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Title: Between the Snowflakes
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (ACD)
Prompt: snowflakes
Rating: Gen
Length: 400
Characters: Holmes & Watson, OC
Summary: Holmes has a young client on Boxing Day.

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19 recs in 16 fandoms (Mahou Sentai Magiranger, American Girl, A Christmas Carol, Dirty Dancing, The Great Mouse Detective, The Haunting, Home Alone, Home Improvement, The Last Unicorn, The Lottery, Magic Knight Rayearth, Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel, Mork & Mindy, The Odd Couple, The Secret Garden, Revolutionary Girl Utena)

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Title: Between the Snowflakes
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (ACD)
Rating: Gen
Length: 400
Characters: Holmes & Watson, OC
Summary: Holmes has a young client on Boxing Day.

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How to Get Ahead on Your 2026 Content Planning -- Simple Wolf Media

If you’ve ever hit January and thought, “I should really post something…” but had no idea what, or where to start, you’re not alone.

Whether you run a small-town business, offer services, or manage a nonprofit, content planning can feel like one more thing on your list. But here’s the good news: December is the perfect time to do a little prep work so your Q1 marketing doesn’t feel like a scramble.

A few simple steps now can save you time, stress, and the weekly “what do I post?” spiral later.

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At push of button, this year's Madness collection has 227 works in 183+ fandoms.

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AO3 wranglers have processed a lot of new fandoms; in the main collection, the 992 that appeared on the fandoms page at reveals have become 1065! Thanks to everyone who has helped make wranglers' jobs easier by using canonical tags, tags from the tag set, or other recommended tags, as appropriate in each case.

If you've written in a new fandom that isn't wrangled yet, we encourage you to use Unspecified Fandom as a tag to help people find your work; many works originally tagged this way now have wrangled fandoms, in which case, you can take the tag off if you wish.

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icons is hosting a Friending Meme.

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Today's prompt is: tradition

• You have 2 days time to submit an icon for this prompt (in other words, until prompt 2710 gets posted)!
• Prompt 2706 has been closed.
• If you have any questions regarding the prompt, feel free to ask in a comment.
• To submit an icon you simply reply to this post with the following information:
Icon:
Claim: (only necessary if it's a specific claim)
Status: (e.g. #1/10 - number of icon completed/table size)

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Today is cloudy, cool, foggy, and wet. It rained last night and water is still dripping from the trees today. Also the thermometer-hygrometer peripheral for our home weather station has died, so we need to see if that's available as a replacement part. :/

I fed the birds. I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 12/25/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 12/25/25 -- I hauled the last large branches to the ritual meadow. Then I started the long process of raking the parking lot.

EDIT 12/25/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 12/25/25 -- I did more raking in the parking lot.

I've seen two squirrels in the trees. I've seen several cardinals flying around.

EDIT 12/25/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

It's drizzling again.

As it is getting dark, I am done for the night.

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ysabetwordsmith

Christmas Lockbox

If there is anything you need to get off your chest, to let go so that you can get on, you can safely do it here. This post will be open for anyone, all day--but then tomorrow, it goes away. No judgement, no recrimination. Just a free space for anyone who needs to vent. And if no one does, nothing is lost!

Basically, this is someone's "Hard Things" post for holiday stress. Brilliant.

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Happy Christmas! My fingers still smell of oranges (real oranges, not a Terry's Chocolate Orange this year :-p)

May your plots prove fertile and your characters spring to life!

ysabetwordsmith

This Conversation...

Bokeh is that creamy blur of color and light at the forefront and background of an image. It's that Out of Focus area, which draws your eye to the crisp subject... a car or face.

Now there's an obscure but super useful word for something we see quite often. :D

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kalira posting in

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Title: Heart's Call
Author:

kalira
Fandom: Maleficent
Ship/Characters: Maleficent/Diaval
Rating/Category: T/Het
Prompt: Maleficent (2014), Maleficent & or / Diaval, joy of flying
Spoilers: Post-movie, ignores sequel ~~(which I haven't seen anyway)~~
Summary: Even long after her triumphant, joyous return to the skies, Maleficent sometimes feels an urgent call to take wing, and perhaps she always will; Diaval feels the call to keep his Mistress' side, no matter where she roams, and will follow it always - for so long as she allows.
Notes/Warnings: N/A
Wordcount: 1,000

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Title: Carolers Might be High
Author:

goddess47
Character(s): Harry Potter, Severus Snape
Pairing(s): Harry/Severus
Rating: PG
Length: 100

Summary:

It was an otherwise normal Yule feast.

Notes:

For

adventdrabbles prompt Day 22 - misheard lyrics - deck the halls with bras of holly

For

sweetandshort December 2025 prompt - fireplace

Carolers Might be High on AO3

tiggymalvern

That person who went through my sprawling 230k epic a few weeks ago, commenting in detail on every part, made me go back and read the whole thing again myself. Twice. And we've been chatting back and forth a bit more, and I'd always intended there to be one more part to that story to finish it off, but I stalled on it a few thousand words in.

But now I'm all inspired again, and giddy and excited, and I'm back working on a WIP I abandoned in 2009. The best readers are absolute gold ❤️

(Though the timing could be more convenient. Since it's Christmas and I have stuff to do today, which will not be postponed regardless of the fact that I only slept for four hours last night because my head was alive with scenes and bitchy Sands dialogue.)

Anyway, Season's Greasons to all those who do this holiday, in whatever form 🎂

mxcatmoon

Happy Christmas to all who celebrate!

As usual for someone whose job is affected by the holidays, I'm pretty relieved it's over. It's just exhausting, and somehow, I'm always too busy to really get into the season. I don't even bother decorating these days.

But I got a nice, unexpected Christmas present this year. My job does random drawings weekly during the season, as a way to encourage people to not call out. If you have perfect attendance that week, you're entered to win one of the prizes. On Monday, a few of us were talking about the prizes and I was saying that there wasn't anything I really wanted, except maybe a TV. I didn't really need one, but mine is in my bedroom. I have a small, old one in the living room, the kind that doesn't have internet. Since I don't have cable and rabbit ears don't work where I live, all it's good for is watching DVDs, so I said it would be nice to have a TV for the living room. On Tuesday, which was my day off, my name was called for a 65". So yesterday on Christmas Eve, I came home with a new TV. Merry Christmas to me! It was just so weird and funny how I was talking about it the day before, and then I won it the next day.

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Every Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments.

This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)

(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)

So what cool fics/fanvids/podfics/fancrafts/fanart/other kinds of fanworks have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

BTW, AI fanworks are not eligible for reccing at recthething. If you aware that a fanwork is AI-generated, please do not rec it here.

Wishing everyone Merry Christmas (if you celebrate) and a Happy Thursday (if you don't.) 😉

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