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I have done many things in the past week and a half. :3c

I have written two double drabbles, Trick-or-Treat and The Beauty Part, both Foggy/Matt with podfic versions also available.

The round robin fic I wrote with many pals Every Sunday Forever (If That's What It Takes) has been completed, cleaned up, and posted! \o/ Aromantic Foggy&Matt goodness as they're stuck in a time loop. (Pals :D @42donotpanic @auofgoldandfantasies Kimmy Marv @fanboy-sloth @stripedscribe )

I also did much podding (for me) during the @voiceteam Mystery Box event!

Podfic of Cornflower Blue by @inkforhumanhands a very nifty Fisk/Wesley fic going into Wesley's backstory.

Podfic of Safer Up High by @42donotpanic a Clint/Phil fic dealing with major character death and suicide that is very moving and that Panic read and to which I added music. The challenge was to add sfx or music that did not fit the tone of the original work, and I had a ton of fun working with Panic to put together something that is a bit different from my usual.

Podfic of Every Sunday Forever (If That's What It Takes) Yes! Me, @42donotpanic @stripedscribe and @ravenmold round-podded the round robin fic! I am super proud of both our fic and our pod. :D :D :D

Oral Not!Fic (Redacted) Radio Station which was a massive effort headed by @42donotpanic and has something like 15 contributors, of which I got to voice Host 1. Very fun! Come check out all the latest superhero news in our radio show!

So, yah, 3 fics (1 much much longer than the other 2, haha) and 6 audio fanworks I was involved in. Busy start to the beginning of 2025, but also lots of chaotic fun! ^^

“That sounds lovely,” Clint smiled weakly. “I’ll try okay?”

“Car picnic?” Bucky tilted his head, “then you just have to sit and enjoy the view.”

“I’ll try,” Clint repeated, biting his lip and watching Bucky as he started making a simple pancake batter.

“Hey,” Bucky said, offering a soft smile with the bowl and whisk in his hands. “I promise we’ll do something nice tonight, okay? Even if you don’t feel up to going out.”

(You get 6 sentences since I was tagged twice in this)

Tagging @evenfallreads and @mutuallyprime

WIP checkpoint!

reblog this with the last 3 sentences you wrote from your current WIP

Last Line Challenge

Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you like)

“I think you’re probably perfectly capable of finding your way around.” Foggy shrugged, slightly irritated at the general ignorance of people. “And if not, you're old enough to ask for help, right?” “Very right.” Matt smiled, steering them to the closest staircase and holding the door for Foggy. “After you.”

Context: A rewrite of the first meeting between Matt and Foggy as the beginning of a coming out fic I'm working on.

It's mostly the same, just slightly less focused on the whole maverick and goose thing...

Thanks for the tag @auofgoldandfantasies!!

No pressure tags: @foxywrites @cnwolf-brainrot @voiceoffenrisulfr @flowerparrish @endlesstwanted @unfortunate-beetle-and-friends

For the WIP Game, tell me about the No Prompt Left Behind Multiversal Mess? <3

That one is a combination of a Prompt from the Avocados serve, that I found in a previous round of no Prompt left behind and an idea I had a while ago.

The basic idea is that through some magic shenanigans, people travel between multiverses, as is a fairly well known trope.

The biggest difference here is that, instead of multiple versions of the same character meeting, it is a meeting of various characters all played by the same actor, so to each other, it's like looking in a very weird mirror, because the other person looks nearly identical, but they have a wildly different life, sometimes in a wildly different world.

So far the story is mostly a list of a bunch of Marvel characters and other roles their actors have played, but I also have a beginning for the story:

Foggy doesn’t know how he ended up in this mess. The longer he is stuck in it, though, the more it seems like no one else does either. It all started when Foggy left the office earlier than Matt one day. He walked through the neighbourhood like he did almost every day and unlocked the apartment he shared with his partner and husband. But instead of finding it empty, like it was supposed to be, Matt—but not actually Matt—had already been there.

for the WIP guessing game: looking after 👀

I found a lot of "looking up" and "looking at" But no looking after...

