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Two days until assignments are due!

Hello Pears!

We have approximately two days before assignments are due. Please submit completed assignments by Sunday 21 September at 11:59pm EDT. [ In your timezone + Countdown. ]

If you know you cannot meet the deadline, please press the default button on your assignment before 11:59pm.

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Please ensure your work has been submitted and is not in draft form! Drafts are not considered complete gifts. You risk being mod-defaulted if your gift remains a draft by the deadline.

If you need an extension, you must request it before the assignment deadline passes. I offer Sunday 28 September at 11:59pm EDT as the only extension available for participants. [ In your timezone + Countdown. ]

Please email rarepairexmod@gmail.com, including your AO3 username and the AO3 username of your recipient in your request.

If you request an extension, you are agreeing to: 1) requesting only if you are reasonably certain you will be able to finish in this additional time and 2) if you have requested an extension and default or are a no-show default, you will not be able to request an extension in 2026's round. I do not need to know the reason why you need an extension.

Sunday 21-Sep edit: I'm AFK on and off today, so all extensions asked before 11:59pm EDT will be granted, even if I don't respond before 11:59pm EDT.

Pinch hits will be posted sometime on Monday 22 September (most likely late in the AEST evening). We will have several new pinch hits added to the fruit bowl. (If you would like to claim a current pinch hit before the PDPHs are posted, please reach out.)

There is a good chance the collection opening will be delayed. I will confirm this next weekend once all the extensions are due.

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See you soon! :)

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!theme day

Friday, September 19 - Blessings or Curses

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The Wrong Conclusion (Spooks/Winnie-the-Pooh, Lucas North/Tigger Holmes)

Title: The Wrong Conclusion
Fandom: Spooks/Winnie-the-Pooh
Pairing/Characters: Lucas North & Tigger Holmes
Content Notes: No warning needed
Prompt: September 19th: the wrong conclusion

The Wrong Conclusion on AO3

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2025

All Assignments Are In!

All assignments are in and we will open on time tomorrow, September 19th, at 9:59PM Eastern. Please ensure your works are ready to be seen and loved! As a reminder, you must comment on your gift before the start of next year’s exchange, or you will be banned.

Stories are now revealed!

The collection is live! We got a total of 30 fics this time, the most we've ever had for a flash round — way to go, guys!

As usual, please do not check out the fics via the fandom list page on AO3. Only a couple of fandoms are listed there, due to AO3's wrangling policy, so most of the stories will not show up on said page. Instead, there's an alternative fandom list below. (You can also browse the collection via the works page on AO3, where all are accounted for.)

All stories, ordered alphabetically by fandom:

( behind the cut )

Thank you so much for taking part! I know these are all nonexistent fandoms, but I hope we can try to check out our fellow participants' stories and comment wherever possible. If you're not familiar with any of the fandoms, you can also try browsing the tag page to see if there are any themes/tropes/kinks that catches your eye.

Happy reading! And if this flash round got the better of you, just remember that the normal round isn't that far off :) I really hope to see all of you then ♥

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Best Day (Transformers [Bay Movies/Bumblebee], Optimus Prime & Charlie Watson)

Title: Best Day
Fandom: Transformers [Bay Movies/Bumblebee]
Pairing/Characters: Optimus Prime & Charlie Watson
Content Notes: None
Prompt: September Eighteen - 1 & 3 - best day ever

Follows this

"Are you well, Charlie Watson?" Optimus Prime asked in concern as the woman had tears in her eyes, watching Bumblebee leave with Sam.

"Yeah, umm, I… can't begin to tell you how much all of this means, Optimus Prime." She looked up at the mech, remembering that recovered recording so long ago. In the metal, not flesh, he was even more impressive.

"I have given the others who aided us Cybertronian citizenship options. Would you care to have that, to protect you from your interesting government?"

She stared, then dabbed tears away and grinned.

"Right. Best day ever," she avowed.

