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Event: WhumpEx 2026
Event Link: [community profile] whumpex
Pinch Hit Link: Current Pinch Hit Post
Due Date: June 2nd at 8PM PST

[community profile] whumpex is a whump themed multifandom exchange. We have 17 initial pinch hits. The minimum is a 500 words fanfiction OR a clean sketch on unlined paper if the individual fandom request has an art opt-in. The fanwork must include a requested fandom, relationship/character/group, and whump category in the fill.

Assignment Requirements

PH 1 - SK8 the Infinity (Anime), Zenless Zone Zero (Video Game), Biohazard | Resident Evil (Gameverse)

PH 2 - Fallout (TV 2024), Street Fighter, Young Sherlock (TV 2026), Biohazard | Resident Evil (Gameverse)

PH 3 - [Art Opt-In] Raffles - E. W. Hornung, とんがり帽子のアトリエ | Tongari Boushi no Atelier | Witch Hat Atelier (Manga), DCU (Comics)

PH 4 - [Art Opt-In] 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018), 镇魂 | Guardian - priest, 绅探 | Detective L (TV)

PH 5 - [Art Opt-In] Code Geass, Gachiakuta (Anime), 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime & Manga), Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan, Twisted-Wonderland (Video Game)

PH 6 - Dune (Movies - Villeneuve), Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023), Henry Danger (TV)

PH 7 - The Mars House - Natasha Pulley, Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune - K. J. Charles, Lucky Bounce - Cait Nary, Time to Shine - Rachel Reid, The Will Darling Adventures - K. J. Charles

PH 8 - [Art Opt-In] One Piece (Anime & Manga)

PH 9 - Emily Wilde - Heather Fawcett

PH 10 - DCU (Comics)

PH 11 - [Art Opt-In] Dishonored (Video Games), Twin Peaks (TV 1990), Thief (Looking Glass Studios & Ion Storm Video Games 1998-2004), The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension (1984)

PH 12 - [Art Opt-In] Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), Dimension 20 (Web Series), Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

PH 13 - Slow Horses (TV)

PH 14 - 괴담에 떨어져도 출근을 해야 하는구나 - 백덕수 | Even If I Fall Into a Ghost Story I Still Have to Go to Work - Baek Deoksoo, 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong, 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime & Manga)

PH 15 - Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga), ファイ・ブレイン 神のパズル | Phi Brain: Kami no Puzzle | Phi Brain: Puzzle of God, World of Warcraft

PH 16 - Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy

PH 17 - Young Sherlock (TV 2026), James Bond (Craig Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)

For more details/to claim, view the pinch hit post.
i_like_the_stars: Doodle of Amy Rose excitedly clasping her hands together with hearts around her (STH Amy Excited)
[personal profile] i_like_the_stars posting in [community profile] fanart_recs
Fandom: Sonic the Hedgehog
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Amy Rose/Blaze the Cat
Content Notes/Warnings: N/A
Medium: Digital
Artist on DW/LJ: N/A
Artist Website/Gallery: Amy on Twitter
Why this piece is awesome: Ohhh just look how cute they are!! I love the style as well, the extremely cartoonish proportions with the large hands and feet.
Link: https://x.com/rosyamy_/status/1683801507798589440, backup

(BTW, can I get a fandom: sonic the hedgehog tag?)
linky: Saki holding out her yoyo. (Sukeban Deka II: Saki - Yoyo)
[personal profile] linky posting in [community profile] chillwaves
Saki, Yukino and Okyo posed together for battle. In the bottom left there is text that says Feeling Love.

My mini fanmix for [community profile] polyamships's 3Weeks4DW prompt of "05 May: Fanmix one of your ships (choose 3-5 songs to represent your ship)".

Tracks, Lyrics + Commentary over at my journal, also available over at [community profile] fanmix_monthly and also at [community profile] polyamships.

Three Tracks )

Recent Bookmarks Rec Post

May. 5th, 2026 10:31 am
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[personal profile] ravensilversea posting in [community profile] recthething
It's monthly rec list time over on my journal! It's a short one this month with just 1 Far Cry 4 rec and 2 Batman recs

Treats for Pinch Hitters 2026

May. 4th, 2026 08:23 pm
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[personal profile] longficmod posting in [community profile] fandom5k
I'm so grateful to our pinch hitters! 5,000 words or 5 pages is a big commitment without any guarantee of a gift in return.

