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Today I am thankful for...
@ Public Domain Day|Wikipedia @ European Public Domain Day – Celebrating accessible & reusable works @ What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2026? — The Public Domain Review @ 2026 in public domain @ Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature - Blog - Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover
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mundodefieras Just noticed these didn't post on the day!
Welcome, fish friends, to the first week of Be A Goldfish: A Multifandom Multimedia Microbang 2026-A. Cannonball! The water's fine. Let's kick things off with a prompt to jump-start your creativity:
New Year, New Fandom
Confetti, fireworks, sparkling beverages: 2026 begins! Let’s get this party started. Create a work for a fandom for which you have never created a work. Get out of your comfort zone. Paint a picture of a brand-new blorbo! Write meta for a fandom you’ve only ever lurked in! Anything will do so long as it’s new, or at least not yet shared.
Feel free to brainstorm, discuss, make friends, or let us know what you're cooking up in the comments here or on tumblr. We're excited to see what you create. Stay curious!
Check out our Prompt Doc for the entire list of this round's prompts. Refer to our Welcome Sticky or FAQ for posting guidelines.
That's right folks, it's finally time! Be A Goldfish 2026-A is officially underway!
In case you missed it, you can find relevant info, community posting guidelines, and links to even more relevant info in our Welcome Sticky. We hope you're as excited as we are!
fuzzyred. It also fills the "Deep Blue Sea" square in my 5-1-25 card for the Colors Fest Bingo. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with fuzzyred. It belongs to the Kraken thread of the Polychrome Heroics series.
allbingo. The fest runs from January 1-31. (See all my 2026 bingo cards.) | Seas Beneath | Private | You're Driving Me Crazy | Body and Soul | The Secret of the Old Clock |
| Cakes and Ale | Chasing Rainbows | The Castle | Soup to Nuts | Born Reckless |
| The Hidden Staircase | Just Imagine | WILD CARD | Up the River | But Not for Me |
| The Mysterious Universe | The Door | The Green Pastures | A Cup of Coffee | Beyond the Blue Horizon |
| The End of the World | Grumpy | City Girl | Something to Remember You By | Fascinating Rhythm |
snowflake_challenge runs this month with challenges on odd-numbered days, and it's among the biggest events on Dreamwidth. (See my 2023 post on Friending Memes.) 
allbingo community. Use this to share your accomplishments for a custom-made bingo card, for old cards from other communities, or to echo your current bingo activity.
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for January 1, 2026 is:
amortize • \AM-er-tyze\ • verb
To amortize something, such as a mortgage, is to pay for it by making regular payments over a long period of time.
// If you apply extra payments directly to your loan balance as a principal reduction, your loan can be amortized sooner.
Examples:
“As part of some of the league’s commercial deals—where companies pay the league for rights of some sort—the NFL has received equity or warrants. … The warrants are priced at fair market value on the date of vesting and amortized over 10 years.” — Jacob Feldman and Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico, 5 Aug. 2025
Did you know?
When you amortize a loan, you figuratively “kill it off” by paying it down in installments, an idea reflected in the etymology of amortize. The word comes ultimately from a Latin word meaning “to kill” that was formed in part from the Latin noun mors, meaning “death”; it is related both to murder and a word naming a kind of loan that is usually amortized: mortgage. The original use of amortize dates to the 14th century, when amortizing was about transferring ownership of a property to a corporation, and especially to an ecclesiastical corporation—that is, a corporation consisting wholly of clergy. Such land was said to be in mortmain, which under the feudal system meant that the property was permanently exempt from a lord’s usual payment collections. Mortmain is of course another mors word. Its second syllable comes from Latin manus, meaning “hand,” the implication being that the property was held in the dead hand of a corporation—a hand incapable of paying out.
 This Monster Wants to Eat Me, Episode 13 (Season Finale) |
The Clockwork Alarm (3058 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Old Kingdom - Garth Nix
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Lirael (Old Kingdom), Imshi (Old Kingdom), The Disreputable Dog | Kibeth
Additional Tags: Yuletide 2025, The Great Library of the Clayr, and its many fun and exiting rooms
Summary:
An alarm sounds in the library while most of the staff have been called to the Watch. Typically a Third Assistant Librarian wouldn't be brought along to respond to an alarm, but when only Lirael and Imshi are left in the Reading Room....
Goalposts (7607 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Scholomance - Naomi Novik
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Galadriel "El" Higgins/Orion Lake, Orion Lake & Guo Yi Liu
Characters: Orion Lake, Scholomance (Scholomance - Novik), Guo Yi Liu
Additional Tags: POV Orion Lake, Post-The Golden Enclaves: Lesson Three of The Scholomance, The Golden Enclaves: Lesson Three of The Scholomance Spoilers, Orion gets a hobby, Back-To-School Night at the Scholomance, Poetry, (sort of), creative writing, Post-Canon, El is mentioned a whole lot but not actually present, Angst, the mortifying ordeal of becoming your own person
Summary:
At first Orion started with love poems.
whatever souls are made of (15800 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: Star Trek: Lower Decks (Cartoon)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Brad Boimler/Beckett Mariner
Characters: Beckett Mariner, Brad Boimler, Crew of the Starship Cerritos (Star Trek)
Additional Tags: Episode: s05e01 Dos Cerritos (Star Trek: Lower Decks), Alternate Season/Series 05, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine References, Post-Dominion War (Star Trek), Friendship/Love, Identity Issues, discussion of the mirror universe, Angst, Pining, Comedy, Romance, Parallel Universes
Summary:
After the alternate-universe Becky Freeman tries to swap lives with Mariner in 5x01 "Dos Cerritos," Rutherford and T'Lyn decide to work out how to detect any further potential impostors from alternate universes.
This ends up being a not so great idea that stresses everybody out.
(Especially Boimler.)
 May I Ask For One Final Thing? Episode 13 (Season Finale) |
| 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. 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 |
autobotscoutriella will be making this week’s banners, so keep an eye out for those.
