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Name: Ben
Age group: 20s
Country: US
Subscription/Access Policy: All my posts are public but would prefer no minors please.

Fannish Interests: Transformers, Hollow Knight/Silksong, Star Wars (specifically focused on Grievous because I am normal about him), Living Machine media (including world of Cars and others), Ultrakill, bad horror B-movies, furry fandom

I like to post about: Longform articles about media analysis and other kinds of in depth meta discussion, I love talking to people about themes and narratives. I do occasionally write fanfic but not that often and I'm not really confident in it. I love to read it though.

About Me/Other Info: Hi! I'm Ben, he/it. I like media with convoluted lore that has crazy implications if you think about it to its logical conclusion. I love having long detailed discussions about this and analyzing media from a queer/leftist perspective both in universe and out of universe. I would love to have mutuals to talk to about this stuff. My Tumblr is bensect and my website is bensect.space.
Some other non-fandom things I like: bugs, biology/ecology, Linux/open source, digital media preservation, datahoarding, indie webdev

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Seasons of Drabbles is an exchange for the creation of drabbles and drabble variants which runs 4 times a year.* The current round is for spring 2026.

*Each round takes place sometime within a three-month period (March-May, June-August, September-November, December-February). Each round will take about a month from nominations through author reveals.

Schedule:
Nominations open: Sunday, March 29 (will remain open through signups)
Signups open: Sunday, April 5
Signups close: Sunday, April 12 @ 11:59pm Eastern Daylight time (Countdown)
Assignments out by: Wednesday, April 15
Assignments due: Saturday, April 25 @ 11:59pm Eastern Daylight time (Countdown)
Collection opens: Saturday, May 2 @ 1:00pm Eastern Daylight time (Countdown)
Authors revealed: Tuesday, May 5 @ 1:00pm Eastern Daylight time

This round's AO3 Collection | Tagset | Nomination guidelines | Requests App | Mod email: seasonsofdrabbles@gmail.com

Need to contact us or have a question? See the Mod Contact post!

New rule as of March 2026: Crossovers do not count towards the minimum of 3 fandoms per sign-up if they contain a fandom you're already requesting/offering. For instance, if you're requesting Fandom A and Fandom B, a Fandom A/Fandom C crossover would not count towards the minimum of 3. At the end of the round, we'll assess this new rule/ask for your feedback and decide whether to keep/tweak/toss it.

The full Guidelines are below and we strongly encourage you to read them! Here are some quick notes, though:

First time doing a fic exchange? Welcome! Fanlore has some helpful explanations about how AO3 exchanges work and general exchange etiquette. Don't be afraid to ask a question if something's confusing.
Here, "drabble" does not just mean a short fic, but a specific wordcount. In addition to single drabbles (fics of exactly 100 words), we accept double drabbles (200 words) and triple drabbles (300 words). We also accept drabble series/sequences.
When you sign up, you cannot exclude single drabbles from your offers or requests. You are still welcome to request or offer the other drabble types, you just can't leave 100-word drabbles out entirely from your signup. See below for more details about this recent rule change.
Participants must be 18+.
Don't use generative AI for your gifts.

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Editor's note: Because of the high posting volume and the quantity of information linked in each newsletter, doctor_who_sonic will no longer link fanfiction that does not have a header. For an example of what a "good" fanfic header is, see the user info. Spoiler warnings are also greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Off-DW News
Blogtor Who's Friday Video of the Day is a clip from The Ambassadors of Death
Blogtor Who reviews The War Between the Land and the Sea Blu-ray set
Blogtor Who looks at Big Finish's Rutans vs Sontarans

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Recommendations

paranoidangel recommends the fic Ten Times The Doctor (Almost) Got Hitched by

thisbluespirit [various Doctors and companions | General Audiences]

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Title: Secret Marriage?
Fandom: Suikoden III
Pairing/Characters: Sasarai & Chris Lightfellow(/Salome Harris)
Content notes:
Prompt: March 28 - Sasarai & Chris “I don't know." "Let's find out together."

