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The Inspiring Pineapple 🍍 @ficwip5k.bsky.social · 5h

NaNo's founder & a few others have launched NaNo 2.0, a simplified version of nanowrimo that now lets you set your own goal. You're still welcome to tag us for fun & pineapples, but please check out @nano2point0.bsky.social

The Inspiring Pineapple 🍍 @ficwip5k.bsky.social · Sep 5

If you're looking for a light alternative to nanowrimo, may we offer #the50k. Nothing fancy, just a hashtag.

tinyurl.com/the50k

The 50k | Notion

Write a book this November. If you want.

ficwip.notion.site

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The Inspiring Pineapple 🍍 @ficwip5k.bsky.social · Sep 5

If you're looking for a light alternative to nanowrimo, may we offer #the50k. Nothing fancy, just a hashtag.

tinyurl.com/the50k

The 50k | Notion

Write a book this November. If you want.

ficwip.notion.site

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@Nrem511💛🤍💜🖤 @nrem511.bsky.social · Sep 1

It's so wonderful to see all the different fandoms on this #ficwip5k list, I love it 🥰

The Inspiring Pineapple 🍍 @ficwip5k.bsky.social · Sep 1

the complete list of 2025 5k works is on airtable & contains a few that are not archived on AO3, such as the micro fics that we encourage & love, and a few hosted on other sites!

airtable.com/applEG2Osntf...

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The Inspiring Pineapple 🍍 @ficwip5k.bsky.social · Sep 1

the AO3 collection holds *most* of the challenge works. please give your fellow writers some love & kudos!

archiveofourown.org/collections/...

archiveofourown.org

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The Inspiring Pineapple 🍍 @ficwip5k.bsky.social · Sep 1

the complete list of 2025 5k works is on airtable & contains a few that are not archived on AO3, such as the micro fics that we encourage & love, and a few hosted on other sites!

airtable.com/applEG2Osntf...

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The Inspiring Pineapple 🍍 @ficwip5k.bsky.social · Sep 1

and that is it for our 2025 round!

🍍 115 authors
🍍 wrote 145 fics
🍍 a collective 494,983 words!
🍍 across 117 fandoms
🍍 27 fics are exactly 5,000 words
🍍 16 fics are under 500 words
🍍 shortest fic: 1 word (+ title/summary context)

a pineapple with green leaves and a pattern of circles

Alt: a pineapple with its leaves undulating gently, suggesting wind

media.tenor.com

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bels 🪷 @belindarimbi13.bsky.social · Aug 31

my fifth entry and also the last for #ficwip5k @ficwip5k.bsky.social
thank you for the event!! 🤗

boukyaku battery | todochi
future au, pro baseball aoi todo

🖇️ archiveofourown.org/works/70090176

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The Inspiring Pineapple 🍍 @ficwip5k.bsky.social · Sep 1

I looked up gifs with "time has no meaning" and this came up first. guy has pineapples on his shirt. it's a coincidence but what an amazing one

a man drinking from a mug with the words time has no meaning anymore

ALT: a man drinking from a mug with the words time has no meaning anymore

media.tenor.com

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Cosmic Lion🎨📷🔞 @cosmiclion.at.app.wafrn.net · Aug 31

Interrupting the daily old piece posting to bring you my submission for @ficwip5k.bsky.social‬ :D
Read here!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/70146586 #eli's-art #art #digital-art #procreate #illustration #fanart #yuri-on-ice #yoi #viktor-nikiforov #au #fanfiction #fanfic #ficwip5k

Digital fully rendered illustration of Viktor Nikiforov from Yuri!!! On Ice, drawn from the waist up. It is set in a canon divergent AU, he is a child of 10 to 12 years old. He has a bob cut. He is wearing a green hoodie with a patch with the Russian flag on the left arm and a brown messenger bag. He is facing the viewer, clasping his hands together, smiling and looking up with huge bright eyes. Clear skies can be seen in the background, with three planets or moons of different sizes in the distance. On the top it says "They said you were a bright child" in big blue font and "A Yuri!!! On Ice space AU one shot" below it in smaller blue font. On the bottom left corner it says "cosmiclion on Tumblr" in white font, with "cosmiclion" witten all in lowercase, and below it "CosmicLion on AO3" also in white font, with the "C" and the "L" written in uppercase.

