Initial Pinch Hits: #1-10 (of 23)

Apr. 13th, 2026 01:57 pm
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We have 23 initial pinch hits! This post is #1-10. If you can claim one of these, please comment with your AO3 name and the number of the pinch hit you want. All comments are screened.
 
Like main assignments, these pinch hits are due on 5 June, and they require a check-in during the week of 8-15 May.
 
You may ask to exchange your assignment for an open pinch hit. If you are given that pinch hit and fulfill it, this won't count as a default. Please tell me in your comment requesting a pinch hit that you are asking to swap.

PH 1 - Mononoke-hime | Princess Mononoke, Soul Eater (Anime & Manga), ダンジョン飯 | Dungeon Meshi | Delicious in Dungeon, ちはやふる | Chihayafuru (Anime & Manga), 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney, Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021) )

 


PH 2 - Star Wars: Rebels, Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon), Crossover Fandom, Star Wars: Resistance (Cartoon), Star Wars Original Trilogy )

 


PH 3 - Young Sherlock (TV 2026), Biohazard | Resident Evil (Gameverse), Fallout (TV 2024), Hades (Supergiant Games Video Games), Andor (TV) )

 


CLAIMED - PH 4 - 名探偵コナン | Detective Conan | Case Closed, 憂国のモリアーティ | Yuukoku no Moriarty | Moriarty the Patriot (Anime), Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Kuroshitsuji | Black Butler, One Piece (Anime & Manga), Ready or Not (Movies), 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018), Doctor Who (2005), Original Work, DCU (Comics) )

 


CLAIMED - PH 5 - Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light, Voltron: Lion Force (1984), Jem and the Holograms (Cartoon), G.I. Joe (Cartoon), Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys Super Mysteries - Franklin W. Dixon & Carolyn Keene, Chalion Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold, Thunderbirds (2004), Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV), Masters of the Universe: Revelations/Revolution (Netflix), Crossover Fandom )

 


PH 6 - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Beware of Chicken - Casualfarmer, Dreaming of Sunshine (Fanfic Disambiguation), Crossover Fandom )

 


CLAIMED - PH 7 - 你却爱着一个傻逼 - 水千丞 | In Love with an Idiot - Shui Qian Cheng, 小白杨 - 水千丞 | My Little Poplar - Shuǐ Qiān Chng, 老婆孩子热炕头 - 水千丞 | Lǎo P Hi Zi R Kng Tou - Shuǐ Qiān Chng, 火焰戎装 - 水千丞 | Huǒ Yn Rng Zhuāng - Shuǐ Qiān Chng, 附加遗产 - 水千丞 | F Jiā Y Chǎn - Shuǐ Qiān Chng, 职业替身 - 水千丞 | Professional Body Double - Shuǐ Qiān Chng, 我行让我来 - 酱子贝 | I Can Do It - Jing Zǐ Bi, 秉性下等 - 回南雀 | Inferior By Nature - Hu Nn Qu, 江医生他怀了死对头的崽 - 葫芦酱 | Dr. Jiang is Pregnant with His Nemesis's Child - H L Jing, Crossover Fandom )

 


PH 8 - Generation Kill (TV), Justified, SAS: Rogue Heroes (TV), The Pitt (TV), The Punisher (TV 2017) )

 


CLAIMED - PH 9 - The Love Hypothesis - Ali Hazelwood, The Hurricane Wars - Thea Guanzon, Deliver Me - Ashley Hawthorne )

 


PH 10 - 杀破狼 | Stars of Chaos: Sha Po Lang - priest, 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga), 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018) )

 

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Apr. 13th, 2026 12:18 pm
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The concert yesterday was great, nothing interesting to do for the rest of the week now as far as I know though.

challenge closed ⌛

Apr. 13th, 2026 12:09 pm
luminousdaze: Father from Raised by Wolves [by apologizeg] (TV sci-fi #2)
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Challenge 202 is now closed. I will post the voting soon. I'll post a new challenge in a little bit, when it is time for MerMay.😊
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🗞️ In other community news ....
[community profile] itsabattlefield - Multi-fandom icon battle community with monthly battles, two battles are open now.
[community profile] fandom10in30 - make a set of ten icons in 30 days - Round 63 is open through April!
[community profile] tvmovie20in20 - A 20-in-20 icon challenge about TV and movies.

