So I read this post from the OTC. I totally understand why OTC needs a non-commercialization policy. On a petty level I've been annoyed at, for instance, someone writing fics in a kink meme and then linking to a site like Ko-fi at the end. And for copyright reasons I get not monetizing works. But part of me feels like their rules are a wee bit draconian.

I've been linking to the summaries of books I use as summaries for unconventionalcourtship to prove that they're real books since the goal is to alter a romance novel summary for a fic. I'm not advocating people to actually buy the book. I don't even know these authors. I haven't read their books. 🤐 I guess in the future I may just leave the links to the comm announcement posts and on DW but I'm a bit annoyed I'm being lumped in with people who actually are "please go to my Patreon for more!" when I thought I was doing a good deed.

Also: The OTC mentions Twitch but I want to clarify that getting a Twitch account is free. I would assume under their TOS that asking people to get Twitch subscriptions (with or without Amazon Prime) is against their TOS. There is no such thing as "Twitch Prime." And technically I think X actually can't be allowed to since you can subscribe to individual creators on X.

IDK, I think this policy needs a little bit of hammering out because to be fair it's thorny to enforce their commercial promotion policy as is.

Here is my table for this year. Probably will see if I can rescue some fics (no comments obs) I was planning to do for other tables and migrate them here.

a work posted in the past month	a fic that's under 1k	a work from your first fandom	art on AO3	a work posted in 2024
a work by someone who's given you a kudos or a comment	a work with an impressive/eye catching title	a fic that's over 20k	a work by someone you've come across recently	a work from an event from 2014
comic with no dialogue	a fic not on AO3	FREE SPACE	a work about your first 'ship	a fic with multiple chapters
a work posted in 2014	a work posted in 2025	coloured art	a work that made you sad	a fic you reread often
a work from a Big Bang	a work in a series	a oneshot	a fic with more than 5 additional tags	a work from your newest fandom

Haven’t done any fandom posts in a minute, but here goes…

This is a short and sweet post to say I’m probably not going to write about some people that aren’t at WWE anymore. Maybe if they’re connected to current people at WWE but that’s it. I feel my stories with a good chunk of people I wrote about with people not with WWE is over. That’s it. I still love these wrestlers even if they’re not at WWE anymore.

I am trying to write some WWE stuff but I’m procrastinating as I’ve filled my life with things such as “do I need to buy this thing or make this game transaction” and “it is very important I raid people in Clash of Clans today.” It will be done by next month I promise.

I have about around 800 bookmarks and most of them aren’t on AO3. I decided to stop using pinboard.in partly because of the owner’s views and partly because of the lack of tech support on the site (as in the guy still insists on not getting a lot a help for the site). I decided to move my bookmarks to raindrop.io. Despite reading the site’s instructions on how to make bookmarks public I haven’t found the button to make my bookmarks public.

The smartest thing to do is to suck it up, check to make sure what links are still operational and what isn’t duplicated on raindrop.io, and move them to AO3. But I just discovered a couple of alternatives to pinboard.in and Delicious. There’s Linkhut and Linkhorse. I don’t know how fanfic friendly those sites are, though. I’m looking at both of them and I’ll probably have some sort of a solution soon.

Update: Didn’t take me long. I’m going to sort through my duplicates on raindrop.io and move my bookmarks to AO3. It’ll take a while, though.

I decided to do fandom50challenge. I retroactively made my repost of my Scandal fics #1, and the post is here. This week I've decided to talk about a fic idea I have no idea I'll return to. It's that or "fics I'm reccing for comment_bingo early" but that'll be a post anyway, so why write the latter idea now.

So I wrote this fic for the femslashafterdark exchange before it ended. I had a vision for this fic I abandoned because in part I didn't have the time to execute the early years for Nakia and Okoye in the fic. Also my recipient didn't want death in their fic and I abided by that.

