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Challenge 285:
FRESH START

Sometimes your best option is just to start over.

Maybe it’s a project that isn’t going well, or a job that hasn’t worked out. Maybe it’s a new day, or a new year, one of those timepoints that encourage you to think about changes you want to make. Maybe it’s something more drastic – a new career or even a whole new life. Whatever the case, it’s time for a new start.

What does that look like? Is it by choice, or are your characters forced into it by circumstance? Is it easy, or not so much?

Write a story about a fresh start.

BONUS GOAL: “New year, new me!"

If your submission features this line, it will earn an extra point to be tallied in voting!

Challenge ends Monday, January 5 at 9:00PM EST.

• Post submissions as new entries using the template in the profile
• Tag this week's entries as: [#] submission, 285 – fresh start
• If you have questions about this challenge, please ask them here

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Here are this week's votes tallied, and below the cut are our winners for Challenge #284 – Home for the Holidays!

( This week's finalists are... )

Total Challenge Words Written: 3894

Congratulations to all this week's participants, and thank you to everyone who took the time to cast their votes!

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You may now post your Challenge 284 entries to any additional communities, blogs, archives or sites as you'd like! We also have a FandomWeekly AO3 Collection if you'd like to add your stories there.

Happy new year to everyone whose time zone has already made it to 2026!

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~~Tasks I gotta do before January 5th:~~

AND ANOTHER THING if you're looking to fill those bonus dono slots, don't forget about the adoption center! If you have more than you need, now is a great time to spam said adoption center! ~~seriously don't worry about spamming me i love seeing it full of pages upon pages of goodies~~

muscle_wizard

Video Games in 2025

Video Games

Finished
Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance (<3)
In Stars And Time (Loved it so much I bought the artbook)
Deltarune CHAP1+4 (Beautiful OST)
Dragon Quest III 2D-HD
LUNAR 2: REMASTERED (Nice to revisit.)
Picross Logiart Grimoire
Picross S1
Picross S2
Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Great Ace Attorney 1
Sorry, We're Closed

Played or Casually Playing
inbento
THEATRHYTHM FINAL BAR LINE
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds
Great Ace Attorney 2

Let's Play
OFF (watched on Youtube)

Playing into 2026
Slay the Princess: The Pristine Cut (want to buy the artbook!!)
Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles (In last chapter but whoops Hades II)
Animal Crossing: New Horizons (new update in January!)
Hades II (Current playing obsession)

My game of the year is without a doubt Sorry, We're Closed. It delighted me and thrilled me every moment. There is a really great primer for the game written by Harukami (whose writing I am a big fan of) that I encourage anyone to give a read if they're looking for an incredible queer horror game.

Board Games in 2025

Board Games

Harmonies: Heard about it from a friend who won it in a raffle. Gorgeous artwork, the whole premise of the game is to build specific habitats for animals to live in. Learning curve is a little high but once you play a few times, it becomes more intuitive.

Calico: You build quilts patch by patch to attract cats!! And earn cute buttons. Taught my mom how to play, you can adjust the difficulty by focusing on earning points in one area to start.

Sagrada: A dice drafting game to build your own stained glass window. Very fun, goes by quickly. You pick cards to get different objectives on how to build your window.

A Place for All My Books: Haven't actually played it yet, lol. Saving it for when we have a day devoted to playing it.

Diatoms: Got it for Christmas, looking forward to playing over the break.

Looking forward to more games in 2026! And playing through my library at home to see who gets to stay or who gets to move on \o/

karel

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muscle_wizard

It's late morning here in EST land, and I can't believe tomorrow is January!

I've been enjoying reading everyone's posts about their crafting/reading/writing from this year. Expect something similar from me later today as well *A*

Our Christmas holiday was lovely, we spent all day with my parents and brother. I received Hades II as one of my gifts and have been playing it non-stop since - I'm in sapphic heaven with all the new ladies. I'm extremely into Melinoe and Nem's relationship (also the size difference hnnnnn) <3_<3

I start back at work on the 4th but that's ok, January is looking to be on the lower end of hours before Full-Time February hits lol. I've been able to rest a lot and my sleep has gotten better, which I really needed.

Probably won't be staying up until midnight (sometimes I make the attempt but not this year), especially because Lovey is sick (upper respiratory infection ick) so we're playing today pr chill. The big event today will be I'm making hot pot for dinner! And fixing up some yummy sides to go with it c:

Things I'm looking forward to in 2026:
[] I'll be participating in kingstoken's 2026 Book Bingo for the first time!
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[] Writing more pen pal letters and cards
[] Two vacations I'm planning (one in summer, one in fall)
[] Hosting a friend
[] Enjoying my hobbies without the pressure of an imaginary timeline

Now off I got to comment on some posts /o/

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Nemurin is a sleepy girl who uses her powers to enter the dreams of others. As a part of her work as a magical girl, she wants to make as many people happy by visiting their dreams... But she's having a hard time deciding where to start. Can you pick one for her? She'll give you any cards she finds while she's there. She wants to remind you that what she finds is all luck of the draw, but no one will walk away empty handed!

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This round ends on Tuesday, January 13th.

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Tomoyo has diligently been filming all of Sakura's adventures as a Cardcaptor--and it turns out she's been recording our adventures here at Colors too! Why don't we take a little trip down memory lane with her?

Every round we'll get to relive a game that's currently inactive on Colors. Perhaps it will be an old favorite, or one you never got to play before? Let's see what game Tomoyo has in store for us today!

This round's game is...Graffiti!
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This round ends on Tuesday, January 13th.

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did you fly too?

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