Fandom5K Pinch Hits
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yuletideEvent: Fandom5K is a multi-fandom gift exchange for fic with a 5,000-word minimum and comics with a 5-page minimum.
Event link:fandom5k
Pinch hit link: On DW
Due date: As soon as possible (current deadline 18 July)
The exchange is currently scheduled to go live on 18 July, but we still need these pinch hits filled, so I'm considering another delay. Please let me know what timelines would work for you! Advertising in fandom-specific discords and other places would also be extremely helpful.
Please see individual requests for details on mediums (comics vs fic) and relationships requested.
PDPH 10 (fic only) - Gran Hotel (TV), 무빙 | Moving (TV), 설강화 | Snowdrop (TV)
PDPH 11 (medium varies by relationship) - The Amazing World of Gumball, Osmosis Jones (2001), Dandy's World (Roblox)
PDPH 21 (comic or fanfic) - 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)
Event link:
fandom5k Pinch hit link: On DW
Due date: As soon as possible (current deadline 18 July)
The exchange is currently scheduled to go live on 18 July, but we still need these pinch hits filled, so I'm considering another delay. Please let me know what timelines would work for you! Advertising in fandom-specific discords and other places would also be extremely helpful.
Please see individual requests for details on mediums (comics vs fic) and relationships requested.
PDPH 10 (fic only) - Gran Hotel (TV), 무빙 | Moving (TV), 설강화 | Snowdrop (TV)
PDPH 11 (medium varies by relationship) - The Amazing World of Gumball, Osmosis Jones (2001), Dandy's World (Roblox)
PDPH 21 (comic or fanfic) - 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)
Readercon!
Jul. 9th, 2026 03:04 pmgenartiI keep forgetting* to post about this, and now Readercon is starting uhhh tonight, but I'll be at Readercon this year! And on some panels! On Friday and Saturday morning, after which I will be spending most of the weekend looking at the tall ships parading majestically around Boston, but I'm going to cram as much con fun as I can into that time.
*"Forgetting" is mostly "being too busy to have bandwidth for things" really, but who's counting?
Here are my panels (ETA: now with 100% less messed-up html!):
Faux-Victorian Scientists in Fantasyland (Friday 1pm)
In a review of A Letter From the Lonesome Shore by Sylvie Cathrall, Abigail Nussbaum notes that it is part of a "recent trend for tales about cod-Victorian scientists in fantasyland (a group that includes Heather Fawcett’s Emily Wilde series and Malka Older’s Mossa and Pleiti novellas)." What's behind this trend and how does it approach the complicated legacy of the Victorian Era?
Secretly Brilliant Strategists (Friday 2pm)
Ivan Vorpatril of Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga is handsome and vacuous: a himbo. And yet, despite his seemingly unimpressive mental faculties, Ivan repeatedly makes good strategic choices—even when they don't initially appear to be. What do we love (or hate!) about characters whose intelligence is camouflaged? What do they do for their narratives that more obviously clever characters can't?
SFF Spanning Cycles of History (Saturday 11am)
There was a time when SFF narratives spanning whole historical cycles, such as Foundation, A Canticle for Leibowitz, and the Dragonriders of Pern, allowed readers to follow whole civilizations as characters, watching as situations go from current and urgent to historicized and mythologized and become the cultural context for new urgent problems and events. Has this style of storytelling become less popular, and if so, why? What challenges and opportunities do such longitudinal narratives offer?
*"Forgetting" is mostly "being too busy to have bandwidth for things" really, but who's counting?
Here are my panels (ETA: now with 100% less messed-up html!):
Faux-Victorian Scientists in Fantasyland (Friday 1pm)
In a review of A Letter From the Lonesome Shore by Sylvie Cathrall, Abigail Nussbaum notes that it is part of a "recent trend for tales about cod-Victorian scientists in fantasyland (a group that includes Heather Fawcett’s Emily Wilde series and Malka Older’s Mossa and Pleiti novellas)." What's behind this trend and how does it approach the complicated legacy of the Victorian Era?
Secretly Brilliant Strategists (Friday 2pm)
Ivan Vorpatril of Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga is handsome and vacuous: a himbo. And yet, despite his seemingly unimpressive mental faculties, Ivan repeatedly makes good strategic choices—even when they don't initially appear to be. What do we love (or hate!) about characters whose intelligence is camouflaged? What do they do for their narratives that more obviously clever characters can't?
SFF Spanning Cycles of History (Saturday 11am)
There was a time when SFF narratives spanning whole historical cycles, such as Foundation, A Canticle for Leibowitz, and the Dragonriders of Pern, allowed readers to follow whole civilizations as characters, watching as situations go from current and urgent to historicized and mythologized and become the cultural context for new urgent problems and events. Has this style of storytelling become less popular, and if so, why? What challenges and opportunities do such longitudinal narratives offer?