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Podcasts/Audio Series in the 2025 Tagset
I started listening to so many great things last year thanks to making this list, so I'm back at it again with a compilation post for podcasts, audio dramas, actual plays, and radio shows in the tagset with links on where to find them on the internet (they can usually be found in your favourite podcatcher with little issue). I've also included links to transcripts when available.
Please comment with anything I've missed!
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fancake2025-10-17 09:50 am
runpunkrun) wrote in fancake2025-10-17 09:50 amEntry tags:
Round 180 Theme Poll
Poll #33735 round 180 theme poll
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 66
Pick the next theme of fancake:
Mystery & Suspense
29 (43.9%)
Protest & Revolt
21 (31.8%)
Whump
16 (24.2%)
due South: Build a Rocket, Boys! by feroxargentea
Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski, Ray Vecchio, Harding Welsh, Renfield Turnbull, Sam Franklin
Rating: Mature
Length: 26,765
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: feroxargentea on AO3
Themes: Uncommon settings, Friendship, First time, Action/adventure, Complete AU, In Space
Summary: Androids are going missing on the giant spaceship Chicago! A Mountie and a space cop team up to investigate why, and to find their friend before it’s too late.
Reccer's Notes:
As I mentioned earlier, there are very few due South fics set in space - and this is an excellent one! The familiar due South characters and settings are translated into space, with their base being on the Spaceship Chicago, and Vecchio in trouble over at spacehub Vegas. There's action, adventure, banter, romance, plot and drama as Fraser and Ray work to solve the case and rescue Vecchio. A cracking read!
Fanwork Links: Build a Rocket, Boys!
Characters/Pairings: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski, Ray Vecchio, Harding Welsh, Renfield Turnbull, Sam Franklin
Rating: Mature
Length: 26,765
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: feroxargentea on AO3
Themes: Uncommon settings, Friendship, First time, Action/adventure, Complete AU, In Space
Summary: Androids are going missing on the giant spaceship Chicago! A Mountie and a space cop team up to investigate why, and to find their friend before it’s too late.
Reccer's Notes:
As I mentioned earlier, there are very few due South fics set in space - and this is an excellent one! The familiar due South characters and settings are translated into space, with their base being on the Spaceship Chicago, and Vecchio in trouble over at spacehub Vegas. There's action, adventure, banter, romance, plot and drama as Fraser and Ray work to solve the case and rescue Vecchio. A cracking read!
Fanwork Links: Build a Rocket, Boys!
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Unconventionyule
Unconventionyule is a mini-challenge to help people who like unconventional formats find one another's requests, whether that’s poetry, epistolary, spreadsheets, social media, puzzles, or other unusual mediums. Please remember that works in the main collection must still be at least 1000 words, but shorter works can be submitted to the Madness collection!
To participate, simply copy-paste the following into a comment:
AO3 Name:
Letter Link:
Requested Fandoms:
Format(s): (e.g. epistolary, poetry, spreadsheets, social media)
(Optional) Prompts:
Tag your work with Unconventionyule and/or Unconventional Format to help others find your works!
To participate, simply copy-paste the following into a comment:
AO3 Name:
Letter Link:
Requested Fandoms:
Format(s): (e.g. epistolary, poetry, spreadsheets, social media)
(Optional) Prompts:
Tag your work with Unconventionyule and/or Unconventional Format to help others find your works!
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Chromatic Yuletide 2025
Chromatic Yuletide is a collection post for Yuletide requests that include characters of colour. Posting here doesn't obligate you to do anything, but it helps writers find your requests and treat you.
Posting requirements:
Your request centers around at least one character of colour.
(I acknowledge there are some shortcomings with the "person of colour" descriptor. I'm also not going to police who is or isn't a character of colour; please just use your best judgment.)
To participate, simply copy-paste the following into a comment:
AO3 name:
Letter link:
Fandom:
Characters:
What is it? description of canon or a link to a canon promo (optional)
What kind of thing am I requesting? also optional
If you post a fic for Yuletide with one or more POC characters, tag it with Chromatic Yuletide so people can find it easily!
