[#296] These Keys Were Made For Losing (Sense8)
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fandomweeklyTheme Prompt: #296 - Locked Door
Title: These Keys Were Made For Losing
Fandom: Sense8
Rating/Warnings: Teen for mild sexual language
Bonus: No
Word Count: 742
Summary: Nomi comes to Grace's rescue when she loses her keys
Title: These Keys Were Made For Losing
Fandom: Sense8
Rating/Warnings: Teen for mild sexual language
Bonus: No
Word Count: 742
Summary: Nomi comes to Grace's rescue when she loses her keys
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Marvel's Midnight Suns : icons : Robo-Man
Apr. 12th, 2026 04:43 pmhighlander_ii posting in fan_flashworksTitle: Robo-Man
Fandom: Marvel's Midnight Suns
Rating: G
Content notes: None apply
Summary: icons of Marvel's Midnight Suns Tony Stark. made these for a friend who's obstacle to role-playing as this character was a lack of icons... and since i've been playing the game recently, i snagged screenshots to make icons from. (i also have a mod on the game to improve Tony's facial hair bc i can't abide the mustache-only look)
these were made forrobo_man's journal, so if they give the okay, these are free to snag, otherwise, all theirs. XD
( Robo-Man )
Fandom: Marvel's Midnight Suns
Rating: G
Content notes: None apply
Summary: icons of Marvel's Midnight Suns Tony Stark. made these for a friend who's obstacle to role-playing as this character was a lack of icons... and since i've been playing the game recently, i snagged screenshots to make icons from. (i also have a mod on the game to improve Tony's facial hair bc i can't abide the mustache-only look)
these were made for
robo_man's journal, so if they give the okay, these are free to snag, otherwise, all theirs. XD( Robo-Man )
FAKE: Crowded [Challenge 497: Ghost Town]
Apr. 12th, 2026 06:33 pmbadly_knitted posting in drabble_zoneTitle: Crowded
Fandom: FAKE
Author:
badly_knittedCharacters: Dee, Ryo.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 497: Ghost Town.
Setting: After the manga.
Summary: Coney Island has never seemed so crowded.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble.
Crowded
You're Weak, Chris.
Apr. 12th, 2026 09:12 amrionaleonhartAnother instalment of Goes Wrong questions I've been asked on Tumblr! I've been having a great time with these.
Anonymous: Do you think Chris would have felt self-conscious about being called 'weak' by Robert? Would Robert like that Chris is 'weak' or want him to be a more even match? (I am imagining a (disastrous) Cornley training montage.)
I think Chris probably hated being called weak by Robert; it bothered him more than he'd like to admit. From anyone else, he'd have been able to shrug it off; his strength isn't usually something he's particularly insecure about! From Robert, though, the accusation of weakness gets under his skin.
For his part, Robert disapproves of Chris's weakness and feels a responsibility to fix it. This might actually be part of why he's constantly pushing against Chris's decisions; in his head, he's helping Chris learn to stand up for himself. They can't have a weak director, either in mind or in body; it puts the whole drama society at risk. What if someone stronger comes along and forces Chris to make the wrong casting decision?
Robert should ideally be the director, of course. But, if he can't be, he can at least make Chris stronger. (Cue the disastrous training montage.)
Anonymous: DO YOU THINK ANY OF CORNLEY WOULD BE TUMBLR USERS? AND IF THEY ALL WERE THEN WHAT WOULD THEIR BLOGS LOOK LIKE?
Chris created a Tumblr in the hope of promoting the drama society, but he gave up on it very quickly. It contains four posts: a photograph of the set for one of their plays, a photograph of the poster for one of their plays, and two photographs of birds he reblogged.
Robert is not really an Internet person and does not have a Tumblr. However, if he did have one, it would be entirely filled with black-and-white photographs of himself in dramatic poses, each captioned with a quotation from a play.
Sandra's Tumblr is all selfies, all the time. She never reblogs anything or communicates with anyone else on the platform. (Chris and Robert might communicate with other Tumblr users, but a) rarely, and b) only to get into arguments.)
