April 2026: 10 out of 20

Apr. 1st, 2026 11:37 pm
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10 out of 20

Under the cut, you will find a list of 20 prompts for April. Your mission is to grab at least 10 of them and create a little something for it. Keep in mind, even if it is not the meaning of the challenge, no one will punish you when you only grab one or two prompts. Every work is welcome.

To complete the challenge, you can create up to ten single works or combine one or more prompts in one work.

Allowed are fics up to 500 words, small poems, icons (100x100 px), and small graphics up to 500 px width x height. Please stay to the maximum, even if you use more than one prompt in your work.

All fandoms, genres, and ratings are welcome, as are original works and real-person works.

When posting directly to [community profile] sweetandshort, please use a header of your choice and put bigger works under a cut. You can also post your work elsewhere, but please leave a header and a link here to keep the community running.

When posting your works, please use any appropriate tag. When a tag is missing, use 'tag needed'.

This challenge runs until April 30, midnight in your timezone.

April Prompt List )


Reminder:
Amnesty 1/26 (still running until  April 5)

Rules and How to Play

Apr. 1st, 2026 08:50 pm
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How to play:
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Rules:
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'Welcome to 'Unconventional Courtship 2026'!

Come join our thirteenth round and over a decade of proud trope subversion.

'Unconventional Courtship' is a panfandom fic fest where you write and post a 1000+ word fic based on a M&B/Harlequin plot. Fics will be posted to this community, staggered through June 2026.

This year's mod is [personal profile] aflaminghalo. Thank you to [personal profile] liadt for all your hardwork modding this fest.

Sign Ups - April 1st - June 10th 2026
Posting - 1st June - June 30th 2026
Amnesty Week - July 1st - July 7th 2026

How to play:

It's as simple as:

1. Sign up! Sign ups close on June 10 and all you need to do is comment on this post with the day you want to post your fic. You can tell us which summary/pairing you're going with, but you don't have to. You don't need a Dreamwidth to play - just comment with OpenID, although you will need to ask us to post your fic on the com. If you are on DW, please follow the community.

2. Choose a M&B/Harlequin summary (or two etc) - we have hundreds of suggestions here, but there are literally thousands. Our prompt generator may also help (thank you [personal profile] john_amend_all) You can do more than one fic, if you want. You can also combine prompts, if you like.

3. Replace the names (and pronouns if necessary) with the names (and pronouns) of the pairing of your choice. Any any all fandoms and pairings are welcome in this fest.

You can also replace place names and jobs as long as you keep to the spirit of the prompt. So, if you want to write Kirk/Spock, but you don't want to write a modern day AU, you could replace 'the Sahara desert' with 'a desert planet' and Kirk wouldn't need to be the boss at a law firm, he could be the boss... in the sense that he's the captain.

4. Complete a fic based on your altered summary. You can take the prompt seriously or use it as an improbable basis for lols.

4.5. Pimp the fest far and wide. I'm hardly going to do this at all, so it's up to you - the players! I've re-uploaded the make-your-own banners and of course you can use ready made ones found over here and here.

Please do pimp where ever you think would be appropriate.

5. Post to this community on your assigned day. If you unable to post on your day there is a amnesty week for those that sign up from July 1 - 7.

You can also post to our AO3 collection if you want!

You can read examples of Unconventional Courtship fic by looking through the collection, or by going through masterposts in the comm.

6. Profit! Fics and art for all! I'll post a masterlist once all the entries are in. Crossposting is encouraged.

Any questions? Leave a comment or PM me.


Rules )

Days for posting )

If you have questions, feel free to ask! And/or consult the FAQs.
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Event: The Mane Event 2026
Event Link: https://the-mane-event.dreamwidth.org/
Pinch Hit Link: Current PHs Found Here
Due Date: April 6th by 11:59 PM UTC 
Minimum: 500 words or fanart at the 'nice sketch' stage

The Mane Event is a hair-themed multifandom exchange and at least one requested freeform must be included in the gift. 

PH 1 - ベイブレードバースト | Beyblade Burst (Anime), Metal Fight Beyblade | Beyblade Metal Saga, Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's

PH 3 - 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018) RPF, 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018), 镇魂 | Guardian - priest

PH 4 - NoPixel (Web Series), Video Blogging RPF, Shirokuma Cafe | Polar Bear's Cafe

PH 5 - 阴阳师 | Yīn Yáng Shī | The Yin-yang Master (Movies - Guo Jingming), 陰陽師 | Onmyouji (Anime 2023), 밤에 피는 꽃 | Knight Flower (TV)

Round 8 Closed/Feedback Post

Apr. 1st, 2026 10:39 am
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Round 8 is officially closed! Thank you to everyone who participated!

If you want to request a prize banner yet, you can do so here.

Please feel free to leave any feedback and suggestions in the the comments of this post.

The next round will begin in the next couple of weeks.

Thanks again! :D

Round 8 Prize Claiming

Apr. 1st, 2026 10:34 am
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This will be the place to claim your prize banner for the eighth round!

