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Yuletide Letter 2025

Dear Yule Writer— Thanks for volunteering to write a fic for me. I am moon_custafer on AO3 as I am here. Repeating the first part of this letter from past years:

General likes— Hurt-comfort. Conversation. Period-specific details. Ghosts or supernatural. Found family. Casefic or plotfic. I don’t mind explicit sex scenes, but I’m usually indifferent to them. OTOH kissing or touching hands, foreheads, stroking hair, etc, are great, as are descriptions of the characters’ appearance.

General DNWs—AUs that deviate from canon to the point of being a completely different premise/setting, i.e. high-school/coffee-shop/ABO dynamics.

My requests for this year:

Мастер и Маргарита - Михаил Булгаков | The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
Hella, Behemoth, Margarita Nikolayevna
I’d love to know more about Hella, beyond “she’s a sexy vampire”; I’d like to see how she interacts with Margarita; and Behemoth is always a delight to read about.

The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins:
Ezra Jennings, Mr. Candy
My favourite character in the book has always been Ezra Jennings, the mysterious mixed-race doctor with a clouded past and a terminal illness. His only friend is his colleague, the flamboyant Mr. Candy who unwittingly contributes to the mystery. I’ve shipped these two for years. Pre-canon would be nice, but feel free to write whatever you want.

 Decoy (1946)
Margot Shelby, Sergeant Joseph "Jojo" Portugal, Frankie Ollins, Dr. Lloyd Craig.
This movie packs a lot (including SF/horror) into its runtime. Margot is the most gleefully evil femme fatale I’ve ever seen. I wouldn’t mind a little of Frankie’s PoV after he’s returned to life by the dose of methylene blue.

The Green Man (TV)
Maurice Allington, Rev. Sonnenschein, Joyce Allington, Amy Allington
Maurice is a somehow-endearing absolute trash-fire of a man. Also I love that he and Rev. Sonnenschein successfully exorcise the ghost even though the Reverend doesn’t personally believe in the ritual he’s doing. Possible prompts: Maurice reconciling himself to the fact that his wife and his mistress have dumped him for each other. Maurice and Rev. Sonnenschein teaming up to investigate another supernatural event. How much does Amy remember about what happened, and how does it change her relationship with her father?

Get Crazy (1983)
Toad, Reggie Wanker, King Blues, Auden
The ending of this movie leaves plenty of room for further adventures for any or all of the characters. Reggie and the band’s new direction? King Blues and his band and their adventures in the Motor City? Auden’s new album? Or anything you wish.

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Empty Baskets Update + 1 week delay

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The Friday Five for 17 October 2025

These questions were originally suggested by

sumrsue79.

1. How long ago did you join LJ (or DW)?

2. How did you find out about LJ (or DW)?

3. If someone introduced you to LJ (or DW), is s/he still on your friends list?

4. Have you introduced anyone to LJ (or DW)?

5. Is your LJ (or DW) public or friends only, and why?

Copy and paste to your own journal, then reply to this post with a link to your answers. If your journal is private or friends-only, you can post your full answers in the comments below.

If you'd like to suggest questions for a future Friday Five, then do so on DreamWidth or LiveJournal. Old sets that were used have been deleted, so we encourage you to suggest some more!

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movies

Me and movies

Last winter I was given my mother's several boxes of DVDs because I have more free space than her. We're both fans of physical media and this does lead to clutter.

I blogged about the first film I selected for the project of watching all the things, but when the second, Roman Holiday, sent me into a crying fit that lasted so long I felt physically sick, I decided I was too emotionally fragile to continue at the time. Being in a more durable state, and with another winter coming on, I thought I should try again.

I'm also going through the boxes and preemptively setting aside anything that has a Kick in the Teeth vibe for eventual donation. All the soul crushing historical atrocity movies are going out the door unwatched, as are most of the kitchen sink tearjerkers (literary adaptations exempted). They might be great films, but for me they are not good films.

This still leaves a vast quantity of movies to actually watch, thankfully looking to promise a good time and eye candy rather than salt in the wounds of life. Although sometimes one ends up with an unappetizing salt and sugar approach, like The Grand Budapest Hotel.

Comedy is a more delicate thing than drama. If you diffuse a tense moment with a quip, the tension can almost immediately ratchet up again, but for me, if I end up getting uncomfortable it is very hard to go back to finding things funny, and Wes Anderson's film veered all over the place in an ugly tonal mishmash. It went from farce to violent murder to screwball comedy in the alps (the best part of the film) to numbing historical atrocity. Sure, it looked amazing and had an A List cast but I never need to see it again. I'm sure someone at the local used bookshop will be delighted to snap it up.