Dancing on the Danube

Apr. 13th, 2026 06:50 pm
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The Hungarian election result is giving me life. I spent much time with the Guardian's livefeed of the election and its aftermath, just basking in happiness. My favourite moments were the thousands dancing along the shores and bridges of the Danube (including the health minister-to-be, whose dancing went viral), and the gleeful gloating of the Polish prime minister and foreign minister

People on the subway high fived each other as they passed on the escalators (third video in the carousel) and were pouring out glasses of champagne to strangers, and it was so crowded with people trying to get across the river to the victory celebrations that they couldn't fit into the subway carriages.

If it must be necessary, my favourite (sadly universal) experience of democracy is witnessing voters take to the streets to dance in relief and joy at having voted out corrupt, autocratic governments. Inject this straight into my veins, forever.

Apparently the partying in Budapest went on until 5am, and then everyone just floated deliriously into work on Monday morning, awash in the sense of their own political agency.

Edited to add, because I couldn't resist, Marie Le Conte liveblogging the celebrations in the streets of Budapest. Oh, my heart.
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The following post-deadline pinch hits need creators and are due April 22th at 11:59 PM EDT. Assignments must be at least 500 words or a sketch on unlined paper, and must include significant gore content. To claim a pinch hit, either comment on this post or email me at shimmeringwords@gmail.com including the assignment you want and your AO3 username. Comments are screened. If you post an anonymous comment, I can't reply to it.

Pinch Hit #3: Art, Fic - 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018), 镇魂 | Guardian - priest )

Pinch Hit #5: Fic - Night Prince - Jeaniene Frost, グノーシア | Gnosia (Visual Novel), Dracula Rising (Cartoon) )

Pinch Hit #9: Fic - Anne Rice's Talamasca: The Secret Order (TV 2025), Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022), Loki (TV 2021), The Night Manager (TV 2016), D.Gray-man (Anime & Manga), Merlin (TV) )

Pinch Hit #13: Art, Fic - Stranger Things (TV 2016), 지금 우리 학교는 | All of Us Are Dead (TV), The Walking Dead (TV) )

Pinch Hit #14: Fic - Bleach (Anime & Manga), Frankenstein - Mary Shelley, 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime & Manga), Original Work )

Pinch Hit #15: Art, Fic - 光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Anime), Death Note (Anime & Manga), Iron Lung (2026), MiSide (Video Game), Outlast (Video Games) )

Pinch Hit #16: Art, Fic - NoPixel (Web Series), Runescape (Video Games), Iron Lung (2026), Video Blogging RPF, MiSide (Video Game), 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs )

Pinch Hit #17: Fic - Doctor Who (1963), Doctor Who (2005) )

Pinch Hit #18: Fic - 炎の蜃気楼[ミラージュ] | Honoo no Mirage | Mirage of Blaze, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Dexter (TV), Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities (TV) )

Deadline Passed

Apr. 13th, 2026 12:11 pm
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The deadline has passed! Everyone who did not turn in an assignment or ask for an extension has been defaulted. New pinch hits will be up shortly.

Work reveals are scheduled for April 24, 11:59 PM EDT. In the meantime, make any final edits, and please check your work for placeholders, editing notes, etc. Please do not denigrate or insult your own work in your author's note, as this is likely to make them feel bad about their gift. We're all here to enjoy both gore and the act of creating for fandom together.

Assignments out!

Apr. 12th, 2026 09:24 pm
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Matching is complete, and assignments have been sent!

I hit the button five minutes ago, but as far as I can tell, emails haven't been sent. Hopefully there's just a short delay. To see your assignment without the email, you can go to the collection profile on AO3, then click the My Assignments link.

I encourage you to get in touch at fandom5kmod@gmail.com if you have any questions or concerns about your match.

If your recipient included a link to a letter but that letter is unfinished, please give it a couple of days before asking me to contact them--I was able to get assignments out early this year, and your recipient may have expected to have a little more time.

