Fic Promptly

Thursday, April 15 - Free for All

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:33:20 GMT

Posted by: prisca

Hello everybody,

welcome to the 'Free for All' Day. This day has no specific theme, so you can leave any prompt you want.

Rules for prompting are as follows:

- Five prompts each per fandom per day. Author's choice prompts are unlimited.
- One prompt per comment.
- Warn for spoilers in the subject line of your comment and leave three lines of spoiler space.

Rules for filling a prompt are as follows:

- You may fill your own prompts.
- You may fill prompts that already have fills.
- No minimum/maximum word count.

Full rules here

If nothing today appeals to you, remember you can fill lonely prompts anytime.

Feel free to link to your filled prompts in the Monthly Fills Post; others might miss your work(s), especially when filling lonely prompts.

If you have an AO3 account, you can add your fills here.

Have fun, and don't forget to be nice. No bashing of characters, pairings, fandoms, kinks, etc. Thank you!

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Wednesday, April 15 - Book Titles

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:17:41 GMT

Posted by: prisca

Hello everybody,

it's Wednesday and today's theme is Book Titles.

Rules for prompting are as follows:

- Five prompts each per fandom per day. Author's choice prompts are unlimited.
- Prompts should be based on the daily theme.
- One prompt per comment.
- Warn for spoilers in the subject line of your comment and leave three lines of spoiler space.

Rules for filling a prompt are as follows:

- You may fill your own prompts.
- You may fill prompts that already have fills.
- No minimum/maximum word count.

Full rules here

If nothing today appeals to you, remember you can fill lonely prompts at any time.

Feel free to link to your filled prompts in the Monthly Fills Post; especially when filling lonely prompts, others might miss it.

If you have an AO3 account, you can add your fills in 2026 here.

Have fun, and don't forget to be nice. No bashing of characters, pairings, fandoms, kinks, etc. Thank you!

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Tuesday, April 14 - Promotion Day Reminder

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:19:54 GMT

Posted by: prisca

Information
I will offer you 10 old prompts on the first Tuesday of every month (if a challenge week is running, we will have the post on the second Tuesday). As a team, we all will try to fill as many of these prompts together. Everyone is welcome to participate.

There will be a Promotion Day Reminder every Tuesday (except during Challenge Weeks). I will add new prompts to the list when a prompt is filled.

We have no fills so far for April.
The Prompt List:
1. Any, any, communication without words
2. Author's choice, author's choice, thinking deep thinky thoughts.
3. Any, any, crossing over to the dark side
4. Author's Choice, Any, "It was a dark and stormy night." ... "It's always a dark and stormy night with you."
5. Any, Any, Seeing stars
6. Any, any, "How long did it take you to figure that out?"
7. Author's choice, author's choice, locked away from the sunshine.
8. Author's choice, Author's choice, afraid to hope.
9. Any, any, fun and games
10. Author's Choice, Any, the gift nobody wanted.

Some Rules
- You can grab as many prompts as you want.
- You may re-fill a prompt if someone else has already grabbed it.
- Post your fill to the original prompt.
- After doing so, please leave a short comment here, with the number of the filled prompt.

General rules here

If you have an AO3 account, you can add your fills here.

Have fun, and don't forget to be nice. No bashing of characters, pairings, fandoms, kinks, etc. Thank you!

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Monday, April 13 - Life and Death

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:13:28 GMT

Posted by: prisca

Hello everybody,

it's Monday again, and again I am your guest host this week. Today's theme is Life and Death.

Rules for prompting are as follows:

- Five prompts each per fandom per day. Author's choice prompts are unlimited.
- Prompts should be based on the daily theme.
- One prompt per comment.
- Warn for spoilers in the subject line of your comment and leave three lines of spoiler space.

Rules for filling a prompt are as follows:

- You may fill your own prompts.
- You may fill prompts that already have fills.
- No minimum/maximum word count.

Full rules here

If nothing today appeals to you, remember you can fill lonely prompts at any time.

Feel free to link to your filled prompts in the Monthly Fills Post; especially when filling lonely prompts, others might miss it.

If you have an AO3 account, you can add your fills in 2026 here.

Have fun, and don't forget to be nice. No bashing of characters, pairings, fandoms, kinks, etc. Thank you!

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Friday, April 10 - Solitude

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:24:44 GMT

Posted by: prisca

Hello everybody,

here I am again with our last theme for this week. It's Solitude; come by and leave some prompts.

Rules for prompting are as follows:

- Five prompts each per fandom per day. Author's choice prompts are unlimited.
- Prompts should be based on the daily theme.
- One prompt per comment.
- Warn for spoilers in the subject line of your comment and leave three lines of spoiler space.

