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ashenmote ([personal profile] ashenmote) wrote2025-08-14 10:01 am
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They should look if they put any commentary or extra content on a DVD at all before they try to legally distance themselves from it. You'd think the sort of mistake that would get your job application tossed wouldn't happen to Disney/Marvel or their outsorcees, at least not where people can see it, but no.

I watched Guardians of the Galaxy 3, or parts of it. First I tried to find the chapters or time stamps for the horrible parts online so I could avoid them precisely. But then I was reminded it is 2025 and search engines can no longer assist us in these matters. In this particular case because I couldn't find words relevant to my search that wouldn't also suggest I was here about a game instead of the movie. Big sigh.

So I just did a generous jump whenever plot or atmosphere suggested it was about to get cruel, and that worked too, but I probably missed 1/3 of the film.

Anyway, to my surprise I liked it and I was pretty teary at the end. I couldn't say that for the first two, because the whole "in your face jerks are endearing really" pretense of the franchise was so stupid and also factually wrong. But the characters grew out of it just enough in the third one, or had developed enough character each to overshadow the tiresome premise. Something like that. Eyebrow guy as Adam Warlock really caught me off-guard. He looked like he stands very still in the precinct for a living. I always liked Nebula best, hasn't changed.

I also rewatched Everything Everywhere All at Once, this time in a state of awake, and that helped a lot. Very good.

I started watching But I'm a Cheerlearder online and it's pretty weird? But it has a brief appearances of Dante Basco!
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morbane ([personal profile] morbane) wrote in [community profile] crossworks2025-08-11 10:48 pm
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Crossworks 2025 sign-ups open

2025 sign-ups are open at AO3!

The basics
  • You need an AO3 account. You can request an invite here, or contact the mod directly.

  • One sign-up only per person.

  • If there are things that would ruin a gift for you, please enter them in the sign-up form, in the "Do-Not-Wants and Optional Details" field, as Do Not Wants or DNWs.

  • You can write prompts, if you want, but you don't have to. You can link to a longer document, a "letter", with more information about your prompts and preferences, if you want, but you don't have to. Letter links can't be added after sign-ups end. If writing a letter, please try to complete it by the time assignments go out. The preferences in your optional details can include characters and relationships, but your creator isn't bound by them - please do not request fandoms where you are only interested in a very small subset of the characters or the worldbuilding.

  • You can organize your requests according to whether you'd like art or fic or both, and crossovers or fusions or both. Each request and offer must include at least one of the tags Art/Fusion, Fic/Fusion, Art/Crossover, and Fic/Crossover. Crossovers and fusions are defined at the collection.

  • You must sign up with 3 (min) to 10 (max) requests, and 1 (min) to 10 (max) offers.

  • Not everyone can receive treats, so please note in your optional details if treats are welcome or if you have disabled them.

  • You can use the "Notes to Mod" field to tell me more about your matching preferences, or you can leave that blank. You can ask to avoid other people ("Do Not Match" requests). Please don't tell me why you wish to avoid any person. Please do tell me whether you would prefer not to receive a pinch hit or treat from a person you don't want to match with. I can't honour all preferences; if I need to read someone's optional details or Do-Not-Wants to figure out if they're compatible with your matching preferences, that's too specific, sorry. If you have blocked any other participants, you can still be assigned to receive from or create for them, so consider asking not to match to them.



How to combine fandoms, and making sure you have enough combinations
  • Each of your requests and offers needs to include 2-10 fandom tags from the tag set.

  • Your requests (in total) must include at least 5 different fandom tags.

  • Your requests (in total) must include at least 5 different fandom combinations. (That is: Harry Potter and John Wick is one combination. A request for Harry Potter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and John Wick includes 3 different fandom combinations: HPxB, BxJW, HPxJW.)

  • Your combinations cannot all require knowledge of your one favourite fandom. Ie, the five requests AxB, AxC, AxD, AxE, and AxF would all require your creator to know fandom A. You would need at least one other request that doesn't include fandom A.

  • Don't put fandoms into the same request or offer if you aren't interested in all the combinations they could make. For example, if you want Harry Potter and Buffy, and also Harry Potter and John Wick, but you don't want Buffy and John Wick, putting those three in the same request would be a bad idea because your creator could have offered Buffy and John Wick but not Harry Potter. In that case, put John Wick and Buffy in two different request slots and put Harry Potter in both.

