#Small Fandoms/Multifandom: Small Fandoms Fest

[fanwork-exchange-promos]

Small Fandoms/Multifandom: Small Fandoms Fest

Posted by: spikedluv We are a bi-annual fic and art fest for small fandoms, and our Thirty-Sixth Fest at smallfandomfest is now open for prompt submission! Link/Community: Prompt Submission Post Description: Submit prompts for your favorite small fandoms to entice others to create fanfic or fanart! Prompt Submission closes November 21; Prompt Claims open November 23. We're very low pressure; there is no penalty for claiming a prompt and having RL or other fandom obligations get in the way of filling it. Plus, if you submit three fanworks, you get a pretty personalized button! We also encourage you to Pimp your Small Fandom! There’s a sign-up post here for that. Dates: Nov 1 - Nov 21: Prompt Submission Period Nov 23: Prompts Available for Claiming & Posting Period Opens Nov 23 - Jan 31: Posting Period Jan 31: Final Day of Posting Period comments via The Fandom Calendar https://ift.tt/4a9kxpU

[sinvulkt]

Small Fandoms/Multifandom: Small Fandoms Fest

I just found this multifandom event!! 🎶

Description: Submit prompts for your favorite small fandoms to entice others to create fanfic or fanart! Prompt Submission closes November 21; Prompt Claims open November 23. We're very low pressure; there is no penalty for claiming a prompt and having RL or other fandom obligations get in the way of filling it. Plus, if you submit three fanworks, you get a pretty personalized button!

Dates:

Nov 1 - Nov 21: Prompt Submission Period

Nov 23: Prompts Available for Claiming & Posting Period Opens

Nov 23 - Jan 31: Posting Period

Jan 31: Final Day of Posting Period

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Let’s gooooooo 🎶

People of the fandoms in the tags, it’s our moment to shine! ✨️

(I actually checked, all those fandom have less than 2k fics on ao3. I was honestly suprised to see EPIC and BG3 were eligible, but hey, numbers don’t lie XD)

[goddess47]

2024 In Review

Another good writing year. I cleared my goal of 300K, with some to spare! I posted a total of 339,055 words in 2024 (all posted on AO3).

That is 100K less than last year but 450K words required more of a writing/life unbalance. I'm not sure how much more of a 'life' I had in 2024 but it felt more reasonable.

Breakdown and miscellaneous things that I think are interesting:

233 postings -- now some of those are chapters of a fic, so not necessarily 233 stories, if that makes sense

I wrote in 5 different fandoms, along with a bunch of crossovers:

Teen Wolf - 97 stories

Harry Potter - 57 stories

Stargate Atlantis - 28* stories

9-1-1 - 18 stories

Stargate SG-1 - 3 stories

Stargate Atlantis/Stargate SG-1 crossovers - 13 stories

Teen Wolf/Harry Potter crossovers - 11 stories

Multifandom crossover (i.e. all of the above) - 1 posting with 28 chapters, each separate ficlets

*Although I technically posted only 28 SGA stories, I completed 49 McSheplets prompts. I'm working my way through the original McSheplets prompt list (all 300 prompts), and I wrote a series of microfics that are chapters in larger post. But that brings me up to having completed 81 McSheplets prompts since I've started in 2023. As a result, I'm just over 25% of the way through that list.

The crossovers were largely part of no_true_pair and I completed 2 (!) sets of stories for the prompts. Next time, 1 set is enough. As usual, fic length was all over the place:

35 drabbles of exactly 100 words (mostly Harry100 prompts, or Sterekdrabbles)

106 'short' fic, meaning over 100 and under 1000 words

4 over 10K, with the longest fic being 36K

7 microfic posts where each chapter was a more-or-less standalone ficlet, generally under 100 words

The microfic stories were a fun writing challenge. I used it expand existing stories (i.e. the follow-up fic that could be written but I didn't necessarily have the time or energy) or, as I said, to fill in more McSheplet entries that I'd likely struggle meeting otherwise.

I did one podfic as part of a larger project. The original intent was for RomancingMcShep, held in February (and again this year!), but the story didn't have the required happy ending, so we put it in SGA_Saturday's collection for Romancing SGA.

@melagan and I ran a very low key Stargate Anniversary Fest, since it was 20 years since the first episode of Atlantis and 30 (!) years since the original movie was shown. Folk have added fic to this and there are 130 works in that collection.

Toward the end of 2024, I took over SGA_SecretSanta from @popkin16 who had to give it up due to real life things. Many thanks to Popkin for her hard work over the years. The fest ended up with 25 lovely works, which is amazing for an older fandom.

