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yuletidemods ([personal profile] yuletidemods) wrote in [community profile] yuletide_admin2025-09-28 07:38 pm
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Nominations Queries Post 1

We are 24 hours into tag approving! We began with 6078 individual fandom nominations to sort (where if two people submitted the same fandom, that would count twice towards the total). We have 3687 fandom nominations still to sort. Please review the questions below to help us sort them quickly and correctly!

Please link your nominations page if telling us what to do about your nomination - thank you! Please either sign in to comment, or include a name with your anonymous comments, including replies to others' comments. Unsigned comments will stay screened.

If we've processed any of your nominations and something doesn't look right, please comment (with your nominations page) to tell us about the problem and how you think it should be corrected. Questions are welcome.



Aliens (1986) - These characters are also nominated under the broader fandom Alien (Original Movies 1979-1997), so we would like to merge your nominations in with the rest of the original movies.

Bibi Blocksberg (2002) - Nominator, do you specifically only want the first movie, or may we approve this as the canonical Bibi Blocksberg (Movies 2002 2004)? Please link your nominations page when you reply.

Book of Night - Holly Black - We also have evidence for this fandom as the Charlatan Duology, and another participant has nominated it under that name. We’d like to combine your nominations, but please get us in touch if there’s a reason that won’t work. Please link your nominations page when you reply.

Clocktaur War Series - T. Kingfisher, Swordheart - T. Kingfisher, Temple of the White Rat Universe - T. Kingfisher, The Saint of Steel - T. Kingfisher - We have some overlap in these nominations. The fandom as a whole is eligible, so we could combine them under Temple of the White Rat Universe, or the Temple of the White Rat Universe nominator could have their characters split into the other fandoms if you are willing to do that. Please comment with a link to your nominations to help us sort this out!

Cousin Bette - Honoré de Balzac - Nominator, you may see some oddities as we get this set up separately from La Comédie Humaine. Pardon our dust, and hopefully you’re used to it by now! Let us know if anything looks wrong when the final tagset is released.

Designing Women - Nominator, please email us (see contact information in the footer).

Dragonfly - Ursula K. Le Guin, Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan - Ursula K. Le Guin - Our understanding is that these are all in the same continuity. We are planning to combine Earthsea and Tombs of Atuan, especially as there is character overlap in those nominations. Dragonfly nominator, do you have concerns with folding that nomination into Earthsea as well? If so, we would appreciate help understanding exactly what you’re looking for and how to differentiate the larger Earthsea universe.

Enchanted Forest Chronicles - Patricia Wrede - We won’t approve the character nomination Morwen's Cats (Enchanted Forest) as they are all individually named. Nominators, could you please each choose a cat? (Scorn has already been nominated.) Please link your nominations page when you reply.

MAIJO Otaro - Works - We don’t approve fandoms consisting of all of a creator’s works, and the nominated characters appear to come from at least 2 novels. Nominator, could you pick one of Maijō’s works to nominate, along with the associated characters? Please link your nominations page when you reply.

夢中さ きみに。| Muchuu sa Kimi ni (Manga) - We also have a nomination for the Anime; the nominator of that fandom says they have not read the manga but believes these could be combined if needed. Does the Manga nominator have a preference? Please link your nominations page when you reply.

Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Nominator, please email us (see contact information in the footer).

Nescafe Advertisment - While this is a canonical fandom on AO3, it’s under review to be renamed, so we’ll approve this as Nescafe "Arctica" | "Polar Explorers" Advertisments (Russia) which is the likely new name. However, we’d like more information on the characters. We’re not sure which of the men is “First Polar” and which is “Second Polar”; some works in the fandom use Ivanov and Petrov. Also, we haven’t seen a polar bear in the 3 ads we’ve found - can you link us to the one that has the polar bear, please?

老洞 | The Old Miao Myth (TV) - Nominator, for the character Jin Bong, are you looking for Chin Pong? We’ve checked several sources and want to confirm whether this is a romanization issue or something else.

Outcast (Video Game series) - this has been nominated with character 'Any' and no other characters. If you mean you are interested in any characters, we will approve this without characters, but we wanted to check just in case there is a character actually named Any. Please link your nominations page when you reply.

