Acorn_Squash

365 AO3 Bookmarks!

2025-02-10T05:45:53Z

I've reached a new milestone: I now have a recommendation for every day of the year over on AO3!* Go ahead and check them out. There are fandoms, tropes, and genres to suit all tastes!

I try my best to tag according to an organized method. Some tags that might require explanation are listed under the cut.

( Rare Fandoms, Rare Characters, Rare Pairings, Rare Relationships, Quote: She Doesn't Even Go Here! (Mean Girls), Gift Work, Anonymity, Orphans, Abandoned Work - Unfinished and Discontinued, Singing, Hurt/Comfort, Feel-good, Whump, Disguise, Canon-Compliant )

(*Disclaimer: Some works may be deleted. As far as I know, there's not an easy way to filter for that. Also, 63 works that I've bookmarked are locked to Archive users, so log into AO3 for the full experience.)

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a loon, or play on birds

2024-12-08T04:40:36Z

I found this hilarious list of punny restaurant names by Megan Amram! (Link goes to the Wayback Machine.)

...It's not screenreadable, and Twitter is a trash fire, so I'm just going to transcribe it here. I'll take it down if Amram asks me to. (If you catch any errors, let me know and I'll check whether it's mine or hers. And if there are any jokes you don't get, feel free to ask in the comments.)

Some Pasta Restaurants: Al Dente on the Western Front, Penne For Your Thoughts, Pasta Expiration Date, Pasta Test, Ramen on Empty, Ramen With Scissors, Return of the Mac… ’N Cheese!, I’m Gnoicchi-Ding Around, The Pesto’s Yet To Come, Ziti Lights, Ziti of Stars, Willy Lo Mein, Spaeztle Needs, J. Paul Spaghetti, Kara-Gnocchi, You Do the Hokey Gnocchi And You Eat Yourself Some Food, Lasagna Come Out Tomorrow, Udon Own Me, Linguine Manuel-Miranda, The Apple Doesn’t Farfalle From The Tree

Some Pastry Restaurants: Cake Cod, Cake Canaveral, Hertz’ Donut, Donut You Want Me Baby, Donut Make My Brown Eyes Blue, Cruller Intentions, The Fertile Croissant, Éclair and Present Danger, Filo and Otis, Filo Yiannopoulos, Macaroon-ey Mara, Pie Another Day, Pie Hard, Pie Antwoord, Strudel The Fence, The Studel Is Real, Goofus and Galette, Puff Piece: Try Puff Pastry!, Quiche From A Rose, Knish From A Rose, Beignet And The Jets, Muffin But Net, Biscotti Pippen, Biscotti And Meatballs, Bundt In The Oven, I Torte I Saw a Puddy-Tat

Some Corn Restaurants: Polenta To Go Around, Kiss My Grits… Then Eat Them!, The Maize Runner, The Maize From Westworld, Corn You Dig It?, Ty Corn-On-The-Cob, Grand Corn-nation, Sufferin’ Succotash, In Perfect Hominy, Hominy Korine, Kernel Sanders

Some Sushi Restaurants: So Sue-Shi, Tamago Never Dies, Roe-Roe-Roe Your Boat, Take My Tempura? Sure!, Tuna Piano, Rice to Meat You, For Goodness’ Sake, MisoGyny, Salmon-Bowl Lecter, Seaweed Rabbit -- Chopsticks Are For Kids, The Catcher In The Rice, The Ketchup In The Rice, Ponzu Scheme

Some Bread Restaurants: Toast Of The Town, Toast The Rainbow, Loaf Of My Life, Second to Naan, Pita Pan, We Ciabatta Zoo, Brioche With Death, Paint Brioche, Crouton A Hot Tin Roof, Matzah-Chew-Sits: A Place You Can Sit And Eat Matzah!, White Baguette Fences, Last But Not Yeast, Yeast Infetch-yum, Focaccia Red Handed, Bread Pit

Some Poultry Restaurants, Squab Goals, Chicken Of The Sea Of The Land (Chicken), Pot Pie The Sailor Man, Wings Martindale, Hot Coq Au Vin, Coq-Au-Vinie-Doo, Ralph Lauren Pollo, Water Pollo (Duck), Duck Duck Goose, Party Fowl, A Bird In The Hand Is Worth Two In Your Mouth, A View To A Quail, Quail Yourself, I Can Be Your Feather Figure, Chicken Corbin Bleu, Piccata Good Recipe From The Cookbook