Across the year, I wrote 27 stargateficrec entries, focusing on Jack O'Neill. It's fun to dig up some older O'Neill stories and share them with others. I did a small handful of fancake recs, largely in non-SGA fandoms.

Overall, it's been a good writing year and I'm looking forward to doing more in 2025!

Happy New Year!

[chocolatepot]

Tagged by @wistfulcynic!

Rules: Go to your published works on AO3 and list the first fic you ever published there, the last fic you published, any fic that you wrote for a fandom/ship only once, your favorite fic you wrote in the fandom/ship that has the most works, the fic you wish more people read, the fic you agonized over the most, the fic that sprang fully formed from your mind without any effort, and a work you are proud of—for whatever reason. <3

First fic: Our Little Gathering, for Chocolate Box in 2016 - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, specifically the book version. 2016 feels WAY too late because I had an AO3 account long before that, but I guess I was only reading?? The fic is about Arabella's abduction to Lost Hope and her friendship with Emma Pole.

(Not on AO3, but my first fic EVER is Some things never change..., a three chapter continuation of the Enchanted Forest Chronicles from 2000. Oh lord.)

Last fic: It Never Was Anywhere You, the first chapter! Do you like unhinged? Do you like genderbends? Do you like Stizzy? Do you like unhinged genderbent Stizzy??? It's entirely written and will all be posted before Oct. 5.

Only once: I actually have a lot of these from doing multifandom/small-fandom fests. The one I will highlight is A Sensible Couple, the only Sanditon fic I will ever write. It's a Stringer/Charlotte marriage of convenience fic, kind of a fix-it from my perspective.

Favorite fic from the fandom I've written in most: In OFMD, of course. I think it's A Perfect Pair - not my first genderbend but the one where I just let loose. Buckets of angst for both Ed and Stede, an unplanned sex scene that basically wrote itself, and I had to work at the writing in a really satisfying way (to keep them from reconciling too quickly, lol).

Fic I wish more people read: I have an ego and I wish more people read all my works, lmao, but the reception for Fiercely, my brief Marial/Catherine fic (The Great), got me all grouchy. I have every intention of writing more of this ship despite the fact that the fandom isn't into it.

Fic I agonized over: Torn between Powerless and Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, because I agonized over both of these. BTDATDBS was emotionally wrenching to write, as I put Stede through the absolute wringer in it with no reprieve until the end, and I also just couldn't figure out how to accomplish the final chapter, so it put me through the wringer as well. Powerless was ... actually not that hard to write, but BOY did I work myself up over the idea that I was going to be crucified for posting it.

Fic that sprang fully formed: there'll be peace of mind, a hurt/comfort fic where the reunion occurs between a slightly injured Ed and both physically and psychologically injured Stede. It was really magical because @appleteeth's prompts lined up exactly with what I'd been hoping to write.

Work(s) I'm proud of: I was tempted to say Prisons, but I think it's gotta be He That Plays the King, my novella from 2022's Hurt/Comfort Exchange. I'm still slightly amazed that I wrote it, tbh! It's "original slash", very iddy, 30k, about kingship and masculinity and Anglo-Saxon England.

A tag to summon: @ghostalservice, @nicnacsnonsense, @adickaboutspoons, @thetardigrape, @oatmilktruther

[cupidsbower]

Ever wanted a vid made for you?

If you are a vidder of any skill level and have always wanted a vid made for you, but feel too nervous to sign up to a formal exchange, this season’s Equinox is the fest for you.

Here’s the rules:

If you are a vidder and there's even a slight chance you might claim a prompt if you see one you like, then you are welcome to participate. There is no formal matching; there is no requirement that you make a vid. We do however ask that if you submit prompts, there is at least a small chance you might make a vid (otherwise we might have a lot of prompts and few vids!)

How cool is that?

