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It's time for a dream roundup! Heads-up: a couple of these dreams contain (non-explicit) sexual scenarios that are a little strange or messed up, perhaps, but that I didn't actually experience as distressing in the dream.

( Dreams from August to October. )

Finally, and unrelatedly, someone responded to my trans Chris Goes Wrong fic by sending me an anonymous question on Tumblr:

The idea of dear Chris Bean as a trans man is interesting, but I also propose to consider: what if Chris was the most closeted trans woman ever to lock herself in a closet?

This is an interesting concept, but it’s also tricky to do much with because Chris is not going to acknowledge that she’s a woman in a thousand years. Chris is obsessed with being respected, being taken seriously, and living as a woman would lower her status in society; she’s going to fight ferociously against letting the thought even cross her mind. Forget the closet; Chris has sealed herself up in a coffin and she’s never letting her out. Annie tries to open a conversation about identity with Chris a couple of times and gets shut down extremely harshly.

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This is a Haikyuu!! fanwork exchange, open to all writers and artists!

Writers will be asked to create a story of at least 1,000 words, and artists will be asked to create one completed piece of art based on one of the prompts they receive.

Want to take part? Here's what you need to do:

Step one: Acquire an AO3 account or log into the one you have.
If you need an AO3 account, send an email to theexchangemods@gmail.com or comment on this post (comments are screened) and we'll help you out.

Step two: Sign up for the exchange.
Fill out the sign-up form (see step three), and you're in!

Step three: Give 3-5 prompts of things you'd like to receive, and 2-5 offers of things you'd like to create.
These prompts and offers will be used to match everyone to one person who will create a work for you, and to find a person whose prompts seem like they would be fun for you to work with. Feel free to share anything that you do not want to create or receive as well—we want to make this as fun as possible for everyone.

Step four: Create a work that fills at least one of the prompts you have been given.
Minimum requirements are at least 1,000 words or one completed piece of art.

Step five: Post your work to the community.
On December 25, all fic and art will be revealed for everyone to enjoy. Artists and authors will be revealed one week later.

Step six: Profit!
Win or lose, we all have fun, and then we can all go out and enjoy a big meal together.

Important Dates:
Sign-ups Close: November 1 (Countdown)
Assignments Due: December 15 (Countdown)
Works Revealed: December 25 (Countdown)
Creators Revealed: January 1st (Countdown)

Sign-up and assignment due dates are by end of day.
Work and creator reveals are at midnight.

For more information, or to sign up, check us out on AO3.

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holidayhaikyuu

Sign-ups Close: November 1 (Countdown)
Assignments Due: December 15 (Countdown)
Works Revealed: December 25 (Countdown)
Creators Revealed: January 1st (Countdown)

Sign-up and assignment due dates are by end of day.
Work and creator reveals are at midnight.

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Assignments are out! You can find your assignment:

at your assignments page: https://archiveofourown.org/users/YOUR-USERNAME-HERE/assignments

at the sidebar of the collection

in your email.

You must write for one of your recipient's requests, including all of the characters they specified in that request (but see below). It doesn't have to be the fandom you offered.

Some recipients have selected several characters, but given permission for writers not to include them all using the Additional Tags checkboxes (the ones that start "My gift must…"). Please check through mods if you're not completely sure what your recipient means. You always have the option of including all the characters your recipient selected.

Your assignment is due at 9pm UTC on December 17. Note that this is the same deadline as 2025 but an earlier deadline as compared to previous years and may be one calendar day earlier in your timezone.

Please click on that link right now! The date and time it shows may surprise you. Better to be surprised now than at the deadline!

Our reveals are earlier again this year as well - though there is an extra day between main collection reveals and madness reveals.

Keep Mum! Assignments are secret
This is a secret exchange. Please don’t announce or hint what your assignment is. Don't say what you offered. Don’t reveal to your recipient who you are or what you plan to write for them. In fact, please don’t contact your recipient at all! You can send questions through the mods at yuletideadmin@gmail.com.

I have questions!!
Right! Send us an email at yuletideadmin@gmail.com, or, if your question won't give away what you offered or who you're writing for, you're welcome to comment here. We get tonnes of questions at this time, so please bear with us - it may take us a few days to reply.

