Sunshine Revival Challenge #3

Jul. 9th, 2025 03:33 pm
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Introduction Post * Meet the Mods Post * Friending Meme * Challenge #1 * Challenge #2



Remember that there is no official deadline, so feel free to join in at any time, or go back and do challenges you've missed.

ExpandSunshine Revival Challenge #1 )

Check out the comments for all the awesome participants of the challenge and visit their journals/challenge responses to comment on their posts and cheer them on.

And just as a reminder: this is a low pressure, fun challenge. If you aren't comfortable doing a particular challenge, then don't. We aren't keeping track of who does what.

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rules reminder

Jul. 9th, 2025 02:40 am
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From the rules:

Original characters: Original characters are not eligible for nomination in this exchange. If you wish to explore a character's backstory (their romantic or sexual history for example), nominate them using the SOLO: name (fandom) format, and include an explanation in your prompts when you sign up.

If you nominated OCs, please edit those nominations accordingly, and we'll get them approved right away! Thanks a lot.
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Title: Lingering Dream
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Author: [personal profile] veronyxk84
Characters/Pairing: Spuffy
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Word count: 200 (Google Docs)
Spoilers/Setting: Set in S6, after ep. 6x17 “Normal Again.”
Summary: Buffy’s sleep is troubled and haunted by dreams.
Notes: also for #457 - Tangled Up by [community profile] drabble_zone, #397 Milk by [community profile] anythingdrabble

[Prompts #1-#2]: Temptation - Pyjamas

Also on my journal


ExpandREAD: Lingering Dream/Double drabble )
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Title: Lingering Dream
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Author: [personal profile] veronyxk84
Characters/Pairing: Spuffy
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Word count: 200 (Google Docs)
Spoilers/Setting: Set in S6, after ep. 6x17 “Normal Again.”
Summary: Buffy’s sleep is troubled and haunted by dreams.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.

Challenge: #397 - Milk

Crossposted: [community profile] drabble_zone, [community profile] sweetandshort, My journal, Sunnydale After Dark


ExpandREAD: Lingering Dream/Double drabble )

Fannish Tuesday

Jul. 8th, 2025 10:39 pm
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I have no idea where the time is disappearing to but it's making me anxious.


Today I got a hair cut. I'm not too sure about it but my hair was such a mess I had to get rid of it. Don't get me started on the color. It WAS violet and last week it turned this color...for the second time with two different purples from two different companies. My hair dresser said well you can get color safe shampoos with violets and then it dawns on me, omg I think MY color safe shampoo is auburn. gah.




The author's virtual meeting today didn't go well for me. I couldn't concentrate. My total word count is what I usually write in a 25 minute session. Sigh. But hey if you write chillers or thrillers and want to join PM me and we'll talk (ditto if you'd like to join my by email writers critique group)


So it's Fannish 50 tuesday and I'm back to the women of fandom. I'm now going back to my older fandoms in no particular order. I'll be starting with Fullmetal Alchemist but it's SO hard to pick one female from all the great ones in this, Riza Hawkeye, Winry Rockbell, Izumi Curtis, Olivier Armstrong Gracia Hughes just to name a few. Riza and Winry are probably the two more or less main characters and the best well rounded (along with Izumi)

I'm going with Riza for this because a) she was my favorite b) even though this was written by a woman, Winry was written for the male gaze and had a lot of that loud screamy nonsense as part of her character. (I still can't believe this started over 20 years ago. My god!) A lot of Winry's traits were very common back then when targeting the main audience teen boys.

Riza on the other hand is quiet authority. She is amazingly competent and loyal and smart. That she is deeply emotionally intimately entwined with Roy is clear in all the things she does (and she is not blind to his faults). I DID want more out of her back story with her father and why she follows Roy into the military. I wish she had had time to give Riza's back story more flesh.

It's clear that the rest of Roy's men know to obey her, that she's the default secondary ruler of their little group. Riza's hand gun expertise is pretty cool but on the other hand she barely has a life outside of work and that is sad. Arakawa said in an interview somewhere that Roy and Riza would never get the chance to be together and that's pretty sad too.

Even sadder, Bing brought up like ONE picture of Riza that wasn't fan art (okay okay I know it's old but really?) Google had a few more. I chose this one with her and Hayate.


I miss writing her. I miss the heyday of the Roy/Riza communities

Music

Jul. 7th, 2025 11:33 pm
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Since all I did today was laundry and write (and deal with family drama I don't want to share publicly), I'll just jump into music monday (and probably come back later to share the story)


So I'm still working through the Alphabet (and keeping myself to the last 5 years) and I'm up to N. Feel free to share your N song. Looking forward to them.