I planned to have Nakia start off training with the Dora Milaje before she decided to join the War Dogs. Here she would also be considered to be the Black Panther in case something went wrong in the royal family. Nakia would eventually become disillusioned with the Dora Milaje and feel that Wakanda should become more involved in world matters instead of staying isolationist. While Nakia was with the War Dogs T'Challa would die in combat with Okoye by her side (this idea was based off of a spin-off comic set before the Black Panther movie). Nakia would be picked up while on assignment with the War Dogs and go through the process of becoming the Black Panther (adhering to the MCU process without randomly having her eat a flower and poof, Black Panther). I'd rewrite the fic today but I never saved my canon notes to rewrite it and I'd have to search through everything I wrote to rewrite the fic.

I’m posting just the AO3 link as I think it’d be a lot of work to post the full thing here again, and I know I’d get the temptation to condense and re-edit my old stuff. TL;DR there was a fannish panic on fic including rape and also I was hounded for the smut I wrote. So I anoned this for a few years. Only issue is the fic not being canonically compliant (Big Finish wrote a Suzie Costello-centric audio which added things to the Torchwood canon well after I wrote this).

Yes, I’m also stalling some fannish things I should be doing to post this.

The Library (6032 words) by merryghoul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con
Relationships: Suzie Costello/Toshiko Sato, Gwen Cooper/Suzie Costello
Characters: Toshiko Sato, Jack Harkness, Owen Harper, Suzie Costello, Gwen Cooper
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, Collars, Vibrator, Possession, Dreams, Dream Sex, Revenants, Alternate Universe - Movie Fusion, Jossed, Community: reel_torchwood
Summary: One of Tosh's devices is the key to completing Suzie's biography, but it's more than she bargained for.

1) I’m never seriously finishing this table in 2025 after all. lol me.

2) It took me TWO YEARS (and lurking on Bluesky) to realize I can download all my bookmarks from Pinboard using an export prompt and move them elsewhere. So I’ve deleted Pinboard (because screw the guy who runs it). I’ve moved my bookmarks to Raindrop.io and I’ll figure out a public link to put here instead.

3) While I’m here last month I decided to sign up for rewrite_a_fic. I initially wanted to rewrite What We Do in the Judgement Day to get it out of a script format but I’m stuck on how to even rewrite the opening. I was considering this fic I orphaned a while back because while I like the fic otherwise I wish I never wrote this one historical figure who was an awful person IRL (and isn’t depicted as such in the canon). Long story short but jokingly comparing wrestlers to superheroes for my own amusement lead me to figure out a way to rewrite Today I Saw the Whole World. To be honest I pieced together some drafts I wrote at the time to create a full fic but I can see myself turning the fic into a wrestling version of Loki. Some characters are getting cut from the rewrite and others will be added but the gist of the original fic will still be there.

4) I’ll get to that paid time to swap my icons around, delete some icons, and add some newer Doctor Who icons for the newsletter.

Posting what I did for the Smash the Champagne Bottle fest here:

Dark Side of the Pirate (612 words) by merryghoul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: World Wrestling Entertainment
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Shayna Baszler/Kairi Sane | Hojo Kairi
Characters: Shayna Baszler, Kairi Sane | Hojo Kairi
Additional Tags: WWE NXT, NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn 4, Winner's Room (Hockey RPF), Face-Sitting, Cunnilingus, Mentions of World Wonder Ring Stardom, Community: wrestlingkink
Summary: Shayna gloats herself into a winner’s room with Kairi Sane, but it’s not a Kairi she’s seen before.

I accidentally posted all these things to my journal instead of the newsletter in June. Not sure if the links made another newsletter after I posted it but here it is if you missed it. In the post: some things about the last season, a dw100 challenge, and more.

Just peeking in to say I’ve committed to spook_me and smashthechampagnebottle and that I’m passing up on Yuletide. To be fair, though, a lot of what I like, especially newer fandoms, end up being too big for Yuletide. And I don’t miss the Yuletide wank every year.

For Spook Me I’m writing an original fic but for Smash the Champagne Bottle I’m planning on more F/F winner’s room fic. That’s all for now.