Rules for filling a prompt are as follows:

- You may fill your own prompts.
- You may fill prompts that already have fills.
- No minimum/maximum word count.

Full rules here

If nothing today appeals to you, remember you can fill lonely prompts at any time.

Feel free to link to your filled prompts in the Monthly Fills Post; especially when filling lonely prompts, others might miss it.

If you have an AO3 account, you can add your fills in 2026 here.

Have fun, and don't forget to be nice. No bashing of characters, pairings, fandoms, kinks, etc. Thank you!

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Thursday, April 9 - Free for All

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:56:33 GMT

Wednesday, April 8 - Fluff

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:22:23 GMT

Posted by: prisca

Hello everybody,

it's Wednesday and today's theme is Fluff.

Rules for prompting are as follows:

- Five prompts each per fandom per day. Author's choice prompts are unlimited.
- Prompts should be based on the daily theme.
- One prompt per comment.
- Warn for spoilers in the subject line of your comment and leave three lines of spoiler space.

Rules for filling a prompt are as follows:

- You may fill your own prompts.
- You may fill prompts that already have fills.
- No minimum/maximum word count.

Full rules here

If nothing today appeals to you, remember you can fill lonely prompts at any time.

Feel free to link to your filled prompts in the Monthly Fills Post; especially when filling lonely prompts, others might miss it.

If you have an AO3 account, you can add your fills in 2026 here.

Have fun, and don't forget to be nice. No bashing of characters, pairings, fandoms, kinks, etc. Thank you!

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Tuesday, April 7 - Promotion Day

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:17:53 GMT

Posted by: prisca

Sorry for the delay. And don't worry, the daily prompt post will be online soon.

Information
I will offer you 10 old prompts on the first Tuesday of every month (if a challenge week is running, we will have the post on the second Tuesday). As a team, we all will try to fill as many of these prompts together. Everyone is welcome to participate.

There will be a Promotion Day Reminder every Tuesday (except during Challenge Weeks). I will add new prompts to the list when a prompt is filled.

This months starting prompts are:
1. Any, any, communication without words
2. Author's choice, author's choice, thinking deep thinky thoughts.
3. Any, any, crossing over to the dark side
4. Author's Choice, Any, "It was a dark and stormy night." ... "It's always a dark and stormy night with you."
5. Any, Any, Seeing stars
6. Any, any, "How long did it take you to figure that out?"
7. Author's choice, author's choice, locked away from the sunshine.
8. Author's choice, Author's choice, afraid to hope.
9. Any, any, fun and games
10. Author's Choice, Any, the gift nobody wanted.

Some Rules
- You can grab as many prompts as you want.
- You may re-fill a prompt if someone else has already grabbed it.
- Post your fill to the original prompt.
- After doing so, please leave a short comment here, with the number of the filled prompt.

General rules here

If you have an AO3 account, you can add your fills here.

Have fun, and don't forget to be nice. No bashing of characters, pairings, fandoms, kinks, etc. Thank you!

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Monday, April 6 - Musical/Opera

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:00:02 GMT

Posted by: prisca

Hello everybody,

it's Monday again, and again I am your guest host this week. Today's theme is Musical / Opera. Prompts can be titles, songs, quotes, famous characters....

Rules for prompting are as follows:

- Five prompts each per fandom per day. Author's choice prompts are unlimited.
- Prompts should be based on the daily theme.
- One prompt per comment.
- Warn for spoilers in the subject line of your comment and leave three lines of spoiler space.

Rules for filling a prompt are as follows:

- You may fill your own prompts.
- You may fill prompts that already have fills.
- No minimum/maximum word count.

Full rules here

If nothing today appeals to you, remember you can fill lonely prompts at any time.

Feel free to link to your filled prompts in the Monthly Fills Post; especially when filling lonely prompts, others might miss it.

If you have an AO3 account, you can add your fills in 2026 here.

Have fun, and don't forget to be nice. No bashing of characters, pairings, fandoms, kinks, etc. Thank you!

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Monthly Fills: April 2026

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:08:52 GMT

Posted by: prisca

April 1 - April 30

Link to the prompts for any fills written in March here. Please edit your comment when adding more links.

For those who have AO3 accounts, you can also add your fills to our 2026 Subcollection.

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Challenge Week 03.26 - Day 5 (last day)

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:59:12 GMT

Posted by: prisca

Challenge Week 03/2026 - Day 5

Note: Fills for the last challenge day can be posted until Saturday, midnight in your timezone.