ExpandI don't have many Ns )


Also I have a little book review right here, mostly for [personal profile] spikedluv Murder She Wrote a Body in Boston


Here's another fast writing story

Title: I Can See Forever In Your Eyes

Fandom: Hazbin Hotel


Summary: Husker has been afraid to fall in love again. Angel, however, is making him rethink that.

Expandat the above link or under here, written for Overlord Husk week )
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Title: Triangle
Author: [personal profile] scifirenegade
Character(s): The Marquis, Didier
Pairing(s): Didier/Marquis(/Juliette)
Rating: G
Length: 300
Summary: If the Marquis and Juliette were a couple, and Didier and Juliette were a couple, then what were the Marquis and Didier to each other?
Notes: Also for [community profile] fic_promptly, prompt was "any / any / we're dating the same person so... what are we?". I'm the only one writing for this fandom :')

On my journal

July: This and That

Jul. 7th, 2025 04:03 pm
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Welcome to our new challenge This and That

For this challenge, I will offer you a main theme you should base your works on.

For July, our theme is 'Rare Fandoms'. I will leave it to you how to specify a rare fandom, but it should be obvious that famous fandoms like Harry Potter, Pokémon, or Star Trek don't count here.

Allowed are fics up to 500 words, small poems such as haiku or tanka, icons (100 x 100px), and graphics (maximum 500 x 500px).

You can do crossover works, but please make sure that all used fandoms are rare ones. Stay to the maximum, even if you use more than one fandom in your work.

All rare fandoms, genres, and ratings are welcome. Original works and real-person works are excluded from this challenge.


When posting directly to [community profile] sweetandshort, please use a header of your choice and put bigger works under a cut. You can also post your work at any other place, but please leave a header and a link here to keep the community running.

When posting your works, please use any appropriate tag. When a tag is missing, use 'tag needed'.

This challenge runs until July 31, midnight in your timezone.

Challenge 397 Prompt Post

Jul. 7th, 2025 09:29 am
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This week's prompt is:


Milk



Have fun!

P.s. I'll take care of tagging.

Nominations are open!

Jul. 7th, 2025 02:15 am
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Nominations are open! They will remain so until 10pm CEST on July 17. [countdown | in your time zone]

Please make sure to review the rules (below and in the intro post) before you make your nominations; if you have any questions, email the mods at ​​classicfilmexchange@gmail.com and we'll get back to you as soon as we can.

Once you've made your nominations, promo your fandom here!

Promo Post!

Jul. 7th, 2025 02:23 am
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Looking for a place to shout about the movies you love, as well as the characters/ships within them that make you happiest (or fill you with delicious angst)? Well, this is that place!
 
If you want a suggestion for format, there's one below, but feel free to express yourself any way you'd like!
 
Title:

How can people watch it?

What and/or who do you love about it?

Any content warnings?

Some things to keep in mind:
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  • Please warn for big triggers and label NSFW content in gifs or videos!
  • When linking to sources for your movies, please leak only to legal sites, YouTube and/or archive.org. Other sites can be shared in your letters, or via the mods, if you prefer.
  • If you are trying to find one of the movies mentioned either here on in the tagset and can't find it, please email the mods at classicfilmexchange@gmail.com and we're happy to help with grayer market resources!

A Sunshiny writerly ways

Jul. 6th, 2025 07:31 pm
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My cousins came today and stayed for like 6 hours so I am socialed out and my brain ain't coming up with witty writing stuff so I'm combining it with Sunshine challenge #2

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Challenge #2

Tunnel of Love
Journaling: The romance of summer! What do you love? Write about anything you feel sentimental about or that gets your heart pumping.
Creative: Write a love poem to anyone or anything you like



Now that I'm a college professor and not seeing patients any more, I have one thing I like about summer. I'm OFF WORK. Other than college sucks. Yeah I love to garden and swim but you can do both of that indoors and that's my preference. I'm heat intolerant. Summer literally makes me sick. Yeah I'm an autumn/winter kinda lady.

Yes I can appreciate all the good things that comes out of summer but yeah not really for me.



But I do have something about love written...or at least sex... have that story I wrote in a week 15K + here is chapter one. I'm proud of this one If Anything's Worth My Love, It's Worth a Fight It's Hazbin Hotel and it's naughty





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