#amnesty month

[merlinbingo]

Round Two is officially over!

If you haven't posted it by now, it is officially too late to fill squares on your card for this round – but don't worry, all is not lost! We will be back with sign ups for round three on 1st January 2023, and you can carry over any unused squares you want to from this card!

In the meantime, December is going to be bonus badge amnesty month. If there's a month you were too busy to create a fill for the bonus badge, if you didn't know how to make a bonus badge theme work with one of your squares, if you signed up after the month had finished, if you discovered bingo too late to sign up at all… Now is your time to shine! You have until the end of the year to create and share works that meet any of the bonus badge criteria!

Amnesty works can only be used to claim a bonus badge (or, hey, multiple bonus badges at once, if the work fits multiple themes). They do not fill squares on your card, and therefore do not count towards the participation, bingo or blackout badges.

Need a refresher on what the bonus themes were? Details can be found at the links below:

UnValentine's Day (February)

International Women's Day (March)

April Adventures

Mental Health Awareness (May)

Pride (June)

Julyrical (July)

Holidays (August)

Lessons and Learning (September)

All Things Monstrous (October)

Own Goal (November) - if you didn't set a goal during November, you can use the link on that post to set one now

In order to claim these badges, please complete this form. We'll continue to share all the wonderful things you create as the month goes by!

Have fun, and we look forward to seeing you all again in the sign ups for next round!

[ekingstonart]

Kara boutta pounce

[thesquirrelqueer]

“You all are relieved of duty. We’ll take it from here.”

Pride Month Day 12: Hollis from The Adventure Zone: Amnesty

[vivitalks]

i JUST realized that the reason deputy dewey comes back as a ghost isn't because aubrey's magic goes wrong. it's because he died in the company of aubrey, who is sylvain, and that's what happens when someone perishes in the presence of sylvain's light. it wasn't aubrey's magic going wrong, it was sylvain's magic going exactly right.

[amnestyliketaz]

not to get all sentimental or anything but season 2 of dndads has like fully been with my thru high school. like the season started in january of my sophomore year, the first real year back since covid, and now it ended around the same time of my senior year. i’m graduating in a few months and it’s just kinda freaky like me and this show that means so much to me are both done/almost done at school at the same time

[cmdonovann]

LAST DAY OF SHIPS WEEK so i am posting this to SHAME MY HUSBAND INTO FINISHING THE BETH/PAUL FIC HE IS WRITING. jk i love you and you can finish your fanfiction Whenever @chemicalcain but i am too impatient to NOT post this.

anyway. 2006 teen beth flirting with post-fracture paul serene to try to get information out of him is possibly the best excuse to ship them i have ever heard of and i am. obsessed. thank you all for your time

[catsandfanart47]

A plea for more queer TAZ characters

Since it's pride month i've decide to post my plea for more queer TAZ characters. I think about this around once every week, and i'm pretty sure my friends are tired of me talking about this so I will talk about it on here instead. I always loved the queer characters in TAZ (Lup is an icon) but there seems to be a reasonable decline in queer PCs and NPCs lately. Of course Balance had a ton, so did Amnesty, i'm not aware of any queer PCs or NPCs in Graduation aside from Fiztroy, and Ethersea is a bit up in the air. In my opinion there was definitely some best friends-to-lovers energy coming from Amber and Okasana/Koderia but nothing was said by the Justin or Griffin so it's probably my ships getting in the way of things. I know a lot of people headcannoned Devo as trans in Ethersea which is definitely a possibility but there was still no conformation of this. I think a lot of The Adventure Zone's fanbase would appreciate some more queer characters. As a queer person myself I always enjoyed the representation in The Adventure Zone and hope that Steeplechase has some canon queer characters not just head canons.

[a-side-character]

Never underestimate the healing properties and power of a comfort media

[inimitablereel]

the incredible relief of completing a task that has been mildly overdue for ages

[kuwdora]

20 Questions for Fic Writers

Tagged by @deerna and @jawanaka !

How many works do you have on A03? 110 - but this would probably be +200 if I had been crossposting my fanvids there. I still remember when video embeds did not work on AO3 pages. But that was ages ago. And I’m terrible at crossposting. Especially when I have so many to crosspost at this point.

What's your total A03 word count? 280,783

What fandoms do you write for? In the past it was Stargate SG-1/Atlantis, Heroes and Sanctuary and a lovely romp with Being Human UK. Star Trek. These days I’m still on The Witcher, with the occasional fleeting non-witcher stuff I manage to finish.

What are your top five fics by kudos? I can see through you, The Witcher Netflix. My Geralt and Jaskier role reversal thing. More like a role inversion.

Surface Tension, The Witcher Netflix. soft very established relationship Geralt/Yen/Jaskier smut.

Papa’s Got a Brand New Suit, Star Trek: Deep Space 9. Julian/Garak PWP. From ye olde porn battle days. Learning Curve, The Witcher Netflix. Yen/Jaskier, post-season 2 soft feelings and sex with an emphasis on all of Yennefer's pain.

Heart Tap, The Witcher Netflix. Leshen Eskel(/Geralt). My first story about what it could be like for Eskel to live with his transformation into a monster. I'm actually surprised this is in my top 5 kudos considering how niche it is but man I love my tree boyfriend and have so many more thoughts about him that I haven't gotten out yet...

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not? Yes! I try to respond to comments when I can. Sometimes it takes forever and sometimes I do forget to respond to comments but man I love rolling around in them.

