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Challenge #14 - Try something new.

I've written in other posts about new crafts I've tried out, and I've dabbled in all sorts of fanfic, poetry, fanmixes, graphics and art.

So I thought I'd read in a fandom I've never read before in a fandom type I'd not specifically sought out before, namely music videos.

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A rec list of Stargate:Atlantis fics for the genprompt_bingo prompt "exhaustion"
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I received two lovely Men in Black: International fics:

Thursday Night Supper Club (1874 words) by intrikate88
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Men in Black (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Agent H | Henry (Men in Black), Agent M | Molly Wright
Summary: Being an ocean away isn't much of a barrier. Even MIB agents with no life and no chill need to have dinner sometimes.

Sushi for One (1947 words) by misura
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Men in Black (Movies)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Agent H | Henry/Agent M | Molly Wright
Additional Tags: Mild Hurt/Comfort, dude in distress, Dubcon Touching by Aliens Who May or May Not Be Aware Their Behavior Is Inappropriate
Summary: H beamed at her. "You were worried! That's so cute! Oh, and FYI, I wasn't 'poisoned'. I suffered a severe allergic reaction, that's all. No biggie. Happens all the time."
M closed her eyes. The worst of it was, she believed him. In H's world, getting poisoned or, excuse her, 'having a severe allergic reaction' probably just counted as a slightly bad day. Occupational hazard.

I wrote my main assignment, a Revenge fic, and a Borgias treat fic.

A Fine Fauxmance (8619 words) by meridianrose
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Revenge (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Nolan Ross/Emily Thorne
Characters: Nolan Ross, Emily Thorne
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Fake/Pretend Relationship, Light Angst, Happy Ending, Daniel is not nice here, Daniel and Jack appear briefly in the fic, Canon Bisexual Character, Hair Brushing

Summary: Nolan needs to win over a prospective businessman with conservative values. Emily wants to make an uninterested Daniel jealous. A fake engagement would seem to be the answer to both their problems. Except that Nolan finds it increasingly difficult to separate the pretence from the reality he wants.

An Insincere Confession (582 words) by meridianrose
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Borgias (Showtime TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Cesare Borgia/Lucrezia Borgia
Characters: Cesare Borgia, Lucrezia Borgia
Additional Tags: Sibling Incest, Catholic Imagery, Improper Use of Catholic Rituals, Oral Sex

Summary: "Bless me father," she repeats. "For I have sinned." Confession belongs in the confessional box. This is something else entirely.

In your own space, post self-recs for at least three fanworks that you created. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I did a few for this question last year of some of my favourites. This time I'll pick things I completed last year. 2018 was a rough year and I didn't write much, though I did finally achieve 100k for Get Your Words Out. So there aren't as many fanworks to pick from!

Four fics + bonus 2017 rec below the cut!
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Thanks so much for running this again mods! I'm sorry I couldn't help out this year but you've got a crack team up and running things smoothly :D

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Personal/Memes
questions and answers meme
whining about writing
what punctuation mark are you
Black Sails S3 – aye or nay?
White Collar S6 – fic requests

Versailles mini recap/review
s1e5-6
s1e7-8
s1e9-10

Indian Summers
Camptown Races audio clip and pics from the show
You Should Be Writing meme pics
What S3 of Indian Summers could have offered
Blake Ritson as Charlie singing nonsense clip
Gifs from S2e08
Picspam; I want my wife
Ride a Cock Horse clip

Gifs

Da Vinci's Demons – message
(DvD/Indian Summers) DvD/Indian Summers
We're Borgias

Graphics: Da Vinci's Demons with Desperado quotes
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three
four

I also made and submitted some TFLN/DvD graphics to Texts From Florence: here and here and here

Fic recs

Da Vinci's Demons fic: Under Boughs of Sunlight by emeraldsoul
2 x Black Sails (silverflint) fics by writesometimes
show me the way to go home Black Sails fic by vowelinthug

Article recs

MEDIA
6 reasons you should be watching Black Sails

Midnight, Texas Trailer

SOCIAL ISSUES
tumblr rec of this article, How to Positively Represent Asexuality within Humorous Fiction: Part 2, “Options that can be funny without being hurtful!. ” (Part One by the same wordpress author: How to Positively Represent Asexuality within Humorous Fiction: Part 1, “What to Avoid”)

tumblr rec of this article, Holidays, Holy Days and Harvests

my thoughts and link to this article What it’s like to be called Isis: ‘People ask, where’s your machine gun?’

Link to this article Why we should have fewer children: to save the planet
quotes from and link to this article Stop Having Kids: We Already Have 6 Billion Too Many

Link to article about regretting parenthood
Links to 2 articles on regretting parenthood

A Woman Turned Down An Arranged Marriage ‘Cause The Guy Said She Had To Give Up Her Dog Good for her

Day 08
Comment to someone you haven't ever interacted with before
Within this year's challenge I've done that, commenting on other people's entries, as well as leaving comments on fanfic at AO3 for authors who are new to me.

Day 03

In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator.

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As I wrote about before, it is the tenth anniversary of mmom, the merry month of masturbation. I'm going to try and write fic for it this time around. I have in the past featured it in my fanfic (not written specifically for that comm); 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,

And in my original fic; Different Does Not Mean Changed

I've also talked about why masturbation is an important subject generally and tackled some myths – it's not unhealthy but rather a great way to avoid most of the risks associated with partnered sex; it's not selfish and it can be the primary way women in particular achieve (or learn to achieve) orgasm; it's not a lesser experience, nor something that just stops if you have a partner but something most people engage in whether they're in a relationship or not - and how it's particularly important for me:
Asexuality and Masturbation part one; part two

There might be original fic or meta amongst the fanfic this time too.

Last year allbingo posted a Solo celebration bingo card. The comm is hosting something different this year but given the laidback nature of the comm last year's card or any variant you make can be used.

With all the het, slash, femslash fics and variety of kink memes, it continues to surprise and sadden me that masturbation is so overlooked. Here's to creating and consuming more works featuring people talking about and engaging in it.

Yuletide and the Legendland Gift Exchange

For the sixth year running I participated in Yuletide, and also in December/January, the one-off gift exchange held at Legendland. Here are recs for the wonderful gifts I received, and promos for the gift fics I wrote.

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A few recs in several fandoms; Legend of the Seeker, Grimm, The Vampire Diaries/The Originals, Revenge
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