As we did last year, we plan to include a few questions for a few fandoms each time we contact a recipient, but we won’t necessarily include decoy questions for every single fandom. This may give the recipient a clue as to which fandoms they’re more likely to receive but should preserve some of the suspense!

Please don't ask us to poke your recipient to update a locked or placeholder letter until at least October 29.

When you send us a question about your assignment, please include your assignment link, which looks like: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2026/assignments/#######

Some of your questions may be answered by coming posts, for example when we reveal all requests. Please keep an eye on our admin community!

Pinch hits and all requests
The first batch of pinch hits will go out in the next day. After those pinch hits are claimed, likely within the next few days, we will make all requests visible and open the Yuletide Madness collection.

Check out the pinch hit community,

yuletide_pinch_hits, and sign up through Discord, a feed, or the Google groups mailing list to get immediate alerts for pinch hits. You don't have to be signed up to this year's round of Yuletide to claim a pinch hit.

The New Year's Resolutions 2026 collection is now closed.

Schedule, Rules, & Collection | Contact Mods | Participant DW | Participant LJ | Pinch Hits on DW | Discord | Tag set | Tag set app
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I talked a few months ago about how Robert would react to learning Chris was trans, and here's a fic based on that!

Title: Taken for Granted
Fandom: The Goes Wrong Show
Rating: 15
Pairing: Robert/Chris
Wordcount: 1,800
Summary: “Chris,” Robert says, with a concerned frown, “your penis appears to be missing.”

( Taken for Granted )

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Sign-ups for this year's event are now closed, with 1227 sign-ups (3 more than last year). Welcome to everyone who's joined us for Yuletide 2026!

The Avoid Matching request form will remain open for 12 hours for last-minute edits to your Do-Not-Match requests.

What will mods do now?
- Run matching.
- Contact participants who have no possible recipients, or where there's another matter to discuss.
- Update you on when assignments are likely to go out.

If we need to contact you, we'll use the email account associated with your AO3 account. (You can find it at Preferences -> Edit Profile -> Change Email.) We may also use this account later in Yuletide - for example, if your author has a question for you. Please check that you can access this email!

What should you do now?

Check and edit any letter you may have linked in your sign-up (please ensure it's complete by end of October 29th AT THE VERY LATEST, and consider adding it to the app and to the comments at the letters post). (If you didn't link your letter in your sign-up, it's too late now. Trust in your author!)

Please check your letter is accessible - log out of the platform where you have posted it and check that you can still view it, or ask a friend to. Tumblr in particular may cause issues with this and may require you to change your settings.

Keep quiet about what you've offered: Yuletide is anonymous until reveals.

Check that you can access the email associated with your AO3 account.

Check out the pinch hit community, yuletide_pinch_hits, and sign up through Discord, a feed, or the Google groups mailing list to get immediate alerts for pinch hits. You don't have to be signed up to this year's round of Yuletide to claim a pinch hit.

Browse the promo post or even add a promotion.

Check that you're happy with your AO3 settings for treats / unassigned gifts - see an older post for more information. If your account is new, treats may be disabled.

Look forward to your assignments!

Congratulations to everyone who posted a story to the 2026 New Year's Resolutions collection, either as requested by mods or just because you wanted to fill a prompt. The collection will be open for roughly one more day, until we send out assignments - if you're planning to post, post soon! The NYR 2027 collection will open on January 1.

Schedule, Rules, & Collection | Contact Mods | Participant DW | Participant LJ | Pinch Hits on DW | Discord | Tag set | Tag set app
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Sign-up instructions
AO3 collection, home of the sign-up form
Letters post

Countdown to Sign-Ups Closing

Some notes/reminders:

If you don't select characters in a request, it's your author's choice which character or characters to include from the tag set. Please don't say you want a particular character more than others when you have not selected character tags.

Please check that the additional tag you've selected makes sense for the characters you've selected. For example, "One or more characters (giver's choice)" doesn't make sense if you select several characters and you really want at least two to interact.

Please check you can access the email associated with your AO3 account. Mods may use this to reach out to you with questions.

If you are in the queue to get an AO3 account, reach out to mods directly (yuletideadmin@gmail.com)! We can help you with an invitation to AO3.

If you plan to write a letter at a location other than AO3 (Tumblr, Dreamwidth, Ellipsus, etc), please make sure the link is in your sign-up. Letters are optional. You don't have to write a letter. But deciding to link a letter later is not an option!