What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? My angstiest endings are for fic that I haven’t finished or posted on AO3 yet for more of my witcher fixations. But for posted things?? Hmm. I do have an old Heroes fic called Code of Hammurabi that is Peter/Sylar time travel AU that’s particularly angsty and gave me the chance to rummage around in the way Peter would endure in a very very messy situation.

Oh, my Doctor Sleep ficlet is also pretty angsty. Danny reflecting on his time with Billy when Billy's ghost shows up. I'm smiling upside down is the name of that ficlet.

What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? Oh that’s probably my smutty fluffy thing for Being Human. PWP. Moon Mambo, Hal/Tom.

Do you get hate on fics? No, but I sense that’s only a matter of time before someone directs their hate at me.

Do you write smut? Yup.

Do you write crossovers? Yes, but not for a very long time. I have a “Ciri collects all the young girl protagonists from sci-fi/fantasy books for a group project” crossover idea but my focus is too scattered to get that going. I did start it with a Nona-meets-Ciri Locked Tomb/witcher crossover here: Call to Adventure.

Have you ever had a fic stolen? Not that I’m aware of. I think my stuff is far too niche and self-indulgent for that kind of thing but who knows. The internet is a smaller place these days but people seem to find new ways to steal. Alternatively: I did learn that someone submitted one of my Stargate SG-1 vids to a Creation Con fanvid contest that had prize money in it. That was very upsetting to learn well after the fact.

Have you ever had a fic translated? Nope.

Have you ever co-written a fic before? No, not co-written. But I do love rolling around with my beta and workshopping my fic into better shape and a lot of my stuff ends up way better as a result of my betas. And I also love doing the same with folks who ask me for beta. It’s a fun kind of collaboration.

What's your all-time favourite ship? Agh this one is so hard. Don’t make me pick just one. Aeryn/John from Farscape. Fraser/Ray(s) from due South. I don’t write a lot of book Yennefer/Geralt but they also are It for me.

What's the WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? Oh my god, definitely my TWN Leshkel canonical divergence AU thing. I have something like a whole season 2 (not a fix-it) outlined, with lots of stuff focusing on Ciri and Leshy Eskel, and Leshy Eskel with Triss. With more stuff about witcher-and-leshen biology and Wolf School disappearing, Kaer Morhen becoming a magical greenhouse where a mythical Swallow is rumored to visit every 6 years.

What are your writing strengths? Description, maybe characterizations. Theme and tone.

What are your writing weaknesses? Too much description, comma splices. Slow pacing.

Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic? I think it’s fun to do but it can be a lot to read and I definitely will overthink the writing and both the reading. If it suits the characterization and context clues within the text, I think that’s cool. But I think it’s fine to go without con-lang or other languages in fic. It’s just a matter of texture and color that adds to the scene, you know?

First fandom you wrote for? Stargate SG-1.

Favourite fic you've ever written? Ever??? It’s so hard to pick just one. Hang on, I got several of those ‘rec 5 of your favorite fics’ asks in my inbox. Lemme see if I can pick 5 for that.

[roaringheat]

I should relisten to TAZ....

[epersonae]

I stayed up to work very late and now i'm loopy as fuck so

tags: shapeshifting, allergic reactions, coffee shop AU, urban exploration, ecoterrorism

I've had this in my inbox since DECEMBER 7 2023, and I think today it just clicked:

Modern AU of OFMD 2x5, where in the cursed suit is actually literally cursed (that's where the shapeshifting comes in), start in media res with Ed and Stede rebuilding their relationship but with parallel narratives in this piece, Stede et al are doing the urban exploration (maybe some plant-bombing in abandoned buildings?) and discover both the suit and whatever the hell Frenchie is allergic to. Meanwhile Ed and Fang are having a very deep conversation in the coffeeshop. Or something. (I appear to have left out the Lucius and Pete plot line, which I would want to find a way to include too)

[from a prior iteration of the fake fic ask game]

[annaveralin]

If I had nickle for every time my favorite character in a series was a short haired, nerodivergnt, bisexual, latina, that uses magic from another world, gets a girlfriend from that other world, has a sibling-like relationship with the most powerful being of that other world, and the entrance to that world is a portal in disguise that has been connected to Earth for hundreds of years so that things and beings from each of the worlds have traveled back and forth.

I would have two nickels which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

[dullahandyke]

yeah im not really into taz anymore and i think im past the point in my life where i relistened to it voraciously (remembers ned chicane) oughhhhhhhhhhh ned

[redbread-design]

Pride Art Challenge - Week 3 (2020)

This set was created for @lgbtincomics Pride Month Challenge 2020. The prompt for the week of the 15th to the 22nd (I realize that’s not a week exactly) was to showcase each color in the rainbow flag, and what each stripe represents.

[voidfishing]

Not directly balance related, but Griffin’s world building and way with describing things is what really pulled me in. I’m excited to experience everyone else be creative but at the same time nervous about listening to the other campaigns. Did you keep listening after balance?

I haven’t listened to the other arcs yet! I was listening to steeplechase for like 2 episodes but then realized I wasn’t really giving it the attention it deserved and decided to wait until my hyperfixation on balance has faded before working my way through the other arcs :) I know I’ll enjoy them more when I’m able to be normal about balance lol

but honestly!!! Griffin’s storytelling is incredible and the way he ran balance was so fuckin good <3 the whole thing is so fun and creative, it just sucks you in !!