If I’m in a bad mood I put on some fast beat music and sit down and do Chair aerobics. It’s so fun while being good for you. And within ten minutes I feel physically and mentally better. I’m rarely in a bad mood, but every now and then it sneaks up on me.
Think of someone from your life you miss terribly. What would you say to them?
I had a dear friend that married young like we did. They had a little boy four months old, named Roman. He was so darling. I was pregnant with my first child at the time. Our friends were Denny and Thais. They went to see their parents one weekend and a train hit their car, killing both Thais and Roman. We were all heartbroken, but Denny lost touch with reality. His family asked if I would stay at the hospital with him during the funerals. I was 18, nine months pregnant and it was the worst thing that ever happened to me. We tried to stay close to Denny but he was really out there. He told my hubby that the baby I was carrying, was his. Poor thing. I miss Thais but I didn’t know how to handle Denny. So, I missed both of them. And that precious baby, was so missed. If I had a chance to talk to Thais, I would thank her for our friendship and tell her how much I would miss her. Now, I’m sad.
12. When was the last time you vacuumed the floor?
Gosh like 3 years ago. I have pulmonary hypertension and can’t do many physical things. Hubby does the strenuous work. I dust, clean bathrooms and do all the cooking. He’s such a good guy. He never complains. But he loves that I cook each night or every other night. Hubby vacuums the floor every other day, unless it’s real windy. Then it’s every day.
Sapphic September is an annual autumnal challenge focused on creating fanworks for wlw ships. It began as a simple tag on Tumblr that morphed into a recurring challenge that has had different moderators taking up the mantle over the years. In its current form, a month’s worth of prompts is provided to inspire fans.
To find out more about the history of this challenge, visit the Fanlore page!
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Many fans were drawn to their tempestuous relationship, and the slow dissolving of their friendship as they find themselves on the opposite sides of a civil war. In fact, many fans felt their relationship was the heart of the first two seasons of the show. Fans like to explore angst, Alicent’s religious guilt, and Rhaenyra’s sapphic exploration in their fanworks.
Is this your ship? Check out their Fanlore article, and add your favorite tropes to the page!
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For this Terminology Thursday, we’re exploring Gratuitous Foreign Language, a term used for fanfics written in English that incorporate non-English words, phrases, or dialogue throughout the story. This term is usually used critically, and is often directed at fanfics where the inclusion of a foreign language is show-offy, excessive, or just embarrassingly wrong. This typically appears in dialogue for characters of color or ESL (English as a second language) characters, who may “slip” into their native tongue, especially during emotional or intimate moments like sex scenes.
The main critique is that it’s generally unrealistic. Most multilingual people speak different languages with people who understand them, and unknowingly switching languages in the heat of the moment rarely happens in real life. When overused or done poorly, it can come across as fetishistic. That said, the use of foreign language in fanfiction isn’t inherently bad! It can be very effective for conveying setting, demonstrating language barriers between characters, or signifying shifts in tone or relationship dynamics (like with honorifics or Japanese dialects).
Have you encountered gratuitous foreign language in your fandom? Let us know in the comments, then check out the Fanlore page to learn more!
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A vignette is a short piece of fanfic, but not of a rigid length such as a drabble. A vignette usually consists just of a single scene. One fan defines it as “a brief (500 to 1000 words) literary work, characterized by precision and delicacy of composition, usually descriptive of scene, manners or character.” [1]
How common the term is varies between fandoms: In the X-Files fandom, it is one of the classifications used by Gossamer, so it is very common there, as well as in older print zines where vignettes are often discussed. In other fandoms, terms like snippet or ficlet are more common.
This week’s featured article is all about the popular setting of World War II in fiction and art.
Works set during this international conflict are typically either canonically set within WWII or historical AUs. A historical AU follows alternative universes, where characters from different settings are placed in the WWII era, much like how other works with sci-fitime travel elements would send a character from a modern setting back in time to WWII.
Most commonly WWII fanworks are focused on soldiers and the battlefield, while a smaller group of fanworks focus on nurses, medics, or those left behind at home.
Head over to our Fanlore page to check out the expanded list of fandoms and example fanworks set in the era.
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Returning for 2026, Fanlore will have monthly editing challenges!
Each month, you can earn a shiny new badge for completing the editing task.
March’s editing challenge is archive external links on a page.
To find out more about how to participate in the monthly challenges, and how to claim your badges, please check out the challenge’s help page.
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Gideon and Harrow are the only two children in the Ninth House and grow up as childhood enemies. When they are teenagers, Harrow, a talented necromancer, compels Gideon to serve as her cavalier in a challenge to become a Lyctor, a powerful immortal necromancer. As they pass through the various trials and hardships of the challenges, unable to trust most of the other competitors, they are forced to work together. They gradually become closer until they forge an unbreakable bond. While some fans consider their relationship to be a prime example of the Enemies to Lovers trope, other fans assert that it might be more accurately described as “Enemies to Grudging Allies to Allies to Friends to It’s Complicated Don’t Ask.“
Are you a Griddlehark fan? Tell us about your favorite moment between them in the comments, and check out their page on Fanlore!
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X-Men United, originally solicited as X-Men Arsenal*, is the follow-up to Exceptional X-Men. Same creative team, same core cast, but an altered premise. It's the training book, but with more characters, and now they have a mental plane headquarters named Graymatter Lane.
*Go on, get the football jokes out of your system. It'll feel good.
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