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wishlist wednesday

Wishlist Wednesday

Wishlist Wednesdays are intended as a catch-all for anything you'd like to ask for in a casual, low-stress setting. No need to create a separate entry to the comm (although you are always welcome to do that, too), just leave a comment with your request right here under this entry.

It can be anything. Are you looking for icons of a specific drama or actor? Do you need a beta for your fic? Do you want to know where to buy merchandise of something? You can ask for recs of any kind (fanfic, drama, novel, music, whatever), or even leave specific fic prompts that others might be able to fill. Or whatever else that you can think of. Right now we're still kinda experimenting with this format, after all.

Feel free to discuss wishes/requests in the comments. And if you want to fill a request, feel free to do so right in the comments, too, or make a separate entry to the comm.

And please also check out the previous entries!

Multiple wishes/requests are definitely all right, just post a new top level comment for each. It would make it easier for people who might be interested in helping you out. The only thing I'd suggest for now is that you hide possible spoilers in the usual ways:

or

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[MULTIFANDOM] 20 vampires in 20: First Round

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Pokéxchange 2025: Signups Open!

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Brainstorming for Topics: Discussions & Picspams

Hello everybody!

I'm trying to come up with new topics for future discussions and picspams, but I'm afraid my brain is going a bit in circles, so I'm hoping you could help me out a bit with brainstorming and suggestions.

What topics would you like to discuss? What kind of picspams would you like to see? Would you be interested in revisiting previous topics, and if yes, which ones?

( Previous topics with links under the cut: )

Btw, all of the picspam posts are indefinitely open for people who want to add more pretty pictures! *g*

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November Challenge 2025: Wish

The theme challenge for this month is Wish (Please include the tag challenge: wish when you post.) Theme challenges have to do with fic choice. Since this month's challenge is 'wish' your story has to be related to that theme one way or another.

The shape challenge is 'Plus' (tag challenge: plus). This should be at minimum 5 squares, ie:

OOOOO
OOXOO
OXXXO
OOXOO

It can be larger, up to 9 squares, ie:

OOXOO
OOXOO
XXXXX
OOXOO
OOXOO

Shape challenges require that you complete a specific shape of squares on your card. If you complete a shape challenge by the deadline, you’ll win a cheat. If your card already has the shape formation before the challenge starts, you can only count that challenge as completed if you fill at least one square on your card within the challenge time period.

You can pick the challenge you prefer or do both if you're feeling ambitious. Once you’ve posted the podfic required to fulfill the monthly challenge, please comment here to let us know you’ve completed the challenge.

If you complete a challenge, you earn a cheat. If none of the challenges appeal to you, you can also earn cheats by commenting on other people's podfics.

What are Cheats?
Cheats are rewards that allow participants to manipulate their cards so that they can be finished more easily. There are 2 kinds of cheats: shifting squares and swapping out squares. Shifting squares allows participants to swap locations of two squares on their card. Swapping out cheats allow you to discard one of your prompts entirely from your card and replace it with a prompt of your choosing from the Prompt List.

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FIC: forgetting any other tie but this (Word of Honor: Liu Qianqiao/Luo Fumeng) [M]

forgetting any other tie but this (5410 words)
Fandom: 山河令 | Word of Honor (TV 2021)
Rating: Mature
Relationship: Liu Qianqiao/Luo Fumeng
Content Tags: Backstory, Canon Compliant, Getting Together, Ghost Valley, Ghost Valley Politics, Department of the Unfaithful, Worldbuilding, cameos by Wen Kexing and Gu Xiang, and several original Ghost characters

Summary: Something was wrong with Xi Sang Gui, and Liu Qianqiao couldn't simply sit and wait.

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Fancake Theme for November: Mystery & Suspense

Moody photograph of the ocean from an outlook. In the foreground, two dirty hands claw their way up over the edge toward the viewer. Text: Mystery & Suspense, at Fancake.

fancake is a thematic recommendation community where all members are welcome to post recs, and fanworks of all shapes and sizes are accepted. Check out the community guidelines for the full set of rules.

This theme runs for the entire month. If you have any questions, just ask!

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FIC: Time Neither Friend Nor Foe - Time Engraver/Zhao Yunlan, L'Oreal Time Engraver/Guardian (TV)

Title: Time Neither Friend Nor Foe
Author: Tarlan (

tarlanx)
Fandom: L'Oreal "Time Engraver" Commercials/Guardian (TV)
Pairing/Characters: Time Engraver/Zhao Yunlan
Rating/Category: PG SLASH
Word Count: 1697
Summary: He loved all his subjects but one was more special than all the others.

Content Notes: Written for Trobadora for

rarepairexchange 2025

On AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/70723506

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Word of Honor Icons

Created for a challenge with a prompt of: Apprenticeship, teaching, mastering skills.

Mastering a skill takes time and perseverance. Be patient. Every day that you work on developing your craft, you move closer to achieving mastery.