Some Cheese Restaurants: Forever In Bleu Cheese, Provolone Again Naturally, Fondue Diligence, Brie Larceny, Colby Maybe, Gouda-nough, Cheddar Off Ted, A Queso The Mondays, Richard Gruyere, Camembert-be Let’s Go Party, A Game Of Cheese, Why I Ric-otta

Some Shrimp Restaurants: Lady And The Scampie

Tag yourself; I’m Suffering Succotash.

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Romance Recommendations (M/F, M/M, F/F)

2024-11-20T04:34:55Z

I've been on a romance novel-buying spree, so I thought I'd post my wish list in case anyone else needs a good comfort read. It's alphabetized by author's last name, because I like alphabetizing things, and also because when I use it to shop, it makes it easier to find the books on the shelves.

(Content warning: Some of these books may not be appropriate for children, use your best judgement, etc.)

( Read more... )

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Update: Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms Never Lived and So Can Never Die

2024-09-05T20:39:39Z

Turns out Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms was just taking a quick Swiss vacation, and is now back in Baker Street where it belongs. Thanks to erinptah for letting me know!

In other news, I need to go change all my tags again.

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RIP Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms :(

2024-09-03T23:12:28Z

Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms now redirects to Sherlock (TV). Time to go change your fandom tags :(

I'm honestly not sure how to tag my kitten!Holmes fic now. (For the unfamiliar, kitten!Holmes is an extremely tiny and silly fandom that spun off from graycardinal's Holmestice fic A Foregone Introduction. kitten!Holmes is not (yet???) a canon tag.) It seems disingenuous to tag it with either Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle or Remington Steele (TV), since it has very little to do with either of them. I might just leave it with kitten!Holmes as the only fandom tag, but that makes it impossible to find via the dashboard filters. Admittedly I kind of doubt anyone's trying to find it anyway... but I want things organized, dang it!

Speaking of which... this is going to make it a lot harder to find small Sherlock Holmes fandoms. Maybe we need to start using the Moreholmes tag? (It's not a canonical tag... but that can change!)

Edited to add: sanguinity has alerted me to the existence of the more_holmes collection on AO3! Thanks, sanguinity!

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Multifandom link dump!

2024-04-27T06:49:49Z

TealOranges and Garlic Soup Week 2024 (June 23 to June 29 - I'm definitely going to participate)
Dice Sets Ranked by How Much My Girlfriend Wants to Eat Them (funny Autostraddle listicle)
The Most Useless Dice I Own (YouTube video with closed captions)
Can Princess Entrapta survive Castle Dracula? What about Squirrel Girl? Aziraphale? The cast of Brooklyn Nine Nine? Rincewind, Greebo, and the Librarian? Princess Cimorene? ...And so on. This Tumblr is a gold mine.
Fanart of Mermista! (Original post, reblog, backup reblog)

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Politics

2024-04-22T21:15:29Z

So, I don't normally talk about politics online, but the Israel Supplemental Appropriations Act passed the House on April 20, 2024. (Source)

Now that the Act has passed, it will be moving on to the Senate. If you're in the United States, you can find your senator at senate.gov or with this third-party tool and call them to tell them not to vote for it. (You can also email, but calling gets better results. There's a proxy caller service here, although I can't personally vouch for it.)

You can look up your representative at house.gov and find out how they voted here. (Alternate, third-party way to look up your representatives) If you click on your representative's name or go to lastname.house.gov, you can find their phone number and call them to say "thanks for voting nay" or "I'm really disappointed that you voted yea."

Jewish Voice for Peace has a tool here, but please use your own words if you can.

Please comment or DM if I got anything wrong.

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Anonymous Comments here!

2024-04-22T20:18:15Z

AO3's temporarily banned anonymous comments due to an influx of spam comments (official Tumblr post here, and there's also a banner on AO3). Until anonymous commenting is restored, feel free to just leave anonymous comments for my fics on this post.

