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justmarriedexchange2025-09-06 12:05 pmReveals Delayed to September 14; Post-Deadline Pinch Hits #48-49
As not all pinch hits have been claimed yet, reveals will be delayed to September 14, 11:59PM UTC.
The new due date for pinch hits is September 12, 11:59PM UTC.
( PH 48 - Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon), Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon), 黄金の太陽 | Golden Sun Series, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga) )
( PH 49 - Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses, 鸣潮 | Wuthering Waves (Video Game), Limbus Company (Video Game) )
To claim a PH, please comment here or email marriageex@gmail.com with your AO3 name and the number of the PH. We may not be able to immediately respond to pinch hit claims, but will get to them as soon as we’re able.
Comments on this post are screened.
If you might be working on something for one of these recipients but can't claim the PH yet, it would be helpful to let me know.
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otw_news_feed) wrote2025-09-06 01:27 pmCelebrating the OTW’s 18th Anniversary
September 5 is the OTW’s birthday and this year, we are turning 18 years old! To celebrate this event, let’s look back at some of the milestones the OTW’s projects – AO3, TWC, Open Doors, Fanlore, and Legal Advocacy – have achieved over the years:
- As the first OTW Project, Legal Advocacy was launched in 2007, the same year as the organization itself.
- In February of 2008, TWC released its first call for papers! Shortly after, in June, Fanlore was launched.
- In late 2009, AO3 first went live. Roughly one year later, AO3 reached 10,000 users, with growth of the community accelerating ever since.
- In 2011, Open Doors was launched, and began importing archives in 2012.
- In 2015, the first ever International Fanworks Day was observed.
Since then, our projects have only continued to flourish and grow. AO3 has more than 9 million users and 15,730,000 works. Fanlore has nearly 80,000 pages and has seen over 1,657,000 edits. TWC is on its 45th issue. Open Doors has imported more than 100 archives, containing over 164,000 fanworks. Legal Advocacy fights hard for the rights of fans each and every day, responding to dozens of questions every year, filing Amicus Curiae briefs, joining coalitions, and more. All this and more is thanks to the support of fans worldwide; it wouldn’t be possible without you!
If you’re interested in how you can help, there are many ways for you to support us and our fannish community, and you can learn about some of them today by participating in our 18th Anniversary Bingo! On the card below you can see sixteen ways to contribute to the OTW or one of its projects. Some of these you might already have done, or are doing. You can cross those off!
Once you have a Bingo, we’d love for you to tell us what you did to get it! Tag us on social media using #18YearsOTW or comment below, and let us know. We’re excited to hear from you!
If you’re looking for other ways you can support the OTW, check out How You Can Help for more ideas!
Speak Up Saturday
Welcome to the weekly roundup post! What are you watching this week? What are you excited about?
badly_knitted) wrote in fan_flashworks2025-09-06 12:43 pmFAKE: Fanfic: Burning Issue
Title: Burning Issue
Fandom: FAKE
Author:
badly_knittedCharacters: Dee, Ryo, JJ.
Rating: PG-13
Setting: After Like Like Love.
Summary: Overhearing Dee and Ryo’s conversation, JJ manages to get the wrong end of the stick.
Word Count: 300
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 490: Issue.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Triple drabble.
yhlee) wrote2025-09-06 05:10 amah, yes, this again
(I was in her targeting crosshairs but fortunately only in a glancing fashion, unlike people I know whom she harassed in pretty awful ways, in an ongoing pattern of behavior.)
fic_in_a_box_mod) wrote in ficinabox2025-09-06 01:10 amAssignments out!
Navigation: Rules/General Info | AO3 Collection | Posting Guidelines | Medium Rulesets | Google Forms (Defaulting, Extensions, Assignment Summary Requests) | Mod Contact: ficinaboxmod@gmail.com OR Screened Mod Contact Post
Assignments are out! Thank you very much for your patience. Please refer to this part of the rules for an in-depth refresher on assignment minimums and expectations, but the short of it is: 10k of complete fic (or equivalent opt-in) is due on October 19 at 10:00 EDT (countdown). Email us immediately if you cannot create anything your recip has requested.
Default/Extension/Assignment Summary forms: These aren't quite up and running yet; they'll be ready by tomorrow night.
Rule reminders/clarifications:
- All gifts are required to hit at least one of the recipient's relationship/character/worldbuilding tags and it should be reasonably clear which tag is being hit. What this means will obviously vary by medium; tarot cards have very different expectations than a capella filk. This applies to all gifts, including treats, unless the recip has said something to opt themselves out or has requested something else in their details.
