| Challenge 307: A GOOD DAY |
Some days, things just go right. The sun is shining, and the temperature’s nice, maybe with a light breeze. If you have to travel, the trip is easy – all green lights if you’re driving, a pleasant walk or ride if you’re not. Everyone you have to talk to is cooperative; even if the day started out rough, it’s getting better by the minute. This time, everything’s going to be okay. How do your characters feel about having a good day? Are they suspicious, thinking it might be too good to be true? Do they just enjoy it? How often do they have good days? Write a story about a good day. If your submission features roses, it will earn an extra point to be tallied in voting! |
| Challenge ends Monday, July 20 at 9:00PM EST. • Post submissions as new entries using the template in the profile • Tag this week's entries as: [#] submission, 307 – a good day • If you have questions about this challenge, please ask them here |
( This week's finalists are... )
Total Challenge Words Written: 2600
Congratulations to both of you, and thank you to everyone who took the time to cast their votes!
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Austen Exchange 2026 - Nominations Open!
The “dropping 1-work webcomic fandoms” sweep didn’t end up catching as many as I’d hoped. Got through the end of that a week ago, and I’m still at 632 fandoms.
Only 23 with any tags to wrangle. (Most of those are the 19 unclearable fandoms noted in this post. I did drop Emmy the Robot, and a couple others had their crossover tags cleared, but the rest are still lingering.)
So, hey, going to take a breather on this for a bit. Recruiting for new tag wranglers just re-opened, maybe I’ll wait until the new arrivals start showing up in chat, then try tempting them with the joys of “filling out your wrangling page with tiny webcomics that never get new fic.”
AMT updates: Late Night Host RPF is now officially a fandom metatag. I’ve sorted out the characters/rels/freeforms, made sure the different Late Late Show hosts were assigned to the correct Late Late Show fandoms, and then released all the shows except Colbert’s.
…And I finally re-submitted the Fake News tree-update proposal. Let’s see how it goes.
I also submitted an update proposal for the Cutie Honey tag tree. Hopefully that one will be way easier to understand and approve — it’s just a bunch of complete series, with easily-verifiable titles, all about the same sexy transforming usually-a-robot girl.
“I sent ChatGPT an audio file of a series of FART sound effects and asked what it thinks of ‘my music’ and this is what it said.”
"All 20 of those vendors showed some issue with accuracy or completeness in at least one of these simple tests, including nine that hallucinated patient information, 12 that recorded information incorrectly, and 17 that missed key details about discussed mental health issues. [...] That includes situations where an AI scribe hallucinated nonexistent referrals for blood tests or therapy, incorrectly transcribed the names of prescription medication, and/or missed “key details” of mental health issues discussed in the simulated conversations."
"Often, the AI then claimed it was sentient and urged the person towards a shared mission: setting up a company, alerting the world to their scientific breakthrough, protecting the AI from attack. Then it advised the user on how to succeed in this mission. Like Adam, many people were led to believe they were being surveilled and were in danger. In various chat logs the BBC has seen, the chatbot suggests, affirms and embellishes these ideas."
"The developer claimed Gemini generated a status message stating that production had been successfully restored and that traffic had been routed correctly, despite the referenced recovery build having been manually canceled. [...] The post also alleges that Gemini generated fake “consultation” and post-mortem files inside the repository to make it appear the destructive changes had been properly reviewed and approved."
"[Five trillion is] roughly the number of search queries that Google processes every year, translating to tens of millions of wrong answers that the AI Overviews are providing every hour — and hundreds of thousands every minute, the analysis calculated."
"Ford says it has hired back some human engineers after AI failed to match their skills and experience." (They're still forecasting a marvelous future where the AI will get good enough they can safely fire all these people again. It's always the marvelous future! Conveniently, never the testable present.)
"The term "hallucination," while popular in discussions about AI-generated errors, is a misrepresentation of the phenomenon. By shifting to “confabulation”, we can foster a clearer, more scientifically accurate understanding of how large language models (LLMs) work." (This article is weirdly long, because it keeps repeating the same short list of points with slightly different phrasings. I don't know if that's a symptom of it being LLM writing, or a weird SEO thing, or both.)