So last night I watched The Valet, a 2006 French comedy written and directed by Francis Veber. It's about a parking valet named Francois (Gad Elmaleh), who is hired by a rich ass (Daniel Auteuil) to fake-date the rich ass's supermodel mistress in a desperate bid to keep the wife from finding out. The supermodel, Elena (Alice Taglioni), discovers what it's like to have a guy treat her respectfully and then... they don't fall in love, because Francois is in love with his childhood sweetheart and only agreed to the masquerade to earn money to help with her struggling bookstore. Elena, charmed by this, decides to take matters in hand and sort out Francois's life for him, with the pair becoming rather adorable, physically affectionate friends.

Meanwhile, the wife (Kristin Scott Thomas) sees right through the whole con and is archly amused. Rather than seek to get revenge on Elena, she prefers to play cat and mouse with her husband and arranges to break the affair in a way that actually helps Elena move on.

It's a film with a surprisingly gentle outlook. The women don't fight over the men. The comic misunderstandings never feel mean-spirited, Elena is not a prize to be won and even two obnoxious minor characters end up finding a perfect match in each other.

This film has a simple and appealing enough premise to have been adapted four times since (thrice in India, once by Hulu a couple years ago). It reminded me of fanfic with its use of tropes (fake dating, only one bed) and I appreciate how it took a rather sleazy premise and made it about a developing friendship instead of romance. Cute all around, though almost too short. A couple good internal reveals were cut away from, leaving the conclusion somewhat hasty.

For someone like me, who tends to dislike romcoms, this was a very good genre-adjacent compromise. A trifle, but it made me smile - and that is the chief assignment right now.

Hopefully this time the project will take and I'll do a lot of posts on miscellaneous movies to rebuild my blogging muscles this winter.

Current Mood: excited

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family

My brother is arriving tomorrow!!

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2025,
sign-ups

Yuletide 2025 Sign-Ups Open

Please read this post even if you have signed up before!

After reading this post, please look at the tag set to see what fandoms are available this year, and make a shortlist of what you plan to offer and request. (The same fandoms can be on both lists, if you want.)

Then sign up at the collection. We recommend you allow at least half an hour to sign up. While you can edit your sign-up over the next week, you will not be able to make any changes after sign-ups close at 9pm UTC 24 October.

If you would like to avoid matching to up to three other participants, with limitations discussed here, you may do so by filling out a Google Form from a link within the AO3 form. If you want to use this feature but cannot use Google Forms, please email the mods. Do Not Match requests will close at the same time as signups.

Requests

You can request 3-8 fandoms

Each fandom must be different

You can request 0*-4 characters in each fandom

*Requesting 0 characters means "I am happy to receive any nominated character for this fandom. My author gets to choose which one(s)". That includes Worldbuilding for fandoms where Worldbuilding is nominated as a character tag. If no characters are nominated for the fandom, requesting 0 characters means “I am happy to receive any character or worldbuilding for this fandom.”

"AND" matching means your writer must include every character you select. If you are happy with a subset of your selected characters, indicate this with Additional Tags, and clarify any exceptions in your optional details.

You can only request characters from the tag set, though your optional prompts may mention other characters to appear too.

In some fandoms, you can request Worldbuilding as a character. You can find guidance on that here.

AND matching and additional tags
Generally, when you select characters in your sign-up form, it means you want and expect your gift to include all of those characters. This is a key principle for matching and assignments. However, some people like to give their author further options. We are using the Additional Tags section of the form for this.

If you requested 0 characters, or you want all the characters you selected to appear, you will tick the first Additional Tag option, which says "My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)". If you think your situation might be different, please read last year’s post about additional tags and select additional tags that are right for your requests. This information is also in the sign-up form.

Optional Details and Do Not Wants (DNWs)
"Optional details" = prompts, ideas, likes, explanations of how you see the canon. Optional details and DNWs can be recorded in the main text section of your requests.

Optional details are optional (ODAO)! Your writer doesn't have to follow your prompts, though they must avoid your DNWs. You don't have to give prompts here, either - though prompts and ideas may be a more inspiring first impression than a list of DNWs on its own. Prompts may be particularly useful if you are requesting a Worldbuilding tag.

See this 2020 post for some considerations when writing your DNWs. Last year, we also clarified our rules and guidance about DNWs.

