Activity #101 - Rainbow Mystery Box

Dec. 20th, 2025 10:48 pm
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Rainbow Mystery Box


One of the few challenges that wasn't part of the round 100 free-for-all was the Mystery Box challenge, so we'll rectify that now. Welcome to our second Mystery Box challenge!

I created seven different themed boxes, and since I didn't manage to limit myself, they're actually kind of huge... Each contains 30-40 textures and color palettes with one predominant color. You can choose from:


  1. purple

  2. red

  3. orange

  4. yellow

  5. green

  6. blue

  7. black/white



You can also request a random box, then I'll choose one for you.

There's a comment thread where you can leave a comment to request a box. I will send you the download link for your box as a dm.

Note: I also need a box, and when I was assembling them, one in particular seemed like it would be very challenging for me personally, so that's the one I'll pick.

Special rules for this activity:
* You have to use at least one of the provided textures OR a palette for every icon you make
* You don't have to use all of the provided materials - if you want, you can make all your icons with the same texture
* It would be nice if you mentioned which resource you used for each icon, but it's not absolutely required
(the maker name is enough for me to identify it and link it in the result post - you dont have to link it yourself)

The usual rules:
* You can make as many icons as you like (if you need a goal, five is a good number :))
* There is no minimum, 1 icon is enough to enter this activity
* Please submit your icons (and URLs!) to this post, all in one comment (if possible)
* Everyone can participate, you don't have to be a member of this community

* I will collect all the icons from the comments and make a result post
* Everyone can leave comments on this post and the activity result posts
* There is no voting

Deadline: Saturday, January 17, 2025, your end-of-day
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We had a huge turnout for this round, and icons for six different challenges!

43 icons by 8 makers )

Feel free to comment here or on each maker's threads linked next to their name.

Our next activity is coming right up.
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Theme Prompt: 284 - home for the holidays
Title: baby it's cold outside
Fandom: Hazbin Hotel
Rating/Warnings: N/A
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 903
Summary: Vox winds up on Alastor's front step while it's snowing. It's an opportunity that Alastor can't pass up.

how lucky that you dropped in )

2026 Monster Theme Poll

Dec. 20th, 2025 10:43 am
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Arrrre you rrrrready to rrrrrrumble??? It's the MONSTER THEME POLL at Fancake Memorial Coliseum!! In town one week only!! Polls close on the 27th!

Poll #33979 2026 Monster Theme Poll
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 118

Pick 10 new themes for 2026:

Adoption
21 (18.1%)

Afterlife
15 (12.9%)

Aliens
20 (17.2%)

Angst
20 (17.2%)

Books & Writing
20 (17.2%)

Character Study
27 (23.3%)

Collaborations & Remixes
24 (20.7%)

Coming of Age/Rites of Passage
22 (19.0%)

Community
22 (19.0%)

Crack Treated Seriously
45 (38.8%)

Fandom (characters involved in fandom, works involving fandom, meta about fandom)
19 (16.4%)

Fannish Non-Fiction (meta, tutorials, resources)
25 (21.6%)

Fantasy (elves, unicorns, et al)
27 (23.3%)

Fluff
25 (21.6%)

Games & Competitions
11 (9.5%)

Gothic
21 (18.1%)

Holidays & Celebrations
13 (11.2%)

Horror
20 (17.2%)

In Denial
23 (19.8%)

Inept in Love
30 (25.9%)

Journey/Travel
27 (23.3%)

Just Like Canon
22 (19.0%)

Kink
23 (19.8%)

Kisses
17 (14.7%)

Manners & Etiquette (including mannerpunk)
20 (17.2%)

Matchmaking
20 (17.2%)

Meet the Family
24 (20.7%)

Mentors & Protegees
26 (22.4%)

Music
18 (15.5%)

Neurodivergent Characters
21 (18.1%)

New Releases (I'll let you determine what's "new" for the fandom)
16 (13.8%)

Original Characters
14 (12.1%)

Outstanding Prose
22 (19.0%)

Podfic
12 (10.3%)

Power Dynamics
28 (24.1%)

Protest & Revolt
11 (9.5%)

PWP (Porn Without Plot or Plot? What Plot?)
14 (12.1%)

Role Reversal
20 (17.2%)

Romance
17 (14.7%)

RPF
17 (14.7%)

Short Fiction (under 2000 words)
23 (19.8%)

Siblings
26 (22.4%)

Social Media
17 (14.7%)

Unpopular Characters
26 (22.4%)

Unreliable Narrator
40 (34.5%)

Vampires
21 (18.1%)

Villains
15 (12.9%)

War
9 (7.8%)

Whump
23 (19.8%)

Pick 3 classic themes you'd like to revisit:

Arranged Marriage
51 (43.6%)

Cops & Crime
14 (12.0%)

Epistolary
39 (33.3%)

Forced Proximity
35 (29.9%)

Future Fic
24 (20.5%)

Historical AUs
35 (29.9%)

Pining
40 (34.2%)

Threesome
38 (32.5%)

Worldbuilding
58 (49.6%)

iconthat challenge reminder

Dec. 20th, 2025 07:01 am
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Challenge 199: Film Fandom Fest
Due to end Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:59pm
Currently, there are four participants.
Entries will be accepted until I make the final closing post.

muppet christmas carol GIF


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Theme Prompt: #284 – Home For the Holidays
Title: Cardiff For Christmas
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating/Warnings: PG
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 1000
Summary: Ianto is feeling nostalgic and homesick as Christmas approaches, but he can’t go back to the Cardiff he knew. Or can he?



