[personal profile] infinitum_noctem posting in [community profile] fan_flashworks
Title: The Witcher's Hand
Fandom: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Characters: Geralt of Rivia
Rating: G
Length: 100
Summary: Geralt finds a new challenge after mastering dice poker.

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[personal profile] ecto_one_spengler posting in [community profile] fan_flashworks
Title: the mess
Theme: Oops! (for the current Amnesty)
Fandom: Kirby (video game series) - particularly Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe. (Mods please tag as Kirby.)
Rating: PG
Content notes: The Magolor depicted here is from a Kirby AU of mine where he wasn't a villain to begin with. The depicted spilled juice is what's called an Energy Drink in the games.
Artist notes: I just wanted to do a silly simple comic because I'm a bit tired from the end of week stuff.
Summary: What happens when Kirby is a little less cautious than he ought to be with his drink, and the poor egg who gets splashed. 




Alt. text for screenreaders/slower browsers/other requirements: Read left to right, then downwards a little to the left again - A short comic depicting a small pink round being, Kirby, carrying some sort of drink that he spills when he trips on a small rock, and the comic reveals that the spill also hit a legless, armless person, Magolor, causing Kirby to try and apologize with a scared expression.
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[personal profile] badly_knitted posting in [community profile] fan_flashworks

Title: Forgotten
Fandom: Babylon 5
Author: [personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: G’Kar, Londo, Na’Toth.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 200
Spoilers/Setting: A Tragedy of Telepaths.
Summary: G’Kar is horrified to find Na’Toth still a prisoner.
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 513: Amnesty 85, using Challenge 415: Oops.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Babylon 5, or the characters. They belong to J. Michael Straczynski.




althea_valara: A screenshot of Alisaie from Final Fantasy XIV. (alisaie)
[personal profile] althea_valara posting in [community profile] finalfantasy
I'm going to try to put this under category spoilers, so those that don't want to read about a certain thing won't have to. I'm also going to TRY not to use the name of the expansion except for in the first spoiler, but I profusely apologize if I miss editing it out elsewhere.

First: the last announcement which is also a big one: the game will be coming to Switch 2. There's still testing to be done, but it sounds like the anticipated launch date is August of this year.

Second: The free trial is being upgraded to include the entirety of the Shadowbringers expansion. I am SO EXCITED for all my Free Trial friends, because Shadowbringers is +chef's kiss+.

Now, onto the spoilers:

New Expansion name and its theme, plus anticipated release date
Let's start with the Teaser Trailer for the next expansion of the game. Version 8.0 has been named Evercold, and will be bringing us to the 4th reflection come January 2027. Here's the teaser:



We've been told that the Fourth is a world ravaged by ice, but many of the screenshots and concept art we saw suspiciously lacked any such ice--something Producer Naoki Yoshida and his translator Christopher Koji Fox were eager to point out.

Dawntrail was the start of a new story arc for Final Fantasy XIV, and it firmly takes root with Evercold. This arc's theme has now been revealed as the "Godless Realms Saga".


New (non-playable, I think) race
Also teased was a look at one of the new races, a bipedal, short-statured cat-like race. Definitely more cat-like than the existing Mi'qote and Hrothgar. I am pretty sure these are NOT playable at this time, but I was busy taking notes... pretty sure it's just a race we'll meet.


Upgrades to gear progression system
The main theme going forward is "Bringing the game to the next level". They talked about the stagnation of doing the same thing over and over, such as farming tomestones, along with accounting for player feedback and the shifting gameplay styles of today's players and current lifestyes. Their aim is the build on systems they already have, but evolve them into something fresh and exciting.

One of the biggest changes will be to the tomestone system. Currently, it features daily rewards and encourages players to log in daily for max benefit. Going forward, the game will be shifting to a weekly reward system, along with two completely new user interfaces.

In the first interface, you'll get a list of weekly missions to accomplish. These can be duties or other activities in game. Some will only be allowed to run once during that week, such as Main Scenario Quests; other activities will be repeatable. Succeeding in a mission gets you activity points.

The second interface is a new gear upgrade system. Although it wasn't entirely clear from the images and explanations, it sounds like you'll be able to use your activity points in this new interface to upgrade your gear.

There's been feedback from the players over the current tomestone system and feeling left out if a player could not reach the 450 tomestone weekly cap. The developers are taking this into consideration, and may implement the ability to return to the previous week's missions in this new system--provided all missions for the current week have been cleared.


Shift in update release scheduleAlso announced: the move to a "Season" system of upgrades. Before anyone panics, this is NOT a new subscription fee, but rather just a way of grouping like content to be released, with the aim of having more frequent updates so there is less of a lull between patches.