Phantom of the Paradise (1974) - Nominator, please email us (see contact information in the footer).

Prophet - Sin Blaché & Helen Macdonald - could we please get more information about 'Prophet' as a character (aside from being the title)?

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025) - Nominator, please email us (see contact information in the footer)

Tennis RPF - We have separate nominations for 2020's Men's Tennis RPF (characters: Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, Alex de Minaur, Taylor Fritz, Terence Atmane) and 2025 Grand Slam Season (Tennis) RPF (characters: Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner) - may we combine these under the former fandom name? Please link your nominations page when you reply.



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huberthubert ([personal profile] huberthubert) wrote in [community profile] little_details2025-09-28 12:08 am

What would the smell of a subtropical monsoon climate zone be like?

Hello everyone!

I am writing a oneshot essentially set in the Zhangjiajie National Forest Park. My character is so surprised and overwhelmed by what he is seeing that I am introducing his senses one by one, but I couldnt quite imagine what it would smell like being in his position.

I know its quite humid, so thats probably the bulk of the experience, but are there any other, more subtle undertones I could include to make the scene feel more alive?
Even if you havent been to the exact location, any experience in a subtropical, humid climate would already be quite helpful.

Thank you!
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shipscrossingmod ([personal profile] shipscrossingmod) wrote in [community profile] ships_crossing2025-09-27 02:33 pm
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All Set for Reveals!

Thank you to all of our pinch hitters! We are on track to open the collection as scheduled. :)
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yuletidemods ([personal profile] yuletidemods) wrote in [community profile] yuletide_admin2025-09-27 07:05 am
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Yuletide 2025 Nominations Closed

Thank you for your nominations! Nominations are now closed. We have 6078 fandom nominations to sort through: that means that at least 1216 people nominated, but probably more. This is lower than our highest ever number of nominations received previously - 6257 - but higher than last year's 5950 nominations.

So, what happens next?
First there's a pause. We review the information we have already and get our ducks in a row. Then, when we begin to approve your nominations, it won't be in any obvious order. The approvals interface shows us fandoms at random, rather than according to who nominated them or when the nomination was submitted.

Help us get through approvals faster - please keep an eye on this community for questions about nominations we find confusing. In turn, if you are confused by how we've approved your nomination, you can ask us about it. If you submitted evidence close to the end of nominations, we may also have follow-up comments for you; however, we won't be accepting any evidence for new canons now that nominations are closed.

While we approve fandoms, you can:


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yuletidemods ([personal profile] yuletidemods) wrote in [community profile] yuletide_admin2025-09-26 07:48 pm
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Nominations Closing Soon

We need your fandom & character nominations by 1pm UTC 27 September. That’s 12 hours away!

See countdown!

If your fandom requires evidence, please also submit it by that time.

Please check previous posts in this community for guidance on what can be nominated.




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yuletidemods ([personal profile] yuletidemods) wrote in [community profile] yuletide_admin2025-09-24 06:54 pm
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Nominations extended 16 hours due to AO3 maintenance

Thanks for all your nominations so far! 4,429 fandom choices have been submitted so far (note that if two people nominate the same fandom, that counts twice towards that total). You can nominate at the tag set here.

AO3 has announced maintenance downtime from Sep 26, 07:30 5:30 UTC to (approximately) Sep 27, 03:30 UTC, which cuts a large chunk off the end of our planned nominations period. Because of this, we’ll extend nominations for an extra 16 hours, and instead close nominations on Saturday September 27 at 1pm UTC (What time is that for me?). However, we urge you to get your nominations in before the downtime begins, just in case AO3 doesn’t come back up in time for you to submit before we close nominations.

If your fandom requires evidence, please also submit it here on the Evidence Post by that time. We can't give a decision on all fandoms by close of nominations, but the sooner you make your case, the better your chances of a swift answer.

ETA: we have just been informed that the maintenance downtime has been rescheduled for two hours earlier, or 5:30 UTC. We won't alter the nominations schedule further, but we've updated the link above for maintenance time in your time zone to assist you.
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phosfate ([personal profile] phosfate) wrote2025-09-24 04:40 pm
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(no subject)

Found a UK ebay seller who offers downloads of 1:6 cut-fold-and-paste record jackets and vintage magazines. And yes, I am exactly the sort of person this was made for. Only some of them will get discs, because making them is a huge PITA.