- If your DNWs directly contradict your opt ins they will be unenforceable. We tried to email everyone affected by this, but if we missed you and it comes up later, this still applies to you. This was issues like DNWing 1st person while requesting epistolary or requesting an "Any" tag while DNWing a medium that clearly falls within that tag.
- Remember that works will be anonymous for two weeks after work reveals! Even if you're making something that is inherently unanon in some way, you still may not link to your outside social media on the work until after author reveals.
- For recursive works: Your work still must fill your recip's requested relationship tags (unless your recip has opted out of that). The work you are recursing does not need to originally hit those tags.
- If you have a question for your recip email us so we can pass it on to them anonymously. Do not ask them any other way, including passing the question through someone else, asking an anonymous question on their tumblr, etc. This is so that if they give you a DNW or medium exception or something we can keep track of that!
If you are creating multiple works:
- Each work must fulfill one of your assigned recipient's requests, but they do not need to be the same request and do not need to be connected. Filling all 10k of your assignment using the same request is also fine.
- If you choose to create multiple gifts, you should fill the first one using the Fulfill button on your assignment page! The other ones will need to be posted directly to the collection by going to the profile, clicking "Post to Collection", and manually adding your recipient on the "Gift this work to" line.
If you cannot complete all or some of your assignment:
- If you have not yet posted any works, you can default by hitting "Default" on your assignments page. This will remove the assignment and release you from any obligation.
- If you have completed part of your assignment and wish to default on the rest, please email the mods and let us know! You will still be guaranteed up to the amount of approved works you submitted rounded down to the nearest 1k (e.g. if you post 3.5k, then default, and then your creator defaults on their entire assignment, you will go out to PH for 3k). If you posted multiple works, those wordcounts/equivalents are added together before the total is rounded down.
- If you have defaulted on all or part of your assignment, you may "earn back" the amount of gifts you are guaranteed by submitting works to your original assignment or by picking up pinch hits. Please check the "Defaulting" section of this post (link) for more information.
Posting
- Everyone is requesting fanfiction, in addition to their medium opt ins.
- All works must be at least 1k or equivalent unless the recipient has opted into a lower amount, in which case they must be 1k or equivalent or fill a length opt-in tag.
- You can find extended posting guidelines here (link).
- If you are filling a Worldbuilding or Original Works tag and don't wish to tag your work with that exact tag, please mention in your top author's note what tag you're filling.
- All medium tags have a prefix telling you what ruleset they follow, which will tell you the minimum and the wordcount equivalents of that medium. Any non-fanfiction mediums must fit into one of those rulesets or they will not be accepted into the exchange. "Unique Rules" means that a medium has unique minimums and equivalents which are also on the ruleset page. You can find the rulesets here (link).
- If you believe that how you're tagging your work may be confusing for the mods when they check, please just make a note in the top authors note! This also goes for any other information you think may be useful! We will post an all clear notification here on DW a few days before reveals reminding everyone to swap their work from "helping the mods out with notes" mode to "looking nice for reveals" mode.
Treating
- Treating is encouraged!
- Any treats posted to the exchange should meet the assignment requirements! This means that they should be at least 1k or equivalent (unless the recip has opted into lower) and must fill their requested fandom, tags, and medium opt ins if not fanfiction.
- If you have treated your recipient prior to picking up their pinch hit, any treats you have given them that meet the assignment requirements will be automatically counted towards your assignment! This is a side effect of how we're automating the tracking for this exchange. If you have given your recipient a treat that you do not want to count towards your assignment, please let us know when you post to the DW to claim the pinch hit.
Other reminders:
- If you post any part of your assignment from an account other than the one you signed up with, we need to know in order to count that work towards your 10k. We'd super prefer you post from the account you signed up with and transfer the work after we've processed it, though.
- You must remain anonymous until creators are revealed. This means you should not contact your recipient or state who you are creating for. If you have any questions for your recipient, you should contact the mods and we will pass those on.
- Those of you hoping to create works with complicated HTML may find this collection of workskin and HTML guides helpful for creating things like twitter, mission reports, etc.
- If you create an AO3 workskin/tutorial for something that doesn't already exist you can post it to the collection for others to use! We will reveal it immediately. If you need to earn back minimum after defaulting a community workskin/tutorial counts for 2k. If you'd like to confirm if what you're making will count prior to making it, please contact us!
- Don't miss the post about Assignment Swaps!
- Initial pinch hits will be out after swaps.
- If you're confused about anything at all, hit us up!! Email ficinaboxmod@gmail.com OR comment on the Screened Mod Contact Post
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2025-09-05 06:09 pm[ SECRET POST #6818 ]
⌈ Secret Post #6818 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
01.
