Wishlist Wednesday
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c_entWishlist 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
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
Two men + blue background
Aug. 6th, 2025 04:23 ammagicrubbish posting in nexticon
House of the dragon
url - https://images2.imgbox.com/47/df/6bOdUeod_o.png
Nothing But You (2023)
Aug. 5th, 2025 10:41 pmtinny posting in c_ent
Wu Lei and Zhou Yutong in Nothing But You
Nothing But You (愛情而已, literally "Nothing But Love") is a 2023 modern cdrama. It has 38 45-minute episodes.
What is it? It's a noona romance set in the world of sports: between Song Sanchuan, a professional badminton player who later switches to tennis (Wu Lei - you might know him from Nirvana in Fire, or maybe from Sand Sea), and Liang You'an, a sports company sales person/executive assistant (Zhou Yutong). He's 22, she's 32, and basically the whole obstacle to their relationship is that she thinks he's too young for her. That sustains the tension for a very long time indeed. :D I personally find both of them very cute (and I say that as someone who was indifferent to Wu Lei's looks before).
Is it a rec? Yes! Yesyesyesyes! It's so, so good. Much better than I'd expected.
Where to watch? You can watch it on Viki or Youtube. Make sure not to confuse it with the 2024 drama of the same (English) name.
Why should I watch it?
The romance is very cute and all the storylines are rewarding and well-paced. I love everything to do with the age difference and how it's handled.
Many of the main characters are women, and I feel like the story is definitely told from a female perspective. All the women are encouraged to stand up for themselves and follow their dreams.
The men aren't idiots either, though, which is just fun to watch. Of the secondary characters, I especially like Sanchuan's stepdad. He always has good advice (which doesn't always match Sanchuan's actual needs, but I love that too), and while I don't know the actor, I got the distinct impression that he must be a popular comedian.
There's not a single 'evil' character (minus one very short exception in one of the later eps). Every character has their own valid reasons for doing the things they do. Some of those are callous or misguided, but nowhere near as cliched as I'm used to from other dramas, and overall, most of the characters are just wonderful all around. That doesn't mean that it's all fluff all the time - they all have their trials, and the conflicts are treated with sincerity. All the developments feel well-earned and well-paced.
more details and more caps of the cute couple at my journal
Heihua Exchange
Aug. 5th, 2025 10:26 pmmekare posting in c_entI just posted about this in dmbj_tombraiders, sign-ups have started! All official info posts run on Tumblr (heihua-exchange)
"Welcome to the Heihua Exchange, an an event dedicated to the pairing Xie Yuchen/Hei Xiazi from the 盗墓笔记 | Daomu Biji fandom. In this exchange, participants will be anonymously matched to create gifts for one another during a seven-week long creation period.
This exchange is open to all the DMBJ canons - books, movies, TV series, comics, donghua, etc. The gifts can be fic, art, video, podfic or some other form of creation you feel inspired to gift to your recipient, but all of it must be focused on the ship Xie Yuchen/Hei Xiazi."
Sign-up form on AO3
dmbj_tombraiders, sign-ups have started! All official info posts run on Tumblr (heihua-exchange)"Welcome to the Heihua Exchange, an an event dedicated to the pairing Xie Yuchen/Hei Xiazi from the 盗墓笔记 | Daomu Biji fandom. In this exchange, participants will be anonymously matched to create gifts for one another during a seven-week long creation period.
This exchange is open to all the DMBJ canons - books, movies, TV series, comics, donghua, etc. The gifts can be fic, art, video, podfic or some other form of creation you feel inspired to gift to your recipient, but all of it must be focused on the ship Xie Yuchen/Hei Xiazi."
Sign-up form on AO3
Summer Round Signups Now Open!
Aug. 4th, 2025 08:33 amlittlefics posting in seasonsofdrabblesSignups are now open! They will remain open until Monday, August 11 @ 11:59pm Eastern Daylight time (Countdown). You can browse the requests in the app!
The tagset will remain open for nominations through the end of signups. Please disambiguate your nominations to make the approvals process faster.
A: Since this is an event celebrating drabbles, we thought it made sense for a 100-word single drabble to be the minimum that participants can expect to write or receive. We received the suggestion from a participant and put it up to a community poll, where a strong majority were in favor of the rule change.
Q: How does this rule change affect how I sign up?
A: It affects the signup process itself very little. You can still select the fandoms, characters, and drabble types you are interested in writing or receiving. You are still free to request or offer longer drabble types. You can still check "Any". However, you can no longer exclude the "Drabble" tag from your signup.
Q: What happens if I don't include single drabbles in my signup?
A: We will reach out to you via the email associated with your AO3 account and offer two options: we can either edit the signup to add single drabbles, or remove your signup. Participants who don’t get back to us by the end of the grace period (12 hours after signups close) will have their signup removed.
Q: How will matching work?
