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Thematic multifandom recs made by the Fancake community on Dreamwidth with a new theme every month. https://fancake.dreamwidth.org/ Follow us here to get updates on our themes and daily links to new recs. Moderated by @runpunkrun.bsky.social

Photograph of a mix tape. Just Like Canon, A Fancake Mix 2026 is written on the cassette's label alongside some heart doodles.
"Unreliable Narrator, at Fancake" added to a collage made from the ripped up page of a book, the strips imperfectly pieced back together.
Photograph of things you might take with you, or pick up, on a trip, with added text: Journey & Travel, at Fancake. Items are neatly arranged on a rustic wooden table or door and photographed from above: hat, knapsack, barn coat, worn boots, folding knife, sunglasses, bottle, magnifying glass, as well as various maps, notebooks, pine cones, cameras, lenses, and rolls of 35mm film.
Photograph of a mix tape. Just Like Canon, A Fancake Mix 2026 is written on the cassette's label alongside some heart doodles.
Two gold rings photographed on top of a dictionary opened to the definition of marriage. Text: Arranged Marriage, at Fancake.
Photograph of things you might take with you, or pick up, on a trip, with added text: Journey & Travel, at Fancake. Items are neatly arranged on a rustic wooden table or door and photographed from above: hat, knapsack, barn coat, worn boots, folding knife, sunglasses, bottle, magnifying glass, as well as various maps, notebooks, pine cones, cameras, lenses, and rolls of 35mm film.
Photograph of two adorable Vietnamese toddlers in identical denim overalls and dinosaur sweaters, text: Siblings, at Fancake.
Two gold rings photographed on top of a dictionary opened to the definition of marriage. Text: Arranged Marriage, at Fancake.
Photograph of two kingfishers perched on a branch. One is surrounded by a cloud of pink love hearts and the other has a single question mark over its head. Text: Inept in Love, at Fancake.
Photograph of two adorable Vietnamese toddlers in identical denim overalls and dinosaur sweaters, text: Siblings, at Fancake.
Photograph of a young Asian girl using a manual typewriter in an office and looking very serious as she stares straight into the camera. Her black hair is slicked into a low ponytail and her round glasses are so big they extend past her face. She's wearing a shirt and tie and an adult-sized yellow blazer that fits her like a dress, almost as if she has been shrunk. Text, in a typewriter font: Crack Treated Seriously, at Fancake.
Photograph of two kingfishers perched on a branch. One is surrounded by a cloud of pink love hearts and the other has a single question mark over its head. Text: Inept in Love, at Fancake.
Photograph of the aurora borealis taken in Norway, text: Amnesty, at Fancake. The northern lights are a bright green scribble that stretches over the horizon, along a snowy mountain ridge, and up into the starry night sky.
Photograph of a young Asian girl using a manual typewriter in an office and looking very serious as she stares straight into the camera. Her black hair is slicked into a low ponytail and her round glasses are so big they extend past her face. She's wearing a shirt and tie and an adult-sized yellow blazer that fits her like a dress, almost as if she has been shrunk. Text, in a typewriter font: Crack Treated Seriously, at Fancake.
Photograph of a grinning Shiba Inu dog wearing a pink party hat with a 15 on it. Text: Happy Birthday, Fancake.
Thumbnails of the twelve theme banners from 2025: (Not Really) Unrequited Love, Ambiguous Relationships, Non-Sexual Intimacy, Outsider POV, Angst (With a Happy Ending), Female Relationships, Working Together, Marriage of Convenience, Food & Cooking, Uncommon Settings, Mystery & Suspense, Amnesty.
Moody photograph of the ocean from an outlook. In the foreground, two dirty hands claw their way up over the edge toward the viewer. Text: Mystery & Suspense, at Fancake.
Photograph of the aurora borealis taken in Norway, text: Amnesty, at Fancake. The northern lights are a bright green scribble that stretches over the horizon, along a snowy mountain ridge, and up into the starry night sky.
Photograph of the full moon encircled with added text: Uncommon Settings, at Fancake.