I'll be posting pinch hits soon! As last year, I will offer the option for you to request a swap from your current assignment to any open pinch hit.

Fannish Update

Apr. 12th, 2026 07:14 pm
senmut: Baby Drizzt from the knees up, looking upwards while he holds his pouch in front of him (Forgotten Realms: Baby Drizzt)
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I still haven't found a new fandom to immerse in.

FTH 2026 is proceeding apace:

~ 3,371/5k - 1st auction (Doctor Who)
~ 2,350/5k - 2nd auction (Multi-fic fulfillment [thank you so much, recipient!] that has a completed Highlander fic. Toying with my options for the next part.)
~ 2,030/5k - 3rd auction (Also Multi-fic fulfillment, but all will be DCU comics)
~ 3,006/5k - 4th auction (Star Wars, pre-Prequels era)
10,757/20k - OVER HALFWAY!

I only have one work in progress, a sequel to a previous fic, that is going to be at least twice the length of the original. Just having too much fun playing with different dynamics for the Do'Urdens.

I think, given how much my new Queensryche playlist is soothing me, I am going to be making more dedicated artist playlists. As many of my FAVORITES still have albums I can't stand, or songs I skip every time. Corey Hart will likely be the next one I make in this fashion.

Trying to decide what book to read again. No, nothing new. I am... not coping with new books. I need a tried and true. Clan of the Cave Bear was very happy-making to revisit, but not sure I want to read any of the others. Maybe a McCaffrey or a Heinlein... or back to Barsoom again.

Sense8 rocked my socks. Some difficult moments to get through, but then Black Sails was the same. No fic vibes in my soul for either fandom. Hey, wait, maybe I can start watching Ted Lasso and see what happens, since I already drabble in it.

Icon Progression 2025

Apr. 12th, 2026 03:30 pm
sheliak: The fire-haired goddess Osara shoots an arrow at a distant army. Her spear lies at her feet. (Osara)
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Better late than never, right?

A year of icons )

Extension

Apr. 12th, 2026 10:16 pm
itsanonyx: ({supernatural} bela - pale moonlight)
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Dear members,

so sorry for disappearing again. 😥 I got sick and spend the last weeks in bed and had no time to get everything done. So the current Challenge is extended for a week. The Challenge ends now next Sunday.

Space Swap Rec

Apr. 12th, 2026 02:02 pm
senmut: Ripley in the Exo-suit versus the Queen Alien (Aliens: Ripley vs Queen)
[personal profile] senmut
The Cat's Perspective (1979) (2743 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Alien (Original Movies 1979-1997), Alien Series
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jones the Cat & Xenomorph Characters (Alien Series)
Characters: Jones the Cat (Alien Series), Xenomorph Characters (Alien Series), Ellen Ripley
Additional Tags: POV Jones the Cat (Alien Series), Cats, Retelling
Summary:

Jones comes from a long line of hunters.

And there is a new prey on the ship.



This? Is fantastic.
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I feel like I've probably oversold this post as well-put-together meta when it is mostly a lot of bullet points with me going "WTF? WTF?," which I guess is basically the Dungeon Crawler Carl experience in a nutshell. Anyway! It's a month until Parade of Horribles comes out, so I figured I'd better post before the post was obsolete. *g*

This is mostly stuff that I've picked up on in reading/rereading and am wondering what will be resolved (and when, given that there's supposedly 3 more books, and spoiler ) I also wanted to do a little speculation about endings. Because despite people on reddit being very vocal about Dinniman being a horror writer and how it's not going to end happily and everyone will die, I don't believe that to be the case, necessarily, based on my reading of the books. (I mean, is it likely? Sure. Do I want that ending? Nope!)

The first, less salient, point in my favor is that the books open with Carl telling the story in a way that sounds like he's looking back on it, that he's been through it and lived to tell the tale. This is typical in novels written in first person past tense; however, spoilers )

The second, more important, point, to me, is the theme of the story that's being told – one of resistance and revolution, anti-capitalism and anti-imperialism – and having that be snuffed out in favor of late stage capitalism and status quo antebellum being restored is just...I don't see it (especially not now). I guess even if everyone dies, the changes Carl et al. have forced on the galaxy will linger, at least for a while, but I am not sure anymore that even Carl dies at the end (I would have said 98% yes he does, but I read some interesting meta on tumblr that made me wonder if he will in fact survive and why, rooted in his own past trauma to make it make sense).