The Optional Details section of your AO3 requests is especially relevant if you have selected option two of the additional tags, "My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form". In that case, please use this section of the form for explaining how and when your writer is allowed to leave out some of the characters you selected.

Please use minimal html in the optional details field. No images, please.

Please also note in the form if you're able to receive treats - or if you don't want them! Yuletide has a long-established culture of extra gifts, but if you created your account recently, you may have extra gifts turned off by default. Please check your AO3 preferences, and then state in your sign-up form whether you do or do not accept treats.

Letters
You can write prompts and preferences in another space, such as Dreamwidth, Livejournal, Google Docs, or Tumblr, and put a link in your sign-up. This is known as a "letter". Some people write letters; some don't. DNWs and character subsets that are listed in a letter but not in the Optional Details AO3 textbox cause confusion and difficulty for creators, and will not be enforced by the mods. Otherwise, your letter is an extension of your optional details and is treated the same way.

Important: You cannot add a letter after sign-ups close.

Offers

You can offer 4-10 fandoms

Each fandom must be different

You can offer 2-20 specific characters in each

If you want to offer a fandom that has 0-1 characters available, tick the "Any" box

If you are willing to write any combination of nominated characters, including Worldbuilding for fandoms where it is nominated, tick the "Any" box

"Worldbuilding" can also be selected as a character for many fandoms. Please check here to see how we're using it.

Offers are secret! Please don't declare openly what you're offering.

If you have several fandoms in which you want to offer to write Any nominated characters, you can make your last offer a "Bucket Offer". You can read about bucket offers in the Sign-ups section of the AO3 FAQ. This older tutorial has pictures!

Signing up!

The sign-up form is here.

Signups will remain open - and editable - until 9pm UTC 24 October.

You may only sign up to Yuletide with one AO3 account. You must be aged 18 or over to sign up.

You can find more sign-up information at the Yuletide 2025 FAQ

There is also specific guidance about how to use Additional Tags

Please check the tag set or the app when signing up. The autocomplete drop-down list in the sign-up form may not show all available characters. If they're in the tag set, you can enter them manually.

Sign-Up Summary

The list of requested/offered fandoms will be available after five people have signed up. Bucket offers do not show up in the list. Checking the sign-up summary for people you may be able to write for is a good idea - although many people sign up at the last minute. The sign-up summary says it updates hourly; in practice it may update less frequently.

Fandoms at 1-1 on the sign-up summary may mean that the same person is offering and requesting the fandom, not that there is a match.

Welcome to Yuletide!

Feel free to ask us questions.

Bonus! Yuletide advertisements

Thank you to

crantz (who also made images for us to share in 2019 and in 2020). Please use these to encourage friends and other fans to take part!

Yuletide exchange promotional image using mountain forest scenery. Text says Write off the beaten path - Yuletide Rare Fandoms Exchange.

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doctor who

Doctor Who movie (1996)

Last night I finally watched the Doctor Who movie with Paul McGann, which I've had on my watch pile for a while and postponed because I needed a break after the exhausted end of the Moffat era. I was also expecting it to be of questionable merit, and it was, but it was also very fun. Mostly because it was so stupidly over the top. The whole Frankenstein-intercut regeneration and resulting mirror scene was so try-hard it was rather cute.

The script was clunky. I know the basic lore, and was still astonished by all the drab info-dumps cluttering the script. I can't imagine what a fresh audience was supposed to take away from this, but obviously it didn't work.

The TARDIS set was cool beyond cool. Absolutely the best it has ever looked of what I've seen. Also, compared to the modern show playing coy with the interior, this one just dove right into the place. It also made sense of why the Doctor, finding trouble as he does, didn't burn through all his lives in about 100 years, because this version is an actual vast ship one can picture him living in very contentedly. Wonderful use of 90s TV movie budget.

Also looking great was Paul McGann, the most beautiful Doctor ever. The pre-Raphaelite curls, the sad eyes, the Michelangelo's Next Top Model semi-shirtlessness, the dressy attire. He made the perfect objet d'art, and more seriously, tried his darnedest to sell the script. ( I'll cut the rest for old spoilers and for length )

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Author Questions (and a question for you!)

Tagset corrections are in, and signups are opening soon! It’s just about time to decide what you’ll be requesting and offering.

This year, you can request eight fandoms! Previously, it was six. Because of that, we're reviewing our process for sending author questions.

Each year, we receive questions from authors about their recipient’s requests. These might include clarification on prompts or requests to understand how a DNW applies to a specific fandom–for example, does a DNW for character death include discussion of deaths that occur in canon?