Do you take this three sentences that feature the word "look" three times, including "looking forward"?

He looked at the piece of pastry in his hand. It looked delicious, filled with hazelnut cream and decorated with mini marshmallows. Clint had been looking forward to it since he had finished his last mission in the early hours of the morning.

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: M/M Other Fandoms: Daredevil (TV), The Avengers (Marvel Movies) Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Clint Barton, James "Bucky" Barnes/Matt Murdock, James "Bucky" Barnes/Clint Barton/Matt Murdock Characters: Matt Murdock, Franklin "Foggy" Nelson, James "Bucky" Barnes, Clint Barton, Bruce Banner, Jessica Jones (Marvel) Additional Tags: POV Matt Murdock, POV Clint Barton, POV Bucky Barnes, POV Alternating, Post-Season/Series 02, Post-The Defenders (Marvel TV 2017) Season 01, Not Canon Compliant, Canonical Character Death, Emotional Hurt, Hurt Matt Murdock, Matt Murdock & Foggy Nelson Friendship, Blind Matt Murdock, Matt Murdock Has Anger Issues, Mentioned Stick (Daredevil), Mentioned Elektra Natchios, Past Relationship(s), Foggy Nelson Knows Matt Murdock is Daredevil, Poor Life Choices, Pen Pals, Hugs, Canon Divergence - Post-Avengers: Age of Ultron (Movie), Established Bucky Barnes/Clint Barton, Soft Bucky Barnes, Bucky Barnes Recovering, Bucky Barnes Goes to Therapy, Mutual Pining, Bucky Barnes's Notebooks, Protective Clint Barton, Boyfriends, Domestic Fluff, Soft Matt Murdock, Open Relationships, Polyamory, Polyamory Negotiations, Polyamorous Character, Getting Together, Awesome Clint Barton, Boys In Love, Feelings Realization, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Missing Persons, Deaf Clint Barton, Kissing, Worried Bucky Barnes, Matt Murdock Has Sensory Issues, Soft Bruce Banner, Medical Doctor Bruce Banner, Blood and Injury, Not Actually Unrequited Love, Forehead Kisses, Sweet Bucky Barnes, Feels, Happy Ending Language: English Collections: Marvel Rare Pairs Secret Santa 2023 Published: 2024-01-23 Words: 7,839 Chapters: 1/1

Summary:

Thanks to Foggy's meddling, Matt finds himself stuck with an Avenger penpal or two. Little does he know, it's the best thing that has ever or will ever happen to him.

For @42donotpanic

INFO & RULES

- Feel free to interpret the prompts however you wish - the world is your oyster! <3 - No restriction to one prompt per fic/chapter. - You can merge this event with others, so long as the other event permits this. - Please mark rating clearly, and use CW where applicable. Posts not adequately marked will not be reblogged. - Use the tag #FandomFreeBingo and tag @fandom-free-bingo on tumblr for a reblog - don't forget to also add in the pairing/characters, the fandom and the warnings in the tags please <3 - The first event (Frosty Edition) will run until January 31st. Feel free to post after this date, but works will not be reblogged. - Two cards (at most) for each participant. - All media forms, fandoms and original works are welcome! - You can request square changes twice, for up to a week after the card is issued. - Be respectful to other participants. - Be kind to me! This is my first such event, please be patient if I fumble. I intend to run monthly events for the forseeable if this goes well! - There will be an A03 collection... Soon?

Sign up here! Sign ups will run until December 31st - you can post whenever you're ready.

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The 2025 Fanfic Reading Challenge

Welcome to another year of the Fanfic Reading Challenge (FRC)!

I won't bore you with the history of the challenge, this year, but I will welcome you to check out past posts that do explain some of it, as well as include a brief overview of what, exactly, this challenge is, though it does change year to year. (Essentially you read fics to complete goals and win bragging points and an artsy badge.)

This year is especially different, as I had the extreme pleasure of having @noxsoulmate as a partner in crime in keeping me hostage on track to completing this year's FRC. Another valued member of the mod team is @jandjsalmon and speaks for all of us if you need questions answered!

As for the challenge....

This is, indeed, a challenge. Of course.

