrr

Noellll

Arthurrr

take your pic!!! Drops these and scurries off into the underbrush

Hey. pulls you back from the underbrush by the leg

You can’t just drop the prettiest men I’ve ever seen in my asks and scurry off … take responsibility for your beauty …

esPECIALLY your Oscar design because WOWZA WOWZA HUNKA HUNKA !!!!! Why must the most tortured also be the most gongeous. sigh.

[tiramisuandlove]

Thank you for the tag , dear! Take care and focus on yourself. Wishing the 2025 to be a lot better for you.🩷

Last Song: Art Deco by Lana Del Rey(it was on Wednesday. Now looking back on it … the lyrics hit home).

Favourite Colour: Honestly , I don’t have one. For the longest time it was blue till lately . But if I have to answer with something, it’s gonna be pink.

Last Book: “Tales of horror “ by Edgar Allan Poe ( just strated it)

Last Movie: Klaus and jjk 0 ( yes , both are rewatch for me.

Last Tv Show: Again jjk. Inventory arc have my heart okay!

Sweet/Savoury/Salty: Sweet, I have a big sweet tooth. On rare occasion I do crave salty stuff.

Relationship Statuts: A day ago , I was very much in a relationship. As for now… who knows.

Last Thing I Googled: Navigation stuff ( not for me tho, these things can’t save me from becoming lost)

Current Obsession: Vampires , knitting , all the anime I look forward to write for.

Looking Forward To : Well… right now I’m not in the right state of mind, a lot have happened. For that, I will have to say just taking care of myself. I’m luckily that all of the people around me wants the best for me , so it’s now time for me to want that too.

Tags ( no pressure 🩷): @suguru-getos @avaults @everythingseasoning

Take care , all of you amazing people. I hope life is treating you good and if it’s not , then I wish it gets better. Remember , always drink water and look after yourself!

thank you @slashsleuth for the tag 😁 i havent done a little game in a long time

last song: fruit roll ups by waterparks

fav color: purple 💜😈💟🪻

last book: the absinthe underground by jamie pacton (it was ok)

last movie: wicked

last tv show: abbott elementary

sweet/savory/spicy: sweet usually

relationship status: single 😊

last thing i googled: the absinthe underground (needed the author lmao) before that it was turbulent waterparks chords

current obsession: ive been watching a lottt of jet lag lately!!! super fun travel show!!

looking forward to: signed parx print coming in the mail today 🫶🏼

tagging: @bergoozter @trashworldblog @outer-space-face @22psyduck :-)

[occasionalsnippets]

Okay I'm so very curious on what would happen in case fd!mc died. I've not caught up on all the lore but the idea that they'd focus on everyone elses tragedies, only to forget they're now a character too with their own problems and enemies and that (or something else) being their end. Like the angst potential just calls to me.

Taglist: @dragondevinity, @lonely-star2044, @sheep-from-rad, @ilxandra, @thethingwiththefeathers, @star-wars-lycanwing-bat, @sackofsadstuff, @zonked-times, @paastaboi, @venfia, @fantasy-angelo, @linaisadream

Asdlaskjdh I would love to kill them off, maybe like a bit after Jason comes to the manor. I just know that everyone is going to be trapped in the shadow of the pedestal they built for you!!!

Like, Bruce is perpetual longing to make things right by you. He forever catches himself thinking “what would you do” and “what would you tell him to do”, but never able to rely on your guidance to fix things again. Even though you acted essentially as his emotional crutch and translator and the initial impression of you basically being a (not) adult in his life, he’s eternally going to wish he could’ve done better for you. He isn’t your father and you weren’t his daughter. But, maybe you could’ve been something. It’s too late now, regardless.

Even though you’re six feet under, you’re no farther than you were in life. Dick remembers the distance between you and him more than anything else. Be it the distance he placed between himself and the manor or the ravine you dug yourself. He had always been more focussed on Tim than you and in many ways, you had orchestrated things so that it would be that way. You didn’t need him. Not like everyone else. And that leaves him with nothing of you but distant text messages and memories of you, dancing just out of his reach.

Jason remembers you amidst fluttering fabrics and blurry faces, shutters of a past he can barely recall. Your face in childhood is smeared in washes of green, blending with the images of the you of now that blares with every headline of your death. He’s never gotten to know who you are now when you aren’t hidden behind velvet curtains, in dresses covered in rhinestones worth more than an apartment complex. It haunts him. Just a bit. The same way he knows the memory of who he was before his death haunts Bruce.

Tim mourns in the Drake manor that has always been filled with more you than either of his parents. You’re gone now, just like them. It hits him harder than anyone he’s ever lost. Unlike everyone else, he almost had a surplus of memories of you, the good, the bad, the annoying and kind. It casts a daunting shadow of a role he’ll never be able to fulfil. A role that you, his perfect, unfailing, older sister, have left behind. The lingering warmth will kill him someday he thinks as he traces your path and follows in your footsteps.