Sadly it does not contain Jeff Wayne's Ware of the Worlds or the first two Alan Parsons Project albums, but does have Lexicon of Love and most of the Beatles discography.

I now have to make my dolls a crate for their LPs, and a magazine rack.
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pumpkinkingmod ([personal profile] pumpkinkingmod) wrote in [community profile] trickortreatex2025-09-20 01:41 pm
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Assignments out! Initial Pinch Hits here!

Assignments have been assigned! Find yours at the email address associated with your AO3 account. Alternatively, you can find it under the "Assignments" tab on the sidebar of your AO3 profile.

If you linked an unfinished letter, please try to complete and/or unlock it as soon as possible.

If your recip's letter is incomplete or locked, please wait to contact me about it until after Sept 27. (Or just work from the signup details.)

Assignments are due October 24, 23:59 UTC. Please note that there will be no extensions.

Initial Pinch Hits

To claim, please comment on this post with your AO3 name and the number or name of the pinch hit you would like. Comments are screened. Pinch hits are first-come, first-serve, and if you're the first to claim, you'll receive the assignment to your email.

You don't have to be signed up to Trick or Treat to claim a pinch hit.

These are due at the regular assignment deadline, October 24, 23:59 UTC.

PH #5 (facethestrange):
  • 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018) RPF, 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018), 镇魂 | Guardian - priest, Crossover Fandom
  • https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/trickortreatex2025/user/facethestrange

    PH #6 (firsttraintovictoriaville):
  • Roots of Pacha (Video Game), The White Stripes, Pathfinder: Kingmaker (Video Game), Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop - Hwang Bo-reum
  • https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/trickortreatex2025/user/firsttraintovictoriaville

    PH #10 (MxKit):
  • Happy Halloween Scooby-Doo! (2020), The Nameless Game (Gameverse), The Spectacular Spider-Man (Cartoon)
  • https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/trickortreatex2025/user/MxKit

    PH #13 (plicate):
  • Head On (1998), Set It Off (1996), Succession (TV 2018)
  • https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/trickortreatex2025/user/plicate

    PH #14 (psychomachia):
  • Blood Son - Richard Matheson, The Devil You Say - Charles Beaumont, Blood Creek (2009), The Lawnmower Man (1992), The Fall of the House of Usher (TV 2023), The Sinner (TV)
  • https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/trickortreatex2025/user/psychomachia

    PH #15 (redgear):
  • Hallo itt Mátyás király! - Bogáti Péter, 15th Century CE RPF, Debrief (Paracelsus Games Roleplaying Game), Felvidek (Video Game), Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula (2000)
  • https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/trickortreatex2025/user/redgear

    PH #16 (rubylily):
  • Code Vein (Video Game), 神さまのいない日曜日 | Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi | Sunday Without God (Anime & Manga), Märchen Forest: Mylne and the Forest Gift (Video Game), Octopath Traveler (Video Game), Octopath Traveler II (Video Game), 刀使ノ巫女 | Toji no Miko | Katana Maidens (Anime), void tRrLM(); //Void Terrarium (Video Game), Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Video Game)
  • https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/trickortreatex2025/user/rubylily

    PH #18 (UnhinderedDreams):
  • Crossover Fandom, The Black Dagger Brotherhood (TV), Buffyverse (TV), I Kissed A Vampire (2010), Nocturnal Animals (2016), The Vampire Diaries (TV)
  • https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/trickortreatex2025/user/UnhinderedDreams

    PH #21 (ambiguously):
  • Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi (TV), Star Wars: Rebels, Star Wars: Resistance (Cartoon), Crossover Fandom, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew (TV)
  • https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/trickortreatex2025/user/ambiguously
  • To claim PH21, please comment logged-in or email halloweenmod@gmx.com

    claimed! )
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    ashenmote ([personal profile] ashenmote) wrote2025-09-20 08:23 pm
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    (no subject)

    I watched 'Freaks Out', which is best described as X-Men meets Pan's Labyrinth, but after watching it I can't say they desperately needed to.
    Spoilers from here I guess, for Freaks out, and also for Witches of Brooklyn - What the Hex!? )
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    yuletidemods ([personal profile] yuletidemods) wrote in [community profile] yuletide_admin2025-09-20 11:40 pm
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    Mid-Nominations Notes

    Thanks for all your nominations so far! 2732 fandom choices have been submitted so far (note that if two people nominate the same fandom, that counts twice towards that total).

