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Title: Accepting Risks
Fandom: Paddington - the Musical
Rating: G
Length: 256 words
Summary: Henry Brown is reflecting on life with Paddington
Spoilers for 'Paddington - the Musical'

Beavis and Butthead #27

Jan. 24th, 2026 06:42 am

Activity #102 - Happy New Year 2026

Jan. 24th, 2026 11:49 am
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Time to look back on 2025 with a focus on iconmaking, to draw some conclusions, and get some feedback! \o/


1) ICON PROGRESSION


Tell us what icons you made last year, select the best/the most extraordinary/the most representative, and tell us about them.

Tell us about your progress, your fandoms, your ideas and techniques. What changed over the course of the year?

If you want, you can make resolutions about your iconmaking: what you would like to do this year, techniques you want to try, goals you want to achieve - for resolutions, also see bestof_icons below.

There are quite a few progression posts made by our members in previous years, where you can look for ideas how to go about it:

=> https://icontalking.dreamwidth.org/tag/progression+post

more examples and layout code links )

* You can post your progression/resolution posts as new posts directly to this comm, use the tag "progression post"
* If you post(ed) a progression post to your journal, you can make a new post here and link to your journal
* If you have more than 5 icons in your post, put them under a cut
* Note: you must be a member of this community to be able to post

Deadline: any time you want! These things take time. Post them to the community any time you like!

2) BESTOF_ICONS


[community profile] bestof_icons is here again, too. Voting is not open yet, but you can make:

Remakes

Resolutions

3) ICON FEEDBACK/CONCRIT


When this comm was new, there was a concrit/feedback thread on every post, but it wasn't used by many people, so I stopped making them. In case you do miss getting feedback on your icons, there's a concrit/feedback thread in this post again!

Plus, there's a relatively new comm where you can request concrit: [community profile] iconcrit

Have fun, and be nice!

p.s.


If you'd rather participate in a challenge this month, check out our List of current active iconmaking communities. It's a sticky post at the top of this comm, and you can also find a link to it in the comm's sidebar. I update this list about once a month. You're always welcome to let me know if there are new comms I should add to it.
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[personal profile] tinny posting in [community profile] icontalking


Wow, we got a huge rainbow from 11 makers! \o/

If you want to snag all the boxes, here are the links:
7 rainbow mystery boxes
The randomizer (and people's preferences) were not actually very fairly distributed. *g* The highest numbers (5-7) were for b/w, orange, red, and purple. There was only one person who got a blue box, and not a single yellow one. Now you can enjoy them all!

https://www.mediafire.com/file/pq0zmjruspedxb0/icontalking_box_purple.zip
https://www.mediafire.com/file/f6cjhgec4ikffq7/icontalking_box_red.zip
https://www.mediafire.com/file/gsyv6s42gbm9cva/icontalking_box_orange.zip
https://www.mediafire.com/file/f7rf6nxb64u7veb/icontalking_box_yellow.zip
https://www.mediafire.com/file/ey2y4uue71vdnav/icontalking_box_green.zip
https://www.mediafire.com/file/5c7j5fharj9kg4k/icontalking_box_blue.zip
https://www.mediafire.com/file/t4ed5x90fdsju33/icontalking_box_bw.zip


and here's our rainbowy result: 62 icons by 11 makers )
Feel free to comment here or on each maker's threads linked next to their name.

Our next activity will be the yearly roundup/review activity, and it'll be coming right up.
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[personal profile] bluerosekatie posting in [community profile] smallfandomfest
Title: how good I could have been
Author: bluerosekatie
Fandom: Rockman | Mega Man Classic (video games)
Pairing/Characters: (use full names rather than initials or nicknames)
Rating/Category: Gen, Teen
Prompt: Rockman | Mega Man Classic (game), Dr. Light & Blues | Proto Man & Rockman | Mega Man, how good I could have been
Spoilers: Spoils Mega Man 3 pretty much entirely.
Summary: Proto Man lived past the end of Blues’ story — and he hoped Dr. Light had forgotten about him. He didn’t plan to find out.
Notes/Warnings: Contains a self-harm depiction.

