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I rang in the New Year by haunting liminal spaces, by which I mean getting stuck overnight at LAX on New Year's Eve after missing multiple connections due to weather and deicing.

For Yuletide 2025, I finally got the opportunity to write The Good Place:

Icarus (1882 words) by shrift
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Good Place (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Chidi Anagonye, Jason Mendoza, Michael (The Good Place)
Additional Tags: Humor
Summary:

Attempt #479 aka Chidi and the series of escalating disappointments.

I also was lucky enough to receive two Yuletide gifts:

For the Greater Good (2552 words) by lapsedpacifist
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Edgin Darvis/Xenk Yendar
Characters: Edgin Darvis, Xenk Yendar
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Fake/Pretend Relationship, Banter, Undercover, Some Humor
Summary:

Edgin does a good deed and pretends he's Xenk Yendar's husband to save the man's life.

Too bad Xenk didn't actually need any saving.

an extraordinarily versatile hammer (1365 words) by kormantic
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Murderbot (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Dr. Mensah & Pin-Lee (Murderbot Diaries)
Characters: Dr. Mensah (Murderbot Diaries), Pin-Lee (Murderbot Diaries), Amena (Murderbot Diaries)
Additional Tags: Letters, uncomfortable information, Platonic Relationships
Summary:

— excerpt of personal correspondence from the desk of Dr. Ayda Mensah, President, Freehold Polity

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It snowed today, just a little bit. But it was totally worth taking the children out for a walk round the pond and up the hill to be in it.
Original is here on Pixelfed.scot.

nyctanthes

Pets of fandom? Pets of mine? No can do. I don't have pets and my fandoms are, as far as I remember, animal free. I do have a pet (haha) theory about Chester, the Byers' dog in S1 of Stranger Things, that I included in a fic. But I'm afraid it's not in the spirit of the challenge. :P

That said, there are animals in media that I had very strong opinions about as a child, that I wished could be my pets. So in no particular order...

My favorite fictional animals that I wanted to bring home and love and hug and call George:

- Balloo and Bagheera from The Jungle Book. (The 1967 Disney cartoon: accept no substitutes.)*

- Misty the pony from Misty of Chincoteague (Marguerite Henry, 1947). It's hard to pick just one fictional horse. A runner-up is Sham from King of the Wind. Another Marguerite Henry!

- Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, the grey mongoose from the eponymous short story in The Jungle Book (Rudyard Kipling, 1894).

- Duchess, Marie, Berlioz, Toulouse and (I suppose) Thomas O’Malley from The Aristocats. (Another Disney cartoon, this one's from 1970. I could make up an entire list of favorite animals from 20th century Disney movies.)

- The wolf pack from Julie and the Wolves, the rabbits from Watership Down, the rats from The Rats of NIMH. These are different from the above in that I didn’t want them as pets, I wanted to be one of their group.

These are all childhood favorites, so to round out the list, a recent favorite:

- Turbo Granny from the Dandadan anime! I won’t say more. IYKYK.

* I have a Mowgli icon that I need to upload...

Snowflake Challenge: A flatlay of a snowflake shaped shortbread cake, a mug with coffee, and a string of holiday lights on top of a rustic napkin.

andrewducker

If you want a picture of the future, imagine me sitting on the sofa trying to read a book with Sophia on my left asking for help with Stardew Valley and Gideon on my right asking for help with Lego Star Wars - for ever.

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https://www.transformativeworks.org/otw-board-meeting-january-18-2026/

https://www.transformativeworks.org/?p=274362

The OTW Board will be holding its next public meeting from 0:00 Midnight to 1am UTC on January 18th (what time is that for me?).

This meeting will be held in the Board Discord server. The server will have a team of moderators and a set of rules, including question rules, and community guidelines. The server is open even after the meeting, but the channels for meeting and asking questions will be read-only. The Board will post replies to questions that do not get addressed during the scheduled meeting two weeks after the meeting in the server’s #questions-answers channel.