    Nominations will close at 9pm UTC 26 September. If your fandom requires evidence, please also submit it by that time. We can't give a decision on all fandoms on the Evidence Post by close of nominations, but the sooner you make your case, the better your chances of a swift answer.

    We've seen some very large fandoms among the nominations! Yuletide is an exchange for rare fandoms. We will reject all of the fandoms below, so if one of them is your nomination, please choose again:
    • Baldur's Gate (Video Games) - I & II will be approved, as per evidence, but this label will be rejected

    • Actor RPF

    • Andor (TV)

    • Baldur's Gate (Video Games)

    • Black Sails (TV)

    • 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)

    • Deltarune (Video Game)

    • Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (TV 2016)

    • Downton Abbey

    • Gravity Falls

    • Horizon (Video Games)

    • House M.D.

    • 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong

    • The Pitt (TV)

    • プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ!| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game)

    • 斉木楠雄のΨ難 | Saiki Kusuo no Sai-nan | The Disastrous Life of Saiki K

    • Star Trek: Enterprise

    • Undertale (Video Game)

    • Warframe


    We also won't approve "All Media Types" or "& Related Fandoms". If you've nominated any of the following fandoms, please either pick a specific piece of media, or argue your case on the evidence post.
    • Ender's Game - All Media Types

    • History Boys - All Media Types

    • Midsomer Murders - All Media Types


    We've seen nominations for relationships, original characters, or Reader characters. Please only use the Character field to nominate specific characters who appear in a canon. For exceptions, see the eligibility post.

    We've also seen many well-formatted nominations and nominations we are excited about! Please keep them coming.

    We are happy to answer questions about nominations.

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    pumpkinkingmod ([personal profile] pumpkinkingmod) wrote in [community profile] trickortreatex2025-09-18 06:43 pm
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    Signups are closed!

    Just an update that signups are closed! I'm going to finish fine-tuning matching tomorrow morning (East Coast time), so don't wait up for unmatchable emails tonight :)
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    dreamiflame ([personal profile] dreamiflame) wrote2025-09-18 03:03 am

    Trick or Treat 2025

    It's the most wonderful time of the year!

    Dearest creator! I am already a huge fan, because you have great taste. So relax, have fun, and just use this as a guideline. Despite the varying lengths of prompts, I would be happy with anything I ask for, and definitely don't expect an epic, no matter how grandiose my prompts sometimes get.

    I love art. I do not know if I am good at prompting for it, but I love it. So I shall do my best to give both fic and art prompts, and if a fic prompt inspires you to make art, or vice versa, that's great!

    DNWs:

    I prefer happy or bitter sweet endings to completely hopeless, rocks fall and everyone is dead endings. I don't like huge amounts of angst over very small issues (though I love pining, particularly mutual pining), and I really hate it when conflicts happen mostly because people won't just talk to each other for two minutes.

    DNW
    omegaverse
    BDSM
    high school or college AUs
    graphic descriptions of torture, rape, or medical procedures
    scat/watersports
    excessive hate for any of the characters
    people drowning, suffocation
    murderous ghosts (ghost animals hunting are fine!)

    For art, I love most anything. Tarot cards? Art Deco? Manga/anime styles? Traditional line drawings? Oil paints? Watercolors? YES PLEASE. Seriously easy to please with art.

    That said, my favorite colors are green, purple, red and blue, and I prefer rich tones to pastels. Although given the subject matter, I am totally down with orange and black. I also am wildly fond of mostly black and white art with just a touch of color.

    I am fine with any rating for art. I love hand holding, action poses, kisses, quiet moments of people sitting together or talking, people playing with pets, elaborate beautiful clothing, and elegant, simple outfits. Anything you come up with will make me happy.