Max posts photographs multiple times per day. Pictures of rehearsals, friends, family, animals, landscapes, plants, food. Sometimes he'll post a photograph that leaves people going 'why did you even take this?': a paving slab, the corner of a desk, a blurry close-up of his own sleeve. He follows all the others and likes everything they post, but he never reblogs.
Annie actually uses Tumblr properly! She reblogs pictures she likes and text posts that make her laugh, she keeps up with her mutuals, and she posts a lot of ask memes to encourage people to talk to her. She's definitely at least peripherally aware of fandom and may well be actively in fandom.
Dennis originally just used his Tumblr for liking animal pictures and videos, but then he saw a post scolding people for not reblogging and panicked. He now reblogs everything he sees out of a confused sense of obligation.
Vanessa created a Tumblr at Annie's insistence, spent a long time carefully setting it up and finding the perfect layout, and then got too intimidated to actually use it and left it untouched. If she did use it, she would exclusively reblog, rather than making any posts of her own, and would tag everything meticulously; she and Annie are the only members of the drama society who actually use tags.
Jonathan exclusively makes short text posts about his everyday life like he thinks he's on Twitter.
Trevor's Tumblr has never been used; it has a default icon and no posts. The blog name is 'trevor' and the blog description is 'stop telling me to make one of these annie'.
Anonymous: Do you think Chris would have felt self-conscious about being called 'weak' by Robert? Would Robert like that Chris is 'weak' or want him to be a more even match? (I am imagining a (disastrous) Cornley training montage.)
I think Chris probably hated being called weak by Robert; it bothered him more than he'd like to admit. From anyone else, he'd have been able to shrug it off; his strength isn't usually something he's particularly insecure about! From Robert, though, the accusation of weakness gets under his skin.
For his part, Robert disapproves of Chris's weakness and feels a responsibility to fix it. This might actually be part of why he's constantly pushing against Chris's decisions; in his head, he's helping Chris learn to stand up for himself. They can't have a weak director, either in mind or in body; it puts the whole drama society at risk. What if someone stronger comes along and forces Chris to make the wrong casting decision?
Robert should ideally be the director, of course. But, if he can't be, he can at least make Chris stronger. (Cue the disastrous training montage.)
Anonymous: DO YOU THINK ANY OF CORNLEY WOULD BE TUMBLR USERS? AND IF THEY ALL WERE THEN WHAT WOULD THEIR BLOGS LOOK LIKE?
Chris created a Tumblr in the hope of promoting the drama society, but he gave up on it very quickly. It contains four posts: a photograph of the set for one of their plays, a photograph of the poster for one of their plays, and two photographs of birds he reblogged.
Robert is not really an Internet person and does not have a Tumblr. However, if he did have one, it would be entirely filled with black-and-white photographs of himself in dramatic poses, each captioned with a quotation from a play.
Sandra's Tumblr is all selfies, all the time. She never reblogs anything or communicates with anyone else on the platform. (Chris and Robert might communicate with other Tumblr users, but a) rarely, and b) only to get into arguments.)
Max posts photographs multiple times per day. Pictures of rehearsals, friends, family, animals, landscapes, plants, food. Sometimes he'll post a photograph that leaves people going 'why did you even take this?': a paving slab, the corner of a desk, a blurry close-up of his own sleeve. He follows all the others and likes everything they post, but he never reblogs.
Annie actually uses Tumblr properly! She reblogs pictures she likes and text posts that make her laugh, she keeps up with her mutuals, and she posts a lot of ask memes to encourage people to talk to her. She's definitely at least peripherally aware of fandom and may well be actively in fandom.
Dennis originally just used his Tumblr for liking animal pictures and videos, but then he saw a post scolding people for not reblogging and panicked. He now reblogs everything he sees out of a confused sense of obligation.
Vanessa created a Tumblr at Annie's insistence, spent a long time carefully setting it up and finding the perfect layout, and then got too intimidated to actually use it and left it untouched. If she did use it, she would exclusively reblog, rather than making any posts of her own, and would tag everything meticulously; she and Annie are the only members of the drama society who actually use tags.