Damian only knows you from stories and photographs and the half-aborted actions that the rest of the family takes. They are all trying to be something good for him and in the depths of the records his father keeps, he knows that it is your doing. You have always been larger than life to him. An idol-like figure he can never reach or know. There are millions of photos of you, thousands of angles, all of which he has learned to draw. He can imagine the gentle curve of your smile, mimic the posture when you stood, count the number of lashes on each of your eyes. But, he can only grasp at the ghost you left behind, unable to reach who you truly were.

The family will grieve. They will mourn. But, they will collect themselves eventually. You did not spend the last years of your life forcing them to communicate only for them to fall apart after you’re gone, after all.

[annabelle--cane]

I would love to know if there's anything else you've gleaned about mouthwashing from osmosis. if anything. what is the game about, from what you've gathered?

they are on a spaced. ship. and they are not using mouthwash for its intended purposes. at one point evil doug eiffel does a pieta thing with all american mummy. and sad shelley duvall deserves to be the one to beat evil doug eiffel to death with hammers but alas she is not of the hammering disposition. and daisuke is there.

[everwalldigan]

Thinking of a sentient Gotham AU where she makes Bruce her champion and stuff, and it basically makes B immortal until his mission is complete. Until Gotham is rid of corruption and it's the utopia that B dreams of making it, he's not going to die.

Like, he stopped aging in his mid thirties and no damage done to him is permanent. Bane breaking his back? Gotham healed it up good as new, every time he SHOULD die? He doesn't.

This can go one of two ways with the Batfam:

1) His children are unaffected by his mission and he has to watch them grow old and die.

2) Gotham extends her claim onto his children as well and they are also unable to die.

I prefer option 1 but what do you think?

Btw, this idea is heavily inspired by this post:

https://www.tumblr.com/smallandangry24/739827927778230272/headcanon-that-gotham-accepted-the-waynes-as-a?source=share

And I kind of see it as a offshoot and continuation of that post.

I actually really like this idea as an in universe explanation to Bruce’s seeming invulnerability (I mean WE know he can’t be permanently hurt cause you can’t have Batman comics without Batman) and I think you could go into many interesting routes (some more depressing than others), the cruelest one would be if the protection extended to the batfam selectively or randomly fell away without their knowledge. The only one who I think the protection HAS to extend to is dick because he’s been around almost exactly as long as Bruce and survived almost as many death experiences

Bruce would have to find out about this protection through a death experience (pretty early on, I’d say in the first 3 years) that he’s 100% certain he couldn’t have made it out of (or a few. Or MANY) and in this scenario, he found out (with many grey hairs) that that protection extended to Dick. That could also be one of the reasons why he let dick go out on his own more, because he trusted that Gotham will see to it that he’s back home safe.

With dick there’s the question of would that protection extend when he’s OUT of Gotham? Is there a perimeter of protection? Is that why for Jason to die his death had to occur outside of Gotham?

There’s also the question of the extent of injuries, Bruce could heal from his broken back but Babs was paralysed, does she not fall under the protection? Did Gotham deem the injury not life threatening enough to heal? (Liberally ignoring the dumb implant they gave her)

I’m not gonna delve into every single batfam member but like you get the gist. Thank you for the ask! :D

[toonsforkicks22]

Hello there, love ur art and just wanted to ask... COULD YOU PLEASEE MAKE A HAPPY, CUTE, CUTE FUNNY BUNNY... ANYTHING!? I just love them so much 🥺🙏 it's ok if u don't want to...

A little something I made for @dragon-creates as a Secret Santa gift. It’s a scene from Ch 2 of the AU fanfic Royally Screwed (it’s super cute, give it a read!)

[str8upjorkinit]

middlescholers sholeo..

sho's first bike that he bought with his own hard earned money

[macchiato-baco]

My soul is yours if you feed me more of your yummy Reflectivedetective art ☺️

Here you go goober :^)

[anonfoxsblog]

You have such a tasty looking ass bunny

Thank you 🍑 👑 🙏

[chonggen]

this is the best I could do for now lmao apparently pak choi nk doesn’t agree with me

LMAO XD

[strawberryblondebutch]

What’s your opinion on how Boston is doing/whats not working?

I mentioned this earlier in the season and I stand by it — the offense is being too cautious. They’re playing scared.

Hockey classifies shots both by distance (wrist, snap, slap) and by degree of risk. A low-risk shot is one that, if it doesn’t go in, it gets swallowed up by the goalie and you reset. A high-risk shot is one that, if you miss, you turn it over and give your opponents an opening. (This is the inverse of low and high danger shots, which refer to the danger for the goalie receiving said shots). Boston is exclusively going for low-risk shots, which is why they can’t seem to buy a goal. It’s one of the reasons their two best forwards are Knight and Bilka — players who don’t know what fear is and are happy to make those high-risk shots.

The goaltending issues, if you can call them that (Frankel’s .927 SV% would be tied for second in the NHL right now) are mental. Your starting goalie believes she has to be perfect every single game. Your backup was an everyday player for three years and now has to shake off the rust when she gears up.

Also, last night’s power play. One shot on goal during a five-minute PP is unacceptable. Kessel gave a pretty damning quote to NESN last night about it:

Effort is what a coach values above all. “Not playing with urgency” should strike fear into the hearts of the PP unit.

[handmadecrybaby]

I love a dirty little cougar

a COUGAR please I am 36??????? Get it together 😂