Read it on Ao3 here!
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[personal profile] mific posting in [community profile] fancake
Fandom: Game Changers series
Characters/Pairings: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
Rating: Explicit
Length: 4639
Content Notes: Discussion of unplanned pregnancy and of abortion as a treatment option. Brief mention of a tapeworm analogy.
Creator Links: SirMxALotts on AO3
Themes: Crack treated seriously, AU, Canon LGBTQ+ characters, Mpreg, Established relationship

Summary: Most people in Shane’s position would call a doctor after two positive tests, but Shane isn't most people, so instead of doing that, he takes 17 tests over the course of two days.

Final result: 16 positive, one negative.

Reccer's Notes: A classic crack trope this time: Mpreg. The reason why a man could become pregnant in this AU isn't given, nor why Shane did nothing to prevent it (or didn't expect it), but it has happened so he faces a choice. This is where the "taken seriously" part comes in, as it's the same difficult choice any woman faces with an unplanned pregnancy. Rather than an unrealistic tropey outcome, Shane (after ignoring the whole problem for a while) finally talks to Ilya about it and makes his decision. I enjoyed the realism and the way Ilya was supportive without trying to persuade Shane one way or the other. We don't see the final outcome, but the story covers enough so that we know Shane's decision.

Fanwork Links: nothing but some heartburn, baby

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While some JLI members lost their solo series after getting into the JLI, Scott Free, AKA Mister Miracle, got his back in a second volume. (All unmarked citations here are for Mister Miracle v2.) J.M. DeMatteis wrote issues #1-8 with assistance from Keith Giffen and Len Wein; Wein took over for #9-13, and Doug Moench finished it out with #14-28. The series’ central conflict was Scott and Barda trying to live out the late-20th century version of the American dream: a home in the suburbs, a repair shop that’ll support them both (boy, those were the days), no crazy super-shenanigans.

‘‘We’ve got to BLEND IN to small-town New Hampshire life, honey! That means we vote Republican now! We’re not like those big-time city slickers from CONCORD!’’ )

Solo #7: Batman A-Go-Go

Jan. 23rd, 2026 01:32 pm
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"I caught the [60s Batman] TV show in reruns after school every weekday. There’d be a great block of shows that I’d run home for: Star Trek, The Monkees, Twilight Zone, etc. There was a lot of cool stuff that hit stores from Batman-mania that Dad and Mom would get for us, so it was always I source of excitement and great joy. When I was asked to do an issue of DC Solo I immediately got together with my big brother, Lee to do our Batman love letter, BATMAN A Go-Go." - Mike Allred

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Giffen plot and breakdowns, DeMatteis script, Hughes pencils.

“Club JLI” (#34) has a real “1970s-1980s movie comedy” vibe. Ex-millionaires Blue Beetle and Booster Gold are still broke and anxious for a new side hustle. Their repo gigs have been getting too depressing, and Booster’s old merchandising and licensing deals don’t bring in much bacon. But they are members of the Justice League International, the highest-profile super-team on the planet! That’s got to be monetizable somehow, right?

Sure it is! And wait until you hear the plan for their new business venture!

What could go wrong? )
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[personal profile] soricel posting in [community profile] smallfandomfest
Title: Overlap
Author: soricel/freevistas
Fandom: Sense8
Pairing/Characters: Nomi Marks & Lito Rodriguez
Rating/Category: G
Prompt: Closeness

On AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/78102826

 

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[personal profile] badly_knitted posting in [community profile] fan_flashworks

Title: To Start Over
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author: [personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Jonathan Willaway, Varian, York, Rayat.
Rating: PG
Spoilers/Setting: Right after The Innocent Prey.
Summary: Leaving Rayat’s peaceful home, Willaway can’t help wondering whether regressing the violent York to babyhood will fix the problem he represents..
Word Count: 1021
Content Notes: Nada.
Written For: Challenge 504: Second Chances.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.



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