First of all... you must obviously read fanfiction. As if you don't already!

You also need to download and make your own copy of the spreadsheet, which can be found here, as well as below in the important links section.

To participate in the challenge, you read fics that match the tasks in the challenge. An example of a task can be: "read a fic with a title containing the word purple in it." Should be easy! Of course, there are harder ones.

Which is why there are different modes of challenge to the FRC. These are as follows:

Participation (Complete 1 task)

Regular Mode (Complete 80 tasks)

Hard Mode (Complete 150 tasks)

Extreme Mode (Complete 220 tasks)

Complete (Complete 250 tasks)

The challenge lasts from January 1st, 2025, to December 31st, 2025.

There are badges that go with the modes completed, and even a secret 6th badge that will be fairly obvious if you look at the spreadsheet! Doesn't mean it'll be easy to complete though. *smirks* (Blame Noxy)

Most important of all: this challenge operates on the honour system. We don't check your work, or your reading logs (see below), so I mean, I guess if you want to be slippery with the rules, you do you, and that's on your conscience, but honestly it's so much fun to see how much you can get done by following the letter of the law/tasks! You can be slippery even with following the tasks fully. It's great fun. ;D

I think that's enough for an intro, really, maybe too much.

Important Links and Reading Logs/Trackers

As there is a component of the FRC that includes tracking numbers of words read, most of us use a reading log/tracker to keep count of how many fics we read, including data such as words, of course, chapters, month completed, ship, author, title, fandom, link to the fic, and such. It's a great place to mark what fics you want to read in the future as well!

This year we have FOUR trackers on offer, quite different from one another, so take a look, play around with them and check out their "intros", and choose according to what you think will work best for you!

Fic Tracking Sheets

Juulna's 2025 Reading Log

Noxy's 2025 Reading Log

2025 Jandy's Fic Tracker

Taru's Fic Tracker 2025

Discord

We have a blast on Discord. From general chatter to sharing pet pics to being there for each other during the tough times to forming lasting friendships and making friendships you’d never make in a ship- or fandom-specific Discord, to asking for help ‘rolling the dice’ (pick a number between 1-10!) to choose the next fic to read, to finding some of the really challenging task fills in fandoms people might not have ever read but are willing to try, or finding fandoms someone has never read and is very tentative about stepping out of their box, but they’re being 100% supported and know they don’t need to complete the fic for it to count for the task, stepping out of their comfort zone… we’ve formed a very odd group of, if not friends, then companions (but there are definite friendships that have formed!! Just ask the people who have started watching NHL and NFL together in our off topic channel!).

In any case, our Discord is not necessary, but it is a worthy and tactical element to completing many of the tasks of this challenge. 💙

And.... without further ado....!

The 2025 Fanfic Reading Challenge! (link)

There is an info/rules page as the first sheet on the spreadsheet that should fill in any further questions you have. It also has more contact info than just this page if you have any further questions and perhaps need a more immediate answer for your needs.

*Occasionally you will run into something that looks like an error, and it may in fact be one! Let us know if you see it. It's hard not to make a mistake on as large a spreadsheet as this.*

Please, first of all, have fun and just read fanfiction that you enjoy! I (Juulna) did that last year and didn't even come close to completing the entire challenge, and I still had a blast because I was enjoying what I was reading and rereading. Others took the challenge right to the completed end. Others forgot about it halfway through but still had fun, and some even went back and filled in the sheet for a really good showing! The challenge is what you make of it, what you want from it. So... just have fun. Read fic. Smile. Enjoy. :)

Second of all... well, we would love if you signal boost this post!!!!

Third of all, we do have our pinned post that includes a link to this page and that will include a link to our Discord and all our trackers as well, including past links for memento and informative purposes.

Thank you, and a blessed 2025 to all!

[Podfic] Coffee and (Cold) Kisses by @flowerparrish

Marvel: Clint/Bucky | Rated: G | Length: 2 mns

Autumn comes later ever year it seems, but once it does, the cold front sets in just as quick as always.

Podded as a treat for @42donotpanic for the @summerpodficswap!