Blue Flag Does Many Subtle Things Remarkably Well, But One Of My Favorite Is That Taichi Is A Pretty

They on that 2007 shit,,,

T-pods.

The 2025 Fanfic Reading Challenge

Welcome to another year of the Fanfic Reading Challenge (FRC)!

I won't bore you with the history of the challenge, this year, but I will welcome you to check out past posts that do explain some of it, as well as include a brief overview of what, exactly, this challenge is, though it does change year to year. (Essentially you read fics to complete goals and win bragging points and an artsy badge.)

This year is especially different, as I had the extreme pleasure of having @noxsoulmate as a partner in crime in keeping me hostage on track to completing this year's FRC. Another valued member of the mod team is @jandjsalmon and speaks for all of us if you need questions answered!

As for the challenge....

This is, indeed, a challenge. Of course.

First of all... you must obviously read fanfiction. As if you don't already!

You also need to download and make your own copy of the spreadsheet, which can be found here, as well as below in the important links section.

To participate in the challenge, you read fics that match the tasks in the challenge. An example of a task can be: "read a fic with a title containing the word purple in it." Should be easy! Of course, there are harder ones.

Which is why there are different modes of challenge to the FRC. These are as follows:

Participation (Complete 1 task)

Regular Mode (Complete 80 tasks)

Hard Mode (Complete 150 tasks)

Extreme Mode (Complete 220 tasks)

Complete (Complete 250 tasks)

The challenge lasts from January 1st, 2025, to December 31st, 2025.

There are badges that go with the modes completed, and even a secret 6th badge that will be fairly obvious if you look at the spreadsheet! Doesn't mean it'll be easy to complete though. *smirks* (Blame Noxy)

Most important of all: this challenge operates on the honour system. We don't check your work, or your reading logs (see below), so I mean, I guess if you want to be slippery with the rules, you do you, and that's on your conscience, but honestly it's so much fun to see how much you can get done by following the letter of the law/tasks! You can be slippery even with following the tasks fully. It's great fun. ;D

I think that's enough for an intro, really, maybe too much.

Important Links and Reading Logs/Trackers

As there is a component of the FRC that includes tracking numbers of words read, most of us use a reading log/tracker to keep count of how many fics we read, including data such as words, of course, chapters, month completed, ship, author, title, fandom, link to the fic, and such. It's a great place to mark what fics you want to read in the future as well!

This year we have FOUR trackers on offer, quite different from one another, so take a look, play around with them and check out their "intros", and choose according to what you think will work best for you!

Fic Tracking Sheets

Juulna's 2025 Reading Log

Noxy's 2025 Reading Log

2025 Jandy's Fic Tracker

Taru's Fic Tracker 2025

Discord

We have a blast on Discord. From general chatter to sharing pet pics to being there for each other during the tough times to forming lasting friendships and making friendships you’d never make in a ship- or fandom-specific Discord, to asking for help ‘rolling the dice’ (pick a number between 1-10!) to choose the next fic to read, to finding some of the really challenging task fills in fandoms people might not have ever read but are willing to try, or finding fandoms someone has never read and is very tentative about stepping out of their box, but they’re being 100% supported and know they don’t need to complete the fic for it to count for the task, stepping out of their comfort zone… we’ve formed a very odd group of, if not friends, then companions (but there are definite friendships that have formed!! Just ask the people who have started watching NHL and NFL together in our off topic channel!).

In any case, our Discord is not necessary, but it is a worthy and tactical element to completing many of the tasks of this challenge. 💙

And.... without further ado....!

The 2025 Fanfic Reading Challenge! (link)

There is an info/rules page as the first sheet on the spreadsheet that should fill in any further questions you have. It also has more contact info than just this page if you have any further questions and perhaps need a more immediate answer for your needs.

*Occasionally you will run into something that looks like an error, and it may in fact be one! Let us know if you see it. It's hard not to make a mistake on as large a spreadsheet as this.*

Please, first of all, have fun and just read fanfiction that you enjoy! I (Juulna) did that last year and didn't even come close to completing the entire challenge, and I still had a blast because I was enjoying what I was reading and rereading. Others took the challenge right to the completed end. Others forgot about it halfway through but still had fun, and some even went back and filled in the sheet for a really good showing! The challenge is what you make of it, what you want from it. So... just have fun. Read fic. Smile. Enjoy. :)

Second of all... well, we would love if you signal boost this post!!!!

Third of all, we do have our pinned post that includes a link to this page and that will include a link to our Discord and all our trackers as well, including past links for memento and informative purposes.

Thank you, and a blessed 2025 to all!

im so normal abt sibling relationships in media i swear

I'm finally here, gang. Just letting you know the arcane community is alive and well in China

phantom busters blue exorcist au cause i can't stop thinking about it, here's what i have so far (a bit long):

Mogari is a knight and a nephilim (the shishikunos probably got involved with demons to become powerful quickly, and only those in the main family are born with demon blood)

The Shishikunos are probably affiliated with the illuminati

Mogari and Korekishi's meeting goes about the same, with Korekishi getting a temptaint in the process and deciding to sign up to become an exorcist

Korekishi definitely goes for a double meister as a doctor and aria, does really well as an exwire despite having zero experience, and is everyone's favorite student

Both Zaki and Tamon were born with the ability to see demons without needing a temptaint (this is not lore accurate to blue exorcist but idc lol)

Zaki is a dragoon, he sucks at any of the other meisters but makes up for it by being a Really good shot

I have no idea why he would want to become an exorcist, I think he possibly saw it as a chance to defend himself against the scary stuff he was seeing as a kid (and also it would be like being a cool manga character)

Tamon is a tamer duh, demons are his best friends and he lowkey feels bad about doing exorcisms

Refused to become an exwire until one of the demons he was friends(? with turned on him, basically just as it happened in the manga with angel

Korekishi would inspire him to try and become an aria as well after a while

Yotsuya is just a regular student (as well as the rest of the student council), and she for the life of her can't figure out why korekishi hangs out with the other three

There's a bunch of details that i haven't decided on yet but this was eating at my brain and i needed to put it out there

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Sorry for the bad angles, but no way am I taking a full fit check in public. My perfume for today is 🌸🌸Gardenia Flower🌸🌸

This November is going to be Nom Nom November here at The Prompt Foundry!

From snacks to feasts, we're celebrating food and its place in or stories, our cultures, and our lives!

If you use this list, please tag me here @thepromptfoundry, I’d love to see your writing and art!

Feel free to combine different days' prompts with each other, or combine them with other events! Use your OCs, your favorite characters from media, your own experiences, whatever tickles your fancy.

Respond to as many prompts as you want or as interest you, don’t worry about missing or skipping any. Remember, this is supposed to be fun!

If you have any questions or musings, check our FAQ, and if you don't find your answer, shoot me an ask.

Plain text list below the cut:

1 A quick snack 2 Edible luxury 3 Bread is life 4 A bite on the go 5 Cook-offs and competition 6 Late night noms 7 Food inside of food 8 Culinary history 9 Innovative eats 10 Fabulous fruit 11Childhood treats 12 Maybe don't eat that 13 Imagine the pastabilitities 14 Sweet and sour 15 Cooking catastrophe 16 Humans are omnivores 17 Garden veggies 18 Food as community 19 Feeding others 20 People food and pets 21 Foreign flavors 22 Local delicacies 23 Needs salt 24 Celebration food 25 Store-bought is fine 26 Family recipes 27 Cooking together 28 A feast 29 Food coma 30 Leftovers

Im only on episode 2 of Clannad but like...this chick is definitely a ghost right?? I'm almost positive