Job Leveling & iLevel changes
The job system will also be getting some changes. While there will still be the ability to level all jobs separately (up to the new level 110 cap), there will now be a system where you can "reflect" your highest iLevel gear onto a different job. This means that if want to join a Savage raid but do not have the job you need leveled yet, you'll still be able to go provided you have at least one job at the iLevel requirements. Additionally, this will lessen the need to gear out several jobs, although those options will still be available for players who enjoy doing so.


Action glam, perhaps?
There's also a new "character action skins" system, that sounds like players will be able to choose between different stylized actions for certain abilities. Unfortunately, we have to wait for Berlin's Fan Fest for more info on this. It sounded to me like... glamming your abilities so you can be more flashy, but they really didn't say much about it.


Character Creation Customizations upgradesAdditionally--and to much cheering--upgrades to the character creation customizations were announced, including color pickers for eye color, hair color, and skin tone, as well as shadowing around the eyes and layering of facial paint. There will also be an option to toggle on/off pieces of gear-not the entire piece but a subset of it. An example was shown of heavy armor that had its pauldrons, sash, and skirt removed. Another example showed the Isle Explorer's gear without its backpack.


NEW JOBS!As expected, two new jobs are coming with this expansion. These will be a tank and a physical ranged DPS, and both are unique to Final Fantasy XIV. No hints of what the DPS might be, but as for the tank: producer Yoshi-P showed off his t-shirt which featured Rhitahtyn, the former enemy who uses two shields.


Battle system changesAlong with the new jobs is an overhaul of the job system in its entirety. They are introducing two new "modes". The 21 non-limited battle jobs available through Dawntrail will have access to the Reborn Mode, which is pretty much the actions and rotations we're used to but with some tweaks. Along with Reborn Mode, they are introducing Evolved Mode, which will simplify button press combinations while featuring the individuality of each job. Reborn and Evolved Mode will be available for the 21 jobs that exist today, and you'll be able to freely switch between modes outside of combat. Starting with this expansion, all new jobs released will only feature Evolved Mode. It was stressed that this mode is NOT to be considered an "easy mode", but will still be challenging to play. Care will be taken so that both modes can freely clear all content, but some content might be easier with one mode or the other.


Quality of Life and other shorter updates
Next, they announced some quality-of-life updates. One goal is to improve player experience in field areas, like more dynamic content so you can truly master those areas - while also working on making sure areas remain stable, aka no issues with too many debuffs crashing the servers. They're also going to add even more guidance to questing, with more info on this coming in Berlin.

Some quicker updates include:
  • Treasure Hunts, FATEs, and the Hunt are all sticking around with new updates - looking to evolve though to make them more interesting. An example was less FATEs popping in a zone but with more dynamic content for completion.

  • Instanced Dungeons will number about the same as in past expansions. They showed concept art for four currently in development.

  • There will be new gear and crafting recipes, as expected.

  • New threats - some vague concept art was shown, but they stressed they couldn't show us too much because of spoilers.

  • Theme for the 8-player raid to be released in Berlin

  • There will be PVP Updates, but not detailed

  • Duty Support System will be updated in 8.0. People are asking for option to enter dungeons in pairs - more details coming in Berlin




Normal Raid Tiers announcementOther bigger announcements include a new tier of the 8-person raids. Currently, players clear Normal raids about 85% of the time, and Savage about 20%. The developers feel this is too big a discrepancy, so they will be introducing a third tier falling between Normal and Savage. The goal is to allow more players access to gear progression but still keep the challenge for the hard-core players.


Alliance Raid Theme AnnouncementThe theme for the Alliance Raids has been announced - it's a crossover with Evangelion, tentatively titled "Ghosts of Desire". Unfortunately I had to go pee during this so I missed most of the info on it. Hey, it was a LONG keynote!


System RequirementsThe only system requirements update announced is the phasing out of PlayStation 4 around patch 8.3. We were told we still have two years to save up for a PlayStation 5. The developers worked hard with Sony to make Evercold playable on PS4 at launch, but they are running out of hard disk space for the game, so going forward PlayStation players will need a PS5.


Changes to queueing system and Party FinderPlayers will now be matched REGION-WIDE, so folks will no longer be limited to matching on their logical data centers only. So all of North America can be matched with each other. This applies to Party Finder as well.


aaaaaaaaaaaaaand I think that's everything!
badly_knitted: (Rose)
[personal profile] badly_knitted posting in [community profile] fan_flashworks

Title: Open Book
Fandom: BtVS
Author: [personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Buffy, Joyce.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 300
Spoilers/Setting: Early to mid-Season 3.
Summary: Buffy is glad she doesn’t have to lie to her mom now, but that still doesn’t mean she wants to tell her everything.
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 513: Amnesty 85, using Challenge 432: Open.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BtVS, or the characters.




