Pokexchange Letter 2025
Nov. 1st, 2025 10:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
peasinaDear Gifter,
I’m so happy to participate in![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
pokeprompts’ Pokéxchange again, and I’m so happy you’re here 😁 Thank you for creating for me, or for treating me if you’re considering it – you’re the best! I have treats enabled on my AO3 (also peasina) and would be absolutely delighted by any. I’m requesting art and fic for all requests and love both equally.
Please note: this letter contains Legends ZA spoilers throughout.
It’s been a great year in the Pokémon fandom for me personally, from almost finishing my Magnemite TCG master set to Legends ZA taking over my October, and generally enjoying both the nostalgia of my Pokémaniac youth and the discovery of new favourites in gens I’m still not fully familiar with (there’s just so many Pokémon, okay! 😆) Having this exchange round out the year is something I look forward to.
Original human characters are very welcome in any gift for me. This could be anything from an original trainer, someone who works in the Pokémon universe’s related professions (e.g., Pokémon Center, Gym, Mart, etc.), even someone who’s accidentally acquired a Pokémon and has no idea what to do about that!
Wishing you a wonderful Pokéxchange 🩷🩷🩷
***Do Not Wants: first person POV, second person POV, serious Pokémon harm/death, pokephilia, Christmas themes/settings, poetry, crossovers with non-Pokémon media, trans headcanons, amputation
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( Stunfisk )
( Klefki )
( Corbeau &/ Lysandre, Corbeau/Philippe )
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I’m so happy to participate in
pokeprompts’ Pokéxchange again, and I’m so happy you’re here 😁 Thank you for creating for me, or for treating me if you’re considering it – you’re the best! I have treats enabled on my AO3 (also peasina) and would be absolutely delighted by any. I’m requesting art and fic for all requests and love both equally.Please note: this letter contains Legends ZA spoilers throughout.
It’s been a great year in the Pokémon fandom for me personally, from almost finishing my Magnemite TCG master set to Legends ZA taking over my October, and generally enjoying both the nostalgia of my Pokémaniac youth and the discovery of new favourites in gens I’m still not fully familiar with (there’s just so many Pokémon, okay! 😆) Having this exchange round out the year is something I look forward to.
Original human characters are very welcome in any gift for me. This could be anything from an original trainer, someone who works in the Pokémon universe’s related professions (e.g., Pokémon Center, Gym, Mart, etc.), even someone who’s accidentally acquired a Pokémon and has no idea what to do about that!
Wishing you a wonderful Pokéxchange 🩷🩷🩷
***Do Not Wants: first person POV, second person POV, serious Pokémon harm/death, pokephilia, Christmas themes/settings, poetry, crossovers with non-Pokémon media, trans headcanons, amputation
( General Likes )
( Stunfisk )
( Klefki )
( Corbeau &/ Lysandre, Corbeau/Philippe )
( Misc. Section )
“Dateful” Simplifies Timing Online Events
Nov. 1st, 2025 02:11 pmjesse_the_k posting in access_fandomMy cognitive impairments mean I always mess up time zones. I’ve participated in many events in the past five years. Only one managed to sense my current time zone and adjust all the info on their site to match. (And of course I can't remember which one it was.)
Which is why I love https://dateful.com. It’s an excellent tool when you’re communicating across time zones. It’s free. It features:
- Time Zone Converter: convert between major world cities and timezones instantly as you type
- World Clock: up to 20 clocks to see how the rest of the world can participate in your event
- Time Calculator: adds and subtracts times, dates, and durations
And best of all:
- Eventlink: create a link that converts an event’s time to the user’s current time zone and day. You can add an event title, description, and URL (meeting link or a web page), and you can offer an “add to my calendar” which works with Apple, Google, and Outlook.
All that info in a single link. You don’t need an account, but if you create one, you can go back and edit your Eventlinks.
I’m able to do these things with the keyboard; I welcome insights from readers using adaptive technology.
