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([personal profile] prisca posting in [community profile] fandom_empire Sep. 27th, 2026 09:50 pm)
Playlist Week 3

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( Playlist )

If you don't play this week, I won't roll the roulette for you next week. After not participating for three weeks in a row, you will be moved to a hiatus list.


Fixed Request

manque or passe
manque (low numbers 1-18): Work Minimum: 200 words / 2 graphics / short poem (5 lines)
passe (high numbers 19-36): Work Maximum: 400 words / 4 graphics / poem (10 lines)

Optional Requests
Feel free to use one or all of them, or anything in between.
rough or noir = Theme
impair or pair = Gender of your main characters (NB characters are fine!)
the dozens = Time
the colonnes = Relationship (found family is fine for family - ex-lover are fine for lover)

If the ball falls on zero, you get a free prompt choice. Check the roulette prompts and requests here.

Posting: When posting your regular works, please don't forget to mention the used optional prompts. Otherwise you might miss the extra points!

Countdown: Post all your finished works at [community profile] fandom_empire_workplace until Sunday, October 4, 18.00 UTC, but I will allow belated works until I've made the closing post. Countdown here

If you have questions, don't hesitate to ask here!
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([personal profile] lightreads Sep. 27th, 2026 03:48 pm)
The Final Target

3/5. Typical standalone suspense, this one about a writer moving to Oregon after assault by a stalker, and the ex-cop she meets at the hardware store. Hits all the expected beats – at this point I would be confused if there wasn’t home renovation. But the villain POV in this one was particularly awful. I will admit I often skim the opening few chapters of these books where the requisite violent/traumatic thing happens. You don’t need to read it, the dust jacket copy tells you everything about it. So in this case I was put off and annoyed when I did that, then had a graphic rape/murder dropped in my lap late in the book. Why, Nora? Why?

Content notes: Stalking, sexual assault, rape, murder.

Fury in Death

3/5. One of the more thriller-adjacent ones. Notable for kind of glancingly grappling with this series very long history of disdain for the idea that an offender might be mentally ill, and deeper disdain for the idea that might matter. I’ll believe she’s turning over a new leaf in another 50 books. But also, this one is notable for having a childbirth scene in it which is, incredibly, about as unrealistic as the sex scenes in similar ways. Babies, like orgasms, being produced almost instantaneously. Points for consistency, you know?

Yes, I’m bitching a lot about books that kept my mind functional during a very hard week, so shrug.

Content notes: Mass murder, loss of children, grief, mental illness.
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Hey there! Today is a Lonely Prompts day! ^_^ If this is your first time at [community profile] comment_fic on a Sunday, you can either request previous prompts to be filled or share your recent fills for prompts. (Or do both, of course!) ✎

How to look for prompts:
We have plenty of prompts that might just nibble away at your brain today. You can browse through the comm's calendar archive (here on LJ or here on DW) for themed and Free For All posts, or perhaps check out Sunday posts for Lonely Prompt requests. (Or, you can be like me, and try to save interesting prompts as you see 'em... and then end up with multiple text doc files full of [themes + links + prompts] that you can easily look through and search for keywords.) Multiple fills for one prompt are welcome, by the way! Oh, and you are very likely to find some awesome fills to read as well, and wouldn't it be nice to leave a comment on those lovely little writing distractions? ~_^

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How to link:
[a href="http://comment-fic.livejournal.com/449155.html?thread=70682755#t70682755">MCU, Tony Stark/Pepper Potts, She's wearing daisy dukes and one of his button-down shirts.[/a]
(change the brackets to "<" and ">" respectively)
or:
http://comment-fic.livejournal.com/139897.html?thread=30155641#t30155641
Burn Notice, Sam/Michael/Fi, "It's always been you. And it's always gonna be you."

We are on AO3! If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3, please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2026 collection.

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Context - Tito Cooley is a rescue bunny adopted by Flames goalie Devin Cooley, AKA the 'nothing matters, we're all gunna die' guy. I wish I'd bookmarked that one interview were they asked him what he'd been reading recently and he started going on about large number theory. The regret on their faces as he earnestly tried to break things down enough to explain the book. Devin's hobbies include philosophy, linear algebra and taking his bunny out for walks in his stroller. Tito's Insta Account
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([personal profile] prisca posting in [community profile] fandom_empire Sep. 27th, 2026 09:23 pm)
Posting for week 2 is closed now.

