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rthstewart ([personal profile] rthstewart) wrote2022-01-15 12:00 pm

Three Sentence Ficathon 2022

This post is NOW CLOSED TO NEW PROMPTS!  PLEASE POST YOUR NEW PROMPTS HERE, IN POST 2!  Do continue to fill prompts here but please put all new prompts in Post 2.






 
Welcome to the Three Sentence Ficathon!

Here's a Friending meme!

What is the 3 Sentence Ficathon?
This is an open exchange where you answer a prompt with a fic consisting of only three sentences. It's open to all fandoms and you can post and fill as many prompts as you like, as many times as you want.

What do I do first?
You can start 3SF by posting prompts! When posting a prompt please format it this way:

fandom, character(s), prompt word/sentence.

Only one prompt per comment please. So, for example,

Star Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi, I don't like sand."

Open ended and anthropomorphic fills are popular too, such as:

Any, Any, "I don't like sand."

or

Earth geography, sand, "I don't like humans very much, either."

What happens after that?
You answer other posters' prompts in three sentences (or more if you can't stop yourself) and fill as many prompts as you want, as many times as you wish. If you see that a prompt you loved has already been filled, go ahead and fill it again! Multiple fills of the same prompt are allowed and even encouraged! (We get really fun stories going this way).

Can I still post if I need more than 3 sentences? Or should I just abuse grammar in ways the English language never contemplated?
Yes. Yes.

But I'm not a member of Dreamwidth
No problem. You can comment anonymously or through open ID

I'm really overwhelmed by all the prompts and how much there is and how fast it goes. I can't read 1,000 prompts and fills. It's too much. 
I hear this a lot and it keeps a lot of people from participating.  The 3SF is big and it moves fast, especially at first. 
I get overwhelmed, too, and I'm hosting the thing. With 2020 and 2021 sucking so badly you don't want something that's supposed to be fun cause you anxiety.  I have a couple of suggestions for managing the 3SF volume. 
  • First, really, you don't have to read every prompt and fill on every page.  You can start at the last page of this and just go forward, or back a page or two.  It's fine.
  • You can come and go as time and energy allow, you don't have to participate the whole time, and it drops off quite at bit after about 2 weeks and especially once we open a new post because this one is approaching 4,500 comments.
  • Even after the 3SF and new prompting end, people fill prompts all year long.
  • You can fill an already filled prompt and you can can leave a prompt that's already been prompted before.  People do it all the time. 
Always make sure you're looking at top-level comments only, not threaded. That helps a lot. Your screen should look like this.




But shouldn't I read everything to see if someone already prompted the same prompt I want to leave if someone already filled it? 

No.  Prompt as many times as you want, as much as you want.  It doesn't matter if someone prompted the exact same prompt.  Go ahead and prompt again!

I left a prompt and no one filled it.  Can I prompt it again?
Absolutely!

Can I spread the word?
Yes, please. I generally fail at creating banners and embed codes but if you create one and make it really idiot-proof, I might be able to post and share it.  Feel free to cross-post this entry. If you create your own banners or icons, let me know and I'll share!
Please share the 3SF with your followers, friends, and any channels and comms you are active on.  I'll post on fandom calendar, Tumblr, and Twitter, but I don't have many connections in other spaces such as Discord.

Here's my attempt at a text box that might go horribly awry.






How long will it go?

The 3SF closes to new prompts on February 13, 2022. The entry stays open permanently and people post fills all year long.  (There were a bunch of new posts to the 2021 3SF this week!)

Are there any rules about cross-posting?
Nope, you can post wherever you want, whenever you want. A lot of folks collected their responses together and posted them on AO3 under the 3 sentence fiction tag. 3SFs are a terrific prompt for remixes and could be helpful for Yuletide bears, too.