Posting requirements:
Your request centers around at least one character of colour.
(I acknowledge there are some shortcomings with the "person of colour" descriptor. I'm also not going to police who is or isn't a character of colour; please just use your best judgment.)
To participate, simply copy-paste the following into a comment:
AO3 name:
Letter link:
Fandom:
Characters:
What is it? description of canon or a link to a canon promo (optional)
What kind of thing am I requesting? also optional
If you post a fic for Yuletide with one or more POC characters, tag it with Chromatic Yuletide so people can find it easily!
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Webcomic fandoms you can offer/request in Yuletide 2025
A roundup all the webcomic fandoms in the 2025 tag set (plus all the characters you can request for each one), including links to where you can read them online. Fandoms are in the order/format AO3 puts the tags in.
I tried to flag everything that was (a) NSFW and/or (b) at least partly paywalled. If I missed any examples of that, please let me know!
( Comics, on the web, (mostly) free to get and easy to read )
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TransTide 2025
What is TransTide?
Since trans headcanons and the portrayal of trans characters can be personal for many people, writers might be nervous to write trans headcanons without invitation. This mini challenge is for people to signal that they would love to receive trans headcanons, as well as to showcase their requested fandoms with canon trans characters.
Note that this exchange is open to nonbinary characters as well.
To participate, simply copy-paste the following into a comment:
AO3 name:
Letter link:
Likes and DNWs:
Fandom:
Characters:
Details:
If you post a fic for Yuletide with one or more trans characters, tag it with TransTide so people can find it easily
Since trans headcanons and the portrayal of trans characters can be personal for many people, writers might be nervous to write trans headcanons without invitation. This mini challenge is for people to signal that they would love to receive trans headcanons, as well as to showcase their requested fandoms with canon trans characters.
Note that this exchange is open to nonbinary characters as well.
To participate, simply copy-paste the following into a comment:
AO3 name:
Letter link:
Likes and DNWs:
Fandom:
Characters:
Details:
If you post a fic for Yuletide with one or more trans characters, tag it with TransTide so people can find it easily
Larry Hammer (larryhammer) wrote in yuletide2025-10-15 04:05 pm
larryhammer) wrote in yuletide2025-10-15 04:05 pmEntry tags:
Poems and Ballads in the 2025 tagset
Here’s a list of all poems (including ballads and traditional songs) in the 2023 tagset, with links to texts as best I can find, and a notation of original language if not English. Please let me know of any additions or corrections.
Allison Gross (Traditional Ballad)
Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came - Robert Browning
Flower Fairies - Cicely Mary Barker
The Epic of Gilgamesh [Akkadian]
Goblin Market - Christina Rossetti
Heer Halewijn (Traditional Ballad) [Dutch]
Her strong enchantments failing - A.E. Housman
Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight - Anonymous (Song)
Nibelungenlied [Middle High German]
The Odyssey - Homer [Ancient Greek]
The Romance of Silence [Old French]
Summoned By Bells - John Betjeman
Tam Lin - Anonymous (Song)
Two Loves - Lord Alfred Douglas
The Waste Land - T. S. Eliot
Wulf and Eadwacer [Old English] (original, modern English translations one, two, three, note)
赠答诗 - 金车美人 (弘农) | Poems Composed in Reply - Beautiful Woman in a Golden Carriage (Hong Nong) [Classical Chinese]
Bonus: poets for RPFing in the tagset include:
Allison Gross (Traditional Ballad)
Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came - Robert Browning
Flower Fairies - Cicely Mary Barker
The Epic of Gilgamesh [Akkadian]
Goblin Market - Christina Rossetti
Heer Halewijn (Traditional Ballad) [Dutch]
Her strong enchantments failing - A.E. Housman
Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight - Anonymous (Song)
Nibelungenlied [Middle High German]
The Odyssey - Homer [Ancient Greek]
The Romance of Silence [Old French]
Summoned By Bells - John Betjeman
Tam Lin - Anonymous (Song)
Two Loves - Lord Alfred Douglas
The Waste Land - T. S. Eliot
Wulf and Eadwacer [Old English] (original, modern English translations one, two, three, note)
赠答诗 - 金车美人 (弘农) | Poems Composed in Reply - Beautiful Woman in a Golden Carriage (Hong Nong) [Classical Chinese]
Bonus: poets for RPFing in the tagset include:
- Richard I of England (in 12th Century CE RPF)
- Lord Byron, John Keats, Percy Shelley, and Herman Melville (in 19th Century CE Literary RPF)
- Enheduanna (in Mesopotamian RPF)
- Christopher Marlowe (in 16th Century CE RPF and in Shakespeare RPF)
- Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare (in Shakespeare RPF)
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, and Sappho (in Women's Literary RPF).
