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Challenge 285:
FRESH START

Sometimes your best option is just to start over.

Maybe it’s a project that isn’t going well, or a job that hasn’t worked out. Maybe it’s a new day, or a new year, one of those timepoints that encourage you to think about changes you want to make. Maybe it’s something more drastic – a new career or even a whole new life. Whatever the case, it’s time for a new start.

What does that look like? Is it by choice, or are your characters forced into it by circumstance? Is it easy, or not so much?

Write a story about a fresh start.

BONUS GOAL: “I’m glad you’re here.”

If your submission features this line, it will earn an extra point to be tallied in voting!

Challenge ends Monday, January 5 at 9:00PM EST.

• Post submissions as new entries using the template in the profile
• Tag this week's entries as: [#] submission, 285 – fresh start
• If you have questions about this challenge, please ask them here

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Here are this week's votes tallied, and below the cut are our winners for Challenge #284 – Home for the Holidays!

( This week's finalists are... )

Total Challenge Words Written: 3894

Congratulations to all this week's participants, and thank you to everyone who took the time to cast their votes!

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You may now post your Challenge 284 entries to any additional communities, blogs, archives or sites as you'd like! We also have a FandomWeekly AO3 Collection if you'd like to add your stories there.

Happy new year to everyone whose time zone has already made it to 2026!

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Привет and welcome to our new Russian friends from LiveJournal! We are happy to offer you a new home. We will not require identification for you to post or comment. We also do not cooperate with Russian government requests for any information about your account unless they go through a United States court first. (And it hasn't happened in 16 years!)

Importing your journal from ЖЖ may be slow. There are a lot of you, with many posts and comments, and we have to limit how fast we download your information from ЖЖ so they don't block us. Please be patient! We have been watching and fixing errors, and we will go back to doing that after the holiday is over.

I am very sorry that we can't translate the site into Russian or offer support in Russian. We are a much, much smaller company than LiveJournal is, and my high school Russian classes were a very long time ago :) But at least we aren't owned by Sberbank!

С Новым Годом, and welcome home!

EDIT: Большое спасибо всем за помощь друг другу в комментариях! Я ценю каждого, кто предоставляет нашим новым соседям информацию, понятную им без необходимости искать её в Google. :) И спасибо вам за терпение к моему русскому переводу с помощью Google Translate! Прошло уже много-много лет со школьных времен!

Thank you also to everyone who's been giving our new neighbors a warm welcome. I love you all ❤️

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Here are the entries for this week's challenge:

( List of entries )

In order to vote, please reply to this post using the form provided. All comments are screened, and entries are listed in the order they were submitted. For your vote to qualify, you must fill out your entire voting card (all three spots) in order to be counted. First place votes are worth 3 points, second place votes are worth 2 points, and third place votes are worth 1 point. Meeting the bonus goal on an entry gets an extra point for that submission.

When voting, please copy/paste the ENTRY NUMBER and the FIC TITLE from the list above into the spot you're voting for (this prevents accidentally mis-numbering a vote and casting it for the wrong entry). It should look like this:

First Place: 61. Fic Title Here
Second Place: 88. Another Fic Title
Third Place: 47. Finally a third fic title goes here

Please note that you cannot vote for your own entry, and that votes cannot be made anonymously. You do not have to be a member of the community in order to vote, nor have submitted an entry for this week; everyone is welcome to participate in the voting. IP addresses are logged to prevent duplicate voting.

Voting closes Wednesday, December 31, at 9:00PM EST.

m_findlow posting in

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Theme Prompt: #284 - Home for the holidays
Title: Home is where the heart is
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating/Warnings: PG.
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 1,000 words
Summary: Jack is right where he’s meant to be.

( Read more... )

imhilien posting in

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Theme Prompt: 284 - Home for the Holidays
Title: all is calm, all is bright
Fandom: The Others (2001)
Rating/Warnings: PG-13
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 371
Summary: Who is enjoying Christmas the most in the house this year? (set post-canon)

( Read more... )

Current Mood: contemplative

quicksilverfox3 posting in

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Theme Prompt: 284 - home for the holidays
Title: baby it's cold outside
Fandom: Hazbin Hotel
Rating/Warnings: N/A
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 903
Summary: Vox winds up on Alastor's front step while it's snowing. It's an opportunity that Alastor can't pass up.

( how lucky that you dropped in )

badly_knitted posting in

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Theme Prompt: #284 – Home For the Holidays
Title: Cardiff For Christmas
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating/Warnings: PG
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 1000
Summary: Ianto is feeling nostalgic and homesick as Christmas approaches, but he can’t go back to the Cardiff he knew. Or can he?

( Cardiff For Christmas... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

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long gone, most beloved

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[#285 | Fresh Start] Challenge Post

[#284 | Home for the Holidays] Results Post

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[#284 | Home for the Holidays] Voting Post

[#284] HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS (TORCHWOOD)

[#284] ALL IS CALM, ALL IS BRIGHT (THE OTHERS (2001) )

[#284] baby it's cold outside (Hazbin Hotel)

[#284] Cardiff For Christmas (Torchwood)

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