The agenda will include:

Decisions made since the last public board meeting
Board annual roadmap for 2026
Organisational culture roadmap update
Any other business (Questions & Answers)

Prior to this meeting, there is an opportunity to ask questions in advance to be answered as part of the meeting. This allows anyone who wishes to ask the Board questions, whether they will be able to attend the meeting live or not. (The Board will also accept questions during the meeting.)

Questions submitted to this Google Form will be accepted up to three days before the meeting begins or until 50 questions have been submitted. At that point, the form will be turned off. You need to be logged in to a Google account to submit a question. In the future, these rules may be amended to adjust as needed. Further information will be available in the OTW Board Discord server.

https://www.transformativeworks.org/otw-board-meeting-january-18-2026/

https://www.transformativeworks.org/?p=274362

runpunkrun

Photograph of a young Asian girl using a manual typewriter in an office and looking very serious as she stares straight into the camera. Her black hair is slicked into a low ponytail and her round glasses are so big they extend past her face. She's wearing a shirt and tie and an adult-sized yellow blazer that fits her like a dress, almost as if she has been shrunk. Text, in a typewriter font: Crack Treated Seriously, at Fancake.

fancake's first theme of the year is Crack Treated Seriously! We've already got recs in The Magnus Archives, Disco Elysium/Death Note, Our Flag Means Death, Bungou Stray Dogs, and Star Wars.

Over at the comm,

full_metal_ox gave us a delightful glimpse at the character in the banner, writing:

The model has the distinct air of a little kid whose obsessions are the War of 1812 and raccoons, settling in to compose her Magnum Opus alternate history: what if the War of 1812 had been fought by raccoons?

(The history and biology will draw upon rigorous research—including thick ponderous tomes from the Grownup Section, interviews with real live zoologists and re-enactors, and get thee behind me, ChatGPT, thou Devil's Easy Button!—with the result that the text will be as footnote-riddled as Discworld. Writing is Serious Business, for which she dons her Official Serious Writing Jacket—and what other color could it be? Yellow is the hue of intellect, as well as yet another of her Special Interests.)

If you have any questions about this theme, or the comm, come talk to me!

erinptah

I found a good cutoff point — about 2/3 of the way through the book, even! — so here’s Roundup Part 2 of my Secret Commonwealth re-listen.

It’s hella long. I did try to put some effort into “if I could edit this to have a more consistent plot and be more thematically-coherent, how would I fix it?”, instead of just going “and THIS was handled badly, and THAT was handled badly, and THIS TOO was–” over and over.

Also, I broke it up with cute daemon photos.

( Lyra wakes, finds Pan missing, goes to her part-Gyptian friend/ex for help... )

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roga

For yuletide this year I received a lovely gift -

A present for the blind - for KJ Charles's Society of Gentlemen series, David/Cyprian, 1500 words, a sweet little story about Richard trying new things and understanding Dom a little better.

And I wrote a Nobody Wants This ficlet!

Feels Like Something New - Nobody Wants This (TV), Morgan/Sasha, 2400 words, steps towards getting together.
Sasha’s post-separation life comes with new apartments, curtain dilemmas, and Morgan’s unfiltered advice.

I am so out of the habit of writing anything - posts or fic - and am so grateful for yuletide as the one annual tradition that forces me to write at least something, and milks out a bit of creativity. And it's still nice, being surprised by fandoms that are rare and new and usually have a little bit less stress than trying to fit in your characterizations to a fandom with established fanon or characterizations.

Er, I might as well take this opportunity to post a roundup of all fics written since my LAST roundup, which are basically just the last 4 yuletides:

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - Round and Round (yes the amazing 2023 Hallmark time loop Hanukkah movie) - 5+1 fic, bunch of ships throughout the 20th century, 6300 words, written for Yuletide 2024.
Five Hanukkah time loops that helped shape generations of Rachel's family, plus one that just might yet.