If you are open to treats, feel free to say so - it isn't greedy! It's just letting people know that you haven't disabled the treat setting.

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There was a cheap front-row ticket available for The Play That Goes Wrong on Saturday.

I cannot do this, I thought. I saw this play less than a week ago. I cannot possibly afford to get into the habit of seeing this play every week.

So I did the sensible, responsible thing: I begged my housemates to buy the ticket instead, so I wouldn't be able to. Tem picked it up, went to the show and had a good time! I enjoyed hearing about xyr experiences afterwards.

Tem had brought a feathery crow-shaped handbag to the theatre. There's a bit before the show begins where the character of Trevor asks the audience whether they've seen a dog, Winston, who's expected to star in the play. Apparently, the exchange between Trevor and Tem went something like this:

Tem: Is the dog still missing?
Trevor: (pointing at Tem's crow bag) What's that?
Tem: It's a crow! Her name's Lenore.
Trevor: That's brilliant, that is.
Tem: Maybe she could play the dog?
Trevor: She could be the understudy? Maybe you could voice her. Can you bark?

When Tem was telling us about this:

Tem: So I started barking, right there in the theatre. Which is not something I usually do.
(Rei starts snickering.)
Rei: You did petplay with Trevor.
Tem: I... yes, I suppose I did do petplay with Trevor. I barked in front of a theatre of people just because a man told me to. (pointing aggressively at me) Put that on your Dreamwidth, Riona.

Afterwards, both Robert's actor and Trevor agreed that, if they'd used Tem's crow in place of the missing dog, it would have saved the play.

A small child in Tem's front row apparently took the missing dog VERY SERIOUSLY. She checked under everyone's seats and asked, 'Has anyone checked backstage?' When she asked Chris how the search for the dog was going, his response was 'The dog's lost? Oh, Christ.'

The same child also very sincerely asked 'Are you okay?' whenever someone was hurt in the play. Which is cute! Although it does sound like she had a very concerning afternoon at the theatre.

After Tem had regaled us with xyr theatrical adventures:

Me: By the way, I'm going to be out on Wednesday evening.
Tem: Oh, what are you doing?
Me: N-normal things.
(pause)
Tem: Are you going to The Play That Goes Wrong again?
Me: ...maybe.
Tem: Riona! I went to the theatre so you wouldn't have to, and then I came back to find you'd bought more theatre tickets while I was at the theatre! So there was no point to it at all! Why did I even go to the theatre? Just to 'have a good time'??

So, yes, I went to see The Play That Goes Wrong for the fourth time yesterday. I'm an embarrassment.

I'd brought a friend of mine, Fedz, who was seeing the show for the first time. 'This is incredibly stupid,' he commented in the interval, 'and I love it.'

( The Play That Goes Wrong, 21 October 2026. )

I thought at first, getting into a theatre fandom, that I was lucky to live in London. I have now realised that it is, in fact, a curse. The Play That Goes Wrong is on almost every day! Counting matinées, I could see this play up to eight times per week! It would bankrupt me, obviously, but it is tantalisingly possible.

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ficinabox

Pinch hits are participants who are without creators; pinch hitting is the practice of volunteering to make a gift for a pinch hit. These pinch hits are all due on November 8th at 10:00 PM EST.

Fic In A Box has a very unusual set of assignment requirements: everyone is owed (and is asking for) 10k of fanfiction, which by default can be given as one 10k+ fic or several 1k+ fics. Participants have also had the option to opt-in to other minimum lengths or to other formats of fanwork. The other fanwork mediums are given word count equivalents, which you can view on the medium ruleset post.

Additionally:

Fic In A Box creators may default after partially filling their assignment—say, if they discover that they can only write 9k of fic—and PHs can be picked up in 1k increments!
You may always swap all or part of your assignment for a PH, just let us know that's what you're doing when you post to claim the PH.
In order to keep post size down we are including the details in a link to each PH's requests on the app!

In order to pick up a pinch hit you need to either email us or comment on this post (comments are screened) with:

The amount of wordcount you would like to claim (even if you're going to do fanart or some other non-fic opt-in medium! If you aren't sure what the equivalent would be, we'd be happy to help you convert it!)
The exact username of the AO3 account you will be posting your fill(s) from (if you post from a different account from the one you give us, we won't be able to count the PH as filled unless you update us!)
An email where we can reach you (you might not be getting the AO3 assignment when you pick up a PH, so we need to know where to send the assignment!)