A: Since everyone is requesting or offering single drabbles, you are effectively matchable with anyone requesting/offering the same fandom AND character. However, drabble types are still a matching criterion. In other words, people who want to write/request other drabble types would still be more likely to match with each other. For example, all things being equal, someone requesting Single Drabble and Triple Drabble is more likely (not guaranteed) to match with someone offering Single Drabble and Triple Drabble, than with someone only offering Single Drabble, or someone offering Single Drabble and Single Drabble Series/Sequence.
Q: Do I have to write single drabbles to participate?
A: If you have matched to someone who has only requested the "Drabble" freeform tag, then yes, you have to write a 100-word drabble for your assignment. If they have requested other drabble types, though, you are welcome to write any of them for your recipient.
Q: What if I don't like this rule change or it ends up sucking?
A: We tried implementing the rule change in a way that caused the least disruption on the participant side of things, but we will be soliciting feedback at the end of the round. If you have opinions or ideas you'd like to share at that time, we would love to hear them. This is admittedly a test run.
Requests:
Offers:
Do Not Wants:
Other:
The tagset will remain open for nominations through the end of signups. Please disambiguate your nominations to make the approvals process faster.
IMPORTANT RULE CHANGE: We have a new rule this round that participants cannot opt out of single drabbles. In other words, you are still welcome to request/offer other drabble types, but you cannot exclude single drabbles from your offers or requests. We will let you know via the email associated with your AO3 account if we notice you've left out single drabbles in your signup. Matching and signups will otherwise work the same as before.
Have questions? Expand the "Key Info on the Rule Change" section below for more info. If your question is still not answered, please get in touch via email or the Mod Contact Post.
Key Info on the Rule Change
Q: Why make this rule change?A: Since this is an event celebrating drabbles, we thought it made sense for a 100-word single drabble to be the minimum that participants can expect to write or receive. We received the suggestion from a participant and put it up to a community poll, where a strong majority were in favor of the rule change.
Q: How does this rule change affect how I sign up?
A: It affects the signup process itself very little. You can still select the fandoms, characters, and drabble types you are interested in writing or receiving. You are still free to request or offer longer drabble types. You can still check "Any". However, you can no longer exclude the "Drabble" tag from your signup.
Q: What happens if I don't include single drabbles in my signup?
A: We will reach out to you via the email associated with your AO3 account and offer two options: we can either edit the signup to add single drabbles, or remove your signup. Participants who don’t get back to us by the end of the grace period (12 hours after signups close) will have their signup removed.
Q: How will matching work?
A: Since everyone is requesting or offering single drabbles, you are effectively matchable with anyone requesting/offering the same fandom AND character. However, drabble types are still a matching criterion. In other words, people who want to write/request other drabble types would still be more likely to match with each other. For example, all things being equal, someone requesting Single Drabble and Triple Drabble is more likely (not guaranteed) to match with someone offering Single Drabble and Triple Drabble, than with someone only offering Single Drabble, or someone offering Single Drabble and Single Drabble Series/Sequence.
Q: Do I have to write single drabbles to participate?
A: If you have matched to someone who has only requested the "Drabble" freeform tag, then yes, you have to write a 100-word drabble for your assignment. If they have requested other drabble types, though, you are welcome to write any of them for your recipient.
Q: What if I don't like this rule change or it ends up sucking?
A: We tried implementing the rule change in a way that caused the least disruption on the participant side of things, but we will be soliciting feedback at the end of the round. If you have opinions or ideas you'd like to share at that time, we would love to hear them. This is admittedly a test run.
GENERAL SIGNUPS REMINDERS:
Please disregard the Optional Tags field! It will not be used in this exchange.
- If it is simply not appearing in the dropdown, try copy-pasting it from the tagset itself. This is a known AO3 bug.
- If that does not work, please comment here or email us with the exact fandom and character(s) you were trying to request/offer. A mod will then batch load it for you on the backend, and you will be able to request it. This is a caching issue with AO3.
Requests:
- You must request 3-10 fandoms with 1-20 characters and 1-7 drabble types each. Fandoms in your requests must be unique, but may be related (e.g., three Star Wars requests would be fine, as long as it was three separate Star Wars fandoms).
- If you wish, you may request Any for drabble type. This means you are open to receiving any of the 7 drabble types in the tagset. Additionally, please note that as of this round, you cannot opt out of single drabbles. In other words, you are still welcome to request other drabble types, but you cannot exclude single drabbles from your requests.
- If you wish, you may request Any character. This means any character in the canon (NOT just the tagset). Please do not request Any unless you really are open to receiving any character from that canon.
- If you have character DNWs, requesting Any might not be the best idea, as this could end up with a bad match with someone who had only offered that character. We will be checking for this before we send assignments, but it's possible we could miss something, which would lead to us having to re-assign your writer and send you to pinch hit. (Note that the character DNW would still be upheld in this situation.) If you are requesting Any and do not wish to receive fic about objects, etc., you should DNW that as well.
- Blank signups are allowed, but prompts, likes, and a list of DNWs are strongly encouraged.
Offers:
- You must offer 3-10 fandoms with 1-20 characters and 1-7 drabble types each. Fandoms in your offers must be unique, but may be related (e.g., three Star Wars offers would be fine, as long as it was three separate Star Wars fandoms).