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sovay

I aten't dead! I have been flat for the last two days and would have continued the practice except for No Kings, but since it turned out the nearest rally was a grand total of ten minutes from my house I walked them to practice my democratically rightful freedom of assembly in the brightly freezing afternoon and was rewarded with the unexpected company of a long-time and little-seen friend who is not on DW and some excellent signs and costumes, of which I confess myself the most impressed by the inflatable riding frog. It was one of a small party on the lesser island of the rotary which included an impressively starred-and-striped Uncle Sam and an otherwise normally dressed protester wearing an American flag top hat. I suspect these rallies of being the one context nowadays in which I do not side-eye the deployment of traditional patriotic imagery. The larger island hosted a solo and determined Make Orwell Fiction Again. I had a chance to compliment the sign against The Lyin King whose black-on-red silhouetting had gone particularly doom metal in the execution, like a kind of psychedelic death's-head poppy. A woman whose jacket was embroidered with dragons and her pants with forests carried signs for herself and her artistically antifascist high-schooler. We had no signs of our own—I said that I was queer and here and that was about what I was up for—but were welcomed onto the curb to wave at the traffic, standing next to No War in Iran. The drive-by honking was heartening and considerable. I felt prudent to have brought earplugs. The crowd meanwhile went wild for the SUV from Cambridge Immigration Law. Making eye contact with passengers and drivers who waved back or thumbs-upped felt as useful as the presence or the noise, especially when it was someone with a headscarf or visibly non-white. The Amazon driver absolutely leaned on the horn as they went through. We were a comparatively small group, but I was not physically capable of getting myself to Boston Common and glad to have been able to demonstrate at all. I want it to mean something beyond the carnival of free expression, although the free expression should not be taken for granted: just around this time of last year was the abduction of Rümeysa Öztürk. I am going to eat some chopped liver on a challah roll and return to irregularly scheduled flatness.

Current Music: The Last Dinner Party, "I Hold Your Anger"

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Title: With a Little Bit of Support
Fandom: Younger (TV)
Pairing/Characters: Maggie Amato & Kelsey Peters
Content Notes: Pregnancy scare, Kelsey thinks she's pregnant
Prompt: March 28 - Kelsey & Maggie "I don't know." "Let's find out together."

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fabiadrake

The funeral effigy on his coffin, made directly from his death mask, was a strikingly realistic depiction of the king in his final weeks: the haggard face of a man exhausted by the trials of his life. Only fifty-two when he died, Henry looked twenty years older.

The sculptor’s depiction of him was intended as a reminder that even monarchs, whose power was God-given, were none the less human: they too would pass. It also highlighted how Henry VII’s life and reign had been an unremitting struggle; how the rigours of keeping the throne had transformed him from an energetic twenty-eight-year-old usurper into an isolated and suspicious king. One contemporary commentator reflected that “throughout his life Henry was destined never to draw a peaceful breath … since right from the start he began to be vexed by the seditions of his subjects, so much so that … he was never permitted to be relaxed or carefree”.

—Henry VII: Treason and Trust

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And indeed, their startling — one might even say theatrical — individuality was all part of that complex, six-ply weave. It sounds facile in the extreme to say that Jessica became a rabid Communist because Unity, the sister to whom she was closest, became a rabid Nazi. It sounds equally glib to say that Unity became a Nazi because Diana — whom she admired and adored — became a Fascist. Yet to some extent these statements are true. Had these girls not grown up in such proximity, competing with or retreating from each other in a constant battling rhythm, they would not have become quite so singular. And had they not lived in such singular times, their individuality would — in some cases at least — have been expressed quite differently.

… Nancy was black queen, dominating and dazzling. Pam was essentially withdrawn from the fight. Diana and Tom — close in age, cool and controlled — were soulmates, remaining steadfast in this even after the start of his schooling in 1918. Then at Asthall, where Deborah was born in 1920, a new dynamic was formed by the younger children. They talked in private languages, not just the ‘do admit’ stuff but actual, near-unintelligible variations on English, as if they were mini-tribes within the family. Unity and Jessica, who called each other ‘Boud’, spoke ‘Boudledidge’ (understood only by Deborah, who nevertheless did not presume to join in). This continued into adulthood: ‘Jung va ja leddra,’ wrote Unity to Jessica in 1937, meaning ‘thanks for your letter’, before going on to lecture ‘my good Boud’ about her elopement, and describing how Hitler had forbidden German newspapers to print the story, ‘which was nice of him wasn’t it’. The closeness between Unity and Jessica, which developed to the full in adolescence, was such that political polarisation could not quite break it: the girls would discuss whether one would shoot the other under orders, yet they remained oddly allied.