Children Will Listen - Ever After (1998 movie), Danielle/Prince Henry, 1800 words, written for Yuletide 2023.
Happy now, and happy hence, and happy ever after; Henry and Danielle find themselves disagreeing on how to parent.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/43675770>Someone to Watch Over - KinnPorsche RPF, Bible/Build, 5400 words, written for Yuletide 2022.
Bible copes with playing a character like Vegas by taking care of people on set. Build needs to get used to being taken care of.

Do I have ideas for Heated Rivalry fic? OF COURSE I DO. will I manage to scrape up some writing to discipline to write them? Maybe after someday finishing the KinnPorsche/Discworld fic I started writing before the war? Time will tell.

petra

Love, Bertie (239772 words) by cucumbermoon
Chapters: 40/40
Fandom: Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves & Wooster (TV 1990)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Reginald Jeeves/Bertram "Bertie" Wooster
Characters: Reginald Jeeves, Bertram "Bertie" Wooster, Honoria Glossop, Dahlia Travers, Agatha Gregson, minor OCs, Florence Craye, Thomas Gregson (Jeeves), Mabel Biffen
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Letters, World War II, Period-Typical Homophobia, Bertie fought in WWII, Aunt Agatha is evil, Established Relationship, Angst with a Happy Ending, War, Minor Character Death, Non-Graphic Violence, Angst, Fluff and Angst, PTSD, Trauma
Summary:

Separated by war, Bertie and Jeeves exchange letters.

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This author has a deft grasp of Wodehousian pastiche, a keen eye for when it's time to add OCs, and a dashed lot of humor to put into a story whose premise seems bleak. I enjoyed the twists and turns of this epic tale no end.

Current Mood: satisfied
Current Music: 47 Ginger-Headed Sailors

scioscribe

Thank you so much for creating something for me! I'd be delighted to receive anything for any of these requests.

I have gifts enabled, and treats are very welcome! All requests this year are for fic.

I'm

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shrift - Yuletide reveal
maevedarcy in gamechangerhr - Recs: 6 Hollanov gifsets from tumblr
andrewducker - Photo cross-post
nyctanthes - Snowflake Challenge #2
andrewducker - Life with two kids: No peace for the wicked.
maevedarcy - Be a Goldfish | A Multifandom Multimedia Microbang
maevedarcy in gamechangerhr - Ilya comforting his boyfriend | a Hollanov gifset
otw_news_feed - OTW Board Meeting, January 18, 2026
runpunkrun - Fancake's Theme for January: Crack Treated Seriously
erinptah - Re-listen liveblog: The Secret Commonwealth, chapters 11-22
maevedarcy - Snowflake Challenge #2
autopope - Annual awards eligibility post
slybrarian - Candy Hearts 2026
devinwolfi in gamechangerhr - EVENT: Be A Goldfish: A Multifandom Multimedia Microbang
flareonfury in gamechangerhr - Recs: Hollanov & Skip fanvids
roga - Yuletide roundup
petra - Recommendation: Love, Bertie
scioscribe - Dear Candy Hearts Creator 2026
amaebi - Writing to my representative to the House
chickenfeet - Interesting recital - voice and orpharion

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Recs: 6 Hollanov gifsets from tumblr

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Snowflake Challenge #2

Life with two kids: No peace for the wicked.

Be a Goldfish | A Multifandom Multimedia Microbang

Ilya comforting his boyfriend | a Hollanov gifset

OTW Board Meeting, January 18, 2026

Fancake's Theme for January: Crack Treated Seriously

Re-listen liveblog: The Secret Commonwealth, chapters 11-22

Snowflake Challenge #2

Annual awards eligibility post

Candy Hearts 2026

EVENT: Be A Goldfish: A Multifandom Multimedia Microbang

Recs: Hollanov & Skip fanvids

Yuletide roundup

Recommendation: Love, Bertie

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Writing to my representative to the House

Interesting recital - voice and orpharion

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