- If you wish, you may offer Any for drabble type. This means you are open to writing any of the 7 drabble types in the tagset. (Note that unless your recipient has also requested Any, you must write one of the specific drabble types they requested.) Additionally, as of this round, you cannot opt out of single drabbles. In other words, you are still welcome to offer other drabble types, but you cannot exclude single drabbles from your offers.
- If you wish, you may offer Any character. This means any character in the tagset (i.e., if your recipient has requested specific characters, you must write one of them). Please do not offer Any unless you really are open to writing any character in the tagset for that fandom (including any last-minute additions to the tagset).
Do Not Wants:
- Only reasonable DNWs in your AO3 signup will be enforced.
- A reasonable DNW is a DNW that is clear and does not attempt to box your writer into writing just one thing.
Other:
- If you encounter any issues while signing up that are not noted above, please let us know ASAP, as AO3 bugs can sometimes hit exchanges.
- If you need to let us know something about your signup (such as not wanting to be assigned to a specific other participant), please contact us via email (seasonsofdrabbles AT gmail) or the mod contact post.
New Music Monday - 4 August 2025
Aug. 4th, 2025 07:15 pmparadisedinermod posting in paradisedinerThe regular weekly post for us to talk about any and all of our thoughts about the week's new releases.
BoA - Crazier
EVNNE - How Can I Do
Newbeat - Cappuccino
Jungsoomin - Telepathy (feat. Adora)
KiiiKiii - Dancing Alone
N.Top - Stay With U
Koyote - Call Me
Yves - Soap (feat. PinkPantheress)
naevis - Sensitive
Queenz Eye - Feel the Vibe
Kardi - Burning My Heart
Daybreak - 푸르게
Muu - ContiNEW
Re:Wind
New MVs are also added to an ongoing youtube playlist.
Last week's MVs: 28 July
Feel free to add new comments in the replies for songs/MVs we missed.
[ Rec Something Wednesday | WIP Wednesday | Monthly General Chat | Comment Fest ]
BoA - Crazier
EVNNE - How Can I Do
Newbeat - Cappuccino
Jungsoomin - Telepathy (feat. Adora)
KiiiKiii - Dancing Alone
N.Top - Stay With U
Koyote - Call Me
Yves - Soap (feat. PinkPantheress)
naevis - Sensitive
Queenz Eye - Feel the Vibe
Kardi - Burning My Heart
Daybreak - 푸르게
Muu - ContiNEW
Re:Wind
New MVs are also added to an ongoing youtube playlist.
Last week's MVs: 28 July
Feel free to add new comments in the replies for songs/MVs we missed.
Primary Fanworker Check-In
Aug. 3rd, 2025 09:01 pmhbbmods posting in hbbHello! This is the primary fanworker check-in for HBB 2025.
How are things going? Do you think you're on track for the 50% Draft Completion/Summary Submission date of Sunday, September 21? Are you not quite there yet? Is there anything the mod can do to help?
If you need to drop out, please say so! There is no penalty for dropping out.
You can check in by replying to the email or commenting on this post. If you comment on this post, please be sure to log in or state your username so the mod can keep track of who's checked in. (Comments on this post are screened.)
Thank you and happy creating!
- the Mod
How are things going? Do you think you're on track for the 50% Draft Completion/Summary Submission date of Sunday, September 21? Are you not quite there yet? Is there anything the mod can do to help?
If you need to drop out, please say so! There is no penalty for dropping out.
You can check in by replying to the email or commenting on this post. If you comment on this post, please be sure to log in or state your username so the mod can keep track of who's checked in. (Comments on this post are screened.)
Thank you and happy creating!
- the Mod
Challenge 196: Yellow
Aug. 3rd, 2025 04:01 pmholyscream posting in iconthat
Xie Xing from the Ten Thousand Escape Plans pin series
https://images2.imgbox.com/ff/4a/v2jBa3aC_o.jpg
Sources: Official Illustration, Peter Olexa @ Unsplash
| Next color: | Green |
Rainbow Pass-It-On 3
Aug. 3rd, 2025 04:03 amluminousdaze posting in iconthatOrange 🍊
Paddington in Peru
https://i.ibb.co/HDjrJX8J/orangepaddingtonperuiconcrop.png
Next color: Yellow 🍌🍋🟨
Paddington in Peru
https://i.ibb.co/HDjrJX8J/orangepaddingtonperuiconcrop.png
Next color: Yellow 🍌🍋🟨
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Weekly Chat
Aug. 2nd, 2025 01:57 pmdancing_serpent posting in c_entThe weekly chat posts are intended for just that, chatting among each other. What are you currently watching? Reading? What actor/idol are you currently following? What are you looking forward to? Are you busy writing, creating art? Or did you have no time at all for anything, and are bemoaning that fact?
Whatever it is, talk to us about it here. Tell us what you liked or didn't like, and if you want to talk about spoilery things, please hide them under either of these codes:
or
Whatever it is, talk to us about it here. Tell us what you liked or didn't like, and if you want to talk about spoilery things, please hide them under either of these codes:
or