What about spoilers, content and archive warnings, triggers, pairings, ratings, tags, and squick?
I thought a lot about this. It boils down to reader beware.  In my experience, this typically gets too big, moves too fast, and the stories are too short for content warnings and ratings to even apply. It is too big for me to moderate in this way. You should assume spoilers are fair game and that the initial poster and the responder have opted to use no content warnings or tags. This means AO3 content warnings for dubcon, violence, canon character death, underage, etc. COULD be present (and much more). I've found personally that I can skim and scroll by stuff that, from the prompt, I can tell isn't my favorite flavor of delicious cake. Use your best judgment, protect yourself, and be prepared to skip over things that aren't your thing. In this format, the obligation is on you, the reader, to protect yourself from triggering content.
Some posters do include warnings and spoiler tags or include spoiler space, but they don't have to do so.


Why is 3SF split among several posts?  That seems confusing.
It is confusing and we always lose momentum once we have to move to a second post. The reason is because at 5,000 comments to a single post, DW installs a human test CAPTCHA, which is a pain for users.  So, once this entry gets to the upper 4,000 comments, I open a new post.  If you've been waiting until things slow down to participate, when we open a second post is often a good place to join.

If I have questions, what do I do?

I'm rthstewart everywhere, here, Twitter, Tumblr, gmail and AO3.

A special thank you to [personal profile] conuly  .
Last year, Conuly started logging all unfilled prompts.
This year's (2021) unfilled prompts are here.
Last year's (2020) unfilled prompts are here.
Conuly asks that you not reply, as they want to be able to edit and add more prompts to the list.

 

Here, have some icons and banners and let me know if you've created your own!



      


















aroberuka: (cql)

[personal profile] aroberuka 2022-01-16 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
The Untamed, Nie Huaisang, dead ends
wearing_tearing: black and white icon of a person holding a wolf mask to their face. ([cql] nie mingjue)

[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-16 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Nie Huaisang has to make an effort not to curl his hand into a fist and snap the fan he's holding. There's a rage that lives inside of him, red hot and overwhelming at times, that demands justice for what was done to his brother; yet he's at a dead end with it comes to making Jin Guangyao pay since, so far, every one of his furtive attempts to get to him have failed.

Maybe it is time for him to turn to more drastic measures and rely on a truth that he learned as a teenager while in the Cloud Recesses: there is not one problem in the world that Wei Wuxian can't solve.
aroberuka: (work)

[personal profile] aroberuka 2022-01-22 04:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh I really like the idea of Huaisang having just as much rage as his brother, just, way deeper down. Well done!
sallymn: (the untamed 3)

[personal profile] sallymn 2022-01-16 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)

His brother's end had been in a welter of blood and pain.

His brother's sworn brother met his end in a morass of scandal, disgrace and shattered pride.

His brother's other sworn brother was not dead in body, though in spirit... possibly. And probably dead to Huaisang. That was the final price for it all to be ended.

He was tired, so very very tired, almost dead tired... but only almost. He survivied, he was alive and now Sect Leader Nie had to find a new beginning.


(Anonymous) 2022-01-19 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
I really like this! :D
sallymn: (the untamed 6)

[personal profile] sallymn 2022-01-19 09:03 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you :)

(Anonymous) 2022-01-20 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Another useless letter joins the others in the ashes as Nie Huaisang stares at the flames, willing them to blaze higher and torch the entire rotten world.

So many months, so many years, searching and hiding and tugging at strings that always end up in flames, nothing but dead ends as once again his target slips away from Huaisang's net.
Still, the river is bound to run dry in the summer and soon that slimy little fish won't have anywhere to swim but mud, choking into a dead end of his own making and Huaisang's painstaking design.

[personal profile] trinityday 2022-01-16 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
MCU, any, Captain America on the moon
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[personal profile] caramelsilver 2022-01-16 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Narnia, girl!Edmund, to be of use
last_haven: (narnia)

[personal profile] last_haven 2022-01-16 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
It wasn't fair--Peter was oldest AND the son. Susan was the eldest girl, the pretty and sensible one. Lucy was the baby, the darling who did no wrong.

Edith did wrong--she never seemed to stop doing wrong. She fouled up her grades, fouled up her relationships with her siblings, and she even fouled up being a hero. The prophecy had promised a place for her at last, hadn't it? But no, she'd been greedy and bitter, and now all she could do is watch as Peter is strapped into his armor. He'd gripped her shoulders and ordered her to find Susan and Lucy, wherever they'd wandered off. "Just--just listen to me, just this once, E? Keep our sisters safe."