rabidsamfan (rabidsamfan) wrote in yuletide2025-10-15 01:13 pm
rabidsamfan) wrote in yuletide2025-10-15 01:13 pmEntry tags:
Yuletide Madness Drabble Invitational
It is time once more for the Yuletide Madness Drabble Invitational!
Are you going through the tagset, thinking about your signup, and getting lured down plotbunny holes?
Well, if you are entranced by tiny canons, luscious fandom promos, or letters with prompts that you absolutely adore, and you've got to do something to appease the itty bitty plot bunnies that are nibbling at your ankles, the Yuletide Madness Drabble Invitational is back to meet all your "I don't have time or brain enough to do 1000 words, but that idea is still keen" needs.
How does it work?
Write drabbles or drabble series for Yuletide Madness. Proper ones, where the text of each drabble is exactly 100 words, please. Ficlets are fun, but not all ficlets are drabbles in just the same way as not all poems are sonnets. (You can, of course, post a 1000 word tale told in drabbles, where each chapter/bit is exactly 100 words to the main Yuletide collection, if you like. Just be sure that it is eligible to fulfill the main gift rules for that recipient.)
Give them to people.
Add "yumadrin" or "Yuletide Madness Drabble Invitational" to the tags.
That's it!
*******
As of the start of Yuletide 2025 we have created 939 drabbles, the oldest ones from 2013 when the Invitational. We are so close to a thousand! These little mini-gifts are a lot of fun to give, and to get, and they're fun to create as well. Check out the tag to see what we mean!
https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Yuletide%20Madness%20Drabble%20Invitational/works
Are you going through the tagset, thinking about your signup, and getting lured down plotbunny holes?
Well, if you are entranced by tiny canons, luscious fandom promos, or letters with prompts that you absolutely adore, and you've got to do something to appease the itty bitty plot bunnies that are nibbling at your ankles, the Yuletide Madness Drabble Invitational is back to meet all your "I don't have time or brain enough to do 1000 words, but that idea is still keen" needs.
How does it work?
Write drabbles or drabble series for Yuletide Madness. Proper ones, where the text of each drabble is exactly 100 words, please. Ficlets are fun, but not all ficlets are drabbles in just the same way as not all poems are sonnets. (You can, of course, post a 1000 word tale told in drabbles, where each chapter/bit is exactly 100 words to the main Yuletide collection, if you like. Just be sure that it is eligible to fulfill the main gift rules for that recipient.)
Give them to people.
Add "yumadrin" or "Yuletide Madness Drabble Invitational" to the tags.
That's it!
*******
As of the start of Yuletide 2025 we have created 939 drabbles, the oldest ones from 2013 when the Invitational. We are so close to a thousand! These little mini-gifts are a lot of fun to give, and to get, and they're fun to create as well. Check out the tag to see what we mean!
https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Yuletide%20Madness%20Drabble%20Invitational/works
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Queering the Tide 2025
There are many ways of queering texts and characters. This challenge is for any and all of them! The widest possible definition of queering is used here. If you think your prompt counts, then so do we.