Instantly I thought of Word of Honor and three young disciples in particular.

10 ICONS HERE

Zhang Chengling, disciple of the Four Seasons Sect, who started his training very late and has to work hard to master the skills of not just Four Seasons Sect but of the destroyed Mirror Lake Sect and the mechanics of the Longyuan Cabinet too.
Cao Weining, disciple of the Gentle Wind Sword Sect
Gu Xiang, adopted sister/daughter of Ghost Master Wen Kexing from Ghost Valley

Word of Honor - Chengling 01 by Tarlan

Word of Honor - Cao Weining 01 by Tarlan

Word of Honor - Cao Weining 02 by Tarlan

Tarlan | Winter

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Rec-Cember

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My husband knows I’m traumatized by grippy socks, yet he keeps giving them to me

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/11/01/asking-eric-thomas-traumatic-socks/

Dear Eric: My husband of more than 20 years gives me slipper socks with grippy soles. I hate them!

We live in a hot climate, so I have little use for them. They filled up my sock drawer and retraumatized me every time I touched them. I threw them away and they came back.

He gave me five more pairs at Christmas. They can’t be worn with shoes or out in public. They are synthetic so I cannot even use them to polish the furniture. I kept them for animal first aid.

I cannot be cool about these socks. They remind me of the horrible time I had in the hospital having emergency surgery. My husband couldn’t even manage to hug me or talk with me before my surgery.

I’m trying very hard to be graceful and grateful for any gift from my husband, but I want to throw these at him. He knows darn well I dislike them but has given them repeatedly to me. I have to use my good fabric shears to slice them up or he will “rescue them” from the garbage.

Is there a graceful way to handle the next installment of fluffy grippy socks? I tried to no avail telling him I get my grippy socks the old-fashioned way – at the hospital, in person!

– Sock Drawer Full
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Dear Carolyn: When the most important person in my life died in an accident, a friend never even bothered to say how sorry she was, despite many opportunities — the wake, dinner together, etc. She grilled me on the horrid circumstances of the accident instead.

I refused to meet with her again because it upset me so much, but our families are still close, especially our sons.
I put her complete lack of empathy down to her stupidity and lack of education but really thought the base reason was that she’d never experienced such grief.

Now, five years later, her husband has died at a young age. He was a friend also, and we are attending the funeral.
Is it okay for me to treat her the same way she treated me? It would give me a sense of closure not to have to say to her, “I’m sorry for your loss.” After all, those words never left her mouth when I was living my nightmare. I wouldn’t stoop to asking about the death’s details, but I’d give my sincerest condolences only to her sons.

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Bandom/Fall Out Boy RPF: Fall Out Bang

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Cosmetology High Review

I made a quick review with a few screen captures for Cosmetology High, a 2014 drama series starring Jin Shijia, Zhang Zhehan, Merxat Yalkun and Yang Rong.

HERE at my DW

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DEAR ABBY: My 11-year-old daughter, "Emma," has a group of six to eight friends she has played with at school, in scouts, parties, etc., for more than three years. Eight months ago, one of the girls, "Charlotte," had a sleepover, and Emma was not invited. She was very hurt and cried. I told her she would not always be invited to everything and maybe there was a limit Charlotte could invite.

Since then, whenever there is an event that Emma knows Charlotte will be at, my daughter refuses to go. For eight months she has purposely skipped some parties and scouting events. Otherwise, they all seem to still hang together at school. How can I help my daughter understand she is only hurting herself? -- EMPATHETIC MOM IN OHIO

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Dear Annie: My daughter-in-law never forgives or forgets anything that's happened in her 13 years of marriage to my son. As a result, she punishes us by keeping us from our grandchildren, who love us dearly. Sometimes my son FaceTimes with us when she's not home, but otherwise, we can go three to four months without seeing our grandkids if we say even one word or make one expression she doesn't like.

To avoid fights, my son just goes along with it. This year, I wasn't even allowed to see my granddaughter for her birthday. I cry all the time because at my age, I may not have many years left with them.

It feels like our daughter-in-law doesn't have a heart. We may not be perfect, but why can't she understand that the kids are the ones who suffer most by the distance she creates? -- Locked-Out Grandma

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Harriette could be worse this time

DEAR HARRIETTE: I think my son may be harboring some resentment toward me. We have a strained relationship, and even though I want us to be closer, the distance seems intentional on his end. If I try asking questions, he gets defensive or gives short responses only, and sometimes it turns into an argument or disagreement. On more than one occasion, he's referenced times in the past where I might've overstepped a boundary, spoken up on his behalf or been overbearing. How can I move forward with my son if he won't forgive me for the past? I wish he could realize that those things I did were just a mama bear looking out for her cub. -- Boy Mom

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Detective Conan/Magic Kaito: Kink Meme

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Multifandom: First And Last - An Alpha/Omegaverse Exchange 2025/2026 LAST MINUTE SIGNUPS EXTENDED

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