Edited April 28, 2024: Anonymous commenting has been restored! That was quick :)

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Rereads and rewatches

2024-04-05T03:28:26Z

I've been doing a lot of rereading lately. I went through the whole Temeraire series (except for Golden Age and Other Stories, which I'm about to reread), then the Memoirs of Lady Trent (except for Turning Darkness Into Light, which I'm currently rereading).

Speaking of which, I read To Shape a Dragon's Breath earlier this year (it's amazing) and that plus Phoenix Extravagant has left me with a craving for more dragon books by authors of color. Any recommendations?

In addition to all these dragons, I read the latest InCryptid book, Aftermarket Afterlife. I wasn't really a fan, but I'm still looking forwards to the next book.

Finally, I'm rewatching She-Ra (again) and just finished season 4. Season 4 is definitely my favorite season - that being said, I can't wait to rewatch season 5!

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OFMD fics

2024-03-15T03:50:49Z

I posted a garlic soup ficlet to polyamships in honor of Pi Day!

I also edited my old tealoranges fic after reading some meta.

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Dear Unsent Letters Creator

2024-03-09T20:25:09Z

Hi, Unsent Letters Creator! Thank you so much for creating for me. I'm sure I'll be happy with whatever you make.

My requests are:

Enchanted Forest Chronicles - Cimorene/Morwen
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl - Doreen/Nancy
Temeraire - William Laurence & Jane Roland
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power - Any Relationship
InCryptid - Sally & James, Alice/Thomas
OFMD - Tealoranges, garlic polycule, Jim & Nana
Good Omens - Anathema, Anathema & Agnes
Wayward Children - Sumi & Kade

Treats are welcome and appreciated. My AO3 preferences are set to allow gifted works.

( General likes )

( General opt-ins )

( Universal DNWs )

( Enchanted Forest )

( Temeraire )

( Squirrel Girl )

( She-Ra )

( InCryptid )

( OFMD )

( Good Omens )

( Wayward Children )

Thanks again! Remember, optional details are optional. If you have any questions, anonymous comments are on.

Acorn_Squash

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Happy Valentine's Day!

2024-02-14T21:40:38Z

Happy Valentine's Day!

To celebrate, contact your representatives and tell them to call for a ceasefire in Palestine if they haven't already!

If you're American, you can find out who your members of Congress are and check this tracker to see if they've called for a ceasefire already. If you live in an American city, you can search "[cityname] resolution gaza" to find out whether your city council has passed a resolution on the war. If they haven't, try contacting your council member(s).

Did you do the thing? Great! Have some Valentines:

OFMD Valentines (Ed/Stede, Oluwande/Jim, Lucius/Pete)
Temeraire Valentines (Tharkay/Laurence, funny)

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Snowflake Challenge #10: Five Things

2024-02-02T03:32:39Z

Snowflake Challenge #10

(Note: I'm using the details tag for spoilers (since cut tags vanish with a direct link to the post). I am not sure this will actually work, particularly for screenreaders - let me know!)

I made a list of my five favorite Asian characters, but then I realized that all of them were created by white people, except for possibly Koi Boi. (He was introduced during the Ryan North-Erika Henderson run of Squirrel Girl.) So I'm going to read a bunch more books by Asian authors and then get back to you. In the meantime, a-spec headcanons for five fandoms!

Good Omens: I see Anathema Device as an aromantic lesbian. There's an aromantic Anathema Device tag on AO3 and a lesbian Anathema Device tag, but no overlap. Still, be the change, right?

Spoilers for & grumping about Good Omens season 2:

I always saw Aziraphale and Crowley as aromantic asexual queerplatonic partners, but that's been thoroughly jossed by season 2. Still, hooray for queer romance! I wish it had been made explicit before the storyline turned tragic, though. It would have been so easy to just let them kiss as part of their season 1 happy ending.

Frozen: I see Elsa as aromantic, because her arc centers on platonic love, and because it's a way of reclaiming the ice queen cliché. I even wrote a short fic about it! The fic's post-Frozen II, so I wish I'd incorporated Honeymaren, but I'm otherwise still happy with it.