  • Don't put fandoms into the same request if the combination they make wouldn't create a fusion or crossover. Examples:
    • Don't put Tamora Pierce's Protector of the Small quartet in the same request as the Lioness quartet - these are subseries of the same world with shared characters and settings

    • Don't put Captain America movies in the same request as Marvel Cinematic Universe, since the Captain America movies are a subset of the Marvel Cinematic Universe

    • Don't put Mo Dao Zu Shi in the same request as The Untamed, since one is an adaptation of the other

    • It's fine to combine similar fandoms in this way in your offers, just not in requests.


"Any Other Fandom" tags
This is a BONUS wildcard system that may make it easier for you to cover all the fandom combinations you are interested in receiving. It is an optional extra: ignore it completely if you want. If you aren't interested, just don't select the "Any Other Fandom" tags.

If interested, here's how it works.

-In one of your requests, select a fandom from the tagset and "Any Other Fandom I've Requested in CW2025". This means that your creator can combine that fandom with any fandom you've ticked in any of your other requests.

-Or, in one of your requests, select "Any Other Fandom I've Requested in CW2025" and "Any Other Fandom I've Requested in CW2025 (Select Only In Combo With AOF Tag & No Other Fandoms)". This is using tags to say "Absolutely any possible 2-fandom combination is welcome as long as both fandoms appear somewhere in my requests this year".


Some examples
Normal sign-up
Request 1: Fic/Crossover, Murderbot (TV), Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold, All For The Game - Nora Sakavic, Babylon 5 (T)
Request 2: Art/Fusion, Fic/Fusion: Horus Heresy - Various Authors, Black Jewels
Request 3: Art/Fusion, Chronicles of Narnia, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Our Flag Means Death (TV)
Request 4: Fic/Fusion: Chronicles of Narnia, Moby Dick
Request 5: Fic/Fusion: Chronicles of Narnia, Psmith - P. G. Wodehouse,

Here I could get a crossover between Babylon 5 and Vorkosigan Saga, but if I got a fusion between Black Jewels and All for the Game, it would not fulfil my request.

This set-up also means that I am prompting for multiple fusions with the Chronicles of Narnia. Keeping requests 3, 4, and 5 separate is different to putting all of these fandoms in the same request - if I did that, I might get Moby Dick and Our Flag Means Death. (No shade or judgment if you think that would be great! This is purely an example.)

Using Any Other Fandom tags
Request 1: Fic/Crossover, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dark Lords of Derkholm, The Old Guard
Request 2: Art/Fusion, Fic/Fusion: Dragonriders of Pern, The Hunger Games, Black Jewels
Request 3: Art/Fusion, Chronicles of Narnia, Revolutionary Girl Utena
Request 4: Fic/Fusion: Chess (Musical), Any Other Fandom I've Requested in CW2025

This could save time because if a creator likes the musical Chess, they can combine that with any other fandom in the requests. (Only by writing a fic fusion, though).


Using Any Other Fandom tags - both of them
Request 1: Fic/Crossover, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dark Lords of Derkholm, The Old Guard, Chess (Musical)
Request 2: Art/Fusion, Fic/Fusion: Dragonriders of Pern, The Hunger Games, Black Jewels
Request 3: Art/Fusion, Chronicles of Narnia, Revolutionary Girl Utena
Request 4: Fic/Fusion: Any Other Fandom I've Requested in CW2025, Any Other Fandom I've Requested in CW2025 (Select Only In Combo With AOF Tag & No Other Fandoms)

In this case, Request 4 means I could get a fusion story between Utena and the Old Guard, Black Jewels and Narnia, or Chess (Musical) and Pern. Anything's fair game. No combination is excluded.


This is the only way "Any Other Fandom I've Requested in CW2025 (Select Only In Combo With AOF Tag & No Other Fandoms)" should be selected in your requests. It should appear as the second fandom with "Any Other Fandom I've Requested in CW2025" as the first fandom, and there should not be a third fandom in that request.

If using "Any Other Fandom I've Requested in CW2025", please list out what those fandoms are in the optional details of the request where you have selected this tag. This helps creators check they're combining the right fandoms.