( PH 2 - 6k - TRIBE NINE (Video Game), The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy- (Video Game), Persona 5, 단간론파 어나더 | Danganronpa Another Series (Video Games) )

( PH 4 - 5k - Stranger Things (TV 2016), Heroes (TV 2006), Off Campus (TV 2026) )

~~( CLAIMED PH 5 - 0 - The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir )~~

( PH 6 - 4k - Love Live! Sunshine!!, BanG Dream! Girl's Band Party! (Video Game), キミとアイドルプリキュア♪ | You and Idol Precure (Anime), わんだふるぷりきゅあ! | Wonderful PreCure! (Anime), 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game), 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game), 氷属性男子とクールな同僚女子 | Koori Zokusei Danshi to Cool na Douryou Joshi (Manga) )

( PH 7 - 6k - ベイブレードバースト | Beyblade Burst (Anime), Metal Fight Beyblade | Beyblade Metal Saga, Bakugan Battle Brawlers, Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Noi siamo leggenda (TV), Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series), Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Anime 1997-2023), Teen Titans (Animated Series), Depois do Universo | Beyond the Universe (2022) )

~~( CLAIMED PH 10 - 0 - Riverdale (TV 2017), Yellowjackets (TV), Sterling Point (TV), Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen (TV), Euphoria (TV 2019) )~~

( CLAIMED PH 11 - 0 - The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison, Blue Castle - L. M. Montgomery, 薬屋のひとりごと - 日向夏 | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries - Hyuuga Natsu, The Longing (Video Game) )

( PH 12 - 9k - Crossover Fandom (Return of the Mount Hua Sect/The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System) )

( PH 14 - 7k - Children of Time Series - Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Expanse Series - James S. A. Corey, Uplift Series - David Brin, Star Wars Legends: Knights of the Old Republic (Video Games), Star Wars Legends: The Old Republic (Video Game) )

( PH 15 - 10k - All Elite Wrestling )

( PH 17 - 3k - 鹿鼎記 - 金庸 | The Deer and the Cauldron - Louis Cha, 鹿鼎記 | The Duke of Mount Deer (Hong Kong 1984), 老洞 | The Old Miao Myth (TV), 神鵰俠侶 | The Return of the Condor Heroes (TV 1983) )

( PH 18 - 6k - The Librarians: The Next Chapter (TV 2025), Crossover Fandom (The Librarians TV 2014/The Librarians TV 2025), Young Wizards - Diane Duane, Doctor Who (1963), Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV) )

( PH 20 - 7k - Found (TV 2023) )

( PH 23 - 7k - 9-1-1 (TV), Charmed (TV 1998), The Pitt (TV), Sheriff Country (TV 2025), Tracker (TV 2024) )

( PH 25 - 5k - 新世界狂歡｜NU: carnival (Video Game), Les Misérables - Victor Hugo, Valmont (1989), Les liaisons dangereuses | Dangerous Liaisons - Choderlos de Laclos, A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, MADK (Manga) )

( PH 26 - 4k - Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka, Doctor Who (1963), Doctor Who (1963), Doctor Who (2005) )

( PH 27 - 1k - 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS, Ordem Paranormal (Web Series), QSMP | Quackity SMP )

( PH 28 - 7k - 내가 키운 S급들 - 근서 | S-Classes that I Raised - Geunseo, 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong (Novel), Crossover Fandom (Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong & The Scum Villain's Self Saving System), 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game) )

( PH 30 - 10k - Cartouche: Prince des faubourgs | Cartouche: Prince of the Streets (Cartoon), Keroro Gunsou (Anime), The Spectacular Spider-Man (Cartoon), Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (video game), Crossover Fandom (The Spectacular Spider-Man/Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines), Cartouche: Prince des faubourgs | Cartouche: Prince of the Streets (Cartoon), The Spectacular Spider-Man (Cartoon), Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (video game) )

( PH 34 - 2k - Persona 5 )

( PH 35 - 10k - 重返未来: 1999 | Reverse: 1999 (Video Game) )

( PH 37 - 10k - Hallo itt Mátyás király! - Bogáti Péter, Crossover Fandom (Vlad 2003/Vlad Tepes 1979), Men's Football RPF )

