Being dead is a difficult thing to get over

You may have heard me talk about (or read the fics I wrote for) Battleship in the past - it's not running this year, but instead a very similar event called Taggle is running.

The way this event works is that ANYONE can leave prompts, and then the players write fics (or make art or podfics) for those prompts in order to strategically hit tags on a gameboard. Every fanwork has to be a gift in response to a prompt.

Unfortunately, because it's not official Battleship-branded Battleship, Taggle has way fewer participants and has gotten way fewer prompts, which means that right now there are ZERO PROMPTS (other than those I've left) in many of my fandoms! Which will make it hard for me to write anything!

In particular, Supernatural, Check Please, Baby-Sitter's Club, and For All Mankind currently have no prompts from anyone but me (I haven't even gotten around to writing prompts for some of them yet) - last year I wrote fics for all of these, but I can't without prompts!

But even if you and I don't share any fandoms, I encourage you to create prompts for the fandoms you are in, so that people can create things in those fandoms.

How do I leave prompts?

Go to the Taggle 2026 prompt collection and click "Sign Up" - don't worry, you're not actually signing up to play. Signups are closed, so you can ignore anything in the instructions about signing up. You're just here to leave prompts.

A few things to note:

Do NOT click that you want the prompt to be semi-anonymous. If you don't want your AO3 name listed on the prompt, you'll have to make a sockpuppet account.

Do NOT put any tags other than the ones in the collection's tagset in any of the fields!

DO make sure your account can receive gifts! (Preferences -> Collections, Challenges, and Gifts -> make sure "allow anyone to gift me works" is checked)

DO write something in the Optional Details section, even if it's just "I don't have any DNWs" (are you sure you don't have any DNWs?)

If the fandom and/or relationship you want isn't in the tagset yet, you have to nominate them first - read the nomination rules first, they'll be rejected if you don't follow them. You'll probably have to wait a few hours for a mod to approve them before you can prompt with them.

For each prompt you'll need to specify:

A fandom that is in the tagset (gifter will have to work within this fandom)

1-20 characters or pairings that are in the tagset (gifter will have to include at least one of these)

1-3 mediums (fic, art, podfic) that you're willing to receive (these are listed as characters, ignore that)

1 or more Freeform tags from the tagset (gifter will have to include at least one - see notes under cut for more details on these)

A list of things you Do Not Want (if you've never made a DNW list, see details under the cut) (your gifter is NOT allowed to include any of these)

A list of things you do want, whether specific prompts or just vibes (you're not required to provide this but it's recommended; your gifter is not required to include these, but most will try their best)

Let me know if you have any questions! If I don't know the answer, I'll ask around for you.

A few other notes to keep in mind under the cut:

They were caught because they did the same thing to the Reddit this week and their accounts were easily traced.

NOW LIVE: The PokePod Project Anthology – Generation One

The PokéPod Project Anthology for all generation one Pokémon is now revealed. This is a collection of 151 brand-new Pokémon stories written for the project by 66 writers, then performed by 35 podficcers. All stories and podfics can be found at the main AO3 collection. You can also download the anthology of all stories via the below links. We hope you enjoy reading and listening!

AUDIOBOOK DOWNLOAD LINKS: MP3 (290MB) GDrive M4B GDrive | M4B Internet Archive (both 544MB) Chaptered Streaming Player

Note about M4Bs: These are chaptered audiobook files that allow you to easily skip through tracks and save your place while listening. If you've never opened an M4B before, we recommend the app BookPlayer for iOS, Smart Audiobook Player for Android, VLC for Windows and Apple Books for Mac.

If you missed out on the project or merely want to spread more love for generation one Pokémon , check out the Rare Candies AO3 Collection which is specially for "treats", aka: bonus fics and pods!

In the darkness shines a light. The dim red eye of a lit cigar hangs in the air, glints off a silver cigar case, battered armor, a watchman’s badge. A man sits in the chair behind the Patrician’s desk, badge on the wood before him, silver case turning over and over in his dirty fingers.

“You ever heard of the Trousers of Time?” he asks abruptly. His voice is rough. Everything about this man is rough: his face, his clothes, his jaw. His eyes. Against the polished wood and burnished gold and fine velvet and expensive leather of the Patrician’s office, this man sits like a handful of gravel on a pedestal.

Vetinari wonders, idly, how the man saw him in the fine and expensive darkness. He sidles out from the protective hang of a tapestry. Stands at attention: it seems the done thing. And the done thing, around this man, gets done.