Day 4 ended with 3 participants and 3 filled lonely prompts. Thanks to you for participating.

Important: After filling out one (or more) lonely prompts today, leave a comment on this post. Only then will your work(s) count for the badges and the highscore list. You can edit your comment later to add more works.

Side-Quests To add a bit more fun to the challenge, here is a sidequest. Sidequests are optional! Sidequests will stay open for the whole week = eg. you can use the sidequest of day one (Monday) also for a work written on Friday.

Day 1: write a ficlet with exactly 222 words
Day 2: write a fill about Easter (or any other holiday of your choice) Day 3: fill a lonely prompt from last year
Day 4: write a poem
Day 5: write a fic with exactly 300 words

Put 'Side Quest (day x)' in your comment when using one. Have fun!

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Challenge Week 03/26 - Day 4

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:39:16 GMT

Posted by: prisca

Challenge Week 03/2026 - Day 4

Day 3 ended with 3 participants and 9 filled lonely prompts. Thanks to you for participating.

Important: After filling out one (or more) lonely prompts today, leave a comment on this post. Only then will your work(s) count for the badges and the highscore list. You can edit your comment later to add more works.

Side-Quests To add a bit more fun to the challenge, here is a sidequest. Sidequests are optional! Sidequests will stay open for the whole week = eg. you can use the sidequest of day one (Monday) also for a work written on Friday.

Day 1: write a ficlet with exactly 222 words
Day 2: write a fill about Easter (or any other holiday of your choice)
Day 3: fill a lonely prompt from last year
Day 4: write a poem

Put 'Side Quest (day x)' in your comment when using one.

Have fun!

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April 2026: Chatter Post

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:28:13 GMT

Posted by: prisca

Hello everyone!

After missing the chatter post in March, we are finally back.

First of all, I want to thank huxleyenne and stormsyndrome for guest-hosting in February, as well as beamkatanachronicles for guest-hosting in March.
We may need more guest hosts for the future. So, if you feel ready for the adventure, please check the Calendar Post 2026 for available dates.

And now let's have our tiny statistic.

February
new lonely (unfilled) prompts: 168 (any) + 14 (fandom related)
filled prompts: 59
different authors: 16

March
new lonely (unfilled) prompts: 207 (any) + 21 (fandom related)
filled prompts: 22
different authors: 9

Thank you to everyone who participated. You can check out the newest fills here. For prompts and older fills have a look at the link list on the left side.

Chatter about this and that
This post is open to any topic you'd like to discuss, including the state of the community, your writing progress, promotions for other communities, or any other topic that comes to mind. Or just say 'hello' to the comm.

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Challenge Week 03.26 - Day 3

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:22:08 GMT

Posted by: prisca

Challenge Week 03/2026 - Day 3

Day 2 ended with 2 participants and 4 filled lonely prompts. Thanks to you for participating.

Important: After filling out one (or more) lonely prompts today, leave a comment on this post. Only then will your work(s) count for the badges and the highscore list. You can edit your comment later to add more works.

Side-Quests To add a bit more fun to the challenge, here is a sidequest. Sidequests are optional! Sidequests will stay open for the whole week = eg. you can use the sidequest of day one (Monday) also for a work written on Friday.

Day 1: write a ficlet with exactly 222 words
Day 2: write a fill about Easter (or any other holiday of your choice)
Day 3: fill a lonely prompt from last year

Put 'Side Quest (day x)' in your comment when using one.

Have fun!

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Challenge Week 03.26 - Day 2

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:51:14 GMT

Posted by: prisca

Challenge Week 03/2026 - Day 2

Day 1 ended with 2 participants and 2 filled lonely prompts. Thanks to you for participating.

Important: After filling out one (or more) lonely prompts today, leave a comment on this post. Only then will your work(s) count for the badges and the highscore list. You can edit your comment later to add more works.

Side-Quests To add a bit more fun to the challenge, here is a sidequest. Sidequests are optional! Sidequests will stay open for the whole week = eg. you can use the sidequest of day one (Monday) also for a work written on Friday.

Day 1: write a ficlet with exactly 222 words
Day 2: write a fill about Easter (or any other holiday of your choice)

Put 'Side Quest (day x)' in your comment when using one.

Have fun!

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Challenge Week 3.26 - Day 1

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:24:40 GMT

Posted by: prisca

Let's start with our next Challenge Week of 2026 and hopefully lots of great lonely prompt fills. Every challenge week runs from Monday to Friday (you can post works until Saturday, midnight in your time zone).

During challenge weeks, you won't leave new prompts. Your mission is to fill as many lonely prompts as possible.

