Sign-ups are now open for hlh_shortcuts 2025, the long-running annual Highlander Holiday Shortcuts fanfiction exchange!

When:

• Sign-up: October 1 to 11, 2025 at 11:59PM CDT on AO3
• Receive assignments: By October 14, 2025
• Default deadline: November 20, 2025
• Submissions: By December 15, 2025 on AO3
• Stories revealed: The first on December 20, 2025 (the winter solstice, Duncan's birthday) and the rest a few per day as long as they last, per tradition

How:

• This year's collection: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/hlhshortcuts2025
• Instructions: HLH_Shortcuts AO3 Sign-Up Guide + HLH_Shortcuts AO3 Submission Guide + HLH_Shortcuts AO3 Defaulting Steps + Find a beta-reader / be a beta-reader

Yay, Highlander fun and friends! Come play with us?

Will the World's Strangest Roommates weather the ultimate house meeting, or is this the beginning of the end? Meanwhile, what's going on with Toxin? And what's that Skrull spy doing out on the far edge of space? You won't find the answers in the snippets clipped out so the content-farmers can farm you for their precious rageclicks... -- Al Ewing

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Writer: Dan Vado

Pencils: Marc Campos

Inks: Ken Branch

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Booster would have words with his swindling ex-manager.

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Writer: Paul Kupperberg

Pencils: Erik Larsen

Inks: Gary Martin

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Metallo finds Cliff's stash of spare parts.

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It’s all about unknowability. It’s about the horror of unknowability. It’s Green Lantern as a cosmic horror. The thing about Green Lantern in the regular DC Universe is that it’s a known quantity. Everyone in the universe knows the Green Lantern rules. Everyone understands, at this point, that you have the Green Lanterns, Yellow Lanterns and Red Lanterns. They know that the Green Lantern is weak against Yellow, they need to recharge their rings—there are rules. The structure of the Green Lanterns and Guardians, they’re like a known police force. -- Al Ewing

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Fandom: Our Flag Means Death
Pairings/Characters: Stede/Ed and Stede/Ed/izzy
Rating: G
Length: 2252 words
Creator Links: charlieloverboy
Theme: Uncommon settings, unconventional format & style 

Summary: FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
Video title: “Blackbeard and the Gentleman Pirate Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions | WIRED”
From WIRED Entertainment

Reccer's Notes: This fic is written like it's the transcript of a WIRED interview, the ones where the celebrities answer google's most searched for questions about them.   It's a modern AU where Ed and Stede are rock stars and its implied that Izzy is Ed's manager.  I'm not sure how the author did it, but they got the tone and how most celebrities speak in these interviews spot on, while also telling us a narrative about Ed and Stede and heavily implying Ed/Stede/Izzy.

Fanwork Links: AO3

⌈ Secret Post #6844 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 17 secrets from Secret Submission Post #977.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Fandom: Hilda the Plus-Size Pinup
Pairings/Characters: Gen; Hilda
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 100
Creator Tags: IN SPACE!, Drabble, wonder, Yuletide Treat, Yuletide Madness, Drabble Invitational
Creator Links: (AO3) Missy; (Dreamwidth) bring_me_sugar

Theme: Uncommon Settings, Drabble, In Space, Old Fandoms, Sense Of Wonder, Small Fandoms

Summary: Hilda makes it to space - the universe is vast, but she's one with it.

Author’s Notes: For Topaz_Eyes.

Reccer's Notes: Hilda takes her exploration of The Great Outdoors to the next level. This is a gift-wrapped illo-op; I’m envisioning her in a brilliant red Latex Space Suit with an emergency backflap—in homage to her winter longjohns.

Fanwork Links: Here I Am, by Missy for Topaz_Eyes, for Yuletide Madness 2020.

Absolute Evil #1...

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Our theme for October is uncommon settings!

These are places you don't commonly see represented in fanworks, either in a specific fandom or fandom in general.

The tag for this round is: theme: uncommon settings

If you're just joining us, be sure to check out our policy on content notes. Content notes aren't required, but they're nice to include in your recs, especially if a fanwork has untagged content that readers may wish to know about in advance.

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Writer: Len Wein

Pencils: Sal Buscema

Inks: Klaus Janson

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Professor Xavier calls on the aid of the Defenders.

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