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Do you like DEADLINES? Do you like writing to someone else's prompts, staying away from the stuff they said they DID NOT LIKE? Do you like CHALLENGES?

WELL HAVE I GOT THE ACTIVITY TO YOU.

Ever wanted to save someone's day?

I've been helping out with the big Fic in a Box exchange, and the final deadline passed last night, and there are— a lot of pinch hits from people who didn't make deadline. A lot of people had a bad October. It took three posts to post them all. All of these gifts have to be fulfilled before the exchange opens.

The reason I am here today though is that there's a segment of MCYT on the pinch hit list, and it's always hard to fill MCYT pinch hits cause there are less MCYT people who do exchanges! So here I offer you the breakdown of the mcyt pinch hits:

PH 72 - needs 3k - fandoms are Dream SMP, SMPEarth, The Mandalorian (TV). You can see all of the requests at https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/Fic_In_A_Box_2024/user/Kryon

PH 77 - needs 1k - fandoms are Dream SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, Hermitcraft SMP, SMPEarth, Hotguy Comics Zine - Various (DFE), Origins SMP. You can see the entire signup at https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/Fic_In_A_Box_2024/user/Odaigahara

PH 102 - needs 1k - fandoms are 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, Hermitcraft SMP, Good Omens (TV), Hamlet - Shakespeare. You can see the entire signup at https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/Fic_In_A_Box_2024/user/adlerthetranscender

PH 103 - needs 1k - fandoms are Dream SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, QSMP | Quackity SMP. You can see the entire signup at https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/Fic_In_A_Box_2024/user/amaranthinecanicular

PH 144 - needs 8k - fandoms are QSMP | Quackity SMP. You can see the entire signup at https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/Fic_In_A_Box_2024/user/WhyB (I SPECIFICALLY want to draw attention to this one, cause it's only one fandom so that means they won't hold the exchange for this pinch hit to be filled but it being 8k means the person already turned in that much, so if you know anyone who can help with fitpac or animations family— let them know)

If these have gone out for pinch hit, this means that these people have already delivered a gift of at least this amount, and they need an equivalent gift. The due date is November 13th at Midnight EST— can you get a gift written in that time?

But wait, you could maybe write 1k, but not the 3k that PH 72 needs— that's fine! We can take it in small bites. You can just tell the mods that you can take 1k, and then the mods will drop the "needs amount" to 2k, and then we're that much closer to everyone having a gift. If 8 people do 1k, we can get WhyB completely covered!

If you can write a gift fast, adhering to someone's Do Not Want list, about the requested characters or worldbuilding prompts, you might be exactly what we need here. We've got Emduo requests! Animations family! DSMP Fiances! Scarian! Fitpac! Cletho! Boat boys! Preyduo! Watchers prompts!

You can take a pinch hit by either commenting on the dreamwidth post where the PH you want is posted here (tell them the pinch hit you want, an email to reach you, how much you want to take, and the Ao3 account you'll be posting from), or emailing the mods at ficinaboxmod@gmail.com— (tell them the pinch hit you want, how much you want to take, and the Ao3 account you'll be posting from, they already have your email, but check the post to see if the PH has been claimed before you email just to save yourself some time).

And if you can't take it, I'd appreciate it if you'd reblog this, cause if we can get this in front of as many eyes as possible that increases the possibility of someone who says "great british bake off beeduo? yeah I can do that", etc!

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the under-praised backbone of any fandom:

fan wiki editors

fan wiki editors who move the wiki off of fandom.com and to an independent host, especially

transcript writers

image description writers

fic rec list curators

translators

everyone who archives an ephemeral ARG or website-based lore dump

everyone who archives and preserves related media in general, for that matter

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Happy Halloween 👻 🎃

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saint seawatt? parkour master felps? idk self indulgent art

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anyone who knows Portuguese + doesn’t mind sdol spoilers/has seen all of sdol able to help me translate a scene please? I am struggling a little…

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anyone who knows Portuguese + doesn’t mind sdol spoilers/has seen all of sdol able to help me translate a scene please? I am struggling a little…

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Guizo: (Explaining) A mental invasion, you know? The whole deal of going inside your head.

Xande: Yeah, yeah. Your little mind. Your itty-bitty mind.

Guizo: My little mind. But I went inside my own head.

Xande: Have you already tried doing that before? Like that?

Guizo: No!

Xande: Try it, try it!

Guizo: It hurt a lot. A lot!

Xande: Then nevermind.

Guizo: My god.

Xande: Do it like this. Let me see what it's like.

Guizo: No!

Xande: Huh? I thought we were friends.

Guizo: I saw a bunch of me’s and me’s.

Xande: I’d be happy in your mind, I don’t understand you today. You’re acting real strange. (Starts snoring)

(Guaxi: I go to sleep.)

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Aligenigena

Guizo, meu bb, nunca morra, por favor 🥺

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Xande: Dude, isn’t that strange? Did you see, bro?

Guizo: Yeah, dude, everything’s really strange.

Xande: Yeah, and so.