You can leave your prompts/check out other people’s prompts here: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/fallequinox2020/profile

If it helps, here are some fandoms that I might vid if a prompt catches my eye:

Good Omens

Venom

Doctor Who

James Bond

Star Wars

50 First Dates

How to Steal a Million

A multifandom vid starring dragons

A multifandom vid starring elephants 

A multifandom vid focusing on one Shakespeare play that has been adapted to several movies (eg. every Hamlet, every Midsummer Night’s Dream, every Twelfth Night)

A multifandom dancing or action vid

[incognitajones]

2020 by the numbers

total words written: 158,183 

number of (new) stories posted: 18

exchanges participated in: 8, plus a Big Bang

fandoms/source canons: 7 or 9 (depending on how you count Star Wars sub-fandoms)

longest piece: Unexpected (see below)

shortest: a few 100-word drabbles I wrote for the Multifandom Drabble Fest

Top 5 stories by length:

Unexpected (29700 words)

pulse to pulse (19560 words)

Filling the Role (14743 words)

ask again later (5974 words)

what stranger miracles (4633 words)

Top 5 by kudos:

Filling the Role

It Must Be Christmas Time

Unexpected

pulse to pulse

root system (lol, the small fandom life - this story has less than half the kudos of number 4)

My writing-related goals for 2020 were to:

focus on True and False and two other longer pieces - yes! I wrote two brand new novellas and True and False is 99% complete, even if I haven’t managed to post the last chapter yet

finish a rough draft of my original novel - nope, didn’t touch it at all this year

rethink my exchange participation - sort of? I signed up to fewer altogether, but I still found the ones I did very stressful (although that might have been due to, y’know, everything else going on)

explore different creative fields - I registered for a sketching class at the local art gallery, which was cancelled before it started, and did some basic drawing exercises on my own but never got very far. Maybe I should focus on music next year!

Other personal challenges and milestones:

I participated in a Big Bang for the first time, which taught me a couple of valuable lessons, number one being that they are very much not my thing

related to the above, I wrote 150,000+ words in a year for the first time ever (and probably the last)

I wanted to comment at the rate of at least one per day, and I did! 🎉 this year I commented on 398 fanworks (not counting gifts for me)

I’m having trouble settling on creative goals for 2021; there are a few things I want to do, but nothing is really demanding my attention at the moment. That may be a sign it’s time to step back from posting and just write for my own eyes for a while. 🤔

[fanfictionlive]

After all this work creating a list of the best (read: my favorite) active multifandom fanfiction events (with a light dusting of my personal thoughts), I realize I forgot friggin Fandom Trumps Hate

I'll add Fandom Trumps Hate (FTH) later. It's over for 2019 anyway. But still. So here:

Fandom Trumps Hate is an auction of fanworks with the proceeds going to charities that support and provide for populations targeted by hateful groups and ideologies. Find their homes on Tumblr, Dreamwidth, and their collections on AO3. Speaking from recent experience it feels great to join this project and offer works.

Moving on! The TL;DR of my blog post is: Fandom 5k, WIP Big Bang, Iddy Iddy Bang Bang, Yuletide, NaNoWriMo, Small Fandom Bang and/or Small Fandom Fest, and Half a Moon. If you want quick little blurbs about each of them, I totally delivered. Click here.

If you haven't heard of these, I highly recommend. Also wondering if anyone knows about and/or is running any other fanfic-oriented multifandom events like these? I'd love to know about more (and add them!)

submitted by /u/pipalexandria [link] [comments] from FanFiction: Where Magical Ponies battle Imperial Titans https://ift.tt/2Jdk0in

[sunnydaleherald]

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Friday, May 11

[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

Opposites Attract (Buffybot/Faith, PG-13) by fluffybkitty

Adaptation (Cordelia/Faith, PG-13) by brutti_ma_buoni

Panic Button (Willow, Iron Man xover, G) by madimpossibledreamer

Even Demons Need Friends (Buffy/Spike, G) by Slaymesoftly

Unicorn Hunter (Wesley/OFC, Not Rated) by Greysgate

Scavenger Hunt (Angel, Cordelia, Wesley, Not Rated) by Greysgate

Help You Do What? (Buffy/Spike, R) by gwennie

[Chaptered Fiction]

Forward Without Seeing Chapter 80 (Ensemble, R) by queen_insane

Through A Mother's Eyes Chapter 8 (Buffy/Spike, G) by ElvenqueenSarah. Complete story

Dreamweaver Chapter 5 (Angel/Buffy, NC-17) by frosty600

New Wounds Covering Old Scars Chapter 6 (Angel(us)/Buffy, R) by frosty600

The Flipside of Love Chapter 5 (Angelus/Buffy, NC-17) by frosty600

Dark Release Season 3 Rewrite Chapter 5 (Angelus/Buffy, NC-17) by frosty600

Cool Hand Chapter 7 (Dawn/OFC, Cool Hand Luke xover, PG-13) by steeleye

The Gift of Death Chapter 8 (Buffy/Elijah Mikaelson, The Vampire Diaries xover, R) by frosty600

