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Stories are now revealed!
The collection is live! We ended up with a total of 37 fics this time — meaning the collection almost got 50% larger in the last two days! Awesome job, everyone! I'm glad I wasn't the only one writing until the very last second, haha.
As usual, please do not check out the fics via the fandom list page on AO3. Only a couple of fandoms are listed there, due to AO3's wrangling policy, so most of the stories won't show up on said page. Instead, there's an alternative fandom list below. (You can also browse the collection via the works page on AO3, where all are accounted for.)
All stories, ordered alphabetically by fandom:
A Man's Hearth - Eleanor M. Ingram, Diet - Eleanor M. Ingram
A Healthy Appetite
Gene is out for an early-morning paddle on a lake in Maine when he overhears something he wasn't supposed to, and accidentally learns a secret about a friend.
aim∴ai (Visual Novel)
fulfillment
Midori has returned to fulfill Tsugumu's wishes.
Asbury Pines (Video Game)
Five Times Everly Praetis Dies
Location: Asbury Pines, Pine Hills Park
Event: EVERLY PRAETIS DIES
Date/time: Unknown. Some point in Everly Praetis’ lifetime.
Everly Praetis has her own ideas.
Chance (2015)
Here We Are
An early morning during the first Ramadan of Trevor and Amir's marriage.
Cold Comfort (1989)
I’m Real Scared (or: What Can Happen If a Psychopath Rescues You During a Manitoba Blizzard)
What can happen if a psychopath rescues you during a Manitoba blizzard.
Dead Inside - Chandler Morrison
Doe, Jane
The mistake he made was looking at her, wanting to ask her in the first place, because while he’s certainly brainless, he’s not braindead, and that makes all the difference.
死亡回旋 - 深海手术刀 | Death Spiral - Shen Hai Shou Shu Dao
Butterfly Key
During their third instance and after losing Lamia’s Eyes, Lian Qiao gets a—supposedly—rare item of unknown purpose. Yet it’s Xu Rendong who feels the aftereffects when the item disappears.
Or: Lian Qiao is his usual horny little gremlin self and Xu Rendong gets a “front row seat” to his unfiltered thoughts.
Deborah Knott Mysteries - Margaret Maron
Two Mothers
Cal is still getting to know his new stepmother Deborah when tragedy strikes and he had to adjust to a whole new family situation.
ダブルドッグバディ | Double Beastly Trouble (Manga)
Three Times the Tenacity
Ewan Gwenthia has always had warm feelings towards his step-brother Moran's larga, Agiro.
Now, with Agiro disgraced and Ewan the sole honourable heir to the Gwenthia name, he and his unruly Seto and Zazie try to bring Agiro into their fold.
Eat An Animal Before It Eats You Show – Make Some Noise Sketch
O Tell Me The Tooth About Love
It's the most "shark"-ing twist ever this season!
Essex Dogs - Dan Jones
The End of All Flesh
Romford is still alive, despite his best efforts. Alive and aching and restless, lying in the sweltering heat of his lord's pavilion.
Or: one good sin deserves another.
Fates Errant (Webcomic)
Crimson Blood
Talnor tends to Vos's injuries after the assassin's attack.
Hell! Said the Duchess - Michael Arlen
Pan, Ishtar, Priapus and Venus
Three days after his funeral, Victor comes back for Basil.
Hello Again (1987)
Mere Weeks
Lucy welcomes twin daughters only six days after becoming a grandmother and two weeks before Zelda makes her an aunt.
Katy and the Big Snow - Virginia Lee Burton
Another Big Snow
There's another Big Snow in Geoppolis...
La Corona Mágica (TV 1989)
The Old and The New
What was once Naszim's Blue Pendulum is now a forgotten gray pebble in a corner of Idún's former palace. The magic Naszim cultivated, the magic Rahman sneakily recovered from its thief and that some day Hanstor will inherit, lies in Lir.
Lady Darby Mystery Series
An Incendiary Sketch
Gage had warned me that I was playing with fire by associating with Bonnie Brock. I should perhaps have paid more heed to his concerns.
Manuale Scholarium - Anonymous
Dog Days
Summer approaches; Cam, sick of studying and jealous that Bart's affections lie elsewhere, seeks some distraction from their upcoming time apart.