Guizo: I slept on top of my arm.

(Guaxi laughs)

Xande: It was me who slept on top of your arm, my bad.

Guizo: How did you sleep on top of my arm?

Xande: Well, cause we slept close-

Guizo: That’s true.

Xande: -And your arm was underneath. But anyway, these guys are being strange, man.

Guizo: I’m also strange.

Xande: No, no, no. Not you.

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if I don’t write in present tense I die

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Btw don't shut up you're not annoying

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haunting me

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tried really hard to explain to her it’s not a normal tv show but she said she’d check it out anyway so… we’ll see how it goes?

accidentally just recommended ordem sdol to my Brazilian coworker who has never heard of ttrpgs

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accidentally just recommended ordem sdol to my Brazilian coworker who has never heard of ttrpgs

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(Guaxi: I start- Dude, I start talking through my mask quietly.)

Xande: (Muffled) Guizo. Guizo.

(Felps: I'm kinda like this.)

Xande: Guizo. Guizo.

Guizo: Yeah?

(Guaxi: I want to try to talk only to him so the others don’t hear.)

(Cellbit: Okay. Okay. Uh-huh.)

(Felps: I just get like this. A little close. I don't look at him. I just stand there like this.)

[Guizo and Xande are leaning toward each other and purposefully mumbling quietly to the other.]

Xande: I think that Dara heard something on the radio and she’s in love with the ETs just like you.

Guizo: What did she see?

Xande: I don’t know. I arrived here at the van and she was standing listening to a screech. I tried to turn it off but then she tried to hit me. And then I said-

Guizo: She tried to hit you?!

Xande: (Reaffirming) She tried to hit me. And then I said this, “Hey!”. And then she was very angry with me and rude and so on. And then I cried a little bit but then-

Guizo: Are you okay? (Caresses Xande’s arm)

[Xande leans his head on Guizo’s shoulder momentarily then continues.]

Xande: I am.

(Guaxi: I put my head against his.)

Xande: Anyway, keep an eye on that, okay?

Guizo: But could it be- She didn’t say anything about what she heard?

Xande: No. She said, “Leave me alone forever. I hate you.”

[The cast laughs.]

Guizo: Woah. She doesn’t normally say those types of things.

Xande: Yeah well, I was scared by it too. I think that they’re inside her mind.

Guizo: We'll talk more about this later.

Xande: Alright.

(Guaxi: And I move away from him as if nothing happened.)

(Felps: And then I say.)

Guizo: (Cheerfully and doing a thumbs up) Hey Dara!

[The cast laughs again.]

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Do rock 😡🤟 poh [hora de postar aqui né, da uma forcinha no RT]

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Okay, here are my rambling list of a few things I love about the EdM demo, plus you know some little things. I am a puzzle game and rpg game sort, less so horror and definitely not action. Real time combat even extremely simplified is hard for me, so look elsewhere for that.

I really love that the puzzles have clues in multiple places. Once you get to an actual puzzle you do have to poke around multiple locations and slot all of the clues together. My favourite puzzle games all need a notebook and pen, and this demo alone I used half an envelope.

Sneak attack that actually works my beloved?!?!?!?!?!?!?! I foresee myself using that trick a lot

Mia, Samuel, and Agatha have a really fun dynamic and I'm genuinely excited to see more of them.

Mia is a lovely protagonist. Did you know she has Monophobia/Autophobia severe enough that Lupi is her service dog? That is, a fear of being alone, isolated, abandoned, etc. Which I am sure will combine "amazingly" with the fact her Dad has vanished.

Fun fact! Agatha is also disabled. I won't say how or why, but it's referenced pretty early on. She's also a lesbian with a complex relationship to gender, which I hate being a way I'm trying to sell a game but I know how tumblr works. Anyway I adore her and have for a while. All 3 of the main group are established Ordem NPCs, but Agatha is the only one with a particularly regular and strong presence.

I don't have much to say on Samuel. Anything I could say is massive Ordem Paranormal spoilers, and so far in EdM he's mostly just your hints guy. Give him some love though.

Puzzles!!! Puzzles [chomp]

Soundtrack my beloved, it works extremely well with the game

The plot pieces we have been given are... I am brewing. Not cooking, more bent over a cauldron with herbs and eyes in jars and nonsense, you know? I am a witch making potions not a baker making a cake. But yes I have IDEAS which I will not share here because shhh. And also evidence to an idea I had *before* the demo came out which is cackling.

Cuuuuute

I love how much personality is in the environments, and the feel you get for the characters via it.

Can I please give love to puzzles? It's very very much a different vibe and game to my beloved Botany Manor (someone PLEASE give me an excuse to open it up again and write about it), but there are some similarities in how at least the demo puzzles work. All I need now is for it to start giving me charts, tables, and diagrams I need to make copies of and constantly refer to <3 I am puzzle person, not horror person. It's a thing.

Anyway you have a day left for the Demo, please give it a try if you're not sure. It's a free demo. Even if you hate it, well, all you lost is a bit of time?