2 days left in creation period! + PH #6
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sufficiently_advanced_exThe due date for assignments is on May 3 at 10 PM EDT (UTC-4). Due date countdown: (link)
Here's another Pinch Hit! Please reply to this post or email sufficiently.advanced.ex@gmail.com to claim. Please include your Ao3 username and the number of the pinch hit you are claiming. This will be due 6 days later than usual deadline, on Sat 09 May 2026 10:00PM EDT!
( PH 6 - Black Magician Trilogy - Trudi Canavan, Traitor Spy Trilogy - Trudi Canavan, The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club - Theodora Goss )
Assignment deadline has passed! Next steps and what's coming up.
2 May 2026 14:11casemod posting in caseficexchangeThe assignment deadline has passed!
Extensions:
We have many extensions across the agency. Happy creating and giving those fabulous works a final touch!
Extensions are due on Friday 15 May at 11:59pm EDT. [ In your timezone + Countdown ]
No further extension dates will be given (pinch hitters who claimed in the last two weeks leading up to Friday 1 May are exempted). Extenuating circumstances will be treated on a case-by-case basis.
If you requested an extension via email and did not hear back from me, please reply to this post with your AO3 username and recipient's AO3. There is a chance I replied and your email has eaten my response, or I filed it away by accident while believing I had responded. Please reach out before Monday 4 May.
If you default on your extension, or I have to default you because you are a no-show, you will be required to complete a make-up gift to participate in the next round. (These are due before the next round's sign-ups.)
If you receive an extension and have extenuating circumstances between Friday 1 May and Friday 15 May, please reach out. I don't need the details (give me an elevator pitch of context) and we can work out a new deadline date that works with the exchange's current timelines.
Pinch hitters who claim a request after Friday 1 May who need extensions will have their requests treated on a case-by-case basis. (I don't have any further extension deadlines.) Extensions won't be given to anyone who was assigned a request before Friday 1 May (excluding pinch hitters who claimed in the two weeks leading up to that date).
Defaults:
I will default anyone who has not completed their gift or who has submitted a draft. Completed gifts that can stand on their own in the instance you win the lottery, acquire a Wi-Fi-less island and move there are required at the assignment deadline.
Repeated no-shows may be banned from participating in the next round.
Non-guaranteed gifts becoming guaranteed gifts:
Participants who chose to sign up with less than 3 unique fandoms and who do not have a gift have until Friday 15 May at 11:59pm EDT to add additional fandoms to their request [ In your timezone + Countdown ].
I will not be updating any requests after this date. This is so I can manage pinch hits in the post-deadline phase of the exchange.
These fandoms need to be unique and not subfandoms to qualify, i.e., if your request only consists of Doctor Who 2005, Doctor Who 1963 and WandaVision, you do not meet the minimum unique fandom requirements.
If you are a participant who has not requested a minimum of 3 unique fandoms who wants to be guaranteed a gift in the post-deadline stage of the exchange, you will need to meet the following criteria:
- have completed a gift for the exchange
- have not received a gift (not having a gift means you are either a pinch hit (as part of our existing slate or post-deadline slate) or your creator has an extension)
If this describes you, please email gumshoeagency@gmail.com by the deadline with your additional fandoms, providing:
- Canon: As it appears in the tagset.
Relationships: As they appear in the tagset.
Mediums:
Optional details:
I will update your requests if you become or remain a pinch hit during the post-deadline phase of the exchange. I will confirm via return email when this is done so you are aware that these changes have been made to your request.
If you do not complete your assignment, I will not update your request to meet the minimum of 3 unique fandoms and you will not be a pinch hit as you'll be considered a default.
If you do not want to add additional requests to slip into "guaranteed gift", that's fine! Please remember that the exchange may open without you receiving a gift.
This is a new aspect of the exchange that I'm trialling. We will see how we go!
If you currently do not have a gift:
If you do not have a gift, you're welcome to email me to confirm if your creator has an extension.
Post-deadline pinch hits:
These will be posted in the next day after I confirm all extensions and defaults, as I will be AFK for the rest of the day/evening (see this post for details).