Jonathan exclusively makes short text posts about his everyday life like he thinks he's on Twitter.
Trevor's Tumblr has never been used; it has a default icon and no posts. The blog name is 'trevor' and the blog description is 'stop telling me to make one of these annie'.
[#296] BEHIND CLOSED DOORS (TORCHWOOD)
Apr. 12th, 2026 03:18 pmm_findlow posting in fandomweeklyTheme Prompt: #296 - Locked door
Title: Behind closed doors
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating/Warnings: PG.
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 1,000 words
Summary: Ianto has found the perfect place to begin his task in earnest.
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Title: Behind closed doors
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating/Warnings: PG.
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 1,000 words
Summary: Ianto has found the perfect place to begin his task in earnest.
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The case of the missing notifications
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dw_maintenanceI keep forgetting to post about this: we've been troubleshooting the "missing notifications" problem for the past few days. (Well, I say "we", really I mean Mark and Robby; I'm just the amanuensis.) It's been one of those annoying loops of "find a logical explanation for what could be causing the problem, fix that thing, observe that the problem gets better for some people but doesn't go away completely, go back to step one and start again", sigh.
Mark is hauling out the heavy debugging ordinance to try to find the root cause. Once he's done building all the extra logging tools he needs, he'll comment to this entry. After he does, if you find a comment that should have gone to your inbox and sent an email notification but didn't, leave him a link to the comment that should have sent the notification, as long as the comment itself was made after Mark says he's collecting them. (I'd wait and post this after he gets the debug code in but I need to go to sleep and he's not sure how long it will take!)
We're sorry about the hassle! Irregular/sporadic issues like this are really hard to troubleshoot because it's impossible to know if they're fixed or if they're just not happening while you're looking. With luck, this will give us enough information to figure out the root cause for real this time.
Challenge # 497: Ghost Town
Apr. 11th, 2026 06:33 pmbadly_knitted posting in drabble_zoneThis week's challenge is:
Ghost Town
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The Mia Ballard/Shy Girl Thing
Apr. 11th, 2026 05:59 amrenegadefolkheroI've been sitting on this for a bit, chewing on it, and my takeaway is Hatchette is full of assholes.
I was already annoyed by the innovative new tradpub acquisition process wherein the indie author does all the work (gets the idea for the book, writes the book, edits the book, gets a cover for the book, publishes the book, does the marketing for the book, builds the platform, attracts readers, gains momentum, starting selling lots of books) and Hachette swoops in to offer a deal and take the lion's share of the profits, because Traditional Publishers Don't Actually Know How to Sell Books They Just Sorta Get Lucky Sometimes (United States v. Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster), and letting the author do literally everything and establish the book has legs saves them the trouble.
The only thing worse is the audio pubs hoovering up every audio book right they can find by low-balling clueless indies with pocket change offers. (Do your research and counter-offer Podium. I'm begging you.)
Hatchette knew what they bought. They knew the beef with the stolen cover, they knew the rumors the book was written with AI. They thought they could make a buck off Mia Ballard with frankly minimal effort on their part, and they didn't care about the AI stuff until they started to get heat. Then, instead of supporting the author THEY APPROACHED, they threw her to the curb like trash.
When faced with accusations of stolen cover art, Hatchette actually commissioned A DIFFERENT artist to do a similar cover instead of working with the og artist. (?WTF?)
Now, Hatchette has the gall to say they are "committed to protecting creative expression." Eat my whole ass.
Wanna sign with trad? Better be sure, because once these people get their hooks into your book anything goes.
Anyway, my official stance on is it ok to use AI in your self-published book is: Fuck Hachette.
Challenge 512: Obstacle
Apr. 11th, 2026 12:09 pmchina_shop posting in fan_flashworksOur new challenge is:
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OBSTACLE
As always, you can interpret the prompt literally or figuratively, in whatever way works for you.
Each work created for this challenge should be posted as a new entry to the comm. Posting starts now and continues up until the challenge ends at 4pm Pacific Time on Monday, 20th April. No sign-up required.