We’re always happy to pass these questions along! Please always contact the mods directly rather than reaching out to the recipient yourself.

Traditionally, when we send these questions to recipients, we try to disguise the fandom the author plans to write for, so the gift is still a surprise. If the question is generic and applies to all fandoms, we can pass it along as-is. If the question is specific to one fandom, our team of volunteers writes decoy questions for the other fandoms and sends along the whole set.

This is fun for us to do, but it takes time. It's also extra work for the recipients to read and respond to multiple questions. This year, as we’re allowing up to 8 requested fandoms (which could mean up to 7 mod-created questions), it seems like a good time to check in and see if our participants find it helpful.

So, a poll! Going forward, which would you prefer mods do?

Poll #33725 Author Questions Poll

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 254

View Respondents

Going forward, which would you prefer mods do with author questions?

View Answers

Mods should continue to send decoy questions for all fandoms, along with the author’s actual question, to maximize the mystery of which fandom a recipient will receive. (This is how things work currently.)
40 (15.7%)

Mods should send questions for several fandoms, including the author’s actual question, but possibly not all–even though that could narrow down which fandom a recipient may receive.
204 (80.3%)

Something else (Please let us know in comments!)
10 (3.9%)

Keep in mind the question may be from a potential treat writer, so receiving questions for a particular set of fandoms isn’t a guarantee that your final gift will be in one of those fandoms.

We may not necessarily change our process this year based on community feedback, but it will be helpful in making our decision!

We'd also love to hear from you if you'd like to share a past experience with sending or receiving questions! If that has never happened to you, we hope you enjoy this peek behind the administrative curtain.

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All assignments have been sent!

Please contact me via message if you have any questions or issues with your assignment. Remember: do not contact your recipient for any reason! If you need to clarify something, please reach out to me or

havocthecat and we will contact them for you.

Link to the betareaders available/wanted post.

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Weekend

No word from the place that interviewed me, so I likely didn’t get it.

Went to a clothing swap today, this one in a David-Bowie-themed bar on Queen West. Brought in my khaki drawstring linen slacks (nice, but I have other pants now); my black jersey mock-turtleneck dress (haven’t worn it in at least a year); and my blue velvet cocktail dress (never worn, not likely to unless somebody I know gets married in the winter months and invites me to the wedding—which I can’t see happening any time soon); along with a few other things.

Got several items I’m pleased with, also a pair of grey nylon joggers I may use in a Hallowe’en costume, and a couple of t-shirts that amuse me. One has the MTV logo, though it’s almost certainly of recent vintage. One has a picture on it of Spongbob dressed as a vampire.

Speaking of pop-culture, I discovered yesterday that at least four productions of Anne Washburn’s Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play are viewable in their entirety on YouTube—thereby preserving on video ephemeral performances of a stage play about recreating and reimagining lost media in a post-apocalyptic world.
Studio Playhouse
Young Theater:
Harvard TEATRO:
GHSTA:

ETA: Here are some clips and interviews from the time of the original production, though I sort of prefer the way the subsequent versions costume Act III (75 years later) in a more stylized way.

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Do-Not-Match Option - LIMITED Yuletide edition

Tag set housekeeping

We've removed Mouthwashing (Video Game) as that was approved in error. Sorry for getting your hopes up, nominator!

烏は主を選ばない | Karasu wa Aruji wo Erabanai | Yatagarasu: The Raven Does Not Choose Its Master (Anime): It’s come to our attention that Nazukihiko and Wakamiya are the same person, so we’re merging those characters.

Nominator of Luca (The History of Sound) - it looks like the Wikipedia page for this movie incorrectly listed Luca as the name of Lionel's lover in Rome; according to IMDB and the original stories this movie is based on, it's Vincent (who was also nominated), so we're deleting Luca.

Thank you for all the tag set issues you’ve let us know about so far! Please continue to check the tag set and let us know of further corrections we should make. Please tell us about these corrections before 9am UTC, Monday 13 October, so we can fix them before sign-ups.

Limited Do-Not-Match option

Most of the time, the person assigned to create for you in an AO3-based gift exchange, and the person assigned to receive a gift from you, are determined by the tags you select in the sign-up form.

Some exchange moderators also offer participants the option to say "Please do not match me up with [ExampleUserName] or [ExampleUserName2]. I don't want to receive a gift from them or create for them." This feature makes it easier, for example, to offer a fandom requested by six different people including someone you'd prefer to avoid, and have peace of mind that you can still avoid that person.

