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I caught wind of smubbles-etc's Wanksgiving fest via a mutual on Tumblr last Wednesday night. Per the FAQ,

In November 2022 there was an idea circulating to yeet a bunch of short-form porn onto AO3 in a short time period, to offer up as a distraction for people facing fraught family interactions around the holiday season. We had so much fun creating random snippets of porn that we thought we’d make this a regular activity.

So they do more than Thanksgiving (you can find a bunch of other events if you look at their Tumblr), but this is the first time I've participated.

I wrote a set of 10 Monkey Island drabbles. I collected them in a series for organization purposes; there's no narrative connection between them. None were beta'd and they were all bashed out rather quickly in the spirit of the fest being pretty laid-back. I tried not to think about things too hard and instead just run with ideas as they occurred, so there's ships in there I don't actually ship and even femslash, which I have never written before.

In the spirit of the fest, they're all rated Mature or Explicit. Ships comprise Guybrush/Elaine, Guybrush/OFC, Iron Rose/Apple Bob, Iron Rose/Flair Gorey, Largo LaGrande/LeChuck, and something that isn't exactly Guybrush/LeChuck but they're both in there. They're mostly vanilla (one exception is maybe just a little on the unusal side, not major kink; and the other is more like darkfic than anything "kinky") and the Guybrush/Elaine ones tend to be rather sweet.

Fun fact: Between three authors, there were a total of 24 drabbles for Monkey Island, which was such a large percentage increase in the total number of Monkey Island fics that it took the #9 spot on fastest-growing fandoms that week.

Oolon Colluphid says:

BillCorbett: Grateful for the positive reaction to my Voldemort / Flo the Progressive Girl slashfic. #art

can you guess what the 21613523434 responses to that were?

BeelzeBLT says:
i don't know what he even means, so no

Oolon Colluphid says:
Well, Voldemort/Flo the creepy girl from the progressive commercials != slash

BeelzeBLT says:
oh, is that her name?
and actually, while it's not slash in current usage which has come to mean exclusively "male-male", of course it's simply a (American) pronunciation of the character "/" and my understanding is that older usage included what we would now think of as "het" in slash, because it meant "pairing characters together which were not paired in the source material", regardless of their sexes/genders
just think, if star trek had been a british show, we might all be calling it "stroke" fiction
*snickers*

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Having said that, though, I wonder, am I right? Or have I got my fandom vocabulary history wrong?

(I need an icon for "hmmm, actually, I wonder..." I have a "confused" one, but as it's Trelawney with "WTF?" on it, it's rather stronger than the confusion/curiosity here, and in fact stronger than I often need to express...)

Aaaaages ago I asked people to give me Fandom Top 5 questions. This was torino10154's:

Five favorite pairings and why. ;)

(not sure why the winky face -- maybe because some of mine are obvious?) ( Read more... )

A slash meme thingy from alwaysasnapefan. ( Read more... )

Stygian says:
oh god.. that's a crossover that breaks my brain
Stygian says:
also, FF [Final Fantasy]/HP
Arethinn says:
i haven't seen any specific examples, yet, actually, but i'm sure it exists
Stygian says:
oh, me too
Arethinn says:
i mean really, "who" could resist sephiroth/voldemort
Stygian says:
Hermione/Fran? lol
Arethinn says:
you're being too modern, not classic enough
Arethinn says:
hermione/yuffie
Arethinn says:
luna/aeris
Arethinn says:
completely spacey goodmagic ft... ft.. um, ft complete breakdown of my brain
Stygian says:
heheh..
Stygian says:
I dunno.. I think Luna/Selphie works better somehow..
Arethinn says:
ah, hmm
Arethinn says:
maybe
Stygian says:
but, I'm also being.. too a boy, and mixing girls
Arethinn says:
heheh
Arethinn says:
um, like i wasn't just now?
Stygian says:
ah, but.. I started it, no?
Arethinn says:
i guess? but there only so many hetero combinations . heh
Arethinn says:
AAAAAAAA *urk*
Stygian says:
... het...er...o?
Arethinn says:
you know, whatever is not boy/boy or girl/girl?
Arethinn says:
but what made me go aaaaaurk was young!snape / reno
Arethinn says:
IT WAS WRONG
Arethinn says:
but also "how can something sarong be sa-right" (courtesy mst3k)
Arethinn says:
lol