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[personal profile] ecto_one_spengler posting in [community profile] fan_flashworks
Title: colorful flight
Theme: Rainbow (for the current Amnesty)
Fandom: Kirby (video game series) - particularly Kirby's Dream Land 2. (Mods please tag as Kirby.)
Rating: PG
Content notes: It might be a tiny bit bright to look at due to the special effects.. Uhhh, eyestrain warning. 
Artist notes: This.. prolly won't be the only Kirby artwork I do for the current Amnesty. It's my Kirby Era right now and I tend to draw more than write when it comes to this fandom, haha.. Dream Land 2 was not my personal first Kirby game, but it does contain great chiptunes and some of my favorite NPCs! :D
Summary: Within a more modern, colorful means, Kirby restores the magical bridges between the Rainbow Islands with the aid of the Rainbow Sword, cheerful to restore the lost colors.

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lilly_c: Mulder and Scully in Springfield (Mulder & Scully - Simpsons appearance)
[personal profile] lilly_c posting in [community profile] fan_flashworks
Title: caught me off guard
Fandom: The X-Files
Rating:
Content notes: Caps used are my own from season one, gem effect rainbow background is from a public domain image search, text is from Kaleidoscope by The Veronicas. Font used is (true love).
Artist notes: I’m now working in Pixelmator Pro on Mac and I'm still very much learning how to use it including any tips and tricks not included in Apple's documentation and I’m more used to working in Photoscape X.
Summary:

caught me off guard )
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[personal profile] darkjediqueen posting in [community profile] fan_flashworks
Title: New Games
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: No Warnings Apply
Fandom: Heated Rivalry
Relationships: Ilya Rozanov/Shane Hollander
Tags: Established Relationship, Post Season One
Summary: New games were allowed between them now.
Word Count: 1,004

New Games )

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

Title: Facing The Future
Fandom: Babylon 5
Author: [personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: John Sheridan.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 300
Spoilers/Setting: Rising Star.
Summary: As the new President of the Alliance, Sheridan will have his work cut out for him.
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 513: Amnesty 85, using Challenge 485: Face.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Babylon 5, or the characters. They belong to J. Michael Straczynski.




Search maintenance

2026-04-22 09:19
mark: A photo of Mark kneeling on top of the Taal Volcano in the Philippines. It was a long hike. (Default)
[staff profile] mark posting in [site community profile] dw_maintenance

Happy Wednesday!

I'm taking search offline sometime today to upgrade the server to a new instance type. It should be down for a day or so -- sorry for the inconvenience. If you're curious, the existing search machine is over 10 years old and was starting to accumulate a decade of cruft...!

Also, apparently these older machines cost more than twice what the newer ones cost, on top of being slower. Trying to save a bit of maintenance and cost, and hopefully a Wednesday is okay!

Edited: The other cool thing is that this also means that the search index will be effectively realtime afterwards... no more waiting a few minutes for the indexer to catch new content.

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

Title: After The Rain
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author: [personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Varian, Fred, Jonathan Willaway, Liana, Sil-El, Scott.
Rating: PG
Setting: After the series.
Summary: Drenched though they are the travellers still welcome the sight of a rainbow.
Word Count: 400
Content Notes: Nada.
Written For: Challenge 513: Amnesty 85, using Challenge 452: Rainbow.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.




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

Title: Set Apart
Fandom: Babylon 5
Author: [personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Byron.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 200
Spoilers/Setting: Early season 5.
Summary: Telepaths are feared and distrusted.
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 513: Amnesty 85 at fan_flashworks, using Challenge 463: Apart.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Babylon 5, or the characters. They belong to J. Michael Straczynski.
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lilly_c: Chakotay on the hull of the Protostar on Ysida looking sad (Chakotay)
[personal profile] lilly_c posting in [community profile] fan_flashworks
Title: without you by my side
Fandom: Star Trek: Prodigy
Rating:
Length:
Content notes: Planets background is from wallpaper access (artist unknown, not credited by source), Star Trek: Prodigy screencaps used are my own from Observer's Paradox, Last Flight Of The Protostar and Cracked Mirror. The text is selected lyrics from You & I by Rayne, working from Rob IYF & Meakz cover of it with the title Gravity, both versions are still hitting my J/C feels hard. Font used is SaltTruckToTheStars.
Author notes: This is my first time working in Pixelmator Pro on Mac and I'm still very much learning how to use it including any tips and tricks not included in Apple's documentation and I’m more used to working in Photoscape X.
Summary: Chakotay’s loneliness while on Ysida.

without you by my side )

Challenge 513: Amnesty

2026-04-20 16:22
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[personal profile] teaotter posting in [community profile] fan_flashworks
Our new challenge is our eighty-fifth:

AMNESTY



During amnesty challenges, you can post works for any of the challenges we've had to date: Complete list of prompts )

See the Community Report for a sortable list of prompts.
Both reports have a random "Any Challenge" button, and the Creator Report also has a random "Unfilled Challenge" button.


