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The 2025 Fanfic Reading Challenge

Welcome to another year of the Fanfic Reading Challenge (FRC)!

I won't bore you with the history of the challenge, this year, but I will welcome you to check out past posts that do explain some of it, as well as include a brief overview of what, exactly, this challenge is, though it does change year to year. (Essentially you read fics to complete goals and win bragging points and an artsy badge.)

This year is especially different, as I had the extreme pleasure of having @noxsoulmate as a partner in crime in keeping me hostage on track to completing this year's FRC. Another valued member of the mod team is @jandjsalmon and speaks for all of us if you need questions answered!

As for the challenge....

This is, indeed, a challenge. Of course.

First of all... you must obviously read fanfiction. As if you don't already!

You also need to download and make your own copy of the spreadsheet, which can be found here, as well as below in the important links section.

To participate in the challenge, you read fics that match the tasks in the challenge. An example of a task can be: "read a fic with a title containing the word purple in it." Should be easy! Of course, there are harder ones.

Which is why there are different modes of challenge to the FRC. These are as follows:

Participation (Complete 1 task)

Regular Mode (Complete 80 tasks)

Hard Mode (Complete 150 tasks)

Extreme Mode (Complete 220 tasks)

Complete (Complete 250 tasks)

The challenge lasts from January 1st, 2025, to December 31st, 2025.

There are badges that go with the modes completed, and even a secret 6th badge that will be fairly obvious if you look at the spreadsheet! Doesn't mean it'll be easy to complete though. *smirks* (Blame Noxy)

Most important of all: this challenge operates on the honour system. We don't check your work, or your reading logs (see below), so I mean, I guess if you want to be slippery with the rules, you do you, and that's on your conscience, but honestly it's so much fun to see how much you can get done by following the letter of the law/tasks! You can be slippery even with following the tasks fully. It's great fun. ;D

I think that's enough for an intro, really, maybe too much.

Important Links and Reading Logs/Trackers

As there is a component of the FRC that includes tracking numbers of words read, most of us use a reading log/tracker to keep count of how many fics we read, including data such as words, of course, chapters, month completed, ship, author, title, fandom, link to the fic, and such. It's a great place to mark what fics you want to read in the future as well!

This year we have FOUR trackers on offer, quite different from one another, so take a look, play around with them and check out their "intros", and choose according to what you think will work best for you!

Fic Tracking Sheets

Juulna's 2025 Reading Log

Noxy's 2025 Reading Log

2025 Jandy's Fic Tracker

Taru's Fic Tracker 2025

Discord

We have a blast on Discord. From general chatter to sharing pet pics to being there for each other during the tough times to forming lasting friendships and making friendships you’d never make in a ship- or fandom-specific Discord, to asking for help ‘rolling the dice’ (pick a number between 1-10!) to choose the next fic to read, to finding some of the really challenging task fills in fandoms people might not have ever read but are willing to try, or finding fandoms someone has never read and is very tentative about stepping out of their box, but they’re being 100% supported and know they don’t need to complete the fic for it to count for the task, stepping out of their comfort zone… we’ve formed a very odd group of, if not friends, then companions (but there are definite friendships that have formed!! Just ask the people who have started watching NHL and NFL together in our off topic channel!).

In any case, our Discord is not necessary, but it is a worthy and tactical element to completing many of the tasks of this challenge. 💙

And.... without further ado....!

The 2025 Fanfic Reading Challenge! (link)

There is an info/rules page as the first sheet on the spreadsheet that should fill in any further questions you have. It also has more contact info than just this page if you have any further questions and perhaps need a more immediate answer for your needs.

*Occasionally you will run into something that looks like an error, and it may in fact be one! Let us know if you see it. It's hard not to make a mistake on as large a spreadsheet as this.*

Please, first of all, have fun and just read fanfiction that you enjoy! I (Juulna) did that last year and didn't even come close to completing the entire challenge, and I still had a blast because I was enjoying what I was reading and rereading. Others took the challenge right to the completed end. Others forgot about it halfway through but still had fun, and some even went back and filled in the sheet for a really good showing! The challenge is what you make of it, what you want from it. So... just have fun. Read fic. Smile. Enjoy. :)

Second of all... well, we would love if you signal boost this post!!!!