Regular Challenge
We had 19 participants this week; thank you to everyone participating.

Team Challenge
Team Alpha
7 participants
each participant earns 1 point
team points weekly: 7
team points total: 16

Team Omega
6 participants
team points weekly: 6
team points total: 13


To check out all scores, have a look at the Google Highscore Sheet. If you find an error or have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me.

The playlist for week 2 will be online within the next hour!
([syndicated profile] otw_news_feed Sep. 27th, 2026 06:40 pm)

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The OTW Board will be holding its next public meeting at 01:00 October 10 UTC (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 will remain open even after the meeting, but the channels for meeting and asking questions will be read-only. Board will be posting 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
  • 2026 OTW Board Election wrap-up
  • Election of officers for 2026-27 Board term
  • Board 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. 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 as needed.

Further information will be available in the OTW Board Discord server.

And here is what I wrote for [community profile] guardian_wishlist! I only managed to finish one thing, but I've been struggling with my writing so much lately, I'm very happy this one worked out, and people seem to like it!

flamingwell requested:
- Identity shenanigans, especially including Shen Wei identity reveal
- Give Shen Wei Friends agenda!! Chu Shuzhi, Da Qing, Li Qian, JiaJia, Cheng Xinyan, whoever strikes your fancy!!
- Canon-divergence AUs (what would have happened if this one thing changed?)
- Chu Shuzhi and his loyalty relationship w/Shen Wei


And I remembered what Shen Wei says to Chu Shuzhi in episode 2 - and how little Chu Shuzhi is picking up on how genuinely the Envoy means it: "This is a friendship between gentlemen, not a matter of repayment." So this is what I came up with:

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Title: Failure Is Not an Option
Word count: 2,914 words
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
Rating: General Audiences
Relationship/Characters: Chu Shuzhi & Shen Wei
Content Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Post-Episode 4, Identity Reveal, Envoy Reveal, Chu Shuzhi's loyalties, Shen Wei's secrets, a friendship between gentlemen

Summary: The Envoy? A Haixing life? Had all he'd known about the Envoy been mistaken?
1♥ There is an early nor'easter outside! What a fascinating weather event. The leaves have only just started changing color, and a system that typically arrives as a winter storm is blanketing the region. No snow, for which we are all grateful, just a lot of wind and rain.

It reminds me of my first marathon, also an out-of-season storm, although that nor'easter was late rather than early. Like today it was warm enough, but five hours in the rain is chilling no matter the temperature. I had gloves and it still got to the point where a volunteer had to peel a banana for me because my fingers were too cold to manage it. (They offered to get me more food and a blanket, but I said I was fine to keep going, so they sent me off with the promise of hot soup at the next support station. There was indeed hot soup, and it was amazing. Those volunteers were all heroes.)

2♥ I have not been tremendously productive on the creative front this week, and for this I entirely blame the large quantity of very high-quality Xverse fanfic filling the universe. Thank you authors for your energy and the love you share with us. Every time I return to this fandom I find so many new and welcoming worlds.

I did not finish my first story for [community profile] no_true_pair, but I am now two stories into a new character list. So combined that's like, two point five stories out of 28. Which is great! Two stories that didn't exist before! I'm gonna go write another one, maybe, because I will never stop having opinions about telepaths.

(Occasionally someone is right about extrasensory perception and I am very impressed, but I can't recommend this particular story because it starts with the author being spectacularly wrong about Nazis. I've become largely inured to English-speaking fans being wrong about Chinese-speaking fandoms, and I figure that's at least a little bit due to the language barrier making the cultural divide harder to cross. But I didn't think anyone could be wrong about Nazis. Don't kids watch The Sound of Music anymore?)

I'm also going to take more lego pictures, probably, even though I'm counting my [community profile] no_true_pair time toward [community profile] communal_creators, and as such I'm mostly caught up. But I started building a Chinese restaurant and I think it would be cute to have the Mo Dao Zu Shi minifigs watching it go up. (I have Xverse minifigs, but I just realized that they're more cerebral than spiritual. I'm not sure how that's relevant.)