A Do-Not-Match option is difficult to offer flexibly in Yuletide because of the large number of participants and the large number of people who have only one possible creator or recipient. However, we see a Do-Not-Match option as a valuable tool to reduce friction and make everyone happier, so we intend to offer a limited version of this feature in Yuletide, on a trial basis. Please note that this is not an absolute guarantee you won’t receive a story from one of the people you list.

How it will work

When you sign up on AO3, the sign-up form will also link out to a Google form where you can list the AO3 names of up to 3 people you do not want to match to and can tell us if you want to avoid writing for a person, receiving an assigned gift from a person, or both. We will also ask for those people's AO3 ID numbers, which you can find on their AO3 profiles, and for the email associated with your AO3 name. We will not ask for the reason you wish to avoid a person.

After we run the matching process, we will check all matches against our master Do-Not-Match list. We will take the following actions:

If your assigned recipient or creator is someone you asked to avoid, we will attempt to match you to someone else.

If your only possible recipient is someone you asked to avoid, we will email you to recommend you expand your offers. However, we will leave the match in place if you do not respond in the first 24 hours following the close of sign-ups.

If your only possible creator is someone you asked to avoid, we will send out your requests with initial pinch hits.

If you are the only possible recipient for a creator you asked to avoid, we will leave the match in place, but will prioritize your requests for double-assignment to two creators. [Because of how matching works, there will always be Yuletide participants who start out with two assigned creators; generally we try to choose them at random.]

We will not take the following actions:

We will not ask a creator to drop out or expand their offers if their only possible recipient is someone who would prefer to avoid them.

We will not inform a participant that someone else has asked not to match to them. [This information will be restricted only to the core Yuletide mods, Isis, Morbane, and pendrecarc, and will not be shared with the larger pool of Yuletide assistants.]

We will not review treats for unwanted matches. Putting someone on your Do-Not-Match list will not prevent them from creating a treat for you (but please see FAQs below for other tools to achieve this).

We will not prevent someone on your Do-Not-Match list from claiming you as a pinch hit. We will check our master Do-Not-Match list when assigning pinch hits, so if the first person to claim you is a person you prefer to avoid, we will leave a short amount of time to see if another claim comes in. But we will not hold your pinch hit indefinitely or tell the first creator they aren't allowed to claim you.

We will not ask you why you wish to avoid a particular match.

FAQs (foreseeable/anticipated questions)

Who am I allowed to put on my Do-Not-Match list?
Any three AO3 accounts you would prefer to avoid matching to. This can be for any reason, serious or unserious. Do not tell us the reason, please. If the reason is harassment or similar, we recommend reaching out to the Policy & Abuse team separately. You may only give specific names, rather than a description like "anyone who mostly wants porn".

Can't I just block people I don't want to match to?
No. Adding other users to your block list stops them from giving you a treat (see item AO3-6502 on this news post). It also stops them from being able to comment on your work. However, it does not affect challenge matching. A person you have blocked can be assigned to create for you, and you can be assigned to create for them.

Wait, am I allowed to block people in Yuletide?
Yes. Feel free to use the blocking feature to improve your AO3 experience. However, blocking someone and also matching to them could lead to unhappiness for both of you - so please consider using all the tools at your disposal to avoid matching to people you have blocked. This could mean choosing not to offer a fandom if you suspect it has been requested by a person you wish to avoid, or it could mean using the Do-Not-Match option for people you have blocked.

What other AO3 tools exist to manage my gift experience?
If you wish, you can choose to receive gifts only from assigned writers in a gift exchange or people who have claimed your prompts in a prompt meme. This is sometimes described as turning treats on and off. If you created your account after February 2022, please review this setting in your AO3 account preferences. If you select the setting "Allow anyone to gift me works", you can receive treats. If you do not select this setting, only an assigned author can give you a gift in Yuletide.

Will this be a feature of Yuletide going forward?
Maybe, maybe not. It will depend on how well it works out this year!

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fest: hlh_shortcuts

>10 hours to sign up for HLH_Shortcuts '25

If you haven't yet signed up for

hlh_shortcuts and want to, sign up:

On the AO3 collection.
By 11:59pm Central Time on Saturday, October 11, 2025.

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Event: Highlander Shortcuts

Highlander Shortcuts sign-ups close tomorrow!

Come and join us!

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SIGNUPS CLOSE TOMORROW.