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: I see Frosta as an aromantic asexual, partly because of the aforementioned ice queen thing, but mostly because there's no evidence otherwise. (Also, there's a cool fic! It's not even the only aroace Frosta fic.) I think Mermista's an aromantic pansexual who has a queerplatonic thing with Sea Hawk; it took them ages to figure out what their relationship was, which is why they keep sending conflicting messages. Entrapta reads as aromantic and agender to me, and she's literally wearing the ace pride colors, so I'll throw in ace-flux too. Entrapta is proud to identify as a triple-A battery. (Edit: She's autistic, so, quadruple-A?)

Temeraire: I really like that the Corps as a whole deprioritizes romantic love in favor of the captains' relationships with their dragons, which read as queerplatonic to me. I think Jane Roland was the first openly aromantic allosexual Laurence met, and that helped him come to terms with his own orientation. Temeraire and Iskierka are also pretty explicitly aromantic allosexuals.

Little Women: I definitely see Jo March as aroace, and definitely some flavor of trans, too. Not sure about Beth - she's so rigidly desexualized that it's hard to figure out who she is under all the ableism.

I thought I might as well spoiler-tag this, although it is, you know, over 150 years old. Note: I'm using they/them pronouns for Jo.

It's unclear if Beth ever had a crush on Laurie - when Jo says they thought Beth loved him, Beth says, "How could I, when he was so fond of you?" which... isn't quite a no. I did enjoy this fic where Jo dies and Beth lives, which has an interesting take on the siblings' relationships with Laurie.

I really liked that Jo wanting to reciprocate Laurie's romantic affection and not being able to was a major plot point. I found Jo's marriage to Professor Bhaer kind of interesting. Their marriage could be simply a cover for them becoming business partners and chosen family. Running a boys' school and marrying a poor man definitely left them freer in their gender presentation than they otherwise would have been. Remember, when Bhaer proposed, Jo said they were only marrying him because he was poor and that they would not marry him if he didn't let them work.

All that being said, I'd highly recommend So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix by Bethany C Morrow. In addition to all the characters being Black,

Beth survives with a chronic illness, Jo is aromantic, and Laurie and Jo are in a queerplatonic relationship.

Does anyone have a-spec headcanons? Or recommendations of books by Asian authors? Or the holy grail, a-spec headcanons for books with Asian authors? (Context: The main character of the linked book self-identifies as "asexual and probably some sort of aromantic.")

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Snowflake Challenge #15: Fandom Wrapped

2024-01-30T08:01:44Z

Snowflake Challenge #15

My top 5 fandoms for 2023 were:

In no particular order:

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: I requested Scorfuma for femslashex and reflectedeve, who's one of my favorite femslash artists of all time, gave me this gorgeous Scorfuma art and it's amazing, oh my god, you need to see it.

Also, this summer, I did multiple full rewatches of She-Ra. I love Scorpia!!! And Entrapta. And Glitradora. Actually, a lot of characters and ships. I haven't managed to actually get any She-Ra fics to the point of posting, but I've spent a lot of time doing research for various Scorpia fics that I suspect will never leave my notebook. (I'm happy to share book recommendations and links if anyone else needs to research amputation or transracial adoption.)

Sherlock Holmes: I did holmestice this spring and participated in the final July Writing Prompts on watsons_woes, so I wrote a decent number of Sherlock Holmes fics (mostly very short). They're all on my AO3 or linked in my sticky post.

The Old Guard: I matched on Andy/Quỳnh for femslashex, so I spent a solid month living and breathing guilt-ridden immortal bisexuals. I rewatched the movie and even reread the comics. I read some great fics, too - check out my AO3 bookmarks if you want recs.

MCU: ziazippy5379 gave me this great time-traveling PeggyNat fic for femslashex. You should definitely read it if you like spy tropes. Aside from that, I haven't done much in the MCU fandom this year. I loved Wakanda Forever, but I kind of checked out of the MCU fandom after finding out more about Cap 4. (CNN; Variety; The Mary Sue. There's also the anti-Semetic connotations of the original name - they changed it, but the fact that it took them this long to realize there was an issue doesn't feel like a great sign for the project.) Ugh. Is it really this hard to make an anti-colonialist, anti-apartheid Captain America movie when you literally have Anthony Mackie to do it? (They might still manage it, I'm just... not inclined to give Disney the benefit of the doubt.)