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Title: Walking Pants
Author: bluerosekatie
Fandom: Ghost Rider (Comics)
Pairing/Characters: Robbie Reyes & Gabe Reyes
Rating/Category: Gen
Prompt: Ghost Rider (Comics), Robbie Reyes & Gabe Reyes, slice of life
Spoilers: N/A
Summary: Robbie spots a rare cryptid migration, and wants to show it to Gabe, too!
Notes/Warnings: Fic is archive-locked to avoid AI scraping.

Read it on Ao3 here!
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I really like looking at the "codes" made for playlists and roleplay blogs like the ones on [profile] criscodes. But I don't have a good baseline for how CSS and HTML can be effectively used inside of posts on Dreamwidth. Cohost, obviously, was infamously permissive with what you could do with CSS; most "modern style" social media, meanwhile, doesn't even really let you insert tables or div elements to format, limiting in-post html/css to just some very bare bones text formatting at most.

Are there any tutorials or guides for how to learn to develop your own aesthetic playlist/muselist/ac tracker/muse inbox/etc "codes" from scratch? I'd really love to brush up on my fanciest css without necessarily editing my blog theme every time to do it.

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Title: Eureka!
Artist: [personal profile] monkiainen
Fandom: Eureka
Pairing/Characters: Jack/Nathan
Rating/Category: PG/Gen
Prompt: Steampunk AU
Notes/Warnings: Have a little playlist :)


Read more... )

December Check-In

Dec. 18th, 2025 05:37 pm
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This month's post will be serving double duty as a community promo. I also run the [community profile] threeforthememories event, whose 2025 session will be open for posts on January 3, 2026 and will run for 3 weeks until January 24. Participant posts consist of 3 photos (only) you've taken of anything from 2025 that you find meaningful in some way or which represent how you experienced the year. These could be your crafting activities, or anything else you find relevant.

Questions? Visit the announcement post at [community profile] threeforthememories

This month's question involves the holidays. Do you normally do crafting over this period? Is it related to any holidays? Do you do craft gifting? And if so, what do you plan to gift this year?
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Theme Prompt: #284 - Home for the Holidays
Title: Never Too Old
Fandom: Mahou Sentai Magiranger
Rating/Warnings: None
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 620
Summary: Makito and Houka discuss holiday traditions, and the prospect of outgrowing them.


something something lyrical something )
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Challenge 284:
HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS
A midsummer festival filled with dancing and flowers? A midwinter feast decorated with colorful lights? A solemn time for contemplation as the new year begins? Whatever the holiday, it’s often traditionally spent with family.

But family can be a tricky topic, especially when it comes to traditions. Do your heroes have somewhere to go home for the holidays? Maybe there’s a childhood home they look forward to visiting – or maybe they spend their holidays with their closest friends, and the home they built for themselves.

Write a story about coming home for the holidays.

BONUS GOAL: “I’m glad you’re here.”

If your submission features this line, it will earn an extra point to be tallied in voting!


Challenge ends Monday, December 29 at 9:00PM EST. Please note that this will be a two-week challenge!
• Post submissions as new entries using the template in the profile
• Tag this week's entries as: [#] submission, 284 – home for the holidays
• If you have questions about this challenge, please ask them here

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Here are this week's votes tallied, and below the cut are our winners for Challenge #283 – First Impressions!

This week's finalists are... )

Total Challenge Words Written: 2679

Congratulations to both of you, and thank you to everyone who took the time to cast their votes! [personal profile] autobotscoutriella will be making this week’s banners, so keep an eye out for those next week.

You may now post your Challenge 283 entries to any additional communities, blogs, archives or sites as you'd like! We also have a FandomWeekly AO3 Collection if you'd like to add your stories there!
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3 for the Memories' 2025 session will be open for posts on January 3, 2026 and will run for 3 weeks until January 24. Event participation is as follows:

1) Three photos only per person during each annual session. Members are encouraged to discuss the reason for their choices.

2) Photos can be hosted at Dreamwidth or elsewhere, and should not be larger than 800 px width or height.

3) All three photos should be in the same post. Cut tags should be placed after the first photo.

3 for the Memories is not a competition, and entries are not being judged. Rather, participants are encouraged to share photos they took in 2025 that they find meaningful in some way or which represent how they experienced the year.

Questions? Visit the announcement post at [community profile] threeforthememories

Only two days left to suggest themes!

Dec. 17th, 2025 11:16 am
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Hello everyone! You have two more days to slip your theme suggestions into the suggestion box for our rounds in 2026. I went ahead and added some more themes to the pool, taking popular suggestions from past years but also filling in a few more gaps in our coverage (vampires! aliens!), so take a look at the list and see if it doesn't shake something loose.

I'll close that post the morning of the 19th and put up the big theme poll on the 20th. If you're going to be out and about around that time, you can track the admin: poll: theme tag. Just click on the little bell icon or "track" link on any post with that tag, select "Someone posts an entry tagged admin: poll: theme," hit save, and you'll get an email when the big poll goes up. You'll also get an email every time I post a theme poll thereafter, which is monthly. If you don't want that, you can cancel the notification later; it's the same process, just uncheck the box and hit save.

Sherlock (BBC) - Forged Bank Notes

Dec. 17th, 2025 05:13 pm
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Title: Forged Bank Notes
Fandom: Sherlock (TV)
Rating: G

Challenge 30 - Voting

Dec. 17th, 2025 05:07 am
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Voting
☆ ★ ☆

There are over fifty fabulous entries, thank you to everyone who participated!
Voter Guide
Anyone is welcome to vote.
Please choose four (4) different icons in order of placement for first, second, third & fourth place. Also, please pick one icon each for the category bests - cropping, coloring and composition.
Please try to vote for the best quality icons, not for the fandoms or makers.
Please do not vote for your own icons.
Voting will be open for 7 days.
Vote by filling in the DW poll.
Please answer all four poll questions.
If you need to change your votes, click on the poll link to edit.
Thank you for voting!

Voting Here .... )

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