REMINDER to sign up for HLH Shortcuts by 11:59PM Central tomorrow!

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2025,
tag set

Yuletide 2025 Tag Set Open!

The 2025 tag set is available here! Please browse and enjoy!

Fixes and Polishing

We're ready to work on corrections. Please tell us what we need to fix! We may make posts with further queries, depending on the issues you raise. Please keep an eye out for those! Sign-ups are projected to start October 14. If nothing's wrong in your fandoms - or if you can multitask - take part in activity at

yuletide!

If your fandom is the wrong category. (such as Books when it should be Celebrities & RPF - etc.)...

first, please check if it is also in the right category. If it is also in the right category, we can't help.

If it's only in the wrong category, please tell us what it is and what category it should be in.

(Please note that if it's a canonical fandom on AO3, we can't change it in the Yuletide tagset - however, we can notify the wranglers of the issue.)

Tell us about…

if you nominated something, but you can't find it at all

if you nominated characters in a particular fandom, but you can't find them there

if the fandom or characters you nominated were changed to something incorrect

if you see the exact same character tag (including disambiguation) in multiple fandoms

if a character or fandom name is mis-spelled (we don't care as much about disambiguations, so if the words in brackets entered after your fandom name are wrong (mis-spelled, misleading), feel free to tell us, but this may not be corrected.)

if you see something that doesn't belong

if you see two fandoms that are duplicates of each other

if you see the same character twice under one fandom

if your new fandom has been categorized in the wrong media category (and it isn't in any other category).

For missing nominations and corrections to your nominations, please provide your nominations link.

DO NOT tell us:

if your fandom is in the wrong media category (a book under movies, etc), unless that is the only category that it is in. Please check ALL the categories before you report a problem.

if your fandom is in Uncategorized Fandoms. This is a work in progress, please be patient as we work through these fandoms.

if the characters in your fandom all belong, but the disambiguation tags entered in brackets after their names aren't all the same. Sometimes we have to enter really long strings after a character name to keep the character where they're supposed to be. We only care if the information in brackets is wrong.

Suggested template for corrections requests:
Fandom tag (current):
Problem:
If correcting a tag or tags:
The current tag(s):
The correct tag(s):

Some Stats

This year, we approved 16,466 characters across 4,278 fandoms!

The most nominated fandom this year was Murderbot (TV), with 15 nominators. Close behind it was Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game), with 13 nominators.

Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard is far in the lead by approved characters for a second year in a row, with 39 to select from. Lymond Chronicles - Dorothy Dunnett has 30, and The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison is in third with 27.

At the other end of the spectrum, 82 fandoms were nominated without characters.

Worldbuilding was nominated 356 times this year! John edged out Jack for the most common first name. Our review suggests the most ubiquitous characters of 2025 are, once again, Dracula and Sherlock Holmes.

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The Friday Five for 10 October 2025

These questions were originally suggested by

angelicid.

Name five…

1. ... things you can't live without.

2. ... of the best moments in your life.

3. ... celebrities you can't stand.

4. ... books you enjoy(ed) reading.

5. ... items in your purse/backpack/on your desk.

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Writer Meme

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annavere's page and thought it looked like fun, so here is a writer meme. I may have gotten a little verbose with this.

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Updates

Got our latest covid shots on Saturday—the ‘flu shot apparently isn’t out yet, at least not in our neck of the woods.

In the evening I went to the final night of Bus Stop alone (Andrew didn’t want to risk the flight of steps that leads down to the theatre). The audience filled maybe three-quarters of the seats. The cast told me afterwards they were disappointed by the turnout, as the last night of a run they usually get a full house, but that they’d been in competition with the baseball playoffs. I thought the actual performances were pretty good, especially Brit, the actress who’d had to step into the role of Elma for the final weekend after Spencer (our original Elma) was injured in an accident. I still don’t know exactly what happened—apparently she’ll be ok, but was recovering at home and loopy on painkillers for a few days.

Afterwards I helped move the props back to the storage room, and we had some pizza. Got home around midnight, went to bed, and shortly thereafter my reaction to the shot kicked in. I’m fine today, but Sunday was spent feeling achey and tired.

Did a job interview this morning, don’t know if I’ll get it or even especially want it (1-year contract, no benefits, and a weird-sounding schedule).

Oh, I’ve been asked to be co-costumer for the November show, On the Air. I’d been hoping to get that one—the setting is contemporary, but a couple of the characters sound like they might be fun to dress, especially the crazy ex-rockstar radio disc-jockey (sound familiar?)