Saving Faith Chapter 32 (Cordelia/Faith, Saving Grace xover, PG-13) by Jinxgirl

Hindsight Chapter 38 (Buffy/Spike, R) by Toften

A Small Boat on the Ocean Chapter 58 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by sandy_s

In Retrograde Chapter 4 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by Wroth_and_ruin

Fractured Chapter 11 (Buffy/Spike, R) by Cockney Cecilia

[Images, Audio & Video]

55 multifandom icons (10 btvs) by timetobegin

Artwork: Fray the Lurk Slayer by arthvrpopvlar

Podcast: BtVS 3.02 - Dead Man's Party by returntothehellmouth

Fanvid: Start A War (Ensemble) by shotguneyess

Fanvid: see you again (Connor, Darla) by shotguneyess

Fanvid: Strange Enough (Buffy/Faith) by BobbyMcGriffin

Podcast: Episode #263: ‘Angel’ 5×13 and 5×14 – Nobody Expects the Puppets by hypable

[Reviews & Recaps]

Video: Still Pretty #32. Touched (S7.20) by Chipperish Media

Video: Buffy Season 3 Wrap-Up by Buffy Virgin Podcast

[Recs]

the finest sweetest thing in the world by womanaction (Willow/Fred) recommended by a-mi-zivi-recs

[Community Announcements]

TheWiggins Needs Your Questions! by thesunnydalefanficclub

[Fandom Discussions]

Anya: A Rant by itsnotmymind

[Articles, Interviews, and Other News]

Video: Talking WhedonCon with James Leary by Passion of the Nerd

GlasgowLive: There’s a weekend-long Buffy the Vampire Slayer Fest happening in Glasgow this summer by Gillian Loney

[wipbigbang]

Hi! I have a question that may be a little weird. My goal for this year and next year is to run my own big bang and i was wondering if youve got any tips or resources?

I don’t have anything to link you, but I’d be happy to talk about it with you if you want! It’s been a lot of trial and error since I started modding this bang, but I feel like I’ve got a pretty good handle on it now. I hope lol

Some of my general tips would be:

Make sure you set a schedule that works with your personal schedule. Don’t make due dates or times when you’ll be busy or won’t have access to a computer.

Stay organized! I use google docs for everything, from spreadsheets for sign ups to post bases I can copy and paste the next year to storing the graphics for promotion posts.

Promo the hell out of it. Post on every platform you can think of, ask established bangs/fests/exchanges/blogs to affiliate, reblog/retweet/repost often. I didn’t have as much trouble getting participants with this bang since it’s multifandom and it’d been going for a year when I came on, but I started an exchange for a small fandom and it was much harder.

You can message me on my personal tumblr (@voldiebuns​) or email me (wipbigbang@gmail.com or reeby10@gmail.com) if you wanna talk some more specifics!

[fanwork-exchange-promos]

Small Fandoms/Multifandom: Small Fandoms Fest

Posted by: spikedluv We are a bi-annual fic and art fest for small fandoms, and our Thirty-Fifth Fest at smallfandomfest is now open for prompt submission! Link/Community: Prompt Submission Post Description: Submit prompts for your favorite small fandoms to entice others to create fanfic or fanart! (Prompt Submission closes May 21; Prompt Claims open May 23.) We're very low pressure; there is no penalty for claiming a prompt and having RL or other fandom obligations get in the way of filling it. Plus, if you submit three fanworks, you get a pretty personalized button! We also encourage you to Pimp your Small Fandom! There’s a sign-up post here for that. Dates: May 1 - May 21: Prompt Submission Period May 23: Prompts Available for Claiming & Posting Period Opens May 23 - July 31: Posting Period July 31: Final Day of Posting Period comments via The Fandom Calendar https://ift.tt/ABcTygZ

[fanwork-exchange-promos]

Small Fandoms/Multifandom: Small Fandoms Fest

We are a bi-annual fic and art fest for small fandoms, and our Thirty-Fourth Fest at smallfandomfest is now open for prompt submission!

Link/Community:Prompt Submission Post

Description: Submit prompts for your favorite small fandoms to entice others to create fanfic or fanart! (Prompt Submission closes November 21; Prompt Claims open November 23.) We're very low pressure; there is no penalty for claiming a prompt and having RL or other fandom obligations get in the way of filling it. Plus, if you submit three fanworks, you get a pretty personalized button!

We also encourage you to Pimp your Small Fandom! There’s a sign-up post here for that.

