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rfemod posting in girlgayrarefemslashexchange is a multi fandom exchange focused on f/f ships with two or more female characters (canon or genderbent) and/or genderqueer characters that you feel would fit in a f/f exchange, with less than 250 works on AO3- completed, in English, using the otp:true filter. The minimum requirements are either a 500 word fic or a nice sketch. Tag Set | AO3 Collection | Rules & Guidelines
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merriamwebster_feedMerriam-Webster's Word of the Day for December 15, 2025 is:
dreidel • \DRAY-dul\ • noun
A dreidel is a 4-sided toy marked with Hebrew letters and spun like a top in a game of chance. The game, played by children especially at Hanukkah, is also called dreidel.
// All the kids in the family look forward to playing dreidel together during Hanukkah.
Examples:
“The Jewish tradition has always been syncretic, adapting and responding to the culture around it, he [Rabbi Steven Philp] said. Hanukkah is ‘a great example of this,’ Philp said, noting that the holiday’s traditions—like spinning the dreidel, eating latkes or potato pancakes, and munching on ... jelly-filled doughnuts—are customs that were borrowed from neighboring cultures over time.” — Kate Heather, The Chicago Sun-Times, 25 Dec. 2024
Did you know?
If your dreidel is spinning beneath the glow of the menorah, it’s probably the Jewish festival of lights known as Hanukkah. The holiday celebrates the miracle of a small amount of oil—enough for one day—burning for eight days in the Temple of Jerusalem. And though it’s a toy, the dreidel’s design is very much an homage: on each of its four sides is inscribed a Hebrew letter—nun, gimel, he, and shin—which together stand for Nes gadol haya sham, meaning “A great miracle happened there.” (In Israel, the letter pe, short for po, “here,” is often used instead of shin). In the game of dreidel, each letter bears its own significance: the dreidel is spun and depending on which letter is on top when it lands, the player’s currency, or gelt, is added to or taken from the pot. Nun means the player does nothing; gimel means the player gets everything; he means the player gets half; and shin means the player adds to the pot. Wherever you land on holiday traditions, we wish you words of gimel: gratitude, grub, and, of course, gaiety.
lovesgaze posting in 10truelovesby the time you looked back at yoshiki, it was because kouhei had been looking at hikaru and yoshiki giggling together. then hikaru took yoshiki's hand and they ran off to the festival stalls together.
yoshiki didn't look back. not once.
full_metal_ox posting in fancakedragonofeternal, (Tumblr) letzanI want to shine an occasional spotlight on fandoms that are in flux. There are two kinds of fandoms here:
I'd love for readers to help me signal-boost some recs for these fandoms. If you've read and enjoyed F/F fic in any of the fandoms listed in this post (either the new ones or the old standards), please send me some works you liked! I'll share all the recs I get in a future Week In Review post. Feel free to send recs on Tumblr as reposts, inbox messages, or DMs, and on Dreamwidth as comments or messages. (Let me know if you don't want to be credited for your rec.)
Each of these fandoms has at least twice as many total F/F works now as it did 12 weeks ago.
Each of these fandoms dropped on the chart by at least two places, comparing the average in the past twelve weeks to the twelve weeks before that.
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| 12/08/2025 | 12/14/2025 | fradrianweek (Tumblr) | Fanworks | Fradian week, celebrating Ace Attorney's femslash pairing Franziska von Karma & Adrian Andrews | click here for details |
| 10/05/2025 | 12/16/2025 | austenexchange (DW) | Fanworks | Signup and posting period for Jane Austen's 250th Birthday (with prompts!) | click here for details |
| 12/10/2025 | 12/17/2025 | mgsx (DW) | Tagset Noms | Metal Gear Fandom: Tagset nominations for Metal Gear Solid Exchange 4 | click here for details |
| 12/10/2025 | 12/20/2025 | fan_flashworks (DW) | Fanworks | Multifandom: Challenge 500 - Flood | click here for details |