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stellan 🏳️‍⚧️🍓 #keepfandomweird @fleurseraph.bsky.social · Sep 1

finished my #ficwip5k! orpheus/vampire!frederick from #identityv! @ficwip5k.bsky.social 🍍 mind the tags!

archiveofourown.org/works/70157706

sanguine hunger - fleurseraph - 第五人格 | Identity V (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

archiveofourown.org

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hollygl125 🐰💕🐰 @hollygl125.bsky.social · Sep 1

When you hold me, I feel better.
I only want one night together in our arms.

I Feel Better: A Hot Dog Cart AU, Revisited

archiveofourown.org/works/69572851

My story for the 2025 @ficwip5k.bsky.social. #ficwip5k

#GSR #SaraSidle #GilGrissom

Photos of a young Jorja Fox, baseballs, William Petersen in To Live and Die in L.A., and fortune cookies, with the following Hot Chip lyrics: “When you hold me, I feel better.
I only want one night together in our arms.”

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dvrk dcves. dead blooms. @dvrkblooms.bsky.social · Sep 1

Desire in the Air, written for @ficwip5k.bsky.social!
Read here: dvrkblooms.tumblr.com/post/7934925...
#stucky

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The Inspiring Pineapple 🍍 @ficwip5k.bsky.social · Aug 31

If you can believe it, we have reached the final day of this year's 5k!

🍍 submit final fics by 10am EST on Sept 1st
airtable.com/applEG2Osntf...

🍍 sign ups are still open if you write fast!
tinyurl.com/theficwip5k

The Inspiring Pineapple 🍍 @ficwip5k.bsky.social · Jun 1

It's that time! The #ficwip5k is now open for sign-ups

🍍 write any AU in no more than 5,000 words
🍍 it's an AU if you say it is!
🍍 all fandoms, all ships + ofic welcome
🍍 post any time in August
🍍 open to writers 14 & up. discord not required

🏖️ tinyurl.com/theficwip5k

a pineapple on the beach wading into the surf. the ocean is a beautiful pale turquoise

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eri. @geoculus.bsky.social · Aug 27

♠ draw a circle, and set the world ablaze. #genshinfic #fic
♠ nahida, alhaitham (gen)
♠ rated g | 1.3k words
♠ reincarnation au | a character study on the nature of gods.
♠ for the #ficwip5k event 🍍

archiveofourown.org/works/69668541

"How do you draw a circle?"

He pauses, eyes narrowed. All she does is smile back. She does so enjoy the way his mind works, far too different from any other human she's encountered.

[ Reincarnation AU. A brief study on the nature of gods. ]

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sole / the solecist / idk @solecist10.bsky.social · Aug 29

Sharing my #ficwip5k work! I was surprised with all the little moments I ended up writing in this one. It was a pretty fun imagining Sanada's and Amahisa's different "slacker" personalities in a Sentinel/guide dark fantasy.

Please enjoy ~ archiveofourown.org/works/68991061

#amasana #daiyanoace

Cover art showing white text over a red cloudy sky (image credits link in following post).

"But only one may stand at a given time"
Amahisa x Sanada
Sentinel/guide fantasy AU
5000 words, Rated E
By solecist10

Screenshot of the work on Archive of our own of "But only one may stand at a given time". Notable text includes the Rape/Non-Con archive warning and the following summary:
“You deserved to know what happened to them, before the end.”

To stop the impending calamity, Seido has been capturing and forcing all sentinels into stasis. But for an unknown reason, Sanada was instead forced to be the medic there. Each day, the red sky burns, and Sanada is desperate to find out what happened to his team, who were manipulated into capturing the sentinel from Ichidaisan. And then they all disappeared.

When that sentinel is suddenly captured, Sanada is prepared to do anything – trust anyone – to get his team back…!

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jes @francowitch.bsky.social · Aug 29

Got something rather silly for @ficwip.bsky.social #ficwip5k

i hope you enjoy some silly domestic modern au silliness...

#mdzs #wangxian #3zun #fluff
archiveofourown.org/works/69972121

screenshot from ao3

Legend of the Pineapple
by francowitch

Summary:
sometimes a battle involves an oversized goose and raptor when dealing with the HOA...