Good Omens: I was... not a fan of season 2, to put it mildly. But Good Omens just barely earns its place on this list because of this drawing of a plant that's technically Good Omens fanart that's gotten more kudos than all of my other works combined. ...And because the author of the fic for which I made said fanart wrote a sequel and it's so good. ...And because I spent a fair bit of time writing a 3k fic about Anathema Device that I may or may not ever share with anyone but am nonetheless proud of. (I love Anathema so much, folks. Why was she not in season 2.) I guess I spent more time in Good Omens fandom than I realized.

My top 5 fandom spaces (Discord, Twitter, etc.) in 2023 were:

AO3, of course
Dreamwidth
Tumblr - social media is not my thing, but it's where a lot of the fanart is. (If you're a fanartist reading this, please please crosspost to AO3 where there's a good filtering system and no algorithm and I will actually see your art, please, I know it's inconvenient but also I will love you forever.)
Etsy - I love stickers
Fanlore - I like to gawk at the Supernatural articles

The top 5 things I did to contribute to fandom in 2023 were:

Leaving AO3 comments! I leave a lot of AO3 comments. Often quite long ones. It makes me happy.
Writing fic
Uh. Participating in exchanges? If that counts separately from writing fic?
Writing image descriptions of fanart on Tumblr (I hate logging into Tumblr but I love writing image descriptions.)
Sending friendly Tumblr asks? I guess? I can't think of anything else for #5 so whatever

My top 5 most appreciated fandom contributions were:

If I'm being honest, this is just the top five fics that I wanted to link to and not actually based on any kind of rigorous judgement.

there's nothing she won't burn for slashmarks in femslashex
Fandom: The Old Guard (movie)
Relationship: Immortal Wives
Summary: Angsty unsent letters between Andy and Quỳnh, set roughly between the end of the movie and the epilogue, about 2k words
Commentary: This is a messy, self-indulgent character study with no real plot that I wrote to get a feel for the characters. (Even the title is self-indulgent - I don't normally do song lyric titles, but for femslashex , I decided to let myself.) It was a last-minute decision to post it as a treat. I'd never posted anything like it before and I didn't expect it to get as warm a reception as it did.

searching for a light for slashmarks in femslashex
Fandom: The Old Guard (movie)
Relationship: Immortal Wives
Summary: Andy rescuing Quỳnh and the two resting and recovering together, hurt/comfort, about 2.5k words
Commentary: I'm quite pleased with this one, although it's very, very AU. It's a nice bedtime read, I think. I first encountered the song that titled this fic through this lovely Sherlock vid by rachelindeed .

Bad Moon Rising for lupa_lunae in holmestice
Fandom: Sherlock (BBC)
Relationship: Johnlock
Summary: Werewolf fluff, about 1k words
Commentary: My best attempt at writing werewolf!Sherlock. Neither canon-compliant nor very in-character, because my willingness to actually engage with BBC Sherlock as written is... limited. Takes a significant amount of inspiration from ACD Holmes, like both of my other Sherlock fics.

With Me There Is A Limit in watsons_woes
Fandom: Officially ACD Holmes, but compatible with many adaptations
Summary: Limerick about Holmes being a bad roommate
Commentary: The title is a quote from The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual, which I maintain is the cutest Sherlock Holmes story. Watson tries to get Holmes to clean their flat. Holmes offers to tell Watson a story instead of cleaning and Watson immediately gives in because he can't resist Holmes telling stories. That is the entire plot. How adorable is that?

In the Water in watsons_woes
Fandom: Several seconds of footage of a kitten wearing a deerstalker hat and meowing (it's a long story)
Summary: 100 words set in graycardinal 's kitten!Holmes universe.
Commentary: By my count, there are four kitten!Holmes works by now (graycardinal 's fic, evilinsanemonkey 's podfic of graycardinal 's fic, rachelindeed 's amazing multiverse vid, and my drabble). Such is the power of Holmestice.

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Games for Gaza

2023-11-04T02:55:56Z

Just bought the itch.io bundle Games for Gaza!

$10 for 256 games. The money goes to Medical Aid for Palestinians. The bundle's over in five days!