I need some WWDITS icons
Nov. 1st, 2025 08:46 pmpeasinaI completed my WWDITS Podtober challenge! I did it – I posted one What We Do in the Shadows (TV) podfic per day for the whole of October. I’m realising as I write this post that 31 is the same number of podfics I made for battleship this year too. Neat! It was exhilarating, a little exhausting, and I still can’t believe I managed it. I’m proud of myself ^^
✨ The headline stats are: 88,260 words podficced, totalling 11 hours, 24 minutes of podfic! ✨
Under the cut are more detailed stats and ramblings about the project 😊
( Stats, stats, stats! )
Thanks for reading this if you did! Now I'm off to make my outstanding icons forficortreat and enjoy the gifts I received. (I’ll be sure to post an event roundup for that soon too!) Also must give the kittens some of the attention they demand. They have names now! Eddie Baby and Frank. If you get the reference, I love you. Bye for now!
battleship this year too. Neat! It was exhilarating, a little exhausting, and I still can’t believe I managed it. I’m proud of myself ^^✨ The headline stats are: 88,260 words podficced, totalling 11 hours, 24 minutes of podfic! ✨
Under the cut are more detailed stats and ramblings about the project 😊
( Stats, stats, stats! )
Thanks for reading this if you did! Now I'm off to make my outstanding icons for
ficortreat and enjoy the gifts I received. (I’ll be sure to post an event roundup for that soon too!) Also must give the kittens some of the attention they demand. They have names now! Eddie Baby and Frank. If you get the reference, I love you. Bye for now!
Purimgifts 2026 Schedule!
Nov. 1st, 2025 12:32 pmautobotscoutriella posting in purimgifts
Good time-of-day, everybody, and welcome back for the Purimgifts 2026 schedule!
Purimgifts is an annual all-fandoms-welcome fanfic & podfic exchange with a side helping of art, focused on characters who are at least one of WOMEN, JEWISH, or PERSECUTED BY EVIL VIZIERS.
DEADLINE 23 Feb (anywhere in the world)
REVEALS 2-4 March
Find us on Dreamwidth, Livejournal, tumblr, and the Archive of Our Own.
Looking forward to seeing you all at signups!
Yugioh: YGO Rare Pairs Mini Bang - Sign ups open!
Nov. 1st, 2025 09:10 ampendulumscale posting in fandomcalendar
Description: This event focuses on rare pair ships for all Yugioh series (including crossovers), open to writers, artists, and image & video editors. We use tiered rulings to determine rarity for this event based on ao3 statistics. See our FAQ for more info on rarity requirements.
For this year's mini bang, writers will draft a fic for their chosen rare pair, meeting the 4000 word minimum. Then artists will claim at least 1 fic to use as inspiration for their art. Partners will collaborate and share their fanworks together during the posting period for this event. Please read our specifications page for more details about expectations for event works.
Sign up to participate with this link: https://forms.gle/1gRezet2nT4j5oEP6
Dates (see Schedule for more info):
- Signups: Nov 1-Nov 30 (writers may start immediately)
- Check-in #1 (writers only): Dec 21-23
- Check-in #2 (writers with claim pitch): Jan 30-Feb 1
- Claims: Feb 2-6
- Claims assigned: Feb 7/8
- Artist WIP share: Feb 20-21
- Check-in #3 (all participants): Mar 6-7
- Posting prep: Mar 12-14
- Posting: Mar 15-Apr 4
❎🎉
Oct. 30th, 2025 02:45 pmbluedreamingInstead of doing what I should be doing, I’m doing prep-prep-prep work for the fanworks alphabet meme and mentally screaming because I found my x!!!!! Digging through the vault was not in vain!!!!
(I’m also finding some truly bizarre titling choices; truly my brain in 2015 was sleep-derived and stress-wired and assuming connections and references would be clear…and they are not.)
(I’m also finding some truly bizarre titling choices; truly my brain in 2015 was sleep-derived and stress-wired and assuming connections and references would be clear…and they are not.)
The Friday Five for 31 October 2025
Oct. 30th, 2025 03:03 pmanais_pf posting in thefridayfiveThese questions were originally suggested by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
twirlandswirl.
1. Did you vote in your most recent applicable election? (If you're not yet old enough, do you plan to vote in the future?)