Edith might have nodded, but as she cinches her crimson gambeson and reaches for the chain mail--her form would be sexless under the layers and the helmet would hide her shorn hair--she apologizes to Peter under her breath.

This time, she won't get this wrong--otherwise, what is the point of her being there at all?
elementalraven: (Default)

[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-01-16 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Oooh I love this! Love how Edith thinks of her siblings and love how she plans to fight after all!
ruanchunxian: (Default)

[personal profile] ruanchunxian 2022-01-16 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh to be the middle of three girls with an older brother would be even more aggravating for Edith! This characterisation is great and there's still so many glimpses of Edmund here!
caramelsilver: (Default)

[personal profile] caramelsilver 2022-01-17 11:03 am (UTC)(link)
Omg this is lovely and great and wonderful! Thank uuuu!
elementalraven: (Default)

The Shadow Queen

[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-01-16 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
After they were crowned, Edith’s siblings each found their feet; Peter was their High King and general, Susan focused on government and diplomacy, and Lucy may bounce from place to place, but she did so purposely, as the people’s Queen- their light and their warrior and their healer.

Edith, though, lingered in her siblings shadows, unsure of what to do and whishing she could be of more use.

Yet, it was in the shadows that she overheard a conversation she was not meant to overhear, and it was the shadows she draped around herself like a cloak when she set out to defend Narnia from it– and so she finally found her purpose.
caramelsilver: (Default)

Re: The Shadow Queen

[personal profile] caramelsilver 2022-01-17 11:04 am (UTC)(link)
I loooooove this! I love it so much! Love me some Ed as shadowmaster!
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Re: The Shadow Queen

[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-01-17 11:08 am (UTC)(link)
thank you!
ernest: (What disadvantage?)

[personal profile] ernest 2022-01-16 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Ed keeps the first syllable of a name she has buried under the coats of another world, because that sound is still “her,” the way she and her siblings recognize each other, so it serves its purpose.

And Edlyn serves hers: she slips through windows and bedsheets like a knife through flesh, whatever it takes to get the information she seeks. Her letters speed, her inventions thrive, and Narnia flourishes.

hiiii! oh, i've missed girl!Ed so much, and i'm delighted to put a trans little spin on her
caramelsilver: (Default)

[personal profile] caramelsilver 2022-01-17 11:05 am (UTC)(link)
Oh Will I love this! Thank u! More more more! <3
ernest: (Default)

[personal profile] ernest 2022-01-18 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
thank you! you know how important edlyn is to me, and i really love that she's been able to grow with me through the years.
elementalraven: (Default)

[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-01-17 11:09 am (UTC)(link)
This is amazing!!
ernest: (Default)

[personal profile] ernest 2022-01-18 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
thank you!

[personal profile] buttonloops 2022-01-18 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
GIRL ED GIRL ED GIRL ED
ernest: (Three Sentence Ficathon)

[personal profile] ernest 2022-01-19 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
GIRL ED!! :D i love her so much...
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[personal profile] little_lady_d 2022-01-29 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Her letters speed, her inventions thrive -- wow, you did it, you tied the two eds together. this is beautiful, i love 'the first syllable of a name she has buried under the coats of another world.'
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[personal profile] ernest 2022-01-29 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
would you believe that line started as a half-accident and was just vaguely about letters and messengers before i realized what i was doing and made it explicit? sometimes my brain is much smarter than i am XD
and thank you, i loved writing that bit about the coats of another world!
caramelsilver: (Default)

[personal profile] caramelsilver 2022-01-16 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Shadow and Bone, Darkling/Alina, AU where they live their long lives seperate or together while all others die around them
vialethe: (S&B - Darklina hot)

So Bitter and So Beautiful (S&B, The Darkling/Alina)

[personal profile] vialethe 2022-01-16 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
“I’ll always leave you,” she says, fever-hot and