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5soulmates is a prompt table writing challenge that focused on the soulmate theme

kingstoken has posted their 2026 Book Bingo Challenge.

kitarella_imagines is running Funuary, a fun/funny themed prompt challenge, through the month of January.

traumaticexperiences, a (psychological) trauma themed multifandom exchange, is open for sign-ups until January 16th, 8PM PST.

threesentenceficathon has posted their 2026 schedule. Prompting will open on January 17th.

seasonsofdrabbles, an exchange for the creation of drabbles and drabble variants which runs 4 times a year, is open for sign-ups until January 18th, 11:59PM EST. Nominations will also remain open until sign-ups close.

seasonalremix is a quarterly, trope-based multifandom event where you sign-up and write a 1-5k work that is a remix of some sort. The Winter Round is currently open for sign-ups until January 24th, 11:59PM GMT and you can find out more info (including where to sign up) HERE.

lul_soulmatesex, a soulmate themed exchange, is accepting nominations until January 25th, 11:59PM AM CST.

smallfandombang, a big bang for small fandoms, is open for artist sign-ups until January 31st.

ksspringfever, a Kirk/Spock community, is open for sign-ups and prompt collecting for Kirk/Spock Spring Fever until January 31st.

wipbigbang is running International Fanworks Day Mini Bang for works that are too short for the regular big bang (has to be less than 7.5k). The writing period started on January 9th and the earliest posting is February 1st and will go till the 15th.

crackthewip, a challenge to help you finish your WIPs, is running and accepting sign-ups during the first half of the year.

Challenge #7:
LIST THREE (or more) THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF. They don’t have to be your favorite things, just things that you think are good. Feel free to expand as much or as little as you want.

I kind of struggle with these things but I'll try. :D

1. I'm punctual. I like that I'm on time and even if I stress myself out a little when I work backwards, it's less stressful than the alternative. I don't mind being at the airport two hours early and I'm glad I can tell someone a time and unless there are certain unforeseen circumstances, I will be there then.

2. I'm fairly easy to talk to and am a good listener. I am best with at one on one or a couple of people, but I can carry a conversation if they're engaged and am happy to listen to other people/be a shoulder/offer advice if needed.

3. I'm a good baker and a decent cook. I can follow a recipe and can make the right modifications if needed and am aware of my limitations/can do what I know how to do well.

I swear I'm not like a huge Ado fan as my 2 Ado posts this week would suggest, but... the way my jaw dropped when I saw the words 'Soldier game' and 'Ado' together on Youtube... God, I miss Love Live, and LLSIF. I can't still can't believe KLab fucked everyone over by going EOS, saying we can transfer our shit to their new game, then killing the new game just a few weeks after releasing it on global. Who does that??? Who???

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Kind of niche and mainly reference for me and other icon obsessed friends, but here's some icon community recommendations from yours truly! They are in no particular order. This is of course not an exhaustive list, but a personal one.

We hate how this icon looks. It's not the fault of the icon, but the fault of Photobucket's ugly ass watermarks. To fix this and other affected icons, either: open the image in a new tab. This will fix it sometimes, but... If this doesn't fix it, take a look at the url. Delete everything before i### (numbers vary).photobucket.com and reenter the URL.

We love how this icon looks. The Photobucket Evil has been defeated. Earth may call upon you again to fight its gaudy watermark minions, but its citizens know that they can rely on you to save the day every time! Remember, take care to save the image because the watermark will appear again, and no one wants that!

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Challenge #8: Talk about your creative process.

Hmm, my creative process is kind of all over the place...! If inspiration suddenly strikes, I drop everything and start doing that (or at least resist the urge until I can't hold it in anymore if I'm doing something else more important).

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Happy Oshi no Ko Season 3 day!!! I have actually finished the manga for Oshi no Ko (read the end point of S2 up until the ending, to be more precise), so even with all the infamy surrounding the succeeding parts of the story, I still very much look forward to it being animated/adapted, mostly because OnK's art style is Delicious. 

Reaction post for Episode 1, obvious spoilers for S1 and 2, but no manga spoilers. Very minimal editing happening here so it sounds kinda unhinged because I was typing them up as I go, lol.

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...earlier than expected, too!! I'm mildly surprised because I just finished my final chapter for the Blue Lions Big Bang (still just a draft; getting it beta-d), so I thought I'd be pretty dang pooped. Not to mention I'm a huge procrastinator. Woahhhh.

At first I was kind of dreading the thing because I've never written the ship before and was like, "oh man why'd I go and offer that, what if I don't do it justice and the recipient hates it," but the words just flowed easily and I ended up really enjoying writing their dialogue and dynamic.