Dates:

Nov 1 - Nov 21: Prompt Submission Period Nov 23: Prompts Available for Claiming & Posting Period Opens Nov 23 - Jan 31: Posting Period Jan 31: Final Day of Posting Period

[fanwork-exchange-promos]

Small Fandoms Shady Spot

Link:small_fandomsShady Spot Info Post

Description: A fest where participants create fic/art/etc. for their small fandoms! Daily prompts are shades of colors, though summer themes are also encouraged. All formats welcome, no minimums.

Dates: August 1 - August 31, 2023

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Multifandom: Scanfic's Yuleverksted 2023!

Posted by: eve_n_furter Link: Scanfic's Yuleverksted 2023 Event Description: Scanfic's Yuleverksted (Yule Workshop) is a low-threshold challenge designed to inspire Scandinavian (or Nordic) related fanworks and to have a lot of hygge together. Important Dates: The workshop takes place from October until the end of the year, with unveiling of submitted fanworks from 24 December. Notes/Other Key Info: Works can be submitted in Scandinavian languages or in English. comments via The Fandom Calendar https://ift.tt/IyERbue

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Multifandom: Forgotten Fandoms February

Posted by: challengingao3 Are you in a small fandom with less than 1000 fics on AO3? Are you looking for inspiration or want to inspire others? "Forgotten Fandoms February" is a AO3 Fic Fest with multiple fandom of choice challenges for small fandoms! If you have a favorite trope, character type or ship dynamic you love no matter the fandom; If you would like to see your favorite song turned into a songfic or if you are curious about what others make out of your favorite quotes and sayings, then feed our challenges! Or, if you're an writer, look for some inspiration yourself! Type My Trope (Tropes, Character Types and Dynamics) Sing My Song (Lyrics and Songfics) Quotes And Quills (Quotes, Slogans and Sayings)   Wordcount is 100 in each challenge. You can request a prompt, claim a prompt or do both just as you like! All challenges are fictional fandoms only (no RPF) and Ship And Let Ship. Problematic ships are welcome - provided the prompt allows them. Works are unrevealed and creators anonymized during the Fic Fest Dates For All Challenges * Sign-Up closes: January, 25 * Deadline for submissions: February, 21 * Works revealed: February, 22 * Creators revealed: February, 28   comments via The Fandom Calendar https://ift.tt/C07Piu9

[fanwork-exchange-promos]

A Few Small Events Happening on Dreamwidth

Posted by: kalloway A few small events and whatnot, many inspired by 3weeks4dreamwidth: Multi-Fandom Writing Prompt Comms & Whatnot 2024 Edition - what it says on the tin, additions quite welcome! (List pruned and posted yearly, additions welcome any time.) There's a friending meme happening over on anime_manga, for anyone looking for more friends into anime, manga, and adjacent fandoms. Group-read (as in, a group all reading, sometimes on a theme, sometimes not) community readingtogether is holding a Minithon until the 15th of May. There's no theme, other than reading and chatting for 3W4DW. Multifandom spring-inspired fanwork community spring_renewal just finished its annual round, and all prompts will be retired at the beginning of the next round. Come check out the prompt list, post for amnesty, and let it be spring all year long. There's a Cygames Prompt Fest happening over here, arguably for 3W4DW but it'll remain open indefinitely. Prompts for any game or anime Cygames is involved are welcome. (Granblue Fantasy, Dragalia Lost, Rage of Bahamut, Bravern, Zombie Land Saga, Priconne, World Flipper, Little Noah, etc.) There's also a new Rec-A-Game Meme, for anyone who'd like video game recommendations. It's been more than a decade since the last one, so it's time. It'll also remain open indefinitely. And lastly, small_fandoms is running its annual Small Fandoms Promofest, which runs from today until May 15th. Come share a bit about your favorite small fandoms or maybe find a new one of your own! comments via The Fandom Calendar https://ift.tt/9dACugj

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Fandom Gift Basket - Fills Needed

Posted by: anaisonfire Link: fandomgiftbasket We could use some help with filling empty baskets! The required number of gifts for the event to open is two per person and we currently have about twenty underfilled baskets. You can see who needs them and which fandoms they're asking for on this google spreadsheet. Please check out the comm for the full rules of this fest but the creation minimums are 100 words for fic, 100x100 pixels for graphics or icons, a small doodle for art, and equivalents for anything else. Description: This is a multifandom gifting fest. People sign up with information about the fandoms (mediums, characters/relationships, prompts) they want, as well as any DNWs. Others then fill their requests and the mod reveals everything on the stated date. Dates: Gift posting: until September 23 Reveals: September 24 12:00pm UTC comments via The Fandom Calendar https://ift.tt/L1QgRdl