    For fic, I love (in no particular order or need to see them all included):
    threesomes
    funny stories
    happy endings (bittersweet being a-okay if that's what fits better)
    cats (not necessarily in stories, but I do not object to random cameos of kitties) (other pets are totally fine if appropriate)
    knitting (again, not necessarily in fic, though I do love stories where random people turn out to be secret knitters and make things for their friends/made families)
    five things fic
    aus that are one change from canon
    folktales/myths/legends/fairy tales in the tone of the world of the canon
    smut/PWP
    non explicit sex
    gen
    hugs! (I love hugs) (also hand kisses)
    friendship and/or team fic
    slash
    het
    sex toys/pegging
    sex pollen/something made them do it
    consensual sibling incest

    I will read any rating happily.

    I am asking for both tricks and treats!

    Treats preferences:

    Slice of life, like characters cooking or eating, playing with pets, knitting or sewing, etc.

    Romance, if appropriate. I love kisses, hand kisses, doing something nice or fun together, and of course sex.

    Adventures, especially of the type we never see in canon or canon divergent AUs.

    Seasonal stories of any kind, as I really do love Halloween and fall in general

    Trick preferences:

    Spooky stories, like ghosts haunting loved ones or enemies who killed them.

    I am okay with vampires, werewolves, cryptids and zombies, but I'm not big on super gory things.

    Post apocalyptic fic is fun. Did the world get taken over by mummies? Zombies? Cuddly teddy bears with real fangs?

    I am fine with mixing and matching between tricks and treats.



    Original Work

    Space Dragon
    Space Shark
    Space Jellyfish
    Ship: Woman Wearing a Ghost Costume/Female Ghost


    For the space animals, how does that work? How big are they? What do they eat? What do they do all day? I have so many questions, and would love to see your thoughts.

    For the two ghost ladies, does the ghost know her date is still alive? I'd love to see the meet cute, be it a bar, or party, or a cemetery. Are they roommates?

    Art: the tags prompt themselves, really!


    Labyrinth

    Sir Didymus
    Ludo

    I would love to know your take on either of their backstories! How exactly did Sir Didymus lose his eye? How did he end up knighted? Living in the Bog of Eternal Stench with his vow to protect the bridge? Or what happened to him after the movie? How does his relationship with Sarah continue?

    Same with Ludo. How did he befriend the rocks? How did he end up in the labyrinth, hanging upside down? Does he have a family?

    Art: Portraits of either character are always welcome. Traveling on the labyrinth. Enjoying a snack. Visiting Sarah, maybe at her house, maybe in a more unusual place (a mall, her park, her school?).



    Van Helsing

    Velkan Valerious

    So we get a lot of Anna's point of view in the movie, but I'd love more of Velkan's experience. Before or after he becomes a werewolf. What changes in the story if Anna's the one turned into a werewolf and Velkan's the one who has to interact with Van Helsing? (I repeat, I'm not looking for an epic, but I understand this would be an easily epicable idea). What if neither of them were attacked and Van Helsing has to deal with both of the siblings? What if they succeed in saving Velkan? And what about their childhood, growing up knowing they need to fight Dracula? I would just be very interested in any ideas you have for Velkan.

    Art: Werewolf, obviously. Maybe Velkan as a vampire? In their castle.

    Thank you so much in advance!
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    pumpkinkingmod ([personal profile] pumpkinkingmod) wrote in [community profile] trickortreatex2025-09-16 09:16 pm

    Community Challenge & Signup Reminder!

    Hello, sweet and spooky Trick or Treaters! Signups close in just under two days (September 18 at 7:59 PM EDT/23:59 UTC). Here is the signup information post!

    And for this year's Community Challenge, we're going retro again. Your collective goal is to treat every participant.

    *except for the ones who opt out of treats. do not treat them!

    This will be managed in a similar style to the 2021 community challenge (see here) with percentage tiers of success. I'll post the exact tier targets after signups close and we have the numbers.

    Get excited, and good luck!
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    full_metal_ox ([personal profile] full_metal_ox) wrote in [community profile] little_details2025-09-15 06:08 pm

    Resource: tree.fm, an audio library of global forest sounds.

    The link will take you to a soundscape from a random forest against a scenic woodland wallpaper (chosen from Unsplash and not necessarily from the same forest), with the location and contributor identified in mouseprint at the bottom of the page.

    https://www.tree.fm/