Please feel free to ask if you have questions!

More tag set notes
When looking through the tag set, please keep in mind the Uncategorized fandoms in the tag set. Some of these may be fandoms you've never heard of - but some of them may just be sub-groupings of a fandom you know.

I will re-open the tag set tomorrow to allow additional nominations of 2 fandoms per person - please limit this to things you want to request. The tag set will close again within 48 hours of sign-ups closing.


App!
As sign-ups progress, karanguni's app may make it easier to find requests by fandom. This is updated on request and will say when it was last updated.


Sign-ups will end at 11:59pm EDT on 21 August.
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grundyscribbling ([personal profile] grundyscribbling) wrote in [community profile] innumerable_stars2025-08-10 12:36 pm
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Tag clarifications

The mods are doing some cleanup on the tagset, and we have a couple questions.
  • If you nominated Lady of the Blue Brooch, please let us know what fandom it was intended for? The association was lost. We think it's meant for LotR books.
  • If you nominated "Worldbuilding: Gandalf enlists Lobelia on the Quest instead of Gandalf" in the Hobbit book fandom please clarify to the mods what you intended? (We think it's meant to be "Gandalf enlists Lobelia on the Quest instead of Bilbo" but maybe we're not thinking far enough outside the original timeline?)
  • If you nominated the following under the Crossovers fandom, please clarify what you intended - these groups can be nominated under LotR books OR Silmarillion without requiring a crossover: Group: Arwen & Celebrimbor; Group: Celebrian & Celebrimbor; Group: Celebrimbor/Sauron (Crossover Fandom).
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morbane ([personal profile] morbane) wrote in [community profile] crossworks2025-08-09 10:48 pm

Check Tag Set; Sign-Ups Soon

Main nominations are closed! Thanks for all your choices. The randomizer widget is updated too.

I don't have any outstanding nominations! So, next is sign-ups. Shortly after opening sign-ups, I'll re-set available nominations at the tag set to let people nominate one or two more fandoms if you think of anything last-minute you really want to request.

What that means is: if it's helpful to you to check "My Nominations" at the tag set to remind yourself what you meant to request/offer, please go check that soon - that data won't be available once I change the settings to give people more nominations.
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shipscrossingmod ([personal profile] shipscrossingmod) wrote in [community profile] ships_crossing2025-08-08 09:42 pm
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Signups Closed + Unmatchables

 Ahoy! 

Signups for the 2025 round are now closed. Emails have been sent to unmatchables with usernames starting with B, F, H, O, S, and T. Each of them has 48 hours to respond, so assignments may take a while to be sent. Thank you all for your patience and for signing up! 

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morbane ([personal profile] morbane) wrote in [community profile] crossworks2025-08-09 10:11 am

Nominations closing today

Nominations are scheduled to close at 8 August, 11:59pm EDT, but probably won't close on the dot as I have some scheduling conflicts today. Thanks for everyone's nominations!

Please only nominate "All Media Types" and "And Related Fandoms" tags if (as requester) you are OK with a creator using lore/characters from a wide range of parts of the franchise, or (as creator) you are confident in offering across a similar wide range. It's fine to have both a large umbrella part of a franchise and a smaller subset part of a franchise, both in the tag set.

Thanks for everyone's nominations, they're sparking amazing ideas already!
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tentaclemod ([personal profile] tentaclemod) wrote in [community profile] raremaleslashex2025-08-08 10:30 pm

Some More Pinchhits #5, #6, #8, #9, #11, #16-19

The Pinch Hits are due the same time as regular assignments. The deadline is set for Saturday 16 August at 20:00 UTC. You can view a countdown here.

To claim: please reply to this post with your AO3 username and the name and number of the pinch hit you want to claim. Comments are screened. You can also email tentaclemod@gmail.com.

Anon commenting is fine but bear in mind that I cannot reply if you comment anon!

You don't have to be signed up to the exchange to claim a pinch hit, but you do need an AO3 account.

All pinch hits must comply with the rules here. The minimum is a completed work of fanfiction of at least 1000 words or a completed piece of fanart or 500 words of podfic (depending on what the recipient has requested).