Third of all, we do have our pinned post that includes a link to this page and that will include a link to our Discord and all our trackers as well, including past links for memento and informative purposes.

Thank you, and a blessed 2025 to all!

Bucky Barnes Bingo Round 8 - Masterlist

Image 1: Teddy Bucky : Soft and Cosy / WinterGamma (Bucky x Bruce) / 2718 / Teen and Up Audiences

hurt/comfort : The Dangers of Chocolate / Bucky & Clint / 1486 / Teen and Up Audiences

Image 3: Bucky Falling : Warm is Good / WinterIron (Bucky x Tony) / 660 / Teen and Up Audiences

interspecies : Bitten (for your blood) / little WinterHawk (Bucky x Clint x OC) / 1343 / Teen and Up Audiences

FREE SPACE : Snow / WinterHawk (Bucky x Clint) / 1562 / Mature

Tony Stark/Iron Man : Bet I can take him out in one shot? / Bucky & Clint / 920 / Teen and Up Audiences

knitting : Three coffees are better than two / little WinterHawk (Bucky x Clint x OC) / 10428 / Teen and Up Audiences

waiting : Deep Breathes and Needles /WinterHawk (Bucky x Clint) & OC / 4560 / Teen and Up Audiences

Clint Barton/Hawkeye : New Here / WinterHawk (Bucky x Clint) / 1654 / Teen and Up Audiences

vulnerability : Trust isn't easy / WinterHawk (Bucky x Clint) / 3248 / Teen and Up Audiences

@buckybarnesbingo

Image Prompts:

it’s just….if Charlie's DD with chest hair

WHBB 2025 - Mod Call!

Dear fellow WinterHawkers, it is almost that time of the year again when we will be looking for artists and writers who are interested in joining us in another round of the Bang.

Before we can start, however, we have some planning and preparation to do. Due to personal and time reasons, we are looking to make some changes to the Mod team this year.

If you are interested in joining our little team and supporting us, please check out the event rules and possibly last year’s schedule to make sure you are ready to commit to joining us for the entire duration of the event and then fill out this so we know where your strengths are and what you could bring to the team. The form will stay open until 7 February.

Further updates on this year’s schedule will follow hopefully soon and we are excited to see many new and old friends in the Event.

– Mods Panic and Jess

P.S.: To make the wait a little shorter check out the previous year’s stories here if you haven’t already!

Writing Patterns (Tag Game)

Rules: list the first line of your last 10 (posted) fics and see if there's a pattern!

Thanks to @42donotpanic for tagging me!!

“You mean you made all of us listen to Stick to the Status Quo on repeat for a month straight just for you to get cast as Chad’s understudy?” (Stick to the Status Quo)

Winter had never been Kurt’s favorite season. (Attachment Therapy)

“...can you just leave me alone?” (You See What I Want (but what do I need?))

Shouting. Footsteps. Screaming. Blood. (In The Walls)

The fog was beginning to get annoying. (I Don't Hear What You Don't See (AU-gust 2023))

Clint was really starting to wish that he had drained the coffee pot when he had the chance. (Evaluation)

The weird blast felt… weird. (In Another's Shoes)

There is nothing quite like alcohol to facilitate incoherent, inexplicable laughter. (Like an Echo)

In 16 years, Scott Summers had seen more broken bones than he would care to admit. (Things Happen)

"Yes!” Quill crowed, throwing his arms up in the air as he did. (Too Broken to Fix)

I think the biggest thing that I do with my first lines is try to establish an idea or theme that will come back later in the story. About half of these are repeated verbatim later in the story, which is especially impactful (I hope) in the multichapter ones! Even if they don't return word-for-word, I usually use whatever concept is established in the first sentence (things like the understudy role, the idea of being left alone, the coffee, laughter, etc) throughout the story to push the plot. The only one on here that doesn't really follow that is "Too Broken To Fix", which is actually really fitting because that was actually a re-post of a fic I wrote back in 2019; kind of cool to see that my writing style really has changed, even just based off of the first lines!