3♥ I thought there were going to be, idk, seven things on this list, and now I'm all, "There should definitely be more than two, right?" So miscellaneous time notes for future me looking back through my journal*~
+The remaining pine tree in the rock garden out back was cut down this week.
+Told Dad about my name change; he was unexpectedly supportive.
+Finally got last year's new car inspected.
+Just got fooled by AI country music.

*I reread all 151 entries tagged "xverse" in my journal this week and they were by and large hilarious, including this gem from 2015:

no you can't play chess like that

HOW MANY PAWNS DO YOU HAVE


Ten years too early for Duolingo to have taught anyone on set what to do with the board, I guess. We learned chess growing up because they played it on Star Trek.

...Oh dear. I just went looking for a couple of the Star Trek/Xverse crossovers, and clearly I won't be writing any time soon.


"Akuyaku Reijou desu ga, Shiawase ni Nattemesemasu wa! /
Though I May Be a Villainess, I'll Show You I Can Obtain Happiness!"


Previous: Volumes 3-4

Various, 2020-2021

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Summary: Broken engagements, karma, condemnation events, doting, royalty, reincarnated heroines, banishment endings... it's fully loaded with all the charms of villainesses!! The comic adaption of 5 popular villainess stories that were published on syosetu! An anthology of oneshots with happy endings!!

My comments:

Volume 5

The Turmoil Caused by the Misunderstanding of the Prince and My Engagement Being Called off: The characters on the cover. The Prince calls off the engagement because he thinks she would rather be a scholar than a Queen but she was studying so hard in the first place for him/to be a good Queen. 0.5/5 stars

It Would Seem You've Broken off Your Engagement in Order to Marry Me, but I Have No Intention of Marrying You: Ehhh I wanted the girls to be together not that rando 'you should be...with my brother!' crap. 😾 3/5 stars

The Melancholic Noble Girl Clad in a Jet-Black Dress: The King breaks off the engagement this time and the Prince has a new squeeze but it was all in order to teach him how to be open about his feelings for his lady. Surely there was a better way?? Poor girl. I like how she gets her bit of revenge though. 0.5/5 stars

Now That My Engagement Is Broken, I Can Have My Fill of My Beloved Sweets:
Accusations, engagement annulment, third party swoops in and scoops her up. I think this one has definitely been done before. Relatable sweets addiction though she must have amazing metabolism. 2/5 stars

Shall We Lay Waste to the Flowery Path of Evil?: This part deals with taking down a child sex trafficking ring, good as always. 4.5/5 stars

Volume 6

I'm a Survival Gamer Reincarnated Into an Otome Game Villainess With Godly Aim:
Quick one where a shooting game girly gets transmigrated into an otome game and saves the prince a couple of times and is accused of trying to kill him once. 3/5 stars

The Greedy Villainess: Right up until you think the engagement break-off is going to happen but it turns out the prince was just teasing the 'villainess' and they're both yandere for each other. Didn't understand where the real personality of the villainess, she may as well not have existed (her mind was transported). 0/5 stars

The Supporting Villainess Blooms After Her Engagement Was Broken: After he breaks off the engagement, she let's herself be who she really is and gets revenge with the help and love of her childhood friend. 2/5 stars

I Was Abandoned for My Younger Sister, but She's a Ticking Time-Bomb: Breaking of the engagement happens but her family is in on it and they save their house in the end. Good revenge plan and taking out the trash though I kinda wanted to see more of that part before it jumped to the happy ending. 3.5/5 stars

The Villainess Got Dumped, Doesn't Care, and Lives Happily Ever After With Her Super Masochistic Childhood Friend: Low IQ FL x masochist ML lolol. I kinda liked that it was just a misunderstanding and they were friends once it ended. I like the interesting matchup of the couple. 3/5 stars

Let's Burn the Flowery Path of Evil: The two have a baby now. A play comes out about her and her stepson in a doomed romance but she turns it into an opportunity for herself, of course. 3/5 stars

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