2024: A Retrospective
Hello EF! In case you haven’t heard, it is somehow, inexplicably, 2025. That’s right, we’ve completed another journey around the sun together. And as is apropos at the end of a year and the start of a new one, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on what we have accomplished over the last 12 months as a community, as well as all the stuff your mostly benevolent Mods have been doing to improve your overall experience.
We’ll start with what the admin team has accomplished so we can save the best (that’s you guys and your accomplishments) for last. Over the last year, we:
- Added even more gorgeous site skins right out of the gate, increasing the variety of options as well as artist representation on the site
- Successfully completed EF’s second mini-event, Monster Mash, and had a ton of fun doing it
- Shepherded in the...
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Holly and the Mods on January 05, 2025 02:02pm
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Update on New Warnings and Tag Clean Ups
Hey everyone,
After listening to some feedback from y’all, we have made some amendments to the changes we rolled out December 30, 2024. Thanks to everyone who reached out with comments, questions, and suggestions, as your input helps us make the best possible decisions for our members and the site.
First, in order to better allow readers to find stories that have the content they want, we will be reinstating the Baby/Kid Fanworks category to cover stories where these are major themes, and expanding it to include kids as well as babies. The new definition is:
Baby/Kid Fanworks: Works which prominently feature pregnancy and/or babies and/or raising children
We are not removing any of the new warnings, so please note that if you post something in this category, you will need to include all appropriate warnings as well. This may feel redundant, but after listening to concerns, we feel that this combination of a category and the warnings offers the best option for allowing people to opt-in when...
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cawthraven and the Mods on January 04, 2025 07:00pm
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Announcing the 2025 Finishing Months Event!
In 2023 we ran an event called Finishing Months, where the goal was for writers and artists to finish old works. We liked it so much we decided to make it a biannual Thing. With 2025 somehow staring us in the face, that means it’s once again time to type “The End” and click “Complete” on some of those old WIPs collecting dust on your profile page.
Starting January 1, and running until the end of March, we’re asking writers and artists to complete any work or works started for an event* or to finish a longstanding WIP. (We're defining a longstanding WIP as a work that started posting on Elysian Fields prior to January 1, 2023.)
* NOTE: Finishing abandoned Secret Santa gifts, Mystery Month works, Drabblemania, or mini-event (such as Monster Mash) works that were not posted by their relevant deadlines do not count toward this event unless they also meet the “longstanding WIP” requirement.
Okay...
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cawthraven and the Mods on January 02, 2025 12:28pm
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Happy birthday to 
Happy birthday to Reikovolk666! Hoping your special day is brilliant start to finish with all you most love at hand. May you be well celebrated. May this year bring joy, laughter, needs met, dreams in reach, efforts rewarded & blessings daily.
arty:Happy birthday to Darkheaven & kjdenn16! May it be all you hope with every love & gift you desire. May you have a blessed and happy year with needs met and good health.