Check out:
Prompts 2026
Prompts 2025
Pinboard (until 2018 + 2025) .
You will find tons of great prompts there, only waiting for you to fill them out.

At the end of a challenge week, there will be shiny badges and a Highscore list.

:::

Challenge Week 3/2026 - Day 1

Important: After filling out one (or more) lonely prompts today, leave a comment on this post. Only then will your work(s) count for the badges and the highscore list. You can edit your comment later to add more works.

Side-Quests To add a bit more fun to the challenge, here is a sidequest. Sidequests are optional! Sidequests will stay open for the whole week = eg. you can use the sidequest of day one (Monday) also for a work written on Friday.
Don't forget to add your sidequest(s) to your comment!

Day 1: write a ficlet with exactly 222 words

Put 'Side Quest (day x)' in your comment when using one.

Have fun!

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Friday, March 27 - Queen Song Titles and Quotes

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:05:34 GMT

Posted by: prisca

Hello everybody,

here I am again with our last theme for this week. It's Queen Song Titles and Quotes come by and leave some prompts.

Rules for prompting are as follows:

- Five prompts each per fandom per day. Author's choice prompts are unlimited.
- Prompts should be based on the daily theme.
- One prompt per comment.
- Warn for spoilers in the subject line of your comment and leave three lines of spoiler space.

Rules for filling a prompt are as follows:

- You may fill your own prompts.
- You may fill prompts that already have fills.
- No minimum/maximum word count.

Full rules here

If nothing today appeals to you, remember you can fill lonely prompts at any time.

Feel free to link to your filled prompts in the Monthly Fills Post; especially when filling lonely prompts, others might miss it.

If you have an AO3 account, you can add your fills in 2026 here.

Have fun, and don't forget to be nice. No bashing of characters, pairings, fandoms, kinks, etc. Thank you!

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Thursday, March 26 - Free for All

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:41:40 GMT

Wednesday, March 25 - Sherlock Holmes Quotes

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:27:55 GMT

Posted by: prisca

Hello everybody,

it's Wednesday again, and I am still your guest host this week. Today's theme is Sherlock Holmes Quotes. Quotes can be from stories/novels, TV shows, movies about Sherlock Holmes and connected characters.

Rules for prompting are as follows:

- Five prompts each per fandom per day. Author's choice prompts are unlimited.
- Prompts should be based on the daily theme.
- One prompt per comment.
- Warn for spoilers in the subject line of your comment and leave three lines of spoiler space.

Rules for filling a prompt are as follows:

- You may fill your own prompts.
- You may fill prompts that already have fills.
- No minimum/maximum word count.

Full rules here

If nothing today appeals to you, remember you can fill lonely prompts at any time.

Feel free to link to your filled prompts in the Monthly Fills Post; especially when filling lonely prompts, others might miss it.

If you have an AO3 account, you can add your fills in 2026 here.

Have fun, and don't forget to be nice. No bashing of characters, pairings, fandoms, kinks, etc. Thank you!

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Tuesday, March 24 - Promotion Prompt Reminder

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:54:07 GMT

Posted by: prisca

Information
I will offer you 10 old prompts on the first Tuesday of every month (if a challenge week is running, we will have the post on the second Tuesday). As a team, we all will try to fill as many of these prompts together. Everyone is welcome to participate.

There will be a Promotion Day Reminder every Tuesday (except during Challenge Weeks). I will add new prompts to the list when a prompt is filled.

We have six fills in total so far.
The Prompt List:
1. Author's Choice, Any, (s)he is the one that no one could hold on to, and for good reason.
2. ~~Any, any, crimes against fashion~~
3. ~~Any, Any, Chicken soup for the soul~~
4. ~~any, any, everything you own in a box to the left~~
5. Author's choice, author's choice, resurrection.
6. Any, any, "I just knew you'd be trouble"
7. ~~Any, any, when you can't move on~~
8. Any, any, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
9. Any, any, the day when enough was finally enough.
10. ~~Any, Any, Three's a crowd.~~
11.~~Any, any, far from home~~
12. Any, any, getting someone's birthday wrong by a day early
13. Any, Any, beneath the surface
14. Any, any, "In theory, that should have worked."
15. Any, Any, Ghostly footsteps.
16. Any, any, "I might have been high at the time."

Some Rules
- You can grab as many prompts as you want.
- You may re-fill a prompt if someone else has already grabbed it.
- Post your fill to the original prompt.
- After doing so, please leave a short comment here, with the number of the filled prompt.

General rules here

If you have an AO3 account, you can add your fills here.