Moody photograph of the ocean from an outlook. In the foreground, two dirty hands claw their way up over the edge toward the viewer. Text: Mystery & Suspense, at Fancake.
Photograph of steel spoons and spices in a dramatic setting with added text that gives it the look of a gourmet magazine cover: September 2025. Food & Cooking, at Fancake. Steel teaspoons are arranged in an elogated oval to suggest a fish, with the bowls acting as scales and some of the handles left visible to create the fins and tail, giving the creature a spiky appearance. The concave bowls are dusted with a powdery orange spice for color and one spoon at the front of the fish is filled with a coarse black spice to create an eye. The fish is on a black surface with a rough texture and around it are three skinny green peppers, a mound of salt, a mound of orange spice, and a dipping bowl filled with a clear amber liquid.
Photograph of the full moon encircled with added text: Uncommon Settings, at Fancake.
Photograph of a young Vietnamese couple in a sunny urban environment, with added text: Marriage of Convenience, at Fancake. A bride in a white dress and sunglasses leaves her groom behind at a bus stop. The bride is smiling and carrying a bouquet of lilies as she hikes up the long skirt of her dress and walks away. The groom is in the background, wearing a dark grey suit and sitting on a bench. He's blurry, but it looks like he might be smiling at her.
Photograph of steel spoons and spices in a dramatic setting with added text that gives it the look of a gourmet magazine cover: September 2025. Food & Cooking, at Fancake. Steel teaspoons are arranged in an elogated oval to suggest a fish, with the bowls acting as scales and some of the handles left visible to create the fins and tail, giving the creature a spiky appearance. The concave bowls are dusted with a powdery orange spice for color and one spoon at the front of the fish is filled with a coarse black spice to create an eye. The fish is on a black surface with a rough texture and around it are three skinny green peppers, a mound of salt, a mound of orange spice, and a dipping bowl filled with a clear amber liquid.
Graphic in the style of a wedding invitation with flowing script: You are cordially invited to a... Marriage of Convenience (at) fancake.dreamwidth.org, August 2025. The color palette is white with dusty rose and muted pinks, and there are flowers—what looks like dogwood and lenten rose—in the upper right and lower left corner.
Photograph with added text: Working Together, at Fancake. Workers in India use wide wooden paddles with long handles to shove a huge yard of drying grains into big piles. The grain, most likely rice, is a beautiful golden color, and there's a mix of western and traditional clothing among the seven men and women.
Photograph of a young Vietnamese couple in a sunny urban environment, with added text: Marriage of Convenience, at Fancake. A bride in a white dress and sunglasses leaves her groom behind at a bus stop. The bride is smiling and carrying a bouquet of lilies as she hikes up the long skirt of her dress and walks away. The groom is in the background, wearing a dark grey suit and sitting on a bench. He's blurry, but it looks like he might be smiling at her.
Photograph with added text: Female Relationships, at Fancake. Four old Nepalese women sit together on a low brick wall, their feet dangling, most of them barefoot, their shoes kicked off below them. They're dressed in loose patterned fabrics in various shades of red and the mood is relaxed.
Photograph with added text: Working Together, at Fancake. Workers in India use wide wooden paddles with long handles to shove a huge yard of drying grains into big piles. The grain, most likely rice, is a beautiful golden color, and there's a mix of western and traditional clothing among the seven men and women.
Photograph of a landscape with added text: Angst (with a happy ending), at Fancake. Sunlight radiates out from behind a mass of dark clouds, illuminating patches of blue sky and shining down on the forested shoreline of a placid lake.
Photograph with added text: Female Relationships, at Fancake. Four old Nepalese women sit together on a low brick wall, their feet dangling, most of them barefoot, their shoes kicked off below them. They're dressed in loose patterned fabrics in various shades of red and the mood is relaxed.
Photograph of a white woman in a beret looking through a pair of tiny binoculars with an aghast expression. Text: Outsider POV, at Fancake.
Photograph of a landscape with added text: Angst (with a happy ending), at Fancake. Sunlight radiates out from behind a mass of dark clouds, illuminating patches of blue sky and shining down on the forested shoreline of a placid lake.