Tagging @honeylashofficial and anyone else who wants to do this!! <3

WIP Warriors Round 6

The WIP Warriors doesn't care that I have a thousand other things to do, so here is the next round and the next poll.

150 Words / vote. Please go ham.

I guess that's just what we get for making up pairs so rare no one else thinks about them 😂💜❤️💚

I read Gardening… by 42donotpanic and haven't been able to get these three out of my mind since.

Do not ask me where Clint's other hand is. I do not know.

This arrangement has been described to me as "people macrame".

WinterIron Bingo - Masterlist

Jealousy : / / /

Picnic : / / /

Ex-Boyfriend Steve :/ / /

"I got caught doing a piece for vanity fair." Sex by the Fireplace : Birthday sex / WinterIron (Bucky x Tony) / 2708 / Explicit

Coffee Shop : The moon and its secrets / WinterIron (Bucky x Tony) / 9017 / Mature

Stephen Strange : / / /

Vibrator : / / /

Arranged Marriage : / / /

Nightmares : WinterIron (Bucky Barnes x Tony Stark) / Moodboard / Mature

AU: Werewolf : The moon and its secrets / WinterIron (Bucky x Tony) / 9017 / Mature

Meet Cute : / / /

ICU : / / /

FREE SPACE : Saving the World / WinterIron (Bucky x Tony) / 1257 / Teen and Up Audiences

Lotion : / / /

Friends to Lovers : The moon and its secrets / WinterIron (Bucky x Tony) / 9017 / Mature

AU: Nurse : / / /

Forehead kisses : The past, the present and the pain in between / WinterIron (Bucky Barnes x Tony Stark) / 844 / Teen and Up Audiences

"Tell us what you need." : Ninjas ruin everything / WinterIronHawk (Bucky Barnes x Tony Stark x Clint Barton) / 2226 / Teen and Up Audiences / Trans!Clint, NB!Bucky, Serious Injuries

Praise Kink : / / /

Natasha Romanoff : The moon and its secrets / WinterIron (Bucky x Tony) / 9017 / Mature

Sex Work : Tonight you're mine / WinterIron (Bucky Barnes x Tony Stark) / 1556 / Mature / NB!Bucky, Sex Work, Insecurity

"I'm doing it, shut up." : / / /

Dog Tags : WinterIron (Bucky Barnes x Tony Stark) / General Audiences

Sugar Daddy Bucky : More than an exchange / WinterIron (Bucky x Tony) / 538 / Teen and Up Audiences

Kiss it better : The moon and its secrets / WinterIron (Bucky x Tony) / 9017 / Mature

@bingowinteriron

「Shopping in IKEA」

- Time to go home, Buck

- NO!

Alpine, Lucky and Deuce

Fic by @42donotpanic, Art by Iithril

Teen And Up Audiences No Archive Warnings Apply

Daredevil (TV), Hawkeye (Comics), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)

Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Clint Barton/Matt Murdock, James "Bucky" Barnes/Clint Barton

Characters: Matt Murdock, James "Bucky" Barnes, Clint Barton, Lucky (Hawkeye), Deuce (Daredevil), Alpine the Cat (Marvel)

Additional Tags: Trans Clint Barton, Nonbinary Bucky Barnes, Gender Dysphoria, Minor Injuries, Domestic Fluff, Domestic, OT3, Pizza, Clint Barton Needs a Hug, Bucky Barnes Needs a Hug, Matt Murdock Needs a Hug

Words: 2,885

Summary: Matt comes home after a long week of fighting and in the office to find his partners had a bad day as well. There’s only one solution: Pizza, cuddling and moving as little as possible for the entire weekend.

Art by Iithril

ID: Clint, Bucky and Matt are cuddling together in the bed. Alpine is on the pillow next to Matt, Deuce is resting her head against Matt's legs and Lucky is at the edge of the bed, looking towards us.

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