To claim a prize, comment with the following info:

1. your username that you want on the banner
2. the type of bingo(s) you accomplished
3. a link to your card(s)

Thank you to everyone who participated! :D

Bingo: 2 Lines

Apr. 1st, 2026 10:58 am
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My card can be found on my journal here!

Fandoms Include:
- Katekyou Hitman Reborn
- The Pitt
- MDZS/The Untamed
- October Daye
- Sherlock
- My Hero Academia
- Kpop Demon Hunters
- Grimm
- Honkai: Star Rail

Tags Needed:
- Katekyou Hitman Reborn
- The Pitt
- October Daye
- My Hero Academia
- Honkai Star Rail

Round 185: Arranged Marriage

Apr. 1st, 2026 07:48 am
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Two gold rings photographed on top of a dictionary opened to the definition of marriage. Text: Arranged Marriage, at Fancake.
Our theme for April is arranged marriage!

Since this is a Flashback Round where we revisit a theme from the early days of the comm—arranged marriage was a Cupcake Round back in 2014—this month it doesn't matter if a work has already been recced for this theme, go ahead and rec it again!

The tag for this round is: theme: arranged marriage

If you're just joining us, be sure to check out our policy on content notes. Content notes aren't required, but they're nice to include in your recs, especially if a fanwork has untagged content that readers may wish to know about in advance.

Rules! )

Posting Template! )

Promote this round! )

April reccers

Apr. 1st, 2026 04:11 pm
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Many thanks to [personal profile] cassiope25, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] mific, and [personal profile] sgatazmy for all their March recs! We had 11 recs this past month.

Our April reccers are:

[personal profile] cassiope25: John/Rodney
[personal profile] goddess47: Jack O'Neill
[personal profile] mific: Rodney McKay

Reccers, you all have access and can start posting at any time. Remember that you have committed yourself to reccing at least two fics over the course of the month, although of course we will be happy with more. Feel free to use the copy-and-paste template from the reccer's FAQ for your convenience.

If you wanted to volunteer for this month and didn't have a chance to sign up, drop a comment here and I'll happily add you to the list. (It'll take a while, as Pesach starts tonight, but I'll definitely add you happily when I do see your comment...)

April progress post

Apr. 1st, 2026 12:46 pm
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Hi everyone, happy April! If you can believe it, we're now roughly halfway through the creation period of Crack the WIP! Hope those WIPs are going! o_o

We had another WIP finished off in March, so join me in congratulating [personal profile] ryulynn on finishing!

post-dramatic feelings by [archiveofourown.org profile] ryulynn (東京24区 | Tokyo 24th Ward (Visual Novel))

Anyway, let us know how your creating is going. Are you on track? Getting caught up? Hoping to kick yourself into gear... anytime right about now? Any specific plans for April? Stuck on anything we can help with? Feel free to share a short/small snippet if you like. And sign-ups are also still open!

Bingo: Horizontal Line

Apr. 1st, 2026 12:00 pm
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My card is here!

Fandoms include:

- Edge Of Tomorrow
- Gen V
- Grishaverse: Six of Crows Duology, Shadow and Bone (TV)
- KPop Demon Hunters
- Mission Impossible
- Top Gun

Tag needed for Six of Crows or maybe Grishaverse as a catch-all tag for related fandoms?

Dating Dominoes by WonkyElk (T)

Mar. 31st, 2026 09:53 pm
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Title: Dating Dominoes

Rec Category: Humor

Warnings: None

Characters: Teyla Emmagan, Rodney McKay, John Sheppard

Relationships: Teyla Emmagan & Rodney McKay, John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, Laura Cadman/Ronon Dex

Categories: Slash, het, humor

Word Count: 3765

Author's Journal: [personal profile] wonkyelk

Author's Website on AO3

Link: Dating Dominoes


Author Summary: Teyla didn’t often lose her head. As a leader of her people, and an Ambassador for Atlantis, it was required of her to be calm, diplomatic and rational.

But, well. Everyone has their moments.

Why this must be read: It's a fun short story. WonkyElk always write in a whimsical, fun style. I especially like her Teyla in this and how she makes an impulsive decision to pretend she is dating Rodney to appease an Aunt-like character. I love how Rodney just decides to go along with it, with actually no context. John's jealous. It's a fun feelings admission story with a lot of chaos and silliness.


Snippet of Fic )

2026 Nominations Clarification Post 1

Mar. 31st, 2026 11:43 pm
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We have about 24 hours to go until nominations close temporarily! They will reopen during signups. Please note that I plan to clear all nominations at that time, so if you want to keep track of what you submitted, please save a copy of your nominations page.

Below are some questions and clarifications about nominated fandoms and relationships. Please also use this post to let me know if anything in the tagset looks incorrect.

*******

All Media Types:

I'm generally happy to approve this type of fandom if the various adaptations or spinoffs are in continuity with one another. However, there are cases where adaptations are different enough that it could lead to disappointment if a creator familiar with one version gets matched to recipient interested in another. To the best of my knowledge, that applies to the following fandoms--if you're the nominator, please pick a version or explain why this doesn't apply:
  • Howl's Moving Castle - All Media Types
  • Interview with the Vampire (all media types)
  • The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
  • Teen Titans - All Media Types
  • Twilight Series - All Media Types

Angel: the Series
Was Buffybot a character on this show, or is Buffybot/Gwen Raiden a crossover nom?