Photo from a collection titled 'Romantic lesbian date in bathtub' with added text: 'Non-sexual intimacy, at Fancake.' A slim white woman wearing a thigh-length black silk robe with a tropical floral pattern sits on the edge of a bathtub, her bare legs inside the bath and splashed with bubbles. She's pouring a glass of red wine for her partner, a plump blonde, who's sitting sideways in the tub and is also covered in bubbles.
Photograph of a white woman in a beret looking through a pair of tiny binoculars with an aghast expression. Text: Outsider POV, at Fancake.
Black and white photograph of two dancers, blurry with motion. Text: Ambiguous Relationships, at Fancake. Like the dancers, the text has a doubled effect, creating ghostly shadows and the opportunity for alternate readings.
Photo from a collection titled 'Romantic lesbian date in bathtub' with added text: 'Non-sexual intimacy, at Fancake.' A slim white woman wearing a thigh-length black silk robe with a tropical floral pattern sits on the edge of a bathtub, her bare legs inside the bath and splashed with bubbles. She's pouring a glass of red wine for her partner, a plump blonde, who's sitting sideways in the tub and is also covered in bubbles.
An illustration of a heart-shaped tree silhouetted against a dawn sky. A stout figure leans against the trunk as if waiting for the viewer. Text: (Not Really) Unrequited Love, at Fancake.
Black and white photograph of two dancers, blurry with motion. Text: Ambiguous Relationships, at Fancake. Like the dancers, the text has a doubled effect, creating ghostly shadows and the opportunity for alternate readings.
An illustration of a heart-shaped tree silhouetted against a dawn sky. A stout figure leans against the trunk as if waiting for the viewer. Text: (Not Really) Unrequited Love, at Fancake.
A photograph of a cake, text: Happy Birthday, Fancake. A round layer cake topped with whipped cream and maraschino cherries, decorated with pink frosting and an even pinker drizzle of icing dripping down the sides, splashed with pastel sprinkles, and sitting on a pink plate
Thumbnails of the twelve theme banners from 2024: Indigenous Characters; Trans & Non-Binary Characters; No Canon Required; Competence; Black Characters; Trauma & Recovery; Stranded; Trope Subversion & Inversion; Missing Scenes; Happy Endings; Magic; Amnesty.
Photograph with text: Magic, at Fancake. A brown-skinned man in a red turban with a neatly trimmed goatee and mustache holds a tangled ball of light in his cupped hands. It's very dark where he is, but his face is illuminated with a warm glow and he has a serious, yet serene expression as he looks down into his hands.
A photograph of the ocean at sunset or sunrise with the text: Amnesty, at Fancake. The sky is a soft purple-pink with a scattering of small puffy clouds that are a darker purple than the sky around them. The sun is a white-orange dot hanging an inch above the horizon. The water is a deep purple, and then, in the foreground, a frothy periwinkle where its waves roll up onto the shore.
Photograph of people celebrating. Text: Happy Endings, at Fancake. In the foreground a row of people are shown only in silhouette, several of them holding their phones up to take pictures. In front of them is a sunny courtyard filled with so much flying confetti it looks like it's snowing rainbows.
Photograph with text: Magic, at Fancake. A brown-skinned man in a red turban with a neatly trimmed goatee and mustache holds a tangled ball of light in his cupped hands. It's very dark where he is, but his face is illuminated with a warm glow and he has a serious, yet serene expression as he looks down into his hands.
A photograph of a few loose puzzle pieces. Text: Missing Scenes, at Fancake. The puzzle seems to be of a comic, and the pieces show the top half of two knights in armor, an incomplete speech bubble, a leg, a spear, some stone blocks, and other unidentified objects. You get the feeling it would make sense once it was put together.
Photograph of people celebrating. Text: Happy Endings, at Fancake. In the foreground a row of people are shown only in silhouette, several of them holding their phones up to take pictures. In front of them is a sunny courtyard filled with so much flying confetti it looks like it's snowing rainbows.
A photograph of a colorful two storey house constructed upside down, with its gable roof resting on the ground and its foundation up in the sky. Text: Trope Subversion & Inversion, at Fancake.