I'm excited for when works are revealed!! I really do hope they like it, but if not... uh... I like it. And that's the most important thing! (+1 to things I say to console myself)

Challenge #6
Top 10 Challenge.

I decided to do two.

Top 10 Favorite Songs of 2025 (in no order; all links go to YouTube)
1. Ordinary - Alex Warren
2. Three Six Five - Shinedown
3. Golden - KPOP Demon Hunters/Hunter/X
4. The Fate of Ophelia - Taylor Swift
5. Undressed - Sombr
6. Abracadabra - Lady GaGa
7. Azizam - Ed Sheeran
8. Mystical Magical - Benson Boone
9. Birds of a Feather - Billie Eilish
10. Sink or Swim - OneRepublic

Top Ten Things I Made in 2025

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Challenge #7: LIST THREE (or more) THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF. They don’t have to be your favorite things, just things that you think are good. Feel free to expand as much or as little as you want.

This is really hard as I have bad self-esteem and you'll probably see that some of these are based on how other people validated me through their own perceptions, and how I was merely influenced by those, but I will try:

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1. I like my sense of humor. I think I'm pretty damn funny. Well, not by myself, but when I have someone to bounce off on.
2. I like my taste in music! Some genres I like are k-pop, j-pop/j-rock, indie, alt rock, pop punk, and new wave. My recent post with music recommendations was well-received, which felt really good. (Even if it wasn't, I would still think my music taste is the bee's knees.)
3. I like that I have thoughts and can sometimes articulate them. A lot of times they're not 100% comprehensible or meaningful (just variations of "wow I loved this" or "wow this sucks") but I think it's more about having thoughts about things and putting them out there, or talking about them with someone. I think that's important, especially during times when people make others feel like it's bad to have an opinion or to be outspoken.
4. I like that parents seem to like me a lot. (My own parents not included.) Idk why that is, exactly, but my friends' parents and my partner's mom like me even though I'm not like... the perfect child. I guess it's just because I'm polite and treat their kids nicely? Lol. It does feel a bit weird when my friends say, "Oh my mom didn't like this other friend," because it's like... damn, what did they do to be disliked?
5. I like that I'm semi-decent at rhythm games. I think it's a cool skill to show off to non-rhythm gamers.
6. I like that my former coworkers remember me as someone with a good work ethic. This is not entirely true, I'm not a square, but I do take pride in being communicative and being as thorough as possible with my work, as it was both client-facing and customer-facing.

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I think I have some friends here who speak Japanese or are learning, so I hope this is of any interest :"D

I came across a post on Bluesky that Dr. Wes Robertson's slang dictionary has been added to the New Jisho website. Dr. Wes Robertson is a content creator who frequently discusses the Japanese language, notably slang, and linguistics. I mostly see him on Tiktok but he is also on Youtube and Instagram.

It's also fascinating to note that this is New Jisho, a successor to the EN-JA-EN dictionary site, Jisho, by the same creator. New Jisho is currently in beta and was created due to several requests for the current Jisho (that's apparently 15 years old, by the way) that became hard to implement without literally just remaking the site instead. Spaghetti code, I guess?

Anyway, once New Jisho has dark mode, I might swap my current bookmark to that, instead. A shame they don't have a mobile app though; on iOS, I still use the app called "Japanese" (yes that's literally the name) to look up words but it's last update was 6 years ago. 💀

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Challenge #6: Top 10 Challenge

Oooh, hmm, Top 10... Let's go with top 10 songs in my Liked Songs playlist. I currently have 330 lol.

Post will be under a cut because I will include Youtube embeds for almost every item :"D I have also included some bonus songs at the end of the post because I have poor self-control this is my journal and I do what I want <3 Song languages include Japanese, Korean, and English.

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This goes so hard oh my god. Ado x Chibi Maruko-chan was Not on my 2026 bingo card (or on my 2025 one for that matter, as it looks like the cover audio was released on 2025-12-29 and the music video itself was posted less than a day ago).

I love Chibi Maruko-chan and I miss watching it on the TV. My mom made me stop watching it because Maruko acted like a li'l brat and she didn't want her attitude to rub off on my little brother, who was around 2 years old at that time. Idgaf mom she's fucking hilarious. /lh

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In other news, Sousou no Frieren S2 is starting later this week!!! Toho Animation just posted this video of some more clips of the anime to the new opening song, "lulu." by Mrs. GREEN APPLE. I'm so excited! The animation is still superb and the lines made me emotional. Himmel...!

I read the manga starting from where Season 1 left off, but to be honest, my memory is so bad that when I watched the teasers, I couldn't tell what part they were adapting. That's probably for the best since I'll be experiencing it almost as if I'm an anime-only fan lmao.

Past R.E.P.O.R.T posts are in this tag :)

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