—The Six: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters

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And as she poured the coffee she decided that when Nancy had gone she would unlock the private drawer of her desk and burn that pitiful note of Patrick’s. It was morbid to keep it, even if she had not looked at it for years. She had never had the heart to tear it up because it had seemed part of Patrick. But of course that was absurd. It was no more part of Patrick than was the despair that had filled him when he wrote: “I’m sorry, but I can’t bear it any longer. Don’t be angry with me. Patrick.” She would take it out and burn it. Burning it would not blot it from her mind, of course, but there was nothing she could do about that. The round schoolboy letters were printed there for always. Round, careful letters written with the stylograph that he had been so attached to. It was so like Patrick to apologise for taking his own life.

—Brat Farrar

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Title: Reaching for Understanding
Fandom: Talents Series (Anne McCaffrey)
Pairing/Characters: Afra Lyon & The Rowan
Content Notes: Complicated relationships
Prompt: 28 Afra Lyon & The Rowan "I don't know." "Let's find out together."

( Reaching for Understanding )

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Title: The Meeting on the Island: Puzzled
Fandom: Spooks (MI5)
Pairing/Characters: Adam Carter, werewolf!Lucas
Content Notes: PG. This is a six part story, in which Lucas North is a werewolf, but remains a valued part of the team.
Prompt: March 27 Adam Carter & Lucas North "I don't know." "Let's find out together."

The Meeting on the Island: Puzzled on AO3

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Title: Ten Times The Doctor (Almost) Got Hitched
Creator:

thisbluespirit
Rating: General
Word Count/Length/Size: 5358
Creator's Summary: You wouldn't believe how difficult it is for a passing Time Lord not to get married to famous historical women completely by accident. Seriously. Happens all the time.
Characters/Pairings: First Doctor, Second Doctor, Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Seventh Doctor, Eighth Doctor, Ninth Doctor, Tenth Doctor, Cameca, Polly Wright, Ben Jackson, Liz Shaw, Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, Sarah Jane Smith, Harry Sullivan, Tegan Jovanka, Vislor Turlough, Evelyn Smythe, Bernice Summerfield, Charley Pollard, Rose Tyler
Warnings/Notes: None

Reasons for reccing: Because it's fun and silly, and also exactly the sort of thing that would happen to the Doctor.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/192298

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Title: Saved
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: Gen
Length: 337 words
Summary: Tony gets in trouble

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Welcome to

dw100! Challenges are posted approximately once a week.

Challenge #1084 is singularity.

The rules:

All stories must be 100 words long
Please place your story behind a cut if it contains spoilers for any upcoming episodes
You don't have to use the challenge word or phrase in your story; it's just there for inspiration
Please include the challenge word or phrase in the subject line of your post
Please use the challenge tag 1084: singularity on any story posted to this challenge

Good luck!

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Posted by Chris Paton

http://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2026/03/myheritages-scribeai-tool.html

From MyHeritage (www.myheritage.com):

We’re excited to introduce Scribe AI, a powerful new feature that transcribes, translates, and interprets historical documents and photos. Released just a few weeks ago, the first users who tried it have already given it rave reviews and told us about breakthroughs they were able to make with it.

Upload a scanned family letter or historical document, or a photo, and Scribe AI will generate a clear transcription, explain symbols and context, and suggest next steps for your research. For photos, it will estimate the place and date and provide a full historical context. It can also be applied directly to historical records on MyHeritage that include images, and to photos you’ve already uploaded to MyHeritage.

Powered by advanced AI technology trained on historical records and photos, it reveals insights you may never have uncovered otherwise.

You can find out more about this new tool at https://blog.myheritage.com/2026/03/introducing-scribe-ai/.

Comment: I am personally allergic to anything that has AI in its title, but let me know what you think of it!

Chris

Order Researching Ancestral Crisis in Ireland in the UK at https://bit.ly/4jJWSEh. Also available -Tracing Your Belfast Ancestors, Tracing Your Irish Ancestors Through Land Records, Sharing Your Family History Online, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed), and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records - to purchase, please visit https://bit.ly/ChrisPatonPSbooks. To purchase in the USA visit https://www.penandswordbooks.com. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page.

http://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2026/03/myheritages-scribeai-tool.html

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Posted by Chris Paton

http://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2026/03/ulster-historical-foundation-is-hiring.html

From the Ulster Historical Foundation:

GENEALOGICAL RESEARCHERS REQUIRED

Ulster Historical Foundation would like to broaden its pool of genealogical researchers and is compiling a register of individuals interested in part-time research work and assisting delegates during our family history conferences. The work also offers the possibility of data input and validation as part of the Foundation’s role in compiling databases of genealogical records for our members and the general public.