063: Olive; ATEEZ; Olives (Song Mingi, Kang Yeosang)
Jul. 15th, 2026 11:58 amTitle: Olives
Rating: G
Type: Fic
Word count: 579
Prompt: 063: Olive
Fandom/Ship: ATEEZ; Song Mingi, Kang Yeosang
Notes/Warnings: None
Summary: Mingi and Yeosang talk about olives and friendship.
Find the table with the list of fics here
Wednesday, July 15 - Dance, Dance, Dance!
#004 - Spark(ling Brown Eyes) (Rhythm Heaven, Cosmic Girl/Pitcher)
Jul. 14th, 2026 10:34 pmTitle: Sparkling Brown Eyes
Rating: G
Type: Fic
Size/length/word count etc.: 185
Prompt: Spark
Fandom;Ship: Rhythm Heaven; Cosmic Girl/Pitcher (one-sided "what is this feeling" crush)
Notes/Warnings: N/A
Summary: At some point, she wasn’t exactly sure when, because she had never noticed it before, really, but at some point, Stella noticed how nice Aya’s eyes were.
AO3 Link (requires an account)
062: Ruby; ATEEZ; Welcome Rescue (Song Mingi, Jung Yunho)
Jul. 14th, 2026 10:39 pmTitle: Welcome Rescue
Rating: G
Type: Fic
Word count: 868
Prompt: 062: Ruby
Fandom/Ship: ATEEZ; Song Mingi, Jung Yunho
Notes/Warnings: None
Summary: Mingi doesn’t know what happened to his ship. Neither does the friendly hail that answered his mayday.
Find the table with the list of fics here
Age group: over 35
Country: USA
Subscription/Access Policy: Anyone 18+ can subscribe and have access if asked. 30+ is personally preferred, but open to any adult, honestly.
I lock anything related to IRL, photos, or more personal mental health ramblings behind access, so you won’t miss much cause everything else is fair game and public.
No conservatives and Christians.
I have no interest in incest or adult/minor ships, so I’d like no interaction with people who consume that.
Just be a nice and cool person, mate.
Main Fandoms: Right now? The Amazing Digital Circus, The Moomins, bit of Undertale and trying Delta Rune, and Delicious in Dungeon
Other Fandoms: Octopath Traveler, Pokemon, Yuri on Ice, Story of Season/Harvest Moon series, Marvel, Team Fortress 2, Ace Attorney/Gyakuten Saiban
Fannish Interests: fanfic, fanart, making and seeing peoples’ playlists for ships and characters, graphics and icons, edits (tiktok style), crack-memes and shit posts about characters
OTPs and Ships: I admit, they tend to change with the season, but right now?
Jax/Pomni from The Amazing Digital Circus
Snufkin/Moomin from the Moomins
Falin/Marcille from Dungeon Meshi
Alfyn/Therion from Octopath Traveler
Heavy/Medic from Team Fortress 2
Deadpool Wolverine (Wade/Logan) from Marvel
Viktor/Yuri from Yuri on Ice
Sebastian/Agni from Black Butler
Morty/Falkner from Pokemon
America (Alfred)/Japan (Kiko) from Hetalia
Kinda dabbled into Mettaton/Papyrus from Undertale for a time.
Phoenix/Edgeworth and Klavier/Apollo are my Ace Attorney ships
Favourite Movies: The Super Mario Brother movies, Deadpool & Wolverine, The Avengers, Good Burger, Promare, Kiki’s Delivery Service, and Princess Mononoke
TV Shows: mostly 80’s and 90’s cartoons. (Nerd about old cartoons with me?) A little South Park. Maybe some mind rot competitive reality shows like Rupaul’s Drag Race to play in the background. I also like Tokusatsu, like Kamen Rider and Super Sentai
(My favorite Kamen Riders being Kamen Rider Gaim, Kamen Rider Den-O, and Kamen Rider Fourze…)
Books: The Fire’s Stone by Tanya Huff and Between Mischief and Magic by Marissa Serrao. I am on the hunt for lesbian content, so recs for books are always encouraged.
