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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!

Challenge Deadline and Reminders

Jan. 24th, 2026 07:45 am
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[personal profile] nepenthee posting in [community profile] makeashrine

Hi everyone,

With little more than a week remaining until event end, here are some clarifications and reminders.


1. Deadline

A minor extension: The deadline is the end of Sunday, 1 February (originally 31 January). I was in such a rush to get the event up last year that I failed to take weekdays into account. As the original deadline falls on a Saturday, I'd rather everyone has the full weekend to race to the finish line.

To make the deadline, shrines have to be submitted by the end of Sunday in whatever timezone you live.


2. Shrine qualification

In light of a few instances of confusion, I'd like to repeat that this event is about shrines in the sense of standalone fansites. Their quality as distinct websites is largely defined by their content and structure, next to their presentation (e.g. layout, name).

The term "shrine" has in more recent times been used by other communities for different creations, namely for subpages or subsections on so-called personal sites that are not conceived as separate websites. As stated on the event site, "shrines" in that sense of the word do not qualify as shrines for this challenge. For more information on this, see the About page and the linked shrine directories for examples.

That said, a site's URL is not relevant for its qualification as a standalone website. You don't need a separate domain or subdomain for your shrine; something like domain.com/subject is perfectly fine!


3. Submitting your shrine

Please reread the submission guidelines to make sure you don't forget anything, especially the link to this event and a 200x40 button of your shrine.


4. Shrine reveal

The full list of finished shrines shall be up on the site and in an announcement post as soon as possible after event end, at the latest a week after.

You are welcome to make a separate post to share your shrine and invite comments and feedback anytime, even before the deadline if you finish earlier! Please tag the post with #event: ghost of you and #plug.


I wish you all lots of energy, time and inspiration for this final stretch! :D Do reply to the last checkpoint post if you have any questions or need help.

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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

Coffee Would Have Prevented This

Jan. 24th, 2026 03:13 am
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Coffee Would Have Prevented This is a character-driven Due South fanfiction about bad weather, worse supplies, and the unexpected comfort of being stranded with exactly the right person.

When a blizzard traps Fraser and Ray in an abandoned ranger station, survival becomes less about heroics and more about missing coffee, stolen blankets, improvised bark beverages, and the questionable logistics of sharing a sleeping bag. What begins as inconvenience slowly shifts into something softer: quiet mornings, honest admissions, and the realization that being stuck together doesn’t feel like being stuck at all.

There’s no epic drama here.
Just snow, warmth, humor, and two people who find that the worst circumstances can sometimes reveal the best kind of company.

Words: 5773, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Let the Light In

Jan. 24th, 2026 03:27 am
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Ray Vecchio has ten minutes to decide if he'll go to Las Vegas. He knows he has to do one thing in that short window.

Words: 1275, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Coffee Would Have Prevented This

Jan. 24th, 2026 03:13 am
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Posted by brmqtr

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Coffee Would Have Prevented This is a character-driven Due South fanfiction about bad weather, worse supplies, and the unexpected comfort of being stranded with exactly the right person.

When a blizzard traps Fraser and Ray in an abandoned ranger station, survival becomes less about heroics and more about missing coffee, stolen blankets, improvised bark beverages, and the questionable logistics of sharing a sleeping bag. What begins as inconvenience slowly shifts into something softer: quiet mornings, honest admissions, and the realization that being stuck together doesn’t feel like being stuck at all.

There’s no epic drama here.
Just snow, warmth, humor, and two people who find that the worst circumstances can sometimes reveal the best kind of company.

Words: 5773, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

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[personal profile] kingstoken's 2026 Book Bingo: First Person POV

The Red Chesterfield by Wayne Arthurson is a 2019 crime novella (with a touch of magical realism) about a bylaw enforcement officer, M, who finds a body while investigating an abandoned chesterfield. The incident leaves M shaken and drawn into more than one mystery as the chesterfield keeps appearing and a regular on M's route disappears. But the book is less interested in answering "whodunnit" than it is with looking at characters' decisions about getting involved in crime and drama and how priorities around family, romantic relationships, career, community, truth and justice can shift the usual narrative shape of the genre.

This is one of those books that I want to take apart with a little eyeglass screwdriver to see how it works. It's an absolute marvel of efficiency. It's only 99 pages (that exact number being by design, I suspect) with large text and several half-page chapters, but it's packed with story. It covers a lot of ground without feeling like it's moving as fast as it is. We get to know so much about who M is as a person but from a deep enough position that we skip a lot of high-level markers or exposition. This story is built on implication and inference, and the reader's principally assigned to solving the protagonist rather than the plot.

I really enjoyed this one, and I'm looking forward to checking out the author's other work.

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After Action Report #13

Jan. 23rd, 2026 12:00 pm
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