Kayla Shay - Fanart, Fanfiction & More

Please come back soon, AO3. I know it's not even been a full two days yet since the site started having issues, but I've missed you. Don't make me have to delve into the horrors that is FF.net in order to get my fanfiction fix.

(Honestly, I'm mostly amused that it's been working fine when I haven't been online but the moment that I had a free minute to try to pull up a fic, that's when it's gone down. There have been several times now where I've checked the status and it was just updated minutes earlier.)

I really don't know why I bother uploading fic anymore.

I managed to get a 10k fic loaded between all of AO3's ups and downs. In the not quite 24 hours since, WITH MORE OUTAGES, I've had two comments which were BOTH ART SPAM.

Like. Fuck you spammers. Comments are the icing on the cake, but I swear to fuck getting one of you makes me want to never ever post fic again. Especially when that is the BULK OF THE COMMENTS I GET NOW.

Title: Victim
Fandom: Interview with the Vampire
Music: "Caroline's a Victim" by Kate Nash
Pairing/Characters: Louis-centric, Louis/Lestat, Louis/Armand, Louis & Claudia
Summary: Basically she likes killers

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I really enjoyed this season of Bridgerton despite being mostly indifferent to Benedict as a character. Yerin Ha as Sophie was everything - I really hope this launches her into a long, bright career. ( spoilers )

In other fannish news, I saw some folks on bsky discussing who the best lightsaber duelist is in Star Wars, and since I didn't really know the people being quoted, I took myself to tumblr to post about it. I also texted my eldest nephew, who is the biggest Anakin and Obi-Wan fan I know (which, given some of the fangirls I know, is saying something) and his knee-jerk response was Anakin*. Which is the wrong answer, so we argued back and forth a bit, and he came around to my way of thinking that it has to be Obi-Wan, even though we never see him go up against Palpatine or Mace Windu (who may have beaten Palpatine if not for Anakin).

I did see people saying Ahsoka, because she survives Maul, Vader, and very briefly, Palpatine, but as much as I love her, she survives and escapes. She doesn't win. The list of Obi-Wan's duels is extensive and no one ever even lays a blade on him that I recall (though he doesn't beat Dooku, which was an argument my nephew made, and Anakin eventually does) until he puts up his saber and lets Vader kill him. Like, is Obi-Wan destroyed emotionally and psychologically by dueling with Anakin? One hundred percent! But he still wins until not winning is the best way to win in the long-term.

*I think you can make a case for him when he's Vader, but even then, Obi-Wan beats him on Mustafar and he only wins on the Death Star because Obi-Wan lets him. In the OWK show, he maybe sets Obi-Wan on fire a little but Obi-Wan takes no real damage in any of their fights until the Death Star.

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fandomtrumpshate officially opened for browsing a few days ago! You can find all the amazing offerings at fth2026offerings. They even made a handy guide for using the tags to quickly find what you're looking for.

There are 76 offerings for MDZS/The Untamed, from fanfic over podfic to fanart and so on. You can find them all here. 

And the Fan Craft Bazaar also opened! You can find all the cool things at fth2026craftbazaar ! 

I'll not be offering fic or something like that this year. But I am offering a 📗 fanbinding for The Untamed/MDZS!

Perhaps someone is interested. But even if not, check out all the other cool things people are offering!

Just announced it on the Discord channel (mostly because I had a wicked allergy attack yesterday and wasn't online) but we are extending posting for the 2026 Mini Bang to March 16th, as February seemed to be a rough month for everyone.

For all of you who are interested, the Bragging Rights template for the Mini Bang is up at https://wipbigbang.dreamwidth.org/223224.html

 This is the fanworks round-up post for February! Please link in the comments to any Guardian (or related fandoms) fanworks you created or enjoyed last month.

• all kinds of fanworks are welcome – fic, art, vids, picspams, etc. - including those made for exchanges and events
• new chapters of WIPs count
• meta or discussion posts, too
• whether or not you've already linked these in a post of their own, we still want them here!

If you're linking to fanworks you didn't create yourself, please clearly mark these "REC", so there's no confusion about authorship/creatorship.

(And please still do link your fanworks, meta, etc. separately, in their own post, at any time!)

So ... what Guardian and related fandoms works did you create or enjoy in February?

I saw some videos yesterday that said, "hey here's some stuff you can do to make life feel more manageable."

1 - take action

it doesn't have to be big or meaningful, just deliberate, like deep breathing or washing the dishes. it's okay to choose to be a witness if you have that capacity (and choice). it's also beneficial to recognize what you can control and what you can't. "just because you can't do everything doesn't mean you can't do anything."