Doctor Who & Related Fandoms
I've approved other nominations under Doctor Who (1963), Doctor Who (2005), and Torchwood.


Original Work:

I'm happy to approve original characters on a pretty broad spectrum of specificity, but these nominations seem too general to me. It might help to have a look at the approved tags under Original Work and see some examples. If you need some help, please comment, and we can workshop these nominations a bit.
  • Any Father Figure & Any Child Figure
  • Any Female Character & Any Female Character
  • Any Female Character & Any Male Character
  • Any Male Character & Any Male Character
  • Sibling & sibling

Political RPF - US 19th c.
and Political RPF - US 20th c.
While I don't have preexisting rules around RPF nominations, I've given some consideration to these slates and decided I don't feel prepared to handle the implied subject matter as a solo moderator, so I won't be approving them.

This may be inconsistent with my decision to approve the Political RPF - US 21st c. ships, but those feel different to me for satirical purposes. Also, anything that would make Martha-Ann Alito wave her Vergogna flag seems like a net positive.


Ready or Not (Movies) and Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026)
I'd like to combine these nominations; any concerns?


Star Trek: The Original Series (Movies)
We do have Star Trek: The Original Series (TV) already in the tagset. I don't think I've ever seen the original films nominated separately--can the nominator please comment so we can discuss what you're looking for?


True Detective (TV 2014):

Danvers/Navarro has been approved separately under True Detective: Night Country (2024).

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I'm nearly caught up with everything else! Thanks for your patience, please let me know if there are corrections, and I'll check in again soon.


Cold As Ice by NotTasha (T)

Mar. 31st, 2026 09:24 pm
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Show: SGA


Rec Category: Humor

Characters: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Ronon Dex, Teyla Emmagan

Pairing: None (gen)

Categories: gen, humor, whump

Warnings: None (although it is in its nature political if that bothers you)

Words: 20,256

Author's Journal: [personal profile] nottasha 

Author's Website on AO3

Link: Cold as Ice

Author's Summary: The SGA team explore an icy planet, looking for a secret underground lab. It’s icy cold place and things go badly from the start. The team gets separated - McKay and Sheppard fall into a cave, while Ronon and Teyla need to deal with some troublesome characters.

Why this must be read: This story is strange and zany. It starts out as a whump fic with the challenge "F Ice" and it does make a caricature of the security force.  NotTasha writes in the format of write 15 minutes at a time and to not worry where the story goes. So by the end, the story goes off the rails in the best ways. There is a singing mechanical duck creature that infuriates McKay with its singing. It was so much fun to just get to laugh and laugh with this story that started out so whumptastic. 




Snippet of Fic )
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This Month in Fanfic Writing:
Single fics )

New Original Works posted at [community profile] sylph_and_asp this month
Original Works )

Monthly Check In

Mar. 31st, 2026 07:23 pm
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Words Goal Per Day: 500 Full Count: 15,577 Average Count: 502
Steps Goal Per Day: 8,000 Full Count: 279,182 Average Count: 9,006


Writing 0 days count: 16
Steps days under average count: 3
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Title: Choices of the Heart (final chapter to "The Heart Makes its Own Choices.")
Fandom: Miami Vice
Author: Cat Moon
Rating: PG
Words: 1307
Characters: Trudy, Sonny (background Sonny/Rico)
Summary: After Rico and Sonny are gone from Miami, Trudy finds things unexpectedly coming full circle. Some bonds are forever.
Notes: Takes place post-series. This one was bittersweet to write because I’ve loved doing this series and exploring Trudy and Rico’s friendship. I have to be honest, I teared up a bit at the end.
Links the rest of the parts: 1: mxcatmoon | Miami Vice fic - The Heart Makes its Own Choices, 2: mxcatmoon | MV fic: It's Not Fine (Heart Makes Its Own Choices pt 2), 3: mxcatmoon | Miami Vice fic: Love Moves Mountains


choices of the heart

The world was on fire, and no one could save me but you
--Wicked Game

Choices of the Heart )

Peaceful Night by Elayna (T)

Mar. 31st, 2026 10:03 pm
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Show: SGA

Rec Category: Rodney McKay
Characters: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard
Pairings: Rodney/John
Categories: slash, getting together
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Words: 1,622
Author's Journal: [personal profile] elayna
Author's Website: Elayna on AO3
Link Fic: Peaceful Night

Author's summary: On a peaceful mission during a holiday, truths are exchanged.

Why This Must Be Read: It's a sweet, adorable fic by Elayna, written for FTH 2022, about Rodney and John finally getting together—a well-planned date, with Rodney making endearing preparations for a warm and cozy time under the stars. If you're looking for a heartwarming story that will leave you feeling soft and happy, this is exactly what you need.


snippet of fic )

Mash fanvid

Mar. 31st, 2026 02:22 pm
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Haven't been posting much, so I thought I'd put this awesome MASH tribute vid here. It's got Feels.


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