To participate, leave a comment on this post linking to your letter, so anyone interested in queering your canon for Yuletide can find you. Tag any fics for this mini-challenge with Queering The Tide. (I suggest you tag both Queering the Tide and TransTide if the two happen to overlap.)
You can copy/paste this form below for your comment.
To participate, leave a comment on this post linking to your letter, so anyone interested in queering your canon for Yuletide can find you. Tag any fics for this mini-challenge with Queering The Tide. (I suggest you tag both Queering the Tide and TransTide if the two happen to overlap.)
You can copy/paste this form below for your comment.
<strong>AO3 name:</strong>
<strong>Letter link:</strong>
<strong>Fandom: </strong>
<strong>Any specific fandom details, preferences, comments, etc:</strong>
Text copied from the 2024 post.
Text copied from the 2024 post.
dauntlessshadowice (dauntlessshadowice) wrote in yuletide2025-10-15 12:15 pm
dauntlessshadowice) wrote in yuletide2025-10-15 12:15 pmEntry tags:
Siblings Mini-Challenge: Family Matters 2025
What is Family Matters?
Unrelated to the sitcom (or anything else, actually), Family Matters is a mini challenge focused on sibling relationships. Whether that be traditional, half, foster/adoptive, or step siblings, siblings of all kinds are welcome. For the purposes of this mini challenge, I am excluding found family (unless there are sibling relationships within) and “I see them as a sibling” relationships (unless, of course, that statement is meant to be literal.) As I won’t be policing anything, please use your best interest and feel free to ask me any questions in the comments.
What about incest?
This is NOT the incest mini challenge. Someone made one last year and I'm hoping, for all interested, that it's continues on. However, nothing and no one is stopping you from signing up to both if that’s what you want.
What if [character]’s sibling isn’t in the tagset?
Good news! As long as at least one sibling is in the tagset (and you’re requesting them), this won’t be a problem.
How do I participate?
Leave a comment with the following details:
<strong>AO3 Username:</strong>
<strong>Letter Link (if applicable):</strong>
<strong>Fandoms & Requested Characters + Their Siblings (not necessary, but it might help to put if they’re in the tagset or not/if you’re requesting them):</strong>
<strong>Prompts (optional):</strong>
<strong>Any Other Details:</strong>
How do I tag for this?
The challenge, specifically? Yuletide Family Matters
But in general, try some of these, if applicable: Siblings, Sibling Rivalry, Brother-Brother Relationship, Brother-Sister Relationship, Sister-Sister Relationship, Adopted Sibling Relationship, Step-Siblings
Unrelated to the sitcom (or anything else, actually), Family Matters is a mini challenge focused on sibling relationships. Whether that be traditional, half, foster/adoptive, or step siblings, siblings of all kinds are welcome. For the purposes of this mini challenge, I am excluding found family (unless there are sibling relationships within) and “I see them as a sibling” relationships (unless, of course, that statement is meant to be literal.) As I won’t be policing anything, please use your best interest and feel free to ask me any questions in the comments.
What about incest?
This is NOT the incest mini challenge. Someone made one last year and I'm hoping, for all interested, that it's continues on. However, nothing and no one is stopping you from signing up to both if that’s what you want.
What if [character]’s sibling isn’t in the tagset?
Good news! As long as at least one sibling is in the tagset (and you’re requesting them), this won’t be a problem.
How do I participate?
Leave a comment with the following details:
<strong>AO3 Username:</strong>
<strong>Letter Link (if applicable):</strong>
<strong>Fandoms & Requested Characters + Their Siblings (not necessary, but it might help to put if they’re in the tagset or not/if you’re requesting them):</strong>
<strong>Prompts (optional):</strong>
<strong>Any Other Details:</strong>
How do I tag for this?