CLAIMED! PH 5 - 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018) RPF, 镇魂 | Guardian - priest, Crossover Fandom, 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)


PH 6 - [Fanfic + Fanart] NoPixel (Web Series), 鴨乃橋ロンの禁断推理 | Kamonohashi Ron no Kindan Suiri | Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective (Manga), 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs, 吸血鬼すぐ死ぬ | Kyuuketsuki Sugu Shinu | The Vampire Dies in No Time (Anime), Runescape (Video Games) )


PH 8 - [All Fanfic] Bandom, Cool Runnings, due South, Good Omens, Zootopia, Real Genius-  )


PH 9 - [All Fanfic] Dishonored (Video Games), BioShock 1 & 2 (Video Games), Revenge (1990) )


PH 11 - [All Fanfic] X-Men: The Animated Series (Cartoon 1992), World of Warcraft, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV 2000), Hellboy (Comics) )

CLAIMED! PH 14 - Bleach (Anime & Manga), Natsume Yuujinchou | Natsume's Book of Friends, フェルマーの料理 | Fermat no Ryouri (TV)


CLAIMED! PH 16 - 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, Elden Ring (Video Game), 魔尊也想知道 - 青色羽翼 | Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know - Cyan Wings, The Magnus Archives (Podcast), The Glory (TV 2022), 苍兰诀 | Love Between Fairy and Devil (TV), 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 내가 키운 S급들 - 근서 | S-Classes that I Raised - Geunseo, 오픈 더 도어 - 임짜달 | Open The Door - Imjjadal, 山河令 | Word of Honor (TV 2021)



PH 17 - Crossover Fandom, Naruto (Anime & Manga), 新世界狂歡|NU: carnival (Video Game) )


PH 18 - Biggles Series - W. E. Johns, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Labyrinth (1986), Sime~Gen - Jacqueline Lichtenberg & Jean Lorrah, Devil Went Down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band (Song), Original Work )


CLAIMED! PH 19 - Red One (2024), Justin and the Knights of Valour (2013), Spacelords (Video Game), Original Work

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Commissioner Clawseau 🔎 ([personal profile] casemod) wrote in [community profile] caseficexchange2025-08-06 06:54 pm

Post-deadine pinch hits | 8, 9, 13.

The collection reveal will be delayed by two weeks so pinch hitters have enough time to create for our remaining assignments. If all goes well, we'll reveal on Friday 29 August at 11:59pm EDT. We have three remaining pinch hits looking for a lovely detective or criminal mastermind!

Comments on this post are now screened. Sorry about that, folks!

Quick links: Rules and guidelines · 2025 Collection · Mod contact: gumshoeagency@gmail.com


This batch of pinch hits are due on Friday 22 August at 11:59pm Eastern time. [ In your timezone + Countdown ]

Pinch hits must comply with the exchange's rules. Pinch hits must meet the minimum assignment requirements of a completed work of a minimum of 3,000 words for fanfiction, a minimum of 10 panels for a comic, or a recording of a completed fic of 3,000 words minimum with "casefic" as one of its tags. Works must include a fandom, character/ship and be of a medium that the recipient has requested. You must have an AO3 account to participate.

We guarantee gifts for requests that feature a minimum of three unique fandoms. I would like to fill all our pinch hits if possible!

Please take note of the mediums as some requests have a combination selected.

To claim, please either reply to this post or email gumshoeagency@gmail.com with your AO3 name and the pinch hit number you want to claim.

Comments are screened, so if you reply anonymously, please include an email in case I need to reach out to you. You will not be able to receive a reply from me if you comment anonymously on this post.




CLAIMED! PH 8 (fic) - Severance (TV), The West Wing )


CLAIMED! PH 9 (fic) - 巷説百物語 | Kousetsu Hyaku Monogatari | Requiem from the Darkness (Anime), Nightmare - Cornell Woolrich (Novella), Father Brown (2013), Penny Dreadful (TV), XCOM (2012 Reboot Series) )


CLAIMED! [ includes canon consumption tips] PH 13 (comic, fic) - 終ノ空 remake | Tsui no Sora Remake, A Girl Corrupted by the Internet is the Summoned Hero?!, Tsukihime (Visual Novel & Anime) )


Thank you!
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Elwin ([personal profile] elwinfortuna) wrote in [community profile] innumerable_stars2025-08-03 08:40 pm
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Nominations Are Open!

The time has come to nominate!