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ffw_social post, which will go up in the next couple of days. If you haven't joined the ffw_social comm, it's never too late to come and check it out. (Posts are locked, which means you have to join to see them.)Admin: Challenge closed
Apr. 11th, 2026 12:07 pmchina_shop posting in fan_flashworksThe Beam challenge is now closed. Here are the entries:
The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: Nightmares And Illusions bybadly_knitter
The Professionals: Fanfiction: Hazard of the Job bylucy_roman
GOTH: Fanfic: beams of silence which is (the skin) bybluedreaming
Beam: Miss Marple: Fanfic: From Dust to Thimbles bysmallhobbit
Criminal Minds: Fanfiction: Moving On byinfinitum_noctem
Heated Rivalry: Fan Fiction: Feeling Wanted bydarkjediqueen
Culture Club: Fanfic: Power Cut bymidnight_heavenly_bodies
no fandom: icons: balance byhighlander_ii
Viola come il mare: Fanfic: Love Becomes You byveronyxk84
Ariadne - Jennifer Saint: fanfic: undutiful byteaotter
Torchwood: Fanfic: Not for general use bym_findlow
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The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: Nightmares And Illusions by
badly_knitterThe Professionals: Fanfiction: Hazard of the Job by
lucy_romanGOTH: Fanfic: beams of silence which is (the skin) by
bluedreamingBeam: Miss Marple: Fanfic: From Dust to Thimbles by
smallhobbitCriminal Minds: Fanfiction: Moving On by
infinitum_noctemHeated Rivalry: Fan Fiction: Feeling Wanted by
darkjediqueenCulture Club: Fanfic: Power Cut by
midnight_heavenly_bodiesno fandom: icons: balance by
highlander_iiViola come il mare: Fanfic: Love Becomes You by
veronyxk84Ariadne - Jennifer Saint: fanfic: undutiful by
teaotterTorchwood: Fanfic: Not for general use by
m_findlow\o/ \o/ \o/
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I'm Not Particularly A Chris/Trevor Person, But Robert's Meltdown Over It Would Be Fun.
Apr. 10th, 2026 10:09 pmrionaleonhartA couple more questions about The Goes Wrong Show I've been asked on Tumblr!
Anonymous: what sort of (modern) music do you think robert and/or chris enjoy? i find them both hard to pin down music taste wise! i agree that robert seems like a classical music type of guy, but does he have any guilty pleasure pop music when nobody is looking?
Interesting question! I think they’re both classical music fans, but, thinking about the modern side:
Robert: Bombastic songs, lively songs, anything that tells a story; I’ve got Thin Lizzy’s 'Whiskey in the Jar' stuck in my head right now, and I think he’d enjoy it. He doesn't confine himself to a particular genre and likes some songs you might not expect, but he does have certain prejudices, e.g. not thinking of videogame music as 'real music'. I definitely think he listens to some pop, but not guiltily; he'll blast 'Call Me Maybe' or 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' from his dressing room while the other drama society members go '????' at each other. He broadly favours music from the seventies and earlier, but he does still enjoy later releases. Such as, naturally, 'Stacy's Mom'.
Chris: We already know that Chris's favourite Christmas song is 'White Christmas', and from that I'm inclined to extrapolate that he tends to prefer music on the slow and sedate side. Music from the sixties and earlier; unlike Robert, he's unwilling to give more modern music a chance.
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kestrel-wylde: Your thoughts on the robchristrev dynamic? I've been chewing on it an awful lot - in either platonic/romantic/loathful contexts
The interesting thing about Robert and Trevor's dynamic is the fact that Robert doesn't respect Trevor's work - he considers stage management inherently less worthwhile than acting - while simultaneously trusting and relying on Trevor completely. When Robert catches fire in Peter Pan, he calls for Trevor in a panic; when Robert asks for his line in Haversham Manor, he faithfully repeats Trevor's response without considering for a moment that it might not be the line, and he's shocked and outraged to realise it isn't.
Chris also has a bit of a tendency to take Trevor's work for granted, come to think of it, piling tasks on him that aren't in his job description.