A photograph of a few loose puzzle pieces. Text: Missing Scenes, at Fancake. The puzzle seems to be of a comic, and the pieces show the top half of two knights in armor, an incomplete speech bubble, a leg, a spear, some stone blocks, and other unidentified objects. You get the feeling it would make sense once it was put together.
A photograph with text added to the top: 'Stranded, at Fancake.' The photo is of an astronaut in a full space suit sitting on a bench at a dilapidated bus stop on the side of a rural road with nothing but empty grassland behind it. The astronaut is holding a piece of cardboard with EARTH? written on it, as if hitchhiking. On a pole by the bus shelter there's a small sign with alien script. The photograph's colors are desaturated, mainly greens, blues, and browns, and the landscape is bleak, yet the astronaut's steady bearing and stoic anonymity give it a whimsical feel.
A photograph of a colorful two storey house constructed upside down, with its gable roof resting on the ground and its foundation up in the sky. Text: Trope Subversion & Inversion, at Fancake.
A moody photograph with text added to the bottom: 'Trauma & Recovery, at Fancake.' POV: You are on a path in a thicket. A dense mass of trees and shrubs line the path on either side of you and meet overhead to create a dark leafy tunnel. Further down the path, there's a break in the canopy and a foggy blue light fills the tunnel ahead.
A photograph with text added to the top: 'Stranded, at Fancake.' The photo is of an astronaut in a full space suit sitting on a bench at a dilapidated bus stop on the side of a rural road with nothing but empty grassland behind it. The astronaut is holding a piece of cardboard with EARTH? written on it, as if hitchhiking. On a pole by the bus shelter there's a small sign with alien script. The photograph's colors are desaturated, mainly greens, blues, and browns, and the landscape is bleak, yet the astronaut's steady bearing and stoic anonymity give it a whimsical feel.
A photograph with text: Black characters, at Fancake. A group of Black people dressed in casual summer clothing stand on top of a sandy hill. They are all smiling and many of them have their hands raised in excitement, some flashing peace signs. It's either a huge group of friends (14!) or a family gathering. The vibe is sunny and joyful.
A moody photograph with text added to the bottom: 'Trauma & Recovery, at Fancake.' POV: You are on a path in a thicket. A dense mass of trees and shrubs line the path on either side of you and meet overhead to create a dark leafy tunnel. Further down the path, there's a break in the canopy and a foggy blue light fills the tunnel ahead.
Illustration with text: Competence, at Fancake. A climber clings to the underside of a rocky overhang. The climber is in a yellow t-shirt and black pants with a small brown shoulder bag and their black hair is up in a bun. They have three points of contact with the rock and one foot swinging loose. The illustration is in flat colors and dominated by the light blue sky. The climber and the craggy black rock mainly occupy the upper right quadrant of the image. The text is to the left of the climber, leaving nothing but blue sky beneath them.
A photograph with text: Black characters, at Fancake. A group of Black people dressed in casual summer clothing stand on top of a sandy hill. They are all smiling and many of them have their hands raised in excitement, some flashing peace signs. It's either a huge group of friends (14!) or a family gathering. The vibe is sunny and joyful.
An array of geometric figures depict a landscape. The background appears to be made out of construction paper with a sweep of white sky against a dark green that suggests rolling hills. In front of this a large white circle balanced on top of a small green cube becomes a tree. To the right, a light green styrofoam arch straddles a piece of shiny white plastic formed into a squiggly wave, a bridge over a river. At the top of this image, on a ribbon banner, is the all caps text, 'No Canon Required,' and below that, in a bold cursive script, 'at Fancake.' The overall effect is that of an illustration in a storybook or a fairytale.
Illustration of a climber clinging to the underside of a rocky overhang. The climber is in a yellow t-shirt and black pants with a small brown shoulder bag and their black hair is up in a bun. They have three points of contact with the rock and one foot swinging loose. The illustration is in flat colors and dominated by the light blue sky. The climber and the craggy black rock mainly occupy the upper right quadrant of the image. The text is to the left of the climber, leaving nothing but blue sky beneath them: Competence, at Fancake.