A number of people are writing pinch hits but didn’t sign up for the exchange, and we’d like to give them the opportunity to leave prompts for treats. Treats for pinch hitters go in the same location as treats for anyone else, in the main collection.

If you picked up a pinch hit, aren’t signed up for the exchange, and would appreciate treats, please leave your AO3 name in a comment here along with the fandoms you’re interested in. You can specify characters/relationships, fic or comics, genres, prompts, and DNWs--as much detail as you'd like. Linking to past letters is also fine.
i_like_the_stars: A doodle of Sonic lying facedown (STH Sonic Facedown)
[personal profile] i_like_the_stars posting in [community profile] fanart_recs
Fandom: Sonic the Hedgehog
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Sonic the Hedgehog
Content Notes/Warnings: None
Medium: Digital
Artist on DW/LJ: N/A
Artist Website/Gallery: Luke on Twitter
Why this piece is awesome: The lighting! The painting! It is all so striking and pleasing! It's also Sonic Riders, which is cool.
Link: https://x.com/lukremium/status/1890945511529590956/photo/1, backup link

Time (时光): Review

May. 4th, 2026 07:45 pm
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[personal profile] douqi posting in [community profile] baihe_media
Time (时光, pinyin: shiguang) is Ning Yuan's realist tragic baihe novel, begun in 2011 and completed around 2017. It's unusual for several reasons: first, it's Ning Yuan doing realism in a way that's reminiscent of Niu Er Er (i.e. she manages to suppress her usual tendency to slip melodrama into the closing chapters), and second, the nature of the tragedy itself.

The one-line pitch for this novel: it's the 1990s Chinese version of the k-drama Reply 1988 (my favourite of the Reply series), but more brutal, and with queer women as its focus. Spanning 1997 to 2017 (twenty years in which China saw a massive amount of upheaval and economic, social and cultural change, which the novel fully leans into), the novel begins with protagonist Wang Yutong and her childhood friend and later sweetheart Qi Yin as high school students. Their fathers work in a state-owned car factory located in the south of China (almost certainly Fujian, where Ning Yuan is almost certainly from), and their families live in the surrounding compound (which also has all the amenities you'd expect of a small town, though not at a particularly luxurious level). Wang Yutong has loving parents who've done their best to provide for her materially, but Qi Yin has a much more difficult life. Her father is an alcoholic who is often abusive to her and her mother, and her mother is quadriplegic as a result of an accident whom many neighbours believe to have been caused by her father. At the start of the novel, Qi Yin's father dies, and she becomes primarily responsible for the care of her mother at the age of thirteen.

some spoilers, though this isn't the kind of novel that's substantially affected by spoilers )

So for something that offers a completely different take on romance from much of the baihe genre, for a compelling sketch of China's socio-economic development between 1997 to 2017 and its effects on (especially) the working class, for a sobering reminder of why a strong social welfare state is necessary, I highly recommend this novel.

I read the Chinese original of the novel here on JJWXC.

Chat corner, celebrating

May. 4th, 2026 07:12 pm
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[personal profile] annathecrow posting in [community profile] dreamwars

Hello,

happy Star Wars Day! This is your weekly chat post. Come and talk!

~ ~ ~

The cat spilled tea on me, I had to change, and so I'm actually wearing Star Wars themed pants today :D

The May the 4th Be With You Fanworks Exchange archive is live! I already have at least one new favorite, but I'm pretty sure I'll find more.

(I haven't bought and games - yet. Still a few days to go...)

Seasons of Drabbles recs

May. 3rd, 2026 03:08 pm
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[personal profile] snickfic posting in [community profile] recthething
I made some recs here for Oasis RPF, the Kyle Murchison Booth stories, and the Ready or Not movies.

Two (More) Baihe Pre-Orders Open

May. 2nd, 2026 09:58 pm
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[personal profile] douqi posting in [community profile] baihe_media
The baihe publishing juggernaut that is Miss Forensics continues: the fourth volume of the manhua adaptation is up for pre-order. Pre-orders can be made via the following bookshops:


For a novel that was first serialised in 2019, it's mildly incredible to me that it's still so popular that the manhua publisher is shoving out print volumes as fast as they can. The web version of the novel can be read here.