The challenge, specifically? Yuletide Family Matters
But in general, try some of these, if applicable: Siblings, Sibling Rivalry, Brother-Brother Relationship, Brother-Sister Relationship, Sister-Sister Relationship, Adopted Sibling Relationship, Step-Siblings
colls (she/her) (colls) wrote in swbookclub2025-10-14 09:33 pm
colls) wrote in swbookclub2025-10-14 09:33 pmEntry tags:
October 2025
Welcome to the midway checkpoint. This month's book is Children of the Jedi (The Callista Trilogy #1) by Barbara Hambly
1. Both Luke's story and Han & Leia's story have horror elements to them. Which one feels creepier?
2. The galaxy is vast. What themes have been touched on so far that you hope gain greater traction? (ie. The Great Houses, the Emperor's concubines, the Jedi children, etc.)
3. How are you liking it so far?
COMING UP NEXT
November: THEME: Published in the 10's
December: Animated series (watching/discussing)
January: Darth Plagueis by James Luceno
1. Both Luke's story and Han & Leia's story have horror elements to them. Which one feels creepier?
2. The galaxy is vast. What themes have been touched on so far that you hope gain greater traction? (ie. The Great Houses, the Emperor's concubines, the Jedi children, etc.)
3. How are you liking it so far?
COMING UP NEXT
November: THEME: Published in the 10's
December: Animated series (watching/discussing)
January: Darth Plagueis by James Luceno
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Yuleporn 2025: Fuck This Year in Particular
What is Yuleporn?
In an exchange as large and diverse as Yuletide, it usually turns out that a lot of people would love to write or receive explicit stories but aren't comfortable asking for them or writing them without a little more information. Yuleporn is a mini-challenge that exists to help unite Yuletiders in requesting, writing, and reading the porn of their Yuletide dreams. Have no Optional Details fear, Yuleporn is here!
How Do I Participate?
- Leave a comment on this post linking your letter if you are interested in getting an explicit fic for YT.
- Add any optional details you want in the comment – additional prompts, favourite kinks, DNWs, &c..
- If you don't have a letter or are a pinch-hitter, you can still leave prompts here, but make sure to include your AO3 name, your fandoms, and the characters you requested
- When it comes time to upload, tag your fics with "Yuleporn" on AO3 so other interested parties can easily find all the good stuff when the collection opens.
- Enjoy.
Here's a totally optional copy-paste form if you like forms!
As always, you don't have to participate in Yuleporn to write or request porn - it's just here to make things easier - and Yuleporn is 100% open to all kinks (or lack thereof).
(This post is mostly copypasta from time immemorial; please comment if anything should be updated! Credit to Morbane for this year's title.)
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Two for One - Crossover and Fusion Mini-Challenge
Two for One is an annual mini-challenge to help people who like crossovers and/or fusions find one another's requests.
To participate, simply copy-paste the following into a comment:
AO3 Name:
Letter Link:
Crossover Type: (ie. crossover, fusion, or either)
Applicable Requested Fandoms:
Potential Crossover Fandoms: (you may list specific combinations you're interested in, ex. Megamind/Treasure Planet, or generally request any of your Yuletide requests with each other, or list additional fandoms you'd be happy to have crossed with any of your requests)
Prompts/Optional Details: (as many and as detailed as you like)
One of the fandoms in each crossover or fusion prompt must be one you are requesting for Yuletide; however, the other doesn’t have to be. It doesn’t even have to be in the tagset at all!
Some clarification about crossover types:
Crossovers tend to involve Fandom A's characters interacting with Fandom B's characters or worldbuilding, with everyone retaining their canon backgrounds. Ex. Aurora and Red Riding Hood team up to defeat a villain, or Clark Kent falls into a portal that takes him to Tortall.
Fusions tend to be AUs in which Fandom A's characters have always existed in Fandom B's setting instead of their own, often replacing Fandom B's characters. Ex. Pacha and Kronk as contestants in the Hunger Games, where Kuzco and Yzma are referees. (A fic like this in which Hunger Games characters also appear would be a hybrid between a fusion and crossover.)