( More! )
Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #973.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
otw_news_feed) wrote2025-09-05 08:41 pmAugust 2025 Newsletter, Volume 203
I. 2025 BOARD ELECTION
Elections successfully closed the 2025 OTW Board Director election. Congratulations to the OTW’s new Directors: Elizabeth Wiltshire and Harlan Lieberman-Berg! Elizabeth and Harlan will be replacing the seats of outgoing Board members Jennifer Haynes and Zixin Zhang.
Many committees collaborated on Board Election work, with Communications helping distribute announcements, Development & Membership coordinating with OTW members, and Translation making Elections material available in multiple languages.
Elections would like to thank all the candidates who ran, the volunteers from across the OTW who assisted Elections in their work, and everyone who engaged with the election by asking questions or turning out to vote.
Statistics from this year’s election were made available on September 1: out of 15,138 eligible voters, 2,197 cast a ballot, representing 14.5% of potential voters.
II. ARCHIVE OF OUR OWN
In August, AO3 celebrated both one million Mandarin Chinese works and nine million users. Thank you to everyone who’s helped us reach these milestones!
Also in August, Accessibility, Design & Technology (AD&T) deployed a couple releases that included bug fixes and security improvements, and Systems continued their routine tasks, such as improving performance and auditing Archive traffic for malicious bots. User Response Translation began completing ticket translation requests, and Open Doors announced the import of Faerie, a Tolkien fanfiction archive.
In July, Policy & Abuse received 3,570 tickets, while Support received 3,999 tickets. Tag Wrangling wrangled just over 636,000 tags, or over 1,400 per wrangling volunteer!
Elsewhere, Tag Wrangling coordinated with AD&T and announced changes to fandom tag policies for fangames and fanmade web series in a series of three posts on the @ao3org Tumblr. The first post outlined the general policy, while the second post focused on Undertale and the third post focused on Fangans from Dangan Ronpa. Lastly, Tag Wrangling also coordinated with Communications to announce 20 new “No Fandom” canonical tags on AO3 News.
III. ELSEWHERE AT THE OTW
Legal is continuing to answer user queries and monitor legal developments. Although there are many concerning legal developments around freedom of speech and expression online, they are not directly affecting AO3. Legal also dealt with some unauthorized app who’ve used OTW and AO3 trademarks in confusing ways.
Transformative Works and Cultures has two active calls for papers, both due by January 1, 2026. The first is a special issue on Latin American Fandoms, and the next is a special issue on Music Fandom.
Communications‘ Con Outreach division wrapped up Worldcon 2025 in Seattle, Washington, USA – thank you to everyone who tabled and who said hi to us! You can check out con goers’ recommendations in the con’s AO3 collection.
Fanlore’s themed month for July, Fandom in Color, was a big success! Their next editing challenge, Stub September will run from September 14-28, and graphics will have an animals with swords theme. Check their Bluesky, Twitter/X and Tumblr for announcements.
IV. GOVERNANCE
In August, Board, Board Assistants Team (BAT), Organizational Culture Roadmap, and Volunteers & Recruiting began a cross-committee review of the OTW’s Code of Conduct. This review aims to ensure the Code of Conduct still serves both the OTW as an organization as well as its many volunteers.
Elsewhere, Board collaborated with other committees on Crisis Communication Guidelines, began their biennial review of the Board Confidentiality Policy, had their quarterly check-in with Legal, and approved the 2024 Annual Report. Minutes from July’s public Board meeting are now available on the OTW website. Board also started preparations for the upcoming Board turnover after receiving the 2025 OTW Board election results.
BAT continued work on several projects, including collaborations with the Organizational Culture Roadmap and a report on nonprofit training. Lastly, Strategic Planning continued work on their two-year progress report on the implementation of the current strategic plan.
V. OUR VOLUNTEERS
In addition to the aforementioned Code of Conduct Review, Volunteers & Recruiting also began a project focused on workgroups, aiming to increase the OTW’s ability to support projects that might not fit within the purview of a single committee.
This month, Volunteers & Recruiting conducted recruitment for two committees: BAT and Development & Membership.
From July 23 to August 20, Volunteers & Recruiting received 203 new requests, and completed 252, leaving them with 51 open requests. As of August 20, 2025, the OTW has 982 volunteers. \o/ Recent personnel movements are listed below.