I do think a lot of our favorites will die, probably horribly, but I also think Donut will make it out alive. I cannot imagine killing the cat at this point. It would be interesting and somewhat surprising to make Carl live in the new world too. (I am not just saying this because he's my blorbo, but that might be a major factor in it.) Though how – given his primal race – could be as something new and different (or its own horror, given the givens), which might as well be death in some ways? Metamorphosis, at least. Idk.

Anyway, I've wrestled with how to organize this – by character? by theme? – and decided to go with *drumroll* location! It seemed to make the most sense to me, anyway.

There's spoilers for all 7 books (I am not a member of the Patreon so I haven't read any excerpts from book 8 or the extra material from the print versions of the books) from here on out.

We'll start wide with the galaxy )

Which brings us to earth's surface )

And then, the most important location, the dungeon )

I'm sure there are things I've forgotten/missed/am making too much or too little of, but there is just so much going on that I needed to track it all somehow, and so here we are. If you've read the books, what do you think?

*I said this on tumblr, but I do hope someone makes a Carl vid to Springsteen's Trapped - it's definitely #1 on the Carl playlist I did not actually make but which lives in my head while I contemplate inchoate fic ideas I will never write.

***

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Apr. 12th, 2026 09:07 am
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Got up early to go to Arizmendi to get a cinnamon roll for my breakfast this morning as well as some other goodies. Looking forward to going to a concert this afternoon.

the salt we'd suck off our fingers

Apr. 12th, 2026 11:05 am
musesfool: principal ava coleman, abbott elementary, with a skeptical look (no seriously)
[personal profile] musesfool
Today's poem:

July
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

The figs we ate wrapped in bacon.
The gelato we consumed greedily:
coconut milk, clove, fresh pear.
How we'd dump hot espresso on it
just to watch it melt, licking our spoons
clean. The potatoes fried in duck fat,
the salt we'd suck off our fingers,
the eggs we'd watch get beaten
'til they were a dizzying bright yellow,
how their edges crisped in the pan.
The pink salt blossom of prosciutto
we pulled apart with our hands, melted
on our eager tongues. The green herbs
with goat cheese, the aged brie paired
with a small pot of strawberry jam,
the final sour cherry we kept politely
pushing onto each other's plate, saying,
No, you. But it's so good. No, it's yours.
How I finally put an end to it, plucked it
from the plate, and stuck it in my mouth.
How good it tasted: so sweet and so tart.
How good it felt: to want something and
pretend you don't, and to get it anyway.

***

I caught up on Abbott Elementary last night and spoilers )

***
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I've just rushed in to gather the remainder of the laundry, as it suddenly began bucketing down rain. Amusingly, the neighbours on either side sprinted out to their own gardens at exactly the same moment to do exactly the same thing, and we all gave each other rueful smiles. It's that time of year.

I was recovering from a fairly mild cold this weekend (the worst of it was on Wednesday and Thursday, so by Saturday I was just at the stage of sniffling a bit, and having constant nosebleeds), so things have been relatively quiet, even by my standards: no pool, no gym, very limited activities. I did go to Waterbeach with Matthias yesterday, to sit for a few hours in the taproom of the brewery that only opens up one Saturday a month (where we listened to the couple next to us plan their wedding, with much arguing over seating plans and whether or not to have a traditional fruit cake, but general agreement as to the — seemingly bottomless — quantities of alcohol they were going to serve their guests), and eat handmade pizza from the food truck next door.

Otherwise, the only eventful stuff this weekend has been gardening: readying a few containers with compost in order to transfer the mixed lettuce, dill, and spring onion seedlings out of the growhouse some time later in the week, and planting the next batch of growhouse seedlings (rocket, radishes, corn, zucchini, butternut pumpkin, garlic kale, red spring onions, giant cabbages, and peppermint chard). I'm feeling quite smug that we managed to get all this done this morning, before the rain began.