To find out more: https://ulsterhistoricalfoundation.com/about/researcher-post

Application Deadline: Friday 17 April, 2026.

Good luck if applying!

Chris

http://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2026/03/ulster-historical-foundation-is-hiring.html

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Posted by Chris Paton

http://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2026/03/findmypast-adds-medical-professions.html

FindmyPast (www.findmypast.co.uk) has added two medical professions collections sets that may be of interest:

Britain, The Medical Registers

Did your ancestor work in the medical field during the Victorian era? Following the landmark Medical Act of 1858, which sought to distinguish qualified practitioners from "quacks," these registers provide a definitive annual account of every person legally entitled to practice medicine, surgery, and midwifery in the United Kingdom.

Explore this brand-new set of 393,288 records to uncover more about their qualifications and career, and find out more about the world of medicine in Victorian Britain. The records span 1859-1895.

London (and Provincial) Medical Directory 1847-1869

This new set of fascinating medical directories, comprising 511,311 records, contains the names, addresses, qualifications, and appointments of every surgeon, physician, and general practitioner residing in London and its immediate vicinity.

For relevant links, please visit https://www.findmypast.co.uk/blog/new/medical-registers-ucl

Chris

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Posted by Chris Paton

http://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2026/03/easter-closures-for-nrs-and-proni.html

The National Records of Scotland (www.nrscotland.gov.uk) and the ScotlandsPeople Centre in Edinburgh will be closed on Friday 3 April and Monday 6 April for Easter.

Belfast based PRONI (https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/campaigns/public-record-office-northern-ireland-proni), however, will be closed on Monday 6 April and Tuesday 7 April for Easter, as well as on Saturday 4 April as part of the Easter holidays. Their extended opening hours will resume with a late-night opening on Thursday 16 April.

Please take note, no-one likes to make a long journey only to find the door closed!

Chris

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littlefics in seasonsofdrabbles - Seasons of Drabbles - Spring Round 2026
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samuraiter in prompt_dump - 28 March 2026: Zombie Apocalypse
merryghoul in doctor_who_sonic - Saturday 28 March 2026
suzume in no_true_pair - Secret Marriage? (Suikoden III, Sasarai & Chris(/Salome?)
sovay - It's not what I was made to do, but believe me, I still care
shuufleur93 in no_true_pair - With a Little Bit of Support (Younger, Maggie Amato & Kelsey Peters)
fabiadrake - Even monarchs, whose power was God-given
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fabiadrake - Competing with or retreating from each other in a constant battling rhythm
fabiadrake - Written with the stylograph that he had been so attached to
senmut in no_true_pair - Fic: Reaching for Understsanding (Talents Series, Afra Lyon & The Rowan)
smallhobbit in no_true_pair - The Meeting on the Island: Puzzled (Spooks (MI5), Adam Carter/werewolf!Lucas)
paranoidangel in tardis_library - Rec [fic]: Ten Times The Doctor (Almost) Got Hitched by thisbluespirit
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scottishgenes_feed - Ulster Historical Foundation is hiring genealogical researchers
scottishgenes_feed - FindmyPast adds medical professions records
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Seasons of Drabbles - Spring Round 2026

Challenge 36:Copious colours

28 March 2026: Zombie Apocalypse

Saturday 28 March 2026

Secret Marriage? (Suikoden III, Sasarai & Chris(/Salome?)

It's not what I was made to do, but believe me, I still care

With a Little Bit of Support (Younger, Maggie Amato & Kelsey Peters)

Even monarchs, whose power was God-given

Dreamwidth Book Club Discussion and Voting

Competing with or retreating from each other in a constant battling rhythm

Written with the stylograph that he had been so attached to

Fic: Reaching for Understsanding (Talents Series, Afra Lyon & The Rowan)

The Meeting on the Island: Puzzled (Spooks (MI5), Adam Carter/werewolf!Lucas)

Rec [fic]: Ten Times The Doctor (Almost) Got Hitched by thisbluespirit

Marvel Cinematic Universe: Fanfiction: Saved

All But Romance Fanwork Exchange 2026 - Coming soon!

Bingo: Blackout

Challenge #1084: singularity

MyHeritage's ScribeAI tool

Ulster Historical Foundation is hiring genealogical researchers

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