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2025

In Stars And Time, Mirabelle ~ Siffrin

title: There’s not a chance that you will be the one to break the spell (If that’s everything, then later, I’ve got things to do as well)
fandom: In Stars And Time
author: Chibi aka Siffrin aka Wilbur
ship: Mirabelle ~ Siffrin
wordcount: 5626
summary: Mirabelle finds Siffrin again while on a journey for the love that maybe wouldn't make her want to throw up? But what if Siffrin... wasn't Siffrin?

read on ao3!

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masterlist

Masterlist

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!free for all day

Thursday, September 18 - Free for All

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2025

Serendipity Comes From Defying Expectations [Knives Out | Marta/Ransom]

Title: Serendipity Comes From Defying Expectations
Author:

jedibuttercup
Fandom: Knives Out (2019)
Pairing: Marta Cabrera/Ransom Drysdale
Word Count: 10,500
Rating: Teen
Warnings: No archive warnings

Summary: Ransom was the only one of the Thrombeys who hadn't been haunting the patriarch's doorstep with demands and pleas ever since the party. Maybe there was a little more to him than the façade of a spoiled rich kid who valued nothing and no one besides himself.

Link to: Serendipity Comes From Defying Expectations (at AO3, or on DW)

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After the Bar Brawl (Stargate Atlantis; John Sheppard, Teyla Emmagen)

Title: After the Bar Brawl
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Pairing/Characters: John Sheppard, Teyla Emmagen
Word Count: 263
Content Notes: none
Prompt:

no_true_pair September 18 - John Sheppard & Teyla Emmagen - best day ever

Link to fic: After the Bar Brawl (on AO3)

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ATLA: Heat, Wait, Steep, Repeat by Haicrescendo

Fandom: Avatar the Last Airbender
Pairings/Characters: Zuko, Iroh, the GAang in the background
Rating: G
Length: 2,889 words, 19min 30s
Creator Links: Haicrescendo
Theme: Food & Cooking, character development, family, families of choice, going home, missing scenes,

Summary:

[Zuko’s greatest failing, not his only but just one that stands out the most in a very long list, is that he’s never known quite what he had until it’s gone. Or, on the opposite hand, he covets the things that don’t matter, that seem to matter so much at the time and turn out, in the end, to be something that Zuko’s made up in his head.

And then Zuko finds, of all things after it all, that he misses Uncle Iroh’s tea.]

Or,

Zuko screws up his life and in the process of fixing it, figures out some tea wisdom along the way.

Reccer's Notes: This story is so beautiful and gentle. I absolutely love seeing how Zuko's growth and character development is mirrored with his finally learning to make a decent cup of tea. Plus the neat detail of how he despite learning from and trying to emulate his uncle, he makes it his own way. Zuko and Iroh's relationship is lovely in this too. Just an all around lovely story. klainelynch does a beautiful job with the podfic as well

Fanwork Links:
Heat, Wait, Steep, Repeat
and the Podfic both on AO3

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announcement

Fat Bear Flash

Fat Bear Flash
A fic & art exchange for fat bears of all kinds!
- minimums: creator's choice of 300 word fic or a nice sketch

Schedule:
Noms & Signups open: now!
Noms & Signups close: September 22
Works Due & Revealed: September 30
Creators Revealed: October 5
all deadlines are 11:59PM UTC

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Community Recs Post!

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/fancrafts/fanvids/podfics/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.

Heron [Stardew Valley, Shane/Farmer]

Title: Heron
Author: hapaxlegomena on AO3
Fandom: Stardew Valley
Characters: Shane, Farmer
Word Count: 11k
Rating: E
Warnings: CNTW

Summary: He'd never had much to do with their northern neighbour, though Marnie had always spoken highly of him, so he stuck a forkful of trout in his mouth instead of replying. So there was a new farmer in town. So what? They'd probably barely meet. It wasn't much to do with Shane.