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microblogging from the hinterlands @cygniius.bsky.social · Aug 29

wrote a fic for the 2025 ficwip 5k challenge! #ficwip5k

Title: miracle of happiness | Series: #DistantOceanicGetaway | Rating: Teen & Up Audiences (PG-13) | Relationship(s): femslash, Kelsey/Player Character (Maeve) | Wordcount: 922

🔗: archiveofourown.org/works/69985721 | summary + notes below!

wrote a fic for the 2025 ficwip 5k challenge! #

Title: miracle of happiness | Series: Distant Oceanic Getaway | Rating: Teen & Up Audiences (PG-13) | Relationship(s): femslash, Kelsey/Player Character (Maeve) | Wordcount: 922

Summary: Occurrences regarding a crossed threshold.

Notes: Ficlet - Alternative Universe setting which follows Kelsey's secret route + adds some headcanon details. The Player Character is going by the default name "Maeve" and is using She/Her pronouns.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/69985721

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S ✦ burnout recovery era @solacium.bsky.social · Aug 29

in which a man finds a kind of freedom.

published for the #ficwip5k this year, without which it may never have seen the light of day.

archiveofourown.org/works/70024181

archive of our own screenshot for every man needs a weakness, by solacium

rated e, no archive warnings.
tags are as follows: Original Male Character(s)/Original Non-Binary Character(s), Vampire Bites, Vampire Sex, Vampire Turning, First Time, First Meetings, Loss of Virginity, Heresy, Religious Imagery & Symbolism, Flirting, but not a lot, basically my very gay clergyman gets railed by the vampire who turns him, Consensual Sex, Aftercare, Tenderness, Implied Childhood Sexual Abuse, it's vv vague but tagging just in case

summary:

He gasps, and they chuckle, continuing their progress across the landscape of his burning skin, undressing him when they find fabric. And it seems to him as if their touch molds the clay man is said to have been formed from, re-making him into something new, something honest.

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a young priest's forbidden desires lead him to the door of a vampire progenitor.

work is complete with 4963 words

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AmethystSong💜 AGE IN BIO @amethystsong.bsky.social · Aug 30

Some BNHA TouKei Fluff before the final season done for #ficwip5k! Art by
@blueflamexx.bsky.social

Touya falls for the hot owner of the local doggy daycare and is determined to win him over and prove he is the best dog owner ever.

archiveofourown.org/works/70065926

#TouKei #Dabihawks

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@Nrem511💛🤍💜🖤 @nrem511.bsky.social · Aug 29

I DID IT! I managed to finish a story for the #ficwip5k 😄😄😄
#Spideypool "A Deadpool Lifetime Guarantee"
3.4k rated E
A spicy one shot about uncovering true feelings 🥰💘
I'm so happy 🥲
archiveofourown.org/works/70030801

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bels 🪷 @belindarimbi13.bsky.social · Aug 27

my fourth entry for #ficwip5k @ficwip5k.bsky.social

tokrev | doramitsu
canon-divergent AU, fashion designer mitsuya, established relationship

🖇️ archiveofourown.org/works/69899706

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pumpkin saki @lavendrsblue.bsky.social · Aug 31

my entry for @ficwip5k.bsky.social!! "scenes from little tokyo," an ace attorney fic. real world AU, gen, 4k

must be logged in to view! link: archiveofourown.org/works/69770081 #ficwip5k #ficwip

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Casnivore @zationao3.bsky.social · Aug 21

My contribution to this year's #ficwip5k has now been posted! Find it on AO3 through the link below if you're interested in #Supernatural and #Destiel high school au pwps 😁💙💚

archiveofourown.org/works/68889976

Boys will be boys - zation - Supernatural (TV 2005) [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

archiveofourown.org

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Sazuka57 @sazuka57.bsky.social · Aug 23

#ficwip5k Hots for Teacher--a fic in which Miguel goes to community college, fully planning on failing it, until the super hot political science professor walks into the classroom.
archiveofourown.org/works/69659746

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simmy in 🧡💙 @simyunie.bsky.social · Aug 23

[ #ficwip5k #fe3h #casphardt ]

The Sand Beneath Our Feet

A short fic exploring Linhardt's inheritance of House Hevring, based on Caspar and Linhardt's paired ending from Fire Emblem: Three Houses.

ambiguous/queerplatonic casphardt | platonic edelhardt | post-crimson flower | gen (E)

Screenshot of the work on AO3 with the title, author name, and summary.

"The Sand Beneath Our Feet
simyunie [author]

Summary:
Post-Crimson Flower!Linhardt grapples with his worries surrounding inheritance. Caspar tells him it’ll be okay.

Intentionally ambiguous Casphardt, queerplatonic at the very least. Takes inspiration from their paired ending. Also references the Edelgard/Linhardt A+ support in a platonic fashion."

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