Mr. Oddy - Hugh Walpole
A strange and most unexpected affection
Mr. Oddy tells a tale, but it's up to Tommy to write the ending.
Newt's Emerald - Garth Nix
A Shocking Revelation
“It’s about Colonel Otterbrook. I wouldn’t interfere in his business normally, you see, but I felt you should know…”
Once There Was - Kiyash Monsef
For In This World I'm Bound To Ramble
Marjan didn't want to explain the cat yet, but Sebastian did not ask her to. His own grief was showing in his tear-wet eyes, properly inside him.
Overboard! (inkle Ltd Video Game)
It's the Gents!
You find yourself cornered by a nosey Englishman.
Pandemonium - Daryl Gregory
And Then—
After everything, Del considers just who he is.
Real Life - Brandon Taylor
those who live at the shoreline
Years after that first weekend, Miller comes to visit Wallace.
Rippy (2024)
Billabong
Despite killing the undead Roo, human zombies overrun the small town of Axehead and Maddy, Schmitty and Donna must help save as many people as possible.
Romance on the Orient Express (1985)
My How You Have Grown
Sandy can't quite believe that Lily and Alex are finally married. He should have expected to run into Stacey at the reception but it still ends up being a big shock to see her after so much time.
Rufus (2016 2017)
hold your good boy close when thunder looms
A midnight storm wakes Rufus, sending him scrambling for safe harbour in his owner's bed. But as the thunder rumbles loud, weary Manny is hesitant to comfort his dog the way he used to, now that Rufus has the form of a teenage boy.
Sin Eater - Megan Campisi
Whipped Syllabub
Ten summers later, May Owens makes a makeshift marker.
Spirit Circle (スピリットサークル)
Only our spirits remain
Love is always the most essential. It is what makes the soul heal, brings it strength to start anew. To give another chance. It is the strongest force in the universe.
Fortuna never understood that. Fuuta started to understand, if even just a bit, in his lifetime in Japan.
The Four Miss Whittingtons - Geraldine Mockler
Turn Again Whittington
"Since we are the four Miss Whittingtons, come to London to seek our fortunes, we should have a cat," Barbara said, with a youngest sister's sense of what was fitting.
Les orphelins | The Orphans (2025)
Maybe
Five times Driss asked about Gab's 'maybe' boyfriend, and one time he didn't need to.
The Shambling Guides - Mur Lafferty
Club
Zoë had flashbacks to the time she entered a filthy bookstore and was told that she couldn’t buy anything. “‘Club,’” she said. When he didn’t reply, she added, “It’s the name. Club.”
Zoë reviews a nightclub.
The Sign of the Dragon - Mary Soon Lee
Gray King and New Ballads
Donal reunites with his sister-in-law.
Years later, Enlai hears new generations of bards.
The Works of Vermin - Hiron Ennes
Silver Lining on a Shore Far From Here
In his thrice-acclaimed answer to one of Tiliard’s most well-known pieces, the unmatched Revivalist playwright Olaf Aufhocker declared in his opera That Last Dead Man, as part of one of the greatest climaxes the Tiliard Opera House had seen performed in all its long history, that “there is nothing greater than the embrace of one whose views you cherish.”
Due to the ecdytoxin-enhanced finale of the show, delivered by precisely-yet-wrongly-instructed Crypsis agents, few viewers are yet able to accurately recall the line that followed: “And in turn there is nothing worse than the tender grasp of someone you once held dear.”
Or: Some of the people who held the man intermittently known as Guy Moulène. A tragedy in five-and-one parts.
終ノ空 remake | Tsui no Sora remake (Visual Novel)
perfect
In Yasuko's eyes, Kotomi is perfect.
Vampire: The Masquerade, Pod by Night: Stitch of Fate (Podcast)
Aqua Regia (Devouring the Sun)
Shaun Best, bettered by destiny.
宴遇永安 | Yummy Yummy Yummy (TV)
Picture Of You
The ancient portrait was all he had left of her.
Thank you all so very much for taking part! I know these are all nonexistent fandoms, but I hope we can try to check out our fellow participants' stories and comment wherever possible. If you're not familiar with any of the fandoms, you can also try browsing the tag page to see if there are any themes/tropes/kinks that catches your eye.