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Current Music: “Cha Ge”

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Mo Dao Zu Shi; Chen Qing Ling: Tea Preferences by CQL Sects - a Headcanon, by watch-grok-brainrot

Fandom: Mo Dao Zu Shi; Chen Qing Ling
Pairings/Characters: Gen; M/M; Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian; Jin Zixuan, Wen Qing, Wen Ning, Nie Mingjue, Nie Huaisang, Jiang Fengmian, Wei Wuxian, Jiang Cheng, Jiang Yanli, Lan Xichen, Lan An, Lan Wangji
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 1,209 words
Content Notes: No Archive Warnings Apply, arrant pedantry, Author Showed Her Work, Food Porn, gastrotravelogue, tea nerdery, Tumblr work
Creator Tags:
headcanon, the untamed 陈情令, cql, mo dao zu shi, mdzs, wei wuxian, lan wangji, nie huaisang, jin zixuan, wen qing, nie mingjue, wangxian headcanon at the very end because that's what i'm here for, tea, i really like tea, heicha, oolong, white tea, green tea, dragonwell, my ramblings, qi is a thing for some tea drinkers

Creator Links: (AO3)

Haoppopotamus; (Instagram)

haoppopotamus; (Tumblr)

watch-grok-brainrot (formerly ~~wangxianbunnydoodles~~)
Theme: Food & Cooking, Cultural Differences, Meta, Research, Worldbuilding

Summary: Since watching ep 3 for the first time (i.e. january), this has been knocking around in my brain. In ep 3, we see JZXuan waltzing into the same inn as the Yunmeng Trio, booting them, and then rejecting “bad tea”. Ever since, I’ve watched a lot of tea being poured in CQL. It got me thinking, what kind of tea would different sects prefer and what would different characters drink?

Reccer’s Notes: In which Haoppo uses her tea connoisseurship as a vehicle for characterization and worldbuilding (and invites her imaginary friends to illustrate and share her interest.) For the likes of me (with no claim to Asian cred by birth or upbringing, and whose blunted sensory range reduces almost all tea to hot leaf juice), this serves as a window into an unfamiliar area of interest and body of cultural reference frames (the idea that tea might possess qi, not necessarily related to its flavor, was a new one on me—but of obvious importance to cultivators.)

Fanwork Links: Tea Preferences by CQL Sects - a Headcanon

(The original post, preserved on the Wayback Machine, includes a beautiful and apropos GIF header: Tea Preferences by CQL Sects - a Headcanon (~~wangxianbunnydoodles~~)

Current Mood: accomplished

Forming a Connection with Yourself by Mothcryptid1998

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The Anatomy Model [Original Work]

Title: The Anatomy Model
Author: firecat on AO3
Fandom: Original Work
Characters: Anatomy Model, Professor of Hands-on Sex Ed Class, Students of Sex Ed Class
Word Count: ~8560
Rating: E
Warnings: Rape/Non-con (although it’s mostly dub-con), Underage Sex (late teens)

Summary:
“We do have one way you can earn your way out of the disgrace you’re in,” said the headmaster.
Agatha shyly raised her eyes to his face.
“You can serve as a teaching assistant to Professor Fallon. He teaches biology and sexual education. Mostly the work is grading papers, but occasionally other jobs will be assigned.”

The Anatomy Model on AO3

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Leech (Transformers [Bay Movies], Starscream & Scion [OC]

Title: Leech
Fandom: Transformers [Bay Movies]
Pairing/Characters: Starscream & Scion [OC]
Content Notes: Starscream?
Prompt: September Seventeen - 2 & 7 - energy

"Leech."

The ghostly presence laughed with a keen edge to it that tortured only the mechling the ghost had bound itself to.

"You have no idea, Scion, just how much I will take from you, in energy and existence," Starscream crooned once he stopped laughing.

"I will not let you. I will find a way to defeat you, you glitch." Scion brought himself up to his full height, slight as it was compared to a final-framed Seeker.

"You will find, scrapling, that when I set my processors to a goal, I get my way," Starscream said, threateningly.

"Not. This. Time."