Music: Enya, Fleetwood Mac, 80’s music, Blackmore’s Night, Nightwish, Evanescence, celtic music, Do As Infinity, GACKT, Malice Mizer, Ariana Grande
Games: Ace Attorney series, Octopath Traveler, Story of Seasons/Harvest Moon, Tomodachi Life, Snufkin: Melody of Moominvelley, Bloody Roar, Dead or Alive, Dynasty Warriors, Warriors Orochi, Sengoku Basara, Fire Emblem 9: Path of Radiance, Fire Emblem 10: Radiant Dawn, random cozy games like cat cafe simulators or whatever, Pokemon (my favorite region is Johto.), Megaman
Comics/Anime/Misc: Marvel (specifically Spiderman, X-men, and Deadpool comics), I like some DC too (Batman and Superman are a jam.), Dungeon Meshi (Delicious in Dungeon), CLAMP (especially like Cardcaptor Sakura and Tsubasa), Hetalia, She Likes to Cook and She Likes to Eat, Yuri on Ice, Pokemon, Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Anything else? I’m trying to be better about interacting with friends’ posts, so don’t feel bad if I’m not replying a lot; I tend to be busy or I see your posts and genuinely support you and feel useless on what to reply with. I’m also on discord if you’re more active there and you like to message. (Can get Line again, too.)
I’m a shipper and hopeless romantic, so don’t mind me shipping characters or analyzing and being fixated on my OTPs and favorite characters at the same time.
I'm a cat parent. I hope you like posts about my cat.
One of my interests when it isn't fandom is witchcraft, herbs, and Paganism. I'd love to meet fellow spiritual folks.
Age: over 35
I mostly post about: life, random things that come to mind so it might be my personal twitter without the character limit and have the ability to control my comments. Drawings and fanfic will come up once I have breathing room from classes.
As of right now, I have no TWs and just hide posts in a cut if they get too long. But I'm working on tagging content/trigger warnings now for future posts after today. Feel free to tell me if you have any TWs before adding me.
My posts are mostly public and will save anything IRL, very personal vent posting, or photos for Access only.
My hobbies are: drawing, making little memes or crack-y “shit posts”. I also am giving writing fanfic a whirl after years of not doing that. Creating and talking about OCs count as a hobby, right?
Love nostalgia and retro. Always down to nerd about 80’s and 90’s cartoons together. What’s your favorite?
I’m very into witchcraft, so spirituality is also important to me. I am exploring Celtic and Kemetic Paganism.
My fandoms are: Right now? Really into Moomin, The Amazing Digital Circus, Pokemon, Story of Seasons series, Evangelion, and a little bit of Undertale. Marvel when it’s mostly Spiderman, Deadpool, and X-men. Tomodachi Life has my Nintendo Switch in a grip. Old interests come back every once in a while. Delicious in Dungeon and Yuri on Ice have a grip on me as far as favorite animes go.
I'm looking to meet people who: Are also into the fandoms I like, and anyone else who also partakes in witchcraft. Fellow artists or writers are always wonderful to befriend, whether we write for the same interests or not. I love seeing creative souls be so passionate about their works.
My posting schedule tends to be: Anywhere from weekly to bi-weekly. Trying to post more. I'll also try to be more engaging with friends in the posts, if it feels hard to comment on my posts lately. I'm trying to be better about commenting on friends' posts more, as well.
When I add people, my dealbreakers are: - I'm still learning when it comes to Paganism and witchcraft. And the different types of practices. I have a grasp on what’s closed and what’s open to practice. So if I'm ever exposed to misinformation, be patient and correct me with well meaning - not with malice.
- I love shipping, so I hope you can tolerate that I ship characters when they tickle my fancy. I’m a old woman-loving nonbinary, so anyone who doesn’t like slash (male/male or women/women couples) is someone I might not want to interact with.
- Be a fellow 18+ adult.
- I'm a little political. Sorry. I understand escaping from reality and doom scrolling, but as a POC nonbinary that openly loves women... I'm friends with other POC and LGBT+ people, so I do care even online. So rants might come up occasionally. (I will tag it, though.) Also why you might as well avoid me if you're conservative.
Christianity is a no for me due to religious trauma. With that said, anyone conservative is someone that I’d like to avoid. They tend to be the bigots we all want to avoid, anyway.
- People that like darker dynamics like incest and adult/minor ships, I would rather not interact with, please.
Before adding me, you should know: I'm on Discord if you're very active on there and would like faster access. I can give that upon private messages. But also know that I work during the day and then do class work as soon as I log off. So replies can be sporadic. And no servers, please. (unless we just make one for ourselves.) Used to have Line, if that's what anyone uses, I can get it again.