Happy reading! I really hope to see you guys again next round ♥
As usual, please do not check out the fics via the fandom list page on AO3. Only a couple of fandoms are listed there, due to AO3's wrangling policy, so most of the stories won't show up on said page. Instead, there's an alternative fandom list below. (You can also browse the collection via the works page on AO3, where all are accounted for.)
All stories, ordered alphabetically by fandom:
A Man's Hearth - Eleanor M. Ingram, Diet - Eleanor M. Ingram
A Healthy Appetite
Gene is out for an early-morning paddle on a lake in Maine when he overhears something he wasn't supposed to, and accidentally learns a secret about a friend.
aim∴ai (Visual Novel)
fulfillment
Midori has returned to fulfill Tsugumu's wishes.
Asbury Pines (Video Game)
Five Times Everly Praetis Dies
Location: Asbury Pines, Pine Hills Park
Event: EVERLY PRAETIS DIES
Date/time: Unknown. Some point in Everly Praetis’ lifetime.
Everly Praetis has her own ideas.
Chance (2015)
Here We Are
An early morning during the first Ramadan of Trevor and Amir's marriage.
Cold Comfort (1989)
I’m Real Scared (or: What Can Happen If a Psychopath Rescues You During a Manitoba Blizzard)
What can happen if a psychopath rescues you during a Manitoba blizzard.
Dead Inside - Chandler Morrison
Doe, Jane
The mistake he made was looking at her, wanting to ask her in the first place, because while he’s certainly brainless, he’s not braindead, and that makes all the difference.
死亡回旋 - 深海手术刀 | Death Spiral - Shen Hai Shou Shu Dao
Butterfly Key
During their third instance and after losing Lamia’s Eyes, Lian Qiao gets a—supposedly—rare item of unknown purpose. Yet it’s Xu Rendong who feels the aftereffects when the item disappears.
Or: Lian Qiao is his usual horny little gremlin self and Xu Rendong gets a “front row seat” to his unfiltered thoughts.
Deborah Knott Mysteries - Margaret Maron
Two Mothers
Cal is still getting to know his new stepmother Deborah when tragedy strikes and he had to adjust to a whole new family situation.
ダブルドッグバディ | Double Beastly Trouble (Manga)
Three Times the Tenacity
Ewan Gwenthia has always had warm feelings towards his step-brother Moran's larga, Agiro.
Now, with Agiro disgraced and Ewan the sole honourable heir to the Gwenthia name, he and his unruly Seto and Zazie try to bring Agiro into their fold.
Eat An Animal Before It Eats You Show – Make Some Noise Sketch
O Tell Me The Tooth About Love
It's the most "shark"-ing twist ever this season!
Essex Dogs - Dan Jones
The End of All Flesh
Romford is still alive, despite his best efforts. Alive and aching and restless, lying in the sweltering heat of his lord's pavilion.
Or: one good sin deserves another.
Fates Errant (Webcomic)
Crimson Blood
Talnor tends to Vos's injuries after the assassin's attack.
Hell! Said the Duchess - Michael Arlen
Pan, Ishtar, Priapus and Venus
Three days after his funeral, Victor comes back for Basil.
Hello Again (1987)
Mere Weeks
Lucy welcomes twin daughters only six days after becoming a grandmother and two weeks before Zelda makes her an aunt.
Katy and the Big Snow - Virginia Lee Burton
Another Big Snow
There's another Big Snow in Geoppolis...
La Corona Mágica (TV 1989)
The Old and The New
What was once Naszim's Blue Pendulum is now a forgotten gray pebble in a corner of Idún's former palace. The magic Naszim cultivated, the magic Rahman sneakily recovered from its thief and that some day Hanstor will inherit, lies in Lir.
Lady Darby Mystery Series
An Incendiary Sketch
Gage had warned me that I was playing with fire by associating with Bonnie Brock. I should perhaps have paid more heed to his concerns.
Manuale Scholarium - Anonymous
Dog Days
Summer approaches; Cam, sick of studying and jealous that Bart's affections lie elsewhere, seeks some distraction from their upcoming time apart.
Mr. Oddy - Hugh Walpole
A strange and most unexpected affection
Mr. Oddy tells a tale, but it's up to Tommy to write the ending.