Have fun, and don't forget to be nice. No bashing of characters, pairings, fandoms, kinks, etc. Thank you!

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Monday, March 23 - Shakespeare Quotes

Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:47:57 GMT

Posted by: prisca

Hello everybody,

it's Monday again, and I am your guest host this week. Today's theme is Shakespeare Quotes.

Rules for prompting are as follows:

- Five prompts each per fandom per day. Author's choice prompts are unlimited.
- Prompts should be based on the daily theme.
- One prompt per comment.
- Warn for spoilers in the subject line of your comment and leave three lines of spoiler space.

Rules for filling a prompt are as follows:

- You may fill your own prompts.
- You may fill prompts that already have fills.
- No minimum/maximum word count.

Full rules here

If nothing today appeals to you, remember you can fill lonely prompts at any time.

Feel free to link to your filled prompts in the Monthly Fills Post; especially when filling lonely prompts, others might miss it.

If you have an AO3 account, you can add your fills in 2026 here.

Have fun, and don't forget to be nice. No bashing of characters, pairings, fandoms, kinks, etc. Thank you!

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Friday, March 20 - Dating

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:51:49 GMT

Posted by: prisca

Hello everybody,

here I am again with our last theme for this week. It's Dating; come by and leave some prompts.

Rules for prompting are as follows:

- Five prompts each per fandom per day. Author's choice prompts are unlimited.
- Prompts should be based on the daily theme.
- One prompt per comment.
- Warn for spoilers in the subject line of your comment and leave three lines of spoiler space.

Rules for filling a prompt are as follows:

- You may fill your own prompts.
- You may fill prompts that already have fills.
- No minimum/maximum word count.

Full rules here

If nothing today appeals to you, remember you can fill lonely prompts at any time.

Feel free to link to your filled prompts in the Monthly Fills Post; especially when filling lonely prompts, others might miss it.

If you have an AO3 account, you can add your fills in 2026 here.

Have fun, and don't forget to be nice. No bashing of characters, pairings, fandoms, kinks, etc. Thank you!

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Thursday, March 19 - Free for All

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:29:11 GMT

Wednesday, March 18 - Crossover Fills

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:56:24 GMT

Posted by: prisca

Hello everybody,

it's Wednesday again, and I am still your guest host this week. Today's theme is Crossover(fills). Prompts can be anything you can think of, but your fills should cover two+ fandoms.

Rules for prompting are as follows:

- Five prompts each per fandom per day. Author's choice prompts are unlimited.
- Prompts should be based on the daily theme.
- One prompt per comment.
- Warn for spoilers in the subject line of your comment and leave three lines of spoiler space.

Rules for filling a prompt are as follows:

- You may fill your own prompts.
- You may fill prompts that already have fills.
- No minimum/maximum word count.

Full rules here

If nothing today appeals to you, remember you can fill lonely prompts at any time.

Feel free to link to your filled prompts in the Monthly Fills Post; especially when filling lonely prompts, others might miss it.

If you have an AO3 account, you can add your fills in 2026 here.

Have fun, and don't forget to be nice. No bashing of characters, pairings, fandoms, kinks, etc. Thank you!

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Tuesday, March 17 - Promotion Day Reminder

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:29:21 GMT

Posted by: prisca

Information
I will offer you 10 old prompts on the first Tuesday of every month (if a challenge week is running, we will have the post on the second Tuesday). As a team, we all will try to fill as many of these prompts together. Everyone is welcome to participate.

There will be a Promotion Day Reminder every Tuesday (except during Challenge Weeks). I will add new prompts to the list when a prompt is filled.

We have two fills so far.
The Prompt List:
1. Author's Choice, Any, (s)he is the one that no one could hold on to, and for good reason.
2. Any, any, crimes against fashion
3. ~~Any, Any, Chicken soup for the soul~~
4. any, any, everything you own in a box to the left
5. Author's choice, author's choice, resurrection.
6. Any, any, "I just knew you'd be trouble"
7. ~~Any, any, when you can't move on~~
8. Any, any, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
9. Any, any, the day when enough was finally enough.
10. Any, Any, Three's a crowd.
11.Any, any, far from home
12. Any, any, getting someone's birthday wrong by a day early

Some Rules
- You can grab as many prompts as you want.
- You may re-fill a prompt if someone else has already grabbed it.
- Post your fill to the original prompt.
- After doing so, please leave a short comment here, with the number of the filled prompt.

General rules here

If you have an AO3 account, you can add your fills here.

Have fun, and don't forget to be nice. No bashing of characters, pairings, fandoms, kinks, etc. Thank you!

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