New Communications Volunteers: GrayIsNotEmo, KW Ukuku, Magda19, and 1 other TikTok Moderator
New Fanlore Volunteers: Becca Bun, Jules Moon, Tiff, Zoe Bird, and 2 other Social Media & Outreach Volunteers
New Policy & Abuse Volunteers: Ain, embobem, Gail, Rissi, and 2 other Policy & Abuse Volunteers
New Support Volunteers: ChangYan, Clarice Strand, Jennifer Elliott, llianne, John Pork, Louie, Maycix, melon8, Mily, nayogn, Stevie, TinaOe, viewofsilence, Wtchmn23, Ziting, and 8 other Support Volunteers
New Tag Wrangling Volunteers: amphob, Bec, Berix, Bettelort, bingus, Bismuth, bluejello, Clarissa, Daisya, dila, Draconic, Drakoshig, firstestly, genitus6, grexigone, Hazelwyrm, heliolatry, Jas, KD, Lace, Lau, Leo M, Leuconoen, Maris, Mary, Nerva, nekojoo, null_ice, Nyxia, Pandasaurio, pickledragon, radiance, Ravenna, rikka, RJ, Sabrina_Tangerina, sarkastic, Sayornis, SCEnt Hope, shrikes, Soyash, Talixa, Tea Huimyni, Thunder, twistingsands, Zee, and 1 other Tag Wrangling Volunteer
New Volunteers & Recruiting Volunteers: Ana Niccals, Bekyro, PerpetuallyPurple, and 2 other Volunteers & Recruiting Volunteers
Departing Committee Chairs/Leads: 1 Communications Chair
Departing BAT Volunteers: 2 Board Assistant Team Volunteers
Departing Communications Volunteers: 1 Event Coordinator, 1 Media Outreach Volunteer, 1 Report Writer, and 2 TikTok Moderators
Departing Fanlore Volunteers: 1 Social Media & Outreach Volunteer
Departing Tag Wrangling Volunteers: Esin and 9 other Tag Wrangling Volunteers
Departing Translation Volunteers: Janka (Translator)
For more information about our committees and their regular activities, you can refer to the committee pages on our website.
The Organization for Transformative Works is the non-profit parent organization of multiple projects including Archive of Our Own, Fanlore, Open Doors, Transformative Works and Cultures, and OTW Legal Advocacy. We are a fan-run, entirely donor-supported organization staffed by volunteers. Find out more about us on our website.
immortalje) wrote in dailyicons2025-09-05 09:53 pmPrompt 2597: Red
Today's prompt is: red
• You have 2 days time to submit an icon for this prompt (in other words, until prompt 2599 gets posted)!
• Prompt 2595 have been closed.
• If you have any questions regarding the prompt, feel free to ask in a comment.
• To submit an icon you simply reply to this post with the following information:
Icon:
Claim: (only necessary if it's a specific claim)
Status: (e.g. #1/10 - number of icon completed/table size)
denynothing1) wrote in fancake2025-09-05 11:21 amHockey RPF: Game Plan by thehoyden
Pairings/Characters: Sidney Crosby/Evgeni Malkin
Rating: Explicit
Length: 10,281 words / 1hr podfic
Creator Links: thehoyden on AO3, exmanhater on AO3
Theme: Food & Cooking
Summary: Unlike Nealsy, Evgeni can cook his own food when he has it. He’s perfectly capable of making breakfast. His kitchen is well-equipped, and he’s got some good basic cooking skills down. In short, he is not going to starve to death if left to his own devices.
None of this seems to matter to Sid.
Reccer's Notes: This is a story about seduction by breakfast. As the title says, there is a clear game plan at work here -- possibly more than one. Much of the charm of the story is in how oblivious the determined seducer is to the effect he is having and how bewildered his target is that it's not clear how willing he is to be seduced.
Bonus: the descriptions of the ever-more-elaborate breakfasts are fantastic.
There's an accompanying podfic by exmanhater that is a delicious listen as well.
Fanwork Links: story on AO3, podfic on AO3
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dw_community_promo2025-09-05 03:14 pmI made a Community community
Come join and post discussions, fanworks, reviews, etc! I'm starting the comm with our own Friday Five, so reply now and meet some fellow fans!
Community TV
elesteria) wrote in fandomcalendar2025-09-05 09:24 am괴담출근 (GSGW): GSGW Reverse Big Bang 2026
Jin Nasol of GSGW, with text saying 1 Day Reverse Big Bang. Credit to happ13unni
Description: A collaborative fan event between Artists & Authors for
Even If I Fall Into a Ghost Story, I Still Have to Go to Work (GSGW)
by Baek Deoksoo.
Schedule:
Artist and Writer sign-ups begin September 6
Posting Begins March 13
Links:
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