Newt's Emerald - Garth Nix
A Shocking Revelation
“It’s about Colonel Otterbrook. I wouldn’t interfere in his business normally, you see, but I felt you should know…”
Once There Was - Kiyash Monsef
For In This World I'm Bound To Ramble
Marjan didn't want to explain the cat yet, but Sebastian did not ask her to. His own grief was showing in his tear-wet eyes, properly inside him.
Overboard! (inkle Ltd Video Game)
It's the Gents!
You find yourself cornered by a nosey Englishman.
Pandemonium - Daryl Gregory
And Then—
After everything, Del considers just who he is.
Real Life - Brandon Taylor
those who live at the shoreline
Years after that first weekend, Miller comes to visit Wallace.
Rippy (2024)
Billabong
Despite killing the undead Roo, human zombies overrun the small town of Axehead and Maddy, Schmitty and Donna must help save as many people as possible.
Romance on the Orient Express (1985)
My How You Have Grown
Sandy can't quite believe that Lily and Alex are finally married. He should have expected to run into Stacey at the reception but it still ends up being a big shock to see her after so much time.
Rufus (2016 2017)
hold your good boy close when thunder looms
A midnight storm wakes Rufus, sending him scrambling for safe harbour in his owner's bed. But as the thunder rumbles loud, weary Manny is hesitant to comfort his dog the way he used to, now that Rufus has the form of a teenage boy.
Sin Eater - Megan Campisi
Whipped Syllabub
Ten summers later, May Owens makes a makeshift marker.
Spirit Circle (スピリットサークル)
Only our spirits remain
Love is always the most essential. It is what makes the soul heal, brings it strength to start anew. To give another chance. It is the strongest force in the universe.
Fortuna never understood that. Fuuta started to understand, if even just a bit, in his lifetime in Japan.
The Four Miss Whittingtons - Geraldine Mockler
Turn Again Whittington
"Since we are the four Miss Whittingtons, come to London to seek our fortunes, we should have a cat," Barbara said, with a youngest sister's sense of what was fitting.
Les orphelins | The Orphans (2025)
Maybe
Five times Driss asked about Gab's 'maybe' boyfriend, and one time he didn't need to.
The Shambling Guides - Mur Lafferty
Club
Zoë had flashbacks to the time she entered a filthy bookstore and was told that she couldn’t buy anything. “‘Club,’” she said. When he didn’t reply, she added, “It’s the name. Club.”
Zoë reviews a nightclub.
The Sign of the Dragon - Mary Soon Lee
Gray King and New Ballads
Donal reunites with his sister-in-law.
Years later, Enlai hears new generations of bards.
The Works of Vermin - Hiron Ennes
Silver Lining on a Shore Far From Here
In his thrice-acclaimed answer to one of Tiliard’s most well-known pieces, the unmatched Revivalist playwright Olaf Aufhocker declared in his opera That Last Dead Man, as part of one of the greatest climaxes the Tiliard Opera House had seen performed in all its long history, that “there is nothing greater than the embrace of one whose views you cherish.”
Due to the ecdytoxin-enhanced finale of the show, delivered by precisely-yet-wrongly-instructed Crypsis agents, few viewers are yet able to accurately recall the line that followed: “And in turn there is nothing worse than the tender grasp of someone you once held dear.”
Or: Some of the people who held the man intermittently known as Guy Moulène. A tragedy in five-and-one parts.
終ノ空 remake | Tsui no Sora remake (Visual Novel)
perfect
In Yasuko's eyes, Kotomi is perfect.
Vampire: The Masquerade, Pod by Night: Stitch of Fate (Podcast)
Aqua Regia (Devouring the Sun)
Shaun Best, bettered by destiny.
宴遇永安 | Yummy Yummy Yummy (TV)
Picture Of You
The ancient portrait was all he had left of her.
Thank you all so very much for taking part! I know these are all nonexistent fandoms, but I hope we can try to check out our fellow participants' stories and comment wherever possible. If you're not familiar with any of the fandoms, you can also try browsing the tag page to see if there are any themes/tropes/kinks that catches your eye.
Happy reading! I really hope to see you guys again next round ♥
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One question: will the fandom tag eventually appear as a series tag?
Thanks!
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As for your question, do you mean on AO3? I have no control over that, sorry -- but yes, your fandom tag should be made canonical automatically. I can't say how long it will take, sometimes it's fast and other times it might slip through the cracks (so that you'll need to send in a wrangling request).
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