( PH 40 - 7k - Green Hornet (TV), Crossover Fandom (Grimm & Criminal Minds), Ghost Whisperer (TV 2005) )

( PH 41 - 10k - Astreiant Series - Melissa Scott & Lisa A. Barnett, Crème de la Crème - Harris Powell-Smith, Jolly Good: Cakes and Ale - Kreg Segall )

( PH 45 - 6k - Original Work, Original Work, Original Work )

( PH 48 - 10k - Tales of Berseria, ヒプノシスマイク | Hypnosis Mic (Albums), Bleach (Anime & Manga) )

( PH 49 - 5k - The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series) )

( PH 51 - 7k - Hermitcraft SMP, Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series, Stargate - Live Action, Formula 1 RPF )

( PH 53 - 2k - It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Downton Abbey, Jake and Amir (Web Series), MASH (TV), Oxventure (Web Series), Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh )

~~( CLAIMED PH 56 - 0 - G Gundam, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga), DCU (Comics), Teen Titans (Animated Series), Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon | Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (Anime & Manga) )~~

( PH 59 - 3k - The Gilded Age (TV 2022), Sanditon (TV 2019), To All the Boys I've Loved Before (Movies), Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (TV 2022), Friday Night Lights (TV), Cotillion - Georgette Heyer, The Musketeers (2014), Schitt's Creek )

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Pinch hits are participants who are without creators; pinch hitting is the practice of volunteering to make a gift for a pinch hit. These pinch hits are all due on November 8th at 10:00 PM EST.

Additionally:

Fic In A Box creators may default after partially filling their assignment—say, if they discover that they can only write 9k of fic—and PHs can be picked up in 1k increments!
You may always swap all or part of your assignment for a PH, just let us know that's what you're doing when you post to claim the PH.
In order to keep post size down we are including the details in a link to each PH's requests on the app!

In order to pick up a pinch hit you need to either email us or comment on this post (comments are screened) with:

The amount of wordcount you would like to claim (even if you're going to do fanart or some other non-fic opt-in medium! If you aren't sure what the equivalent would be, we'd be happy to help you convert it!)
The exact username of the AO3 account you will be posting your fill(s) from (if you post from a different account from the one you give us, we won't be able to count the PH as filled unless you update us!)
An email where we can reach you (you might not be getting the AO3 assignment when you pick up a PH, so we need to know where to send the assignment!)

( PH 65 - 3k - 南部档案 | Archives: The Nanyang Mystery (TV), 永夜星河 | Love Game in Eastern Fantasy (TV), 淮水竹亭 | Love in Pavilion (TV) )

( CLAIMED PH 66 - 0 - Persona 5, 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney, 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game), Crossover Fandom (Ace Attorney &/ Persona 5 [P5])(Persona 5 Tactica & P5)(Knives Out & P5)(Ghosts TV 2019 & P5)(The Magnus Archive & P5)(Genshin Impact & P5)(Ace Attorney & Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù [MDZS])(Ghosts TV 2019 & MDZS)(The Magnus Archives & MDZS)(Knives Out & Ace Attorney) )

( PH 67 - 1k - Warhammer 40.000 )

( CLAIMED PH 69 - 0 - Star Trek: The Original Series (TV), Stargate - Live Action, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Crossover Fandom (Jurassic Park & Jurassic World Trilogy)(Journey to the Beginning of Time 1955 & Jurassic Park Original Trilogy), Jurassic Park Original Trilogy (Movies), Original Work, Jurassic World Trilogy (Movies), Heated Rivalry (TV), Original Work )

( PH 73 - 5k - Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, Marvel 616, The Magicians (TV), Supernatural (TV 2005), Teen Wolf (TV), Crossover Fandom (Teen Wolf TV & Supernatural)(Magicians TV &/ Supernatural)(Doctor Who 2005 & Magicians TV)(Marvel 616 & Spider Man - Garfield)(Marvel 616 & Spider Man - Holland)(DCU Comics & Arrowverse)(Titans TV / Arrowverse)(Titans TV / DC Extended Universe)(Percy Jackson & Marvel Cinematic Universe)(Imposters & Leverage)(Frozen &/ Tangled TV)(Sherlock & James Bond - Craig)(Hannibal TV & Prison Break), Crossover Fandom (Critical Role: Exandria & Critical Role: Aramán)(The Grisha Trilogy & Critical Role)(Red Queen & The Grisha Trilogy)(Marvel 616 & Marvel Cinematic Universe)(DC Comics & The Hunger Games AMT)(DC Comics & The Magicians TV)(Prodigal Son & Hannibal TV)(Prodigal Son & The Following TV)(Doctor Who 2005 & Legends of Tomorrow TV)(DW 2005 & Star Trek: Alternate Original Series)(DW 2005 & James Bond Movies - Craig)(DW 2005 & Star Wars)(DW 2005 & The Magicians TV) )