Of course, you're always welcome to post multiple works to any challenge if you finish them before the challenge closes, but that isn't always possible. So dust off those unfinished works and half-formed ideas -- now is the time!

In amnesty rounds, include the challenge you are posting for in the subject line of your post (eg, Blanket: Heated Rivalry: Fanart: If on a winter's night).

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 Friday, May 1st. No sign-up required.

Mods will tag your work for fandom. 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 [community profile] fan_flashworks entries and search and filter them via the Community Report and Creator Report. See our FAQ post for more details. Please let us know if you have any trouble accessing the reports.

Also, keep an eye out for the next [community profile] ffw_social post, which will go up in the next couple of days. If you haven't joined the comm yet, it's never too late to come and check it out. (Remember, posts are locked, which means you have to join to see them.)
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[personal profile] bluedreaming posting in [community profile] fan_flashworks
Fandom: Mysterious Transfer Student
Mods please use the f: tv (category) tag
Rating: T
Length: 100 words
Content notes: canonical past character death
Author notes: The title is from The Sorrow Garden by Thomas McCarthy. The story is also inspired, in a small way, by Han Kang’s We Do Not Part and NCT Wish’s Ode to Love (which covers a sample of The Cranberries’ Ode to my Family).
Summary: Koichi dreams about his sister.

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[personal profile] m_findlow posting in [community profile] fan_flashworks
Title: Bump in the road
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Jack, Ianto
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 987 words
Content notes: None
Author notes: Written for Challenge 512 - Obstacle
Summary: Jack’s return is not without its challenges.

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[personal profile] veronyxk84 posting in [community profile] fan_flashworks
Title: The Wall Between Us
Fandom: Viola come il mare (category: tv)
Author: [personal profile] veronyxk84
Pairing: Viola Vitale/Francesco Demir
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: some coarse language
Word count: 525 (Ellipsus)
Spoilers/Setting: Set in an alternate early S2.
Summary: Paralyzed by insecurities he can’t shake, Francesco must face the consequences of standing Viola up. Again. But if he keeps building walls between them, this time she may walk away for good.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.

Challenge: #512 - Obstacle


READ: The Wall Between Us )

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

Title: Another Challenge
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author: [personal profile] badly_knitted
Characters: Scott, Fred, Willaway, Varian, Liana.
Rating: PG
Setting: After the series.
Summary: Entering a new zone, the travellers find there’s now a huge mountain in their path. What are they going to do?
Word Count: 1604
Content Notes: Nada.
Written For: Challenge 512: Obstacle.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.





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[personal profile] lucy_roman posting in [community profile] fan_flashworks
Title: Perfect
Author: lucy_roman
Rating: Teen and up
Summary: George and John are on their way to a crime scene. Some sheep get in the way.
Pairing: George Gently/John Bacchus
Word Count: 326

Perfect )
[personal profile] infinitum_noctem posting in [community profile] fan_flashworks
Title: Joke's on You
Fandom: Criminal Minds
Characters: Emily Prentiss
Rating: G
Length: 58 words
Summary: 3 sentence fic. Emily's dream job may be just a dream.

Read more... )
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[personal profile] smallhobbit posting in [community profile] fan_flashworks
Title: The Obstacle in the Case
Fandom: Miss Marple
Rating: G
Length: 375 words
Summary: Miss Marple removes an obstacle to the case - by providing a second


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[personal profile] darkjediqueen posting in [community profile] fan_flashworks
Title: First Hurdle
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: No Warnings Apply
Fandom: Heated Rivalry
Relationships: Ilya Rozanov/Shane Hollander
Tags: Established Relationship, Sick Shane, Shane's Parents Find Out Early
Summary: Ilya had to take the first hurdle alone.
Word Count: 3,895

First Hurdle )
highlander_ii: Tony's chest, arc reactor beneath his shirt ([MCU] 002)
[personal profile] highlander_ii posting in [community profile] fan_flashworks
Title: Robo-Man
Fandom: Marvel's Midnight Suns
Rating: G
Content notes: None apply
Summary: icons of Marvel's Midnight Suns Tony Stark. made these for a friend who's obstacle to role-playing as this character was a lack of icons... and since i've been playing the game recently, i snagged screenshots to make icons from. (i also have a mod on the game to improve Tony's facial hair bc i can't abide the mustache-only look)

these were made for [personal profile] robo_man's journal, so if they give the okay, these are free to snag, otherwise, all theirs. XD


Robo-Man )

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