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Dear Femslash Exchange Creator

2023-10-15T00:19:40Z

Dear Femslash Exchange Creator,

Hi! Thank you so much for writing and/or arting for me. As always, optional details are optional.

For fic: I like stories about trans, neurodivergent, and disabled characters loving and being loved. I like stories focused on characters of color, especially those that explore cultural disconnection, legitimacy, and other messy, angsty feelings; bonus points for mixed race and/or Asian characters. Genderbending and racebending are always welcome. I would absolutely love it if aromantic characters were included in your story. (If specific headcanons would help: aromantic Frosta, aromantic Entrapta, aromantic Mermista in a queerplatonic relationship with Sea Hawk.)

In general, most of the femslash that I see is pretty fluffy. I’d love something where the emotions got more intense. That being said, fluff is also awesome, so if that’s your thing, you do you!

Crossovers are welcome, even if I don't know the other fandom. Some characters I like: Anathema (Good Omens), Morwen (Enchanted Forest Chronicles), Nimona (Nimona), Rosa Diaz (Brooklyn Nine-Nine).

Prompts for specific ships below. I've also included some fic and art recs because hey, why not?

( Scorfuma )

( Glitradora )

( PeggyNat )

( Cartinelli )

( Shuri/Riri )
( Immortal Wives )

Do not want:

anything rated above T
kink, including nonsexual kink
incest, pseudo-incest
slurs
anything sad involving animals
pro-cop stuff
recklessness with a virus
institutionalization
Entrapdak (just not my ship, sorry)
anti-autistic ableism, even if canon-typical
Omegaverse

Again, thank you so much for writing/arting for me, and I’m sure I’ll love whatever you make!

Happy Femslash,
Acorn_Squash

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Sing hey nonny October-o!

2023-10-04T04:41:50Z

October 2023 is shaping up to be a busy month for fandom!

Season 2 of Our Flag Means Death starts on October 5! Eee! I can't wait :) OFMD has amazing queer of color representation and I feel like I can trust it to stay that way, which is all too rare in fandom. I'm hoping for more Tealoranges, more Ed, more Frenchie & Wee John, more fun costumes, and new characters to fall in love with!

holmestice signups are open until October 6. I'll be watching from the sidelines this year - I'm excited to see all the new works!

femslashex is accepting nominations until October 7. I'm carefully refining my list.

The Marquis Who Mustn't by Courtney Milan is coming out on October 17! I can't wait to read it.

And, of course, Halloween is on October 31st! 🦇🎃

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Scorfuma Convention AU!

2023-07-29T23:13:29Z

So, we’ve all read and enjoyed coffee shop AUs, flower shop AUs, tattoo parlor AUs — what about a convention AU?

( Outline of a fluffy modern, no powers She-Ra and the Princesses of Power AU. Perfuma/Scorpia (can be read as platonic), with background Scorpia & Entrapta friendship. Content notes: food. )

I’m probably not going to write this fic, but if anyone wants to, feel free. My convention experience is limited, so feel free to leave concrit on that subject, or about anything else. Comments are welcome, even if we’ve never talked before.

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Update: AO3 AI scraping issue

2023-02-06T23:23:51Z

AO3 has addressed the problem with Common Crawl scraping. (Details in comments.) Yay! I've unlocked most of my works.

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Fandom List & Fic Masterpost

2022-08-10T03:58:14Z

Hi, it's me, Acorn_Squash! I don't post much here, and what I do post is always public (no access list). Comments are initially screened but will be unscreened unless you specifically request otherwise. I tend to subscribe when I see an interesting journal, even if we haven't talked before - please let me know if this is unwelcome.

I do a lot of fandom exchanges on here, so it seems worth mentioning that I have "Allow anyone to gift me works" turned on in my AO3 settings. Treats are always welcome.

If you need a beta reader for one of the more obscure fandoms listed below, feel free to message me. If you want fic recommendations, check my bookmarks on AO3.

( Fandoms )

Most of my fanfic is posted to my AO3 account (see my AO3 profile for blanket permission statement & suchlike, and my bookmarks for recs), but here's a list of fics (mostly Sherlock Holmes) that were only posted to DW. (This list was last updated March 10, 2025.)

( List )

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