I think I've only finished two books this week — probably not helped by the fact that I spent Thursday in bed dozing — but both were relatively satisfying.

The first was The Rider of the White Horse, continuing my Rosemary Sutcliffe reading with a big shift from her Romano-British trilogy to the time of the English Civil War, and from her resolutely male protagonists and worlds to a female protagonist: the wife of an aristocrat from the north of England fighting for the Parliamentary cause who follows him across the various battlefields as their fortunes wax and wane. As with other Sutcliffe books, it has a very strong sense of place, as well as a strongly crafted depiction of life with an early modern army on the move: the muddy plains of battle, the besieged cities, with their populations' fate resting on the choices and consequences happening outside their walls, but here also with an additional focus of what this world might have been like for its women. The other feature that I've come to recognise as a Sutcliffe staple — the sense of the catastrophic ending of a particular kind of world, and the disorienting horror felt by people as old familiar certainties are cast aside, unmooring them from former expectations and reference points — is also present and correct. The central relationship — between the protagonist and her husband — is an interesting authorial choice, in that it is an aristocratic arranged marriage which opens with one spouse (the wife) loving the other while knowing that this love is not returned, and over the course of the book, and all the pair experience together and separately, their feelings shift and change until their love for each other is mutual, and more mature, being based, at this point, on a deeper understanding of each other as people. In general, I found the whole book very solid, although it didn't resonate quite as strongly with current global politics as some of her previous fiction that I've read.

I followed this with Mythica, in which classicist Emily Hauser uses the women of and adjacent to Homeric epics as a jumping off point to explore the lives of women in the historical record, and in the material culture of west Asia and the eastern Mediterranean, with digressions into reception studies, and many millennia of literary criticism, historiography, and the shifting western literary canon (as well as some contemporary female character-centric Iliad and Iliad-adjacent retellings).

It's a good thing that although Hauser's name seemed vaguely familiar to me, I had forgotten that this was because she had written a Briseis-centric Iliad retelling that I absolutely detested, because if I'd remembered that detail, I would never have picked up Mythica. (In a very comical moment, she mentions her own retelling as one among many supposedly feminist recent takes on Homer's epic that restore interiority and agency to its women: you and I remember your novel very differently, Emily Hauser.) I'm not enough of a classicist or an archaelogist to know how solid her pulling together of the various threads was, but I felt that as a picture of a specific region in a specific moment in time, shedding light on its non-elite residents (women, enslaved people, ordinary artisans and traders) it did a pretty good job, although Hauser had a frustrating tendency towards certainty where I felt she could stand to be more equivocal when it came to the evidence available. When it came more to the literary and intellectual history of the many millennia of human engagement with Homeric epic, I found the book to be more superficial (is it really news to anyone that for most of recorded 'western' history, the male intellectual and political elite were either silent or misogynistic about the women of the Iliad and the Odyssey?), but possibly this is a reflection both of the type of fiction I tend to read for pleasure (I have a 'briseis fanblog' tag for a reason) and my academic background. Ultimately, I felt that the 'women of the Iliad and the Odyssey' framing of the book was a convenient structure and marketing gimmick for what in reality was an interesting and accessibly told survey of the history and material culture of the lives of ordinary people of the eastern Mediterranean (she does a particularly good job at emphasising the extent that the sea operated as a road, and how outwardly oriented everyone's lives were) that might otherwise have struggled to find a publishing foothold.

In the half-hour or so that it's taken for me to write this post, the rain has, of course, stopped, and my laundry — now laid out on every available surface of the house — is looking at me in a somewhat accusatory manner!

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Apr. 12th, 2026 01:14 am
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It's 1am.

I was in my room rummaging quietly through my drawers trying to get my stuff ready for tomorrow's day trip, when I heard footsteps in the hall.

A very sleepy, displeased Blair, announcing "I had a really bad nightmare, and I'm scared."

She looked so young and soft and vulnerable. It was really sweet and cute, despite her sleepy, disoriented displeasure. She had a bad dream, got out of bed and looked for me for comfort. I took her back to bed and cuddled with her for a bit until she fell back asleep.

This is what it's all about.

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