To participate, simply copy-paste the following into a comment:
AO3 Name:
Letter Link:
Crossover Type: (ie. crossover, fusion, or either)
Applicable Requested Fandoms:
Potential Crossover Fandoms: (you may list specific combinations you're interested in, ex. Megamind/Treasure Planet, or generally request any of your Yuletide requests with each other, or list additional fandoms you'd be happy to have crossed with any of your requests)
Prompts/Optional Details: (as many and as detailed as you like)
One of the fandoms in each crossover or fusion prompt must be one you are requesting for Yuletide; however, the other doesn’t have to be. It doesn’t even have to be in the tagset at all!
Some clarification about crossover types:
Crossovers tend to involve Fandom A's characters interacting with Fandom B's characters or worldbuilding, with everyone retaining their canon backgrounds. Ex. Aurora and Red Riding Hood team up to defeat a villain, or Clark Kent falls into a portal that takes him to Tortall.
Fusions tend to be AUs in which Fandom A's characters have always existed in Fandom B's setting instead of their own, often replacing Fandom B's characters. Ex. Pacha and Kronk as contestants in the Hunger Games, where Kuzco and Yzma are referees. (A fic like this in which Hunger Games characters also appear would be a hybrid between a fusion and crossover.)
pumpkinkingmod (pumpkinkingmod) wrote in trickortreatex2025-10-14 05:09 pm
pumpkinkingmod) wrote in trickortreatex2025-10-14 05:09 pmMore tricksy pinch hits for you!
To claim, please comment on this post with your AO3 name and the number or name of the pinch hit you would like. Comments are screened. Pinch hits are first-come, first-serve, and if you're the first to claim, you'll receive the assignment to your email.
You don't have to be signed up to Trick or Treat to claim a pinch hit.
These are due at the regular assignment deadline, October 24, 23:59 UTC.
PH #6 (firsttraintovictoriaville):
Roots of Pacha (Video Game), The White Stripes, Pathfinder: Kingmaker (Video Game), Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop - Hwang Bo-reum
https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/trickortreatex2025/user/firsttraintovictoriaville
PH #13 (plicate):
Head On (1998), Set It Off (1996), Succession (TV 2018)
https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/trickortreatex2025/user/plicate
PH #15 (redgear):
Hallo itt Mátyás király! - Bogáti Péter, 15th Century CE RPF, Debrief (Paracelsus Games Roleplaying Game), Felvidek (Video Game), Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula (2000)
https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/trickortreatex2025/user/redgear
PH #16 (rubylily):
Code Vein (Video Game), 神さまのいない日曜日 | Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi | Sunday Without God (Anime & Manga), Märchen Forest: Mylne and the Forest Gift (Video Game), Octopath Traveler (Video Game), Octopath Traveler II (Video Game), 刀使ノ巫女 | Toji no Miko | Katana Maidens (Anime), void tRrLM(); //Void Terrarium (Video Game), Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Video Game)
https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/trickortreatex2025/user/rubylily
PH #18 (UnhinderedDreams):
Crossover Fandom, The Black Dagger Brotherhood (TV), Buffyverse (TV), I Kissed A Vampire (2010), Nocturnal Animals (2016), The Vampire Diaries (TV)
https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/trickortreatex2025/user/UnhinderedDreams
PH #26 (Marenke):
原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game), Yellowjackets (TV), Something Dark and Holy Series - Emily A. Duncan
https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/trickortreatex2025/user/Marenke
( Already claimed! )
You don't have to be signed up to Trick or Treat to claim a pinch hit.
These are due at the regular assignment deadline, October 24, 23:59 UTC.
PH #6 (firsttraintovictoriaville):
PH #13 (plicate):
PH #15 (redgear):
PH #16 (rubylily):
PH #18 (UnhinderedDreams):
PH #26 (Marenke):
( Already claimed! )