2 - be persistent

little things are always valuable, and their effect grows every time they're repeated. maybe it doesn't mean much today, but after you've done it for a hundred days, you'll be different and that matters. "meditation is like walking in a mist. you may not feel anything, but if you keep it up, eventually you'll get wet."

extra note: number of repetitions can have a bigger impact than total volume. doing something for a short time over and over again may produce more change than doing something for a long time once. "if someone receives a single rose every day for 12 days, surely it has more impact than receiving a dozen roses once."

3 - practice gratitude

write down the good things, no matter how small. the point is to shift focus from what you can't do or have, to what you can or do. "what you give your attention to grows."

the other video said "balance doesn't happen by itself." And I was like, "well it does, that's the nature of equilibrium, it's just not necessarily the balance you want." so keep moving. that's how we figure out, not just how to create a balanced state, but how to maintain it.

...also, these were originally language-learning tips. I find them broadly relevant. "the way you do anything is the way you do everything."

It might've been the last snow of the season this morning. A light dusting, enough to make me think a coat would've been nice and not too much to make me need more than a sweatshirt. It was nice to feel the last bits of cold, especially since the sun was out a couple of hours later, so nothing much stuck around. Few people were at the market, which made it easier - I haven't been to the Sunday one in a while, and as anemic as this time of year is for produce, it's nice to see some depth of color when it comes to the root vegetables.

In other shopping news, from working in assorted doctor's offices, I found a good quality bandage brand, and online shopping being what it is, I had to resort to eBay for a couple boxes. Most medical supply places call for a minimum order of significantly more than a couple boxes of bandaids, which I understand, and convenience pushes me towards eBay because that's all I need right now. It was that or Amazon, and I'm slightly more trusting of eBay as a general institution.

Our new challenge is:

ANTICIPATION

As always, you can interpret the prompt literally or figuratively, in whatever way works for you.

Each work created for this challenge should be posted as a new entry to the comm. Posting starts now and continues up until the challenge ends at 4pm Pacific Time on Tuesday, March 10th. No sign-up required.

Mods will tag your work with fandom and challenge. When you've posted entries to three consecutive challenges, you will earn a name tag, and we'll go back and tag all your previous entries with your name.

All kinds of fanworks in all fandoms are welcome. Please have a look at our guidelines before you play. If you have any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to contact a mod. And if you have any suggestions for future challenges, you can leave them in the comments of this post.

You can view stats for fan_flashworks entries and search and filter them via the Community Report and Creator Report. See our FAQ post for more details.

Also, keep an eye out for the next ffw_social post, which will go up in the next couple of days. If you haven't joined the ffw_social comm, it's never too late to come and check it out. (Posts are locked, which means you have to join to see them.)

The Amnesty challenge is now closed. Here are the entries:

Performance Anxiety: For Self Defence: War of the Worlds (1988-90), by badly_knitted
Slice: xxxHoLiC: Fanfic: the landscape my wound reveals, by bluedreaming
Yellow: Stock: Icons: Yellow, by innitmarvelous_og
Double: War of the Worlds (1988-90): Fanfic: Fallen In Battle, by badly_knitted
Rain: Hercule Poirot: Fanfic: Well, it is Raining!, by smallhobbit
Solitary: The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: Alone And Lonely, by badly_knitted
Paint: S.W.A.T.: Fan Fiction: Happy Family, by darkjediqueen
Old Friends: The Professionals: Fanfiction: Watching, by lucy_roman
Games: War of the Worlds (1988-90): Fanfic: Whatever It Takes, by badly_knitted
Sock: Jeeves & Wooster: Fanfic: Bertie's New Socks, by smallhobbit
Transformation: War of the Worlds (1988-90): Fanfic: Stranger, by badly_knitted
Black and White: Original: Poetry: A Child's Rhyme, by smallhobbit
Teamwork: The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: Towards A Common Purpose, by badly_knitted
Party and Abandon Challenges: Women's Soccer RPF: Fanfiction: A Way of Her Own, by infinitum_noctem
The End of the World : Marvel 616 : icons : Crushed by a Helicarrier, by highlander_ii
Lost And Found: The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: Restoring Balance, by badly_knitted
Sock: Star Trek Voyager: fic: seams, by lilly_c
Yellow: The Story of Yanxi Palace: poetry: shattered, by teaotter
Warmth: Torchwood: Fanfic: Hot and humid, by m_findlow
Hot Water: The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: In Trouble Again, by badly_knitted
Murder: Taggart: fic: There’s been a..., by lilly_c
The Morning After: Viola come il mare: Fanfic: Lazy Morning, by veronyxk84
Refusal: The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: Demanding The Impossible, by badly_knitted
Gravity: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Fanfic: Tilt, by veronyxk84


Congratulations to innitmarvelous_og, who earned a name tag!

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Thank you to everyone who participated! You're now free to post your entries to your journal or wherever else you'd like. If you're archiving on AO3, you can add your work to our fan_flashworks collection there.

The Community Report and Creator Report will be updated shortly with the entries from this round. See our FAQ for more details.

New challenge coming right up!