2. Have you ever protested or attended a march?
3. What political issue is the most important to you?
4. Are you a member of a party in your country? If so, which?
5. Do you ever plan to run for office?
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twirlandswirl.1. Did you vote in your most recent applicable election? (If you're not yet old enough, do you plan to vote in the future?)
2. Have you ever protested or attended a march?
3. What political issue is the most important to you?
4. Are you a member of a party in your country? If so, which?
5. Do you ever plan to run for office?
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.
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wednesday reads and things
Oct. 29th, 2025 07:04 pmisisWhat I've recently finished reading:
Europe at Midnight and Europe in Winter, the second and third of the Fractured Europe Sequence by Dave Hutchinson. The first was a reread (and again, I was surprised at how much I'd forgotten in the 10 years since I read it the first time), but I really enjoyed the SF aspect of The third book went into more detail about Rudi's family background, and about how the actual mechanism of [spoiler] is basically the biggest and most important secret in the world, and about the Coureurs and their function.
I actually requested this for Yuletide, and one of my prompts was "worldbuilding - what's happening in the US?" and...one character meets with someone who has a Texas passport, so, there's a whole lot hinted at by that tiny detail right there!
What I'm currently reading:
Europe at Dawn, the finale of the series. This one feels more like various vignettes set in this universe, though I expect everything will come together eventually. I do like how the Situations that the Coureurs handle are all matter-of-fact cloak-and-dagger: a woman walks up to our POV character and says something fairly banal, and he responds with a similar sentence; when she's gone, he finds a slip of paper in his pocket with the name of a hotel in another city; he goes there and checks in, and there's another slip of paper in the bedside Bible; he finds the car with the number plate on that paper and he gets in and drives across the border and leaves it in the parking lot of a certain cafe, then he takes the train home. It's all very mysterious! and fun! (and leaves me wondering why go to all that trouble to hide things in places in so many steps, but...)
(B is reading the Fourth Wing series and enjoying it. I'm kind of gobsmacked.)
What I started watching and abandoned:
The Fall of the House of Usher, which, okay I liked the transposition to a very modern gothic story aboutthe Sackler pharmaceutical empire a family which developed and heavily marketed an extremely addictive opioid, but I am not a fan of horror and gore and shows in which everybody is a horrible person. We lasted 3 episodes.
What I'm watching now:
Season 3 of The Diplomat, which got off to a magnificent and twisty-turny start!
Europe at Midnight and Europe in Winter, the second and third of the Fractured Europe Sequence by Dave Hutchinson. The first was a reread (and again, I was surprised at how much I'd forgotten in the 10 years since I read it the first time), but I really enjoyed the SF aspect of
spoiler for the cool reveal at the end of the first book, which is explored in the second book
the Community existing as a private England overlaying Europe in another dimension; the idea of the map (somehow) becoming the territory is just fascinating!I actually requested this for Yuletide, and one of my prompts was "worldbuilding - what's happening in the US?" and...one character meets with someone who has a Texas passport, so, there's a whole lot hinted at by that tiny detail right there!
What I'm currently reading:
Europe at Dawn, the finale of the series. This one feels more like various vignettes set in this universe, though I expect everything will come together eventually. I do like how the Situations that the Coureurs handle are all matter-of-fact cloak-and-dagger: a woman walks up to our POV character and says something fairly banal, and he responds with a similar sentence; when she's gone, he finds a slip of paper in his pocket with the name of a hotel in another city; he goes there and checks in, and there's another slip of paper in the bedside Bible; he finds the car with the number plate on that paper and he gets in and drives across the border and leaves it in the parking lot of a certain cafe, then he takes the train home. It's all very mysterious! and fun! (and leaves me wondering why go to all that trouble to hide things in places in so many steps, but...)
(B is reading the Fourth Wing series and enjoying it. I'm kind of gobsmacked.)
What I started watching and abandoned:
The Fall of the House of Usher, which, okay I liked the transposition to a very modern gothic story about
What I'm watching now:
Season 3 of The Diplomat, which got off to a magnificent and twisty-turny start!