So I think an interesting thing you could do with the Robert/Chris/Trevor dynamic is rip Trevor out from under their feet: if he's injured or otherwise out of action somehow, it could force Chris and Robert to realise how much they rely on him. Chris will feel bad for taking him for granted; Robert will go 'that stupid man, getting injured when he knows we need him', because good luck getting Robert to acknowledge he's in the wrong about anything.
Possibly Chris and Robert team up and attempt to nurse Trevor back to health. The experience is extremely stressful for poor Trevor, who, on top of trying to recover, now has to put up with Chris and Robert constantly arguing over the best way to help.
Finally, some thoughts on how each of them would react if the other two were in a relationship:
- If Chris and Trevor started dating, Robert would be furiously jealous and would quite possibly start trying to steal Chris away.
- If Chris and Robert started dating, Trevor's reaction would very much be 'oh, Christ, I'm going to have to clean up the mess when this whole thing explodes, aren't I?'
- If Trevor and Robert started dating, Chris would be confused and upset and wouldn't understand why. He might start trying to argue that it's inappropriate to have romantic relationships within the society.
- If all three of them start dating, God help us all.
Anonymous: what sort of (modern) music do you think robert and/or chris enjoy? i find them both hard to pin down music taste wise! i agree that robert seems like a classical music type of guy, but does he have any guilty pleasure pop music when nobody is looking?
Interesting question! I think they’re both classical music fans, but, thinking about the modern side:
Robert: Bombastic songs, lively songs, anything that tells a story; I’ve got Thin Lizzy’s 'Whiskey in the Jar' stuck in my head right now, and I think he’d enjoy it. He doesn't confine himself to a particular genre and likes some songs you might not expect, but he does have certain prejudices, e.g. not thinking of videogame music as 'real music'. I definitely think he listens to some pop, but not guiltily; he'll blast 'Call Me Maybe' or 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' from his dressing room while the other drama society members go '????' at each other. He broadly favours music from the seventies and earlier, but he does still enjoy later releases. Such as, naturally, 'Stacy's Mom'.
Chris: We already know that Chris's favourite Christmas song is 'White Christmas', and from that I'm inclined to extrapolate that he tends to prefer music on the slow and sedate side. Music from the sixties and earlier; unlike Robert, he's unwilling to give more modern music a chance.
The interesting thing about Robert and Trevor's dynamic is the fact that Robert doesn't respect Trevor's work - he considers stage management inherently less worthwhile than acting - while simultaneously trusting and relying on Trevor completely. When Robert catches fire in Peter Pan, he calls for Trevor in a panic; when Robert asks for his line in Haversham Manor, he faithfully repeats Trevor's response without considering for a moment that it might not be the line, and he's shocked and outraged to realise it isn't.
Chris also has a bit of a tendency to take Trevor's work for granted, come to think of it, piling tasks on him that aren't in his job description.
So I think an interesting thing you could do with the Robert/Chris/Trevor dynamic is rip Trevor out from under their feet: if he's injured or otherwise out of action somehow, it could force Chris and Robert to realise how much they rely on him. Chris will feel bad for taking him for granted; Robert will go 'that stupid man, getting injured when he knows we need him', because good luck getting Robert to acknowledge he's in the wrong about anything.
Possibly Chris and Robert team up and attempt to nurse Trevor back to health. The experience is extremely stressful for poor Trevor, who, on top of trying to recover, now has to put up with Chris and Robert constantly arguing over the best way to help.
Finally, some thoughts on how each of them would react if the other two were in a relationship:
- If Chris and Trevor started dating, Robert would be furiously jealous and would quite possibly start trying to steal Chris away.
- If Chris and Robert started dating, Trevor's reaction would very much be 'oh, Christ, I'm going to have to clean up the mess when this whole thing explodes, aren't I?'
- If Trevor and Robert started dating, Chris would be confused and upset and wouldn't understand why. He might start trying to argue that it's inappropriate to have romantic relationships within the society.
- If all three of them start dating, God help us all.