( CLAIMED PH 74 - 0 - Splatoon (Video Games), ウマ娘シンデレラグレイ | Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray (Anime), ウマ娘プリティーダービー | Uma Musume: Pretty Derby (Video Game), Original Work )

~~( CLAIMED PH 75 - 0 - Twilight Series - Stephenie Meyer, Schitt's Creek, Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate, The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros )~~

~~( CLAIMED PH 76 - 0 - Original Work, SMPEarth, Vampires SMP, The Mummy (Movies 1999-2008), The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Original Work )~~

( PH 77 - 3k - Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga), Promare (2019), Fire Emblem: Kakusei | Fire Emblem: Awakening, 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney )

( PH 78 - 6k - Crossover Fandom (Downton Abbey /& Singin’ in the Rain), In the Grey (2026), Charité | Charité at War (TV), House of the Dragon (TV), Valerius Mysteries - Jennifer Burke, San Amaro Investigations - Kai Butler, House of the Dragon (TV) )

( CLAIMED PH 79 - 0 - 春夏秋冬代行者 | Shunkashuutou Daikousha | Agents of the Four Seasons (Anime), SK8 the Infinity (Anime), カヤちゃんはコワくない | Kaya-chan wa Kowakunai | Kaya-chan Isn't Scary (Anime), マイメロディとクロミ | My Melody & Kuromi (Anime), Heart of the Woods (Visual Novel), Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series), My Roommate Is A Cat (Anime) )

( CLAIMED PH 80 - 0 - Critical Role: Aramán (Web Series), Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Blue Prince (Video Game), Shadow of the Leviathan | Ana and Din Mysteries - Robert Jackson Bennett, Singing Hills Cycle - Nghi Vo, Original Work, Original Work, Original Work )

~~( CLAIMED PH 81 - 0 - Original Work, Local Hero (1983), Philadelphia Story (1940), The Darjeeling Limited (2007), Gosford Park (2001), Gone Girl (2014), Dimension 20 (Web Series) )~~

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I'm still running my Robert Grove roleplay account over at

robertgoodactor! My previous efforts at roleplay have mostly just been a couple of hours here and there on LJ/DW comment threads or the Neopets roleplay boards, so this is the first time I've inhabited a single character for a more extended period. It's an interesting experience!

The fascinating thing about roleplaying Robert is that it really helps me understand why he is Like That about Chris. Robert keeps trying to connect with Chris in what, in his head, is a friendly way. Chris, who's been burned by Robert too many times before and does not trust him, responds with defensiveness or lashing out, trying to keep Robert at arm's length. Robert, upset not to get the response he was hoping for, lashes out in return, leaving Chris more wary and Robert more desperate to connect, and so the cycle continues. It's breaking my heart a little!

When Chris is hostile, I-as-Robert crave his approval; when Chris is standoffish, I find myself provoking him in an effort to get any reaction out of him, good or bad. It's a fascinating simulation of exactly how their relationship might have ended up being so weird.

Below, for the sake of preservation, are a few of the less context-dependent posts Robert has made, mainly responses to messages from others. (For a small amount of context, the Tumblr Cornley Drama Society is currently preparing to put on the Rocky Horror Show, with Robert in the role of Frank-N-Furter.) If Tumblr ever explodes, you can find a few more of Robert's responses in the comments of this Dreamwidth post. Feel free to send messages of your own!

( A handful of in-character posts as Robert. )

On an embarrassing impulse, I sent a message to my own Robert Grove roleplay account; I'm just so fond of Robert, and I wanted to let him know! When Tem saw this:

Tem: Riona! These are both you! Is this a Fight Club situation? Are you aware that Robert Grove only... that he—
Riona: He only exists inside me. I know.
(Tem gives me such a look.)
Tem: You wish.