Nominations are open to all, whether you plan to participate in Innumerable Stars or not. Please refresh your memory of the Nominations Information Post and make sure you are copy/pasting the names of the fandoms as stated in that post. Feel free to look through previous tagsets for inspiration and guidance, as well.

Nominations will close on Sunday, the 17th of August, at 8 PM UTC. That is a full two weeks, so there is plenty of time. You are able to nominate some tags, then save your nominations, and later go back in and nominate others, so you do not have to do it all at once. You can also edit nominations, until they have been approved.

Go forth and nominate!
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howdyadoitsnatty ([personal profile] howdyadoitsnatty) wrote in [community profile] little_details2025-08-03 11:11 am

Weird Japanese Horror Films

Hello again (thanks for the collective 'you should probably re-consider this' last time because I kind of needed that), I've got some more weirdly specific questions that I kind of am not sure how to begin tackling:

So one of my characters is a Japanese man who sort of has a thing for schlocky pulpy horror movies, and while I'm aware of some popular-ish examples of sort of cult horror films in Japan ( Like House (1977) or Tetsuo The Iron Man (1989) which vaguely fit his themes of 'being deeply uncomfortable with the world and his body') but these always struck me as kind of obvious and well known even outside of japan and not something someone who was really into weird stuff would actually select as a 'favorite'. For the sake of clarity: this is set in the present so even relatively recent films are okay.

I guess in general I'm looking for recommendations for stuff this sort of guy would be interested in, or at least something that someone who's a bit of a weird horror junkie would consider a personal favorite.
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ashenmote ([personal profile] ashenmote) wrote2025-08-03 01:03 pm

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This was enough work to go on this journal too I thought.



Unrelated, does my paw Icon have a glitch of whiteness at the end of the loop for you? For me it does sometimes and not at other times. I am intrigued. Mildly so. Basically, I only see it as the Icon's owner, while I compose a comment or peruse my icons.

I am approaching the last episode of Season 6 Game o'Thrones and still haven't made up my mind if I shall pick up Season 8 at all. The library banished their only copy of it to a remote outpost which is funny on more level than one.

If anyone had told me I might be cautiously optimistic about a Fantastic Four- and a Superman Film, I would have laughed, but Tumblr made it so. I plan to watch the one today and the other next week. My first Superman in the Cinema in fact, and I only know Snyderman through Osmosis and the Justice Leagues.
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ashenmote ([personal profile] ashenmote) wrote2025-08-02 10:23 am
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Those 'Error 404 - Oops, the page you're looking for is no longer here' messages are especially nasty when you can see them drag away 'the page you are looking for' from your screen.

You know, like this: )

It's the 'Oops' in particular that makes this so endearing, I think.
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shipscrossingmod ([personal profile] shipscrossingmod) wrote in [community profile] ships_crossing2025-08-01 07:12 pm
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2025 Signups Open!

 Hi all!

Signups are now open at the collection. For a refresher on the signup guidelines, you can check here. This year we are trying a different way of doing requests. You can bundle requests for fandoms A/B, A/C, A/D, etc all under one request. 

The tagset will stay open throughout the signup period. 

Please note: I had forgotten to add mediums to the tagset. They are now added. Please go back to edit your signup to include at least one medium in offers and requests, and remove freeforms that aren’t one of the three medium tags.

Enjoy! 
 

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tavina ([personal profile] tavina) wrote in [community profile] au5k2025-08-01 12:55 am
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2025/2026 Tentative Schedule

Schedule:

  • Nominations: 11/16/25-11/30/25
  • Tagset Cleanup: 12/1/25-12/4/25
  • Signups: 12/5/25-12/19/25
  • Assignments out by 12/21/25
  • Soft Check In Deadline: 2/1/26
  • Assignments Due: 2/15/26
  • Work Reveals: 3/1/26
  • Creator Reveals: 3/15/26

All deadlines are 10pm EST

Important Links:

Modmail: TavinaFanfiction@gmail.com

Other Links Soon!

What Is This Exchange?

AU5k is a gift exchange focused on creating gift works that are set in alternate universes to existing canons with a minimum of 5 thousand words (or words equivalent!). See assignments under "General Rules and Info" for more medium related details.

You must have an AO3 account and be 18+ to participate.