#frc2026

We’re so happy to announce this year’s badges for the 2025 Fanfic Reading Challenge (2025 FRC)!!

As you might know, the fanfic reading challenge is a, well, challenge, to readers to sort of push one outside of their comfort zone or to read more of what they usually like. We, in turn, like to reward this enthusiasm and participation with artistic badges for the different tiers which our challenge offers.

Which, by the way, will open itself earlier to Discord members than to Tumblr! (But will be available in the new year to Tumblr as well.) We do highly encourage and value participation but do not require it, and you can complete the challenge entirely solo.

Anyway!

Here are the badges for this year, from the entirely amazingly talented @thefriendlypigeon !!

Included are the participation, regular, hard, extreme and complete mode badges! (If you’d like higher resolution or transparent backgrounds, please DM @juuls!)

We have also introduced a new badge (and thus a new category) this year, which is the ‘Category Challenge’, an arcing challenging you complete over each category… I mean, if you didn’t already get the idea. ;)

Fantastic!!!

Congratulations to those who have already completed these modes, and those who will complete them over the following days of the end of the year. 💙❤️💜

Best of luck, and so much love!!!

you were fun only sometimes and mostly made me miserable

you will probably be missed knowing me

*queue in the arms of an angel*

okay so full transparency—I wasn't able to participate more than a little bit in FRC this year. life just kind of got in the way! but looking at all the 2026 prompts has me so excited that I really don't want to wait until january to start getting back into the swing of things.

★ THE MINI-CHALLENGE ★

I’m setting a personal goal for myself: I want to read whats left on my list (plus some extras!) to hit 50 fics before the year is up.

most of what's left are the entries on my 2025 sheet labeled "not started." I’m going to tackle them in order, day by day, just to clear the deck so I can start 2026 with a totally blank slate. it's basically a reading bootcamp to get me ready for the full challenge next year!

★ WHY AM I DOING THIS? ★

momentum: going from 0 to 100 on january 1st is a lot, so this gets the gears turning now.

closure: finally finishing that 2025 "to-read" list once and for all.

hype: I’m just genuinely so excited for 2026 and want to be part of the community energy again!

I am so ready for #FRC2026. if you’re also feeling like you missed out on some reading time this year, come do a final sprint with me! let's see how much we can get through before the clock strikes midnight.

★ MY FINAL 18 ★

Here is what I have left to conquer:

Fallow

Blood War

Center Stage

Subhuman Lessons

Your Smile Still Kills Me All The Same

I know the kindest thing is to never leave you alone

Three Christmases

Taking the Pressure Off

The Enemy of Good

Saiki K's Bizarre Internship

Dumb Luck

Angel Wing

Let's have a Talk

equilibrium

DisPOsable

Kizu Kintsugi

There Be Dragons, Harry

Timeless Academia (1 chapter not the whole damn thing)

★ TAGS ★

#FRC2025 #FRC2026 #Fanfic Reading Challenge #Reading Goals #fanfiction #TrinketFRC #fanfic reading challenge 2026 #Baldurs Gate #Hazbin Hotel #Chainsaw Man #The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells #Sherlock #RWBY #Human Domestication Guide - GlitchyRobo #Saiki K #MHA #SpyXFamily #Dragel World #The Dragel World #Short fics #Chapter fics #fic updates

But I am also the creator and one of the admins/mods for a year-long challenge that’s now going into our 6th year, and going in strong: The Fanfic Reading Challenge! We seem to attract a lot of podficcers/listeners, and all the spreadsheet nerds you could ask for. :D (You don’t need to love podfic for this if you don’t want to, haha.)

We offer a variety of types of tasks, such as finding certain titles, authors, tags, and even a whole bunch of Alphabet tasks. We like to call it a scavenger hunt and it’s pretty accurate. But also, half the fun is being part of the community where we pool resources, answer all sorts of questions, and just generally have a good time.

The challenge offers badges for completing different levels of the challenge. Like participation, regular (80 tasks)… all the way up to the crazy (lovingly) people who complete the whole darn thing haha.

Anyway, I think that’s probably enough of an introduction. If you’re curious to find out more, check the server out, or just to see more of what we’re about, here’s a link to our Discord — https://discord.gg/tq5bPbbsF — or you can meander through our tumblr, which I’m sure you can find as the link is right there above us. ;D

Hope to see you around, and happy holidays!

Have a good one, everyone!

Admins and Mods, Juulna, Jandy, Noxy, Seatrisa, Emmie, and Taru.

You could read for one task and receive a participation badge! But I get what you mean. :)

We are certainly running the challenge for 2026. Mods Jandy and Noxy have done amazing work on it.

It will be out no later than Jan 1st, but there’s always a chance at an earlier date. We like to surprise people!

Hope to see you (or not, being anon, lol) on Discord! We have a good time.

For the Monthly Virtual Book Club task (and if this applies to any other tasks; I’m still working through them all), can I still ask for fics/numbers for past months? Ty in advance!!

You sure as heck can! And we love welcoming new members, whenever they join! I hope you enjoy your time with the challenge, and give the Discord a try; there are so many recs and so many cool people and everyone likes to help each other. 💕🫶🏻☺️

Hi! If you’re asking about the general spreadsheet for the tasks, here’s an easy link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-mNCXPgvgwsNDm_5DB_DxwBVAyVFexIs2iiv_-cAEHI/edit?usp=drivesdk

If you’re looking for rules of the challenge and server/community compliance, this is only the first year we’ve implemented it in a visible way! So I’ll just take screenshots of our Discord and hope that helps you:

I hope this helps, but I can assist in more specific ways if you need!