I've submitted my gift and it's been accepted into the collection. What now?
Congratulations! 🥳 You can spend the time from now until I announce the collection reveal date editing your gift.
You are welcome to add words or panels to your gift as you see fit. Works must meet the minimum requirements for comics, fic and podfic.
If you don't intend to edit your gift because it's already polished to your satisfaction, you can sit back, relax, and perhaps look at our active pinch hits during this time! (Post-deadline pinch hits will be posted in approximately 24 hours.)
The collection will not open until all guaranteed gifts are in. I'd appreciate any help in getting pinch hits filled!
Get in touch!
Please email gumshoeagency@gmail.com if you have any questions or concerns. Please provide your AO3 username so I know who I'm speaking with!
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Happy creating to those with extensions, and good luck to those of you editing during this period! Thank you in advance to participants, passers-by and the PH nonnies of BFE who assist in filling our pinch hits.
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🏛️ Greek Myth Fest - May 1st to May 31st 🏛️
1 May 2026 21:56drabblewriter posting in allbingo( Read more... )
Chronicles of Pern: First Fall - The Ford of Red Hanrahan
1 May 2026 21:29kalinara posting in i_read_whatBut we'll see how it goes.
I think this is going to be another longish one like Dolphin's Bell, and that has absolutely nothing to do with my decision, of course.
( Lazy is as Lazy does... )
VARIOUS > ONE PIECE
2 May 2026 10:51quixotic posting in dwrp_iconsCHARACTERS: Monkey D. Luffy, Roronoa Zoro and Vinsmoke Sanji
ADDITIONAL INFO: 108 icons from Season 2, Episode 4
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malagraphicBook review: The Last Hour Between Worlds
1 May 2026 19:45rocky41_7 posting in booknookAuthor: Melissa Thorne
Genre: Fiction, fantasy, action/adventure
Yesterday on a lovely walk through then neighborhood I reached the end of The Last Hour Between Worlds by Melissa Caruso. This is fantasy/action novel, set in a world in “prime” reality, beneath which sits ever-descending “echo” layers of reality. The further down you go, the stranger and more dangerous things get. At a New Year’s party, things get unexpectedly tricky when the entire party is pulled down through the echoes.
Our protagonist is Kembral Thorne, a “hound” whose job is to retrieve people, animals, and other things that are pulled or “fall” into the echoes. This party is Kem’s first step back into society after having her first baby two months earlier.
Of course, when things start going wrong, Kem can’t help but get involved. It’s her job.
I’ll say again, I do love queer lit with adults. YA is great and I’m so happy that teens today have access to so much queer lit, but online queer book recs can skew very YA. Here, Kem is very much someone at least in her thirties—she’s got a baby, she’s reached a senior role in her career, and her concerns reflect this position in her life. While she and her quasi-rival Rika have the sort of skittish interactions you might expect from people who are into each other and unwilling to admit they are into each other, they don’t reach the level of comic avoidance or overwrought drama of teens or young adults.
I liked the ebb and flow of Kem and Rika’s relationship. These are two people who already have history and have kind of already had their big, relationship-ending squabble before we even get to this party, which is fun to unravel over the course of the evening. They have some cute moments, some artificially-amplified angst, but are generally enjoyable.
The worldbuilding here is fine. It’s serviceable for what the novel is doing, but we don’t really get a look at much else outside of the party except when Kem ventures out into the echoes, which becomes increasingly less frequent as they descend. There’s some fun stuff, some spooky stuff, some aesthetic stuff.
The book pushes a little hard on maintaining the status quo when the status quo isn’t that great (I think it could have made this more believable with more discussion, but the book is really more about the action than the political debate) and I did think one character’s fate was a cop-out, especially given the former. Violent change to the system is wrong but we’ll all shrug and smile when this criminal we couldn’t nail down conveniently dies without a trial.
On the whole, I enjoyed this one, but it’s nothing earth-shattering. I put the next book on my TBR though because I do want to see what Rika and Kem get up to next.
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1 May 2026 20:34kaffy_rThank you for showing up. We may be down, but we're not out. Not yet, and - if we work hard - not ever.