Also up for pre-order is Missing the Bird (时差十四年, pinyin: shicha shisi nian) by Lin Zizhou (林子周) (do NOT look at me, that's the English title they decided to go with for the audio drama adaptation; the literal translation of the Chinese title is something more like 'a time difference of fourteen years'). This is a (more or less) contemporary romance with a time-travelling element, and I hear it's got either a tragic ending or an open ending. I haven't read any of this author's work yet, but she seems to be known for a sort of melancholy vibe and nuanced, sensitive prose. Pre-orders can be made via the following bookshops:


The web version of the novel can be read here.

Reveals Delayed

May. 1st, 2026 09:38 pm
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[personal profile] lettersmod posting in [community profile] unsent_letters_exchange
As we still have several outstanding pinch hits, reveals will be delayed to May 9th, 11:59PM UTC (8 days from now).

The post-deadline pinch hits, now due May 8th 11:59PM UTC, can be found here.

Severance Analysis

May. 1st, 2026 05:59 pm
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Mysterious Work & Alienation of Labor in Severance by me (comment on Dreamwidth)
Severance employs a fantastical scenario at an imaginary company to depict a phenomenon that’s very real: the systematic alienation of labor. This theme has been widely remarked upon by those familiar with the framework, but not everyone is already familiar, and so it warrants explanation. To that end, this analysis presents a brief introduction to alienation as a concept, an in-depth exploration of how it applies to the characters of Severance, and some observations on how that theme relates to the real world.
The Brilliance of Severance's Disturbing Precision [video] by Thomas Flight
In an era where high-concept TV shows now feature impressive visual effects, sprawling fantasy worlds, and elaborate costume design and makeup, how does a show that mostly takes place in a white, windowless office end up being one of the most visually striking TV shows ever made?
A musical analysis of the Severance theme [video] by Charles Cornell
A tritone is very commonly thought of as one of the most dissonant intervals that you can play... So what we have here is consonance, dissonance, consonance, dissonance. 

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[personal profile] isabrella posting in [community profile] pinchhits
Event: Completely Arbitrary Sunset Exchange is a femslash+ exchange hosted on Sunset.
Event link: [community profile] ca_sunset_exchange 
Pinch hit link: Claim pinch hits on this post (comments screened)
Due date:
 May 24 2026

Fics (and podfics) are a 300 word minimum, art of a quality you'd be happy to receive as a gift, vids are a 30 sec minimum, and we also allow mixes, icon packs, gifsets, etc. to a quality/amount you'd be happy to receive as a gift. It's meant to be a low pressure, chill exchange with lots of variety!

hookedsalmon - Tomb Raider (reboot), Criminal Minds, Young Justice (comics) )

Launch: Our Kingdoms Eternal

May. 1st, 2026 07:23 pm
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The new event, Our Kingdoms Eternal, is live! Check out the marathon website for more Information.

We won‘t have official checkpoints this time around, but you are warmly invited to make new discussion, resource, help and plug posts anytime (please tag them accordingly).

As stated in the updated sticky post, both the participants of the new event as well as of the previous event (the Ghost of You Shrine Challenge) are welcome to take part in conversations here. The intention is to keep the active member group dynamic while encouraging interaction between different cohorts (of adjacent events). (And who knows, maybe someone from the previous event decides to sign up this time around after brainstorming with someone new!) On that note, do check out the final line-up and the plugs from the previous event, and comment freely if you wish.

I hope you‘re as excited as I am for the new event and that you sign up. :D If you do, what are your plans (immediate and potential ;D) and where are you starting from?

Introductions

May. 1st, 2026 06:50 pm
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[personal profile] nepenthee posting in [community profile] makeashrine
New event, new group – let’s introduce (or reintroduce) ourselves! :D (This only goes for participants in the new event.) Not sure what to say? Here are some ideas:

<b>Name:</b>
<b>Collective/Main site:</b>

<b>Latest finished project(s):</b> (site-related)
<b>Next project(s):</b> (outside of this event)

<b>Currents:</b> (any web stuff, a fandom you’re active in, a book you’re reading, things you’re trying out, recent life events etc.)
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[community profile] polyamships is participating in [community profile] 3weeks4dreamwidth  and today's post is all about reccing fics (you can see that post here)

This is my own post answering that call for recs.

Fandoms included in my post:
Teen Wolf
The Raven Cycle
The Infernal Devices
3 will be free
Arcane
The bastard son and the devil himself
Heated Rivalry
All for the game
Sense8

May progress post

May. 1st, 2026 11:47 am
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Happy May Day everyone! If you can believe it, we're two-thirds of the way through the creation period -- we're now entering the final stretch with TWO months left to go.

This month, we're celebrating [personal profile] snickfic and [personal profile] vanyalanthiriel who both finished some works:

doughnut hips by [archiveofourown.org profile] Snickfic (Oasis (Band))

Entangled by [archiveofourown.org profile] Vanyalanthiriel (聖剣伝説3 | Seiken Densetsu 3 | Trials of Mana (Video Game))

Congrats! 🎉

Let us know how your April went, and what are your plans for May! Feel free to share a short/small snippet if you like. Also, feel free to encourage people in what they're working on too. (If someone is venting/complaining about their WIP, though, please don't assume they want advice unless they explicitly ask for some!) And of course, sign-ups will remain open until the end of the event for those who are on the fence or discovering this event late!

Marian Irwin (1888-1973)

May. 1st, 2026 07:49 pm
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[personal profile] nnozomi posting in [community profile] senzenwomen
Marian Irwin was born in 1888 in Tokyo, where her father Robert Irwin was an American diplomat and her mother, Takechi Iki, a samurai’s daughter; their marriage is said to have been the first legal marriage between Japanese and American nationals. Irwin, fascinated by Japan from youth, also became close friends with the leading politician Inoue Kaoru through his work, and as their families are said to have been close, Iki presumably knew Kaoru’s wife Takeko. Marian, the second of six children, left Japan after high school to attend Bryn Mawr and Radcliffe Colleges in the United States, earning a Ph.D. in biology in 1919.

In 1921, she served as aide to Inoue Hideko (no relation), then president of the Women’s Peace Organization of Japan, in attendance at a national conference on disarmament. She became a distinguished biologist, working at the Rockefeller Institute and Woods Hole for many years; her field was cell permeability. (Marian was the only one of her siblings to settle outside Japan; her brothers were businessmen and her older sister Bella founded a Froebel-style kindergarten in Tokyo.) In 1933 she married her colleague Winthrop Osterhout. She died in 1973 at the age of eighty-five.

Sources
https://discovernikkei.org/en/journal/2020/10/11/robert-irwin-1/ (English) Interesting article, largely about Marian’s father Robert and his granddaughter Yukiko.

Metropolitan Police Radio Callsigns

Apr. 30th, 2026 08:19 pm
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[personal profile] inferiorwit posting in [community profile] little_details

Hi, folks!

I'm currently writing crime fiction set in contemporary London, and I'm trying to figure out whether a police officer on the radio would be specifically identifiable to someone listening in.

Does the Met use radio callsigns that are unique to each officer? Or are callsigns assigned to specific beats, instead? Or a secret third thing?

Thanks!

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[personal profile] doranwen posting in [community profile] recthething
I've continued adding fics to my db, as I'm going through the Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman fandom currently. Normally on any given week I might add one or two favorite fics at most, ones that I periodically re-read (though all fics I add are enjoyable to some degree), and those are easy to post in a comment to the community recs post. But I started adding one old favorite author, Nan Smith, and realized there were too many of her fics that I would want to share, so I decided to wait until I was done adding her fic, and now I can share them all, organized by the series. She wrote a number of series and given that they're only hosted on FFN (not the easiest place to navigate) and the fandom-specific archive (which has a separate series guide but no organized page with links that I know of), I decided I should make a post of my favorite series and share with everyone.

Nan's specialty is blending a good casefic with B-plot, especially in progressing an overall investigation over multiple fics, so if that sounds up your alley, check these out! While I highly recommend watching the Lois & Clark show itself, most people have enough background knowledge of Superman to be able to follow many of the stories written for the show, so these may be more canon-blind-friendly than most.

There's nearly 1.7 million words in all of these fics combined, so this should keep you reading for quite some time!

Icon guide )

Explanation of ratings )

Ships )

Content warnings and spoilers )


Below are the recs, organized by series in alphabetical order (using the series titles I think of them as):

Alternate Mazik )

Alt-World series )

Dagger )

Home )

Night )

Nightfall )

Pheromone (1) )

Pheromone (2) )

Supercop )

Tsunami )

Wedding )

If any of the non-dead links above no longer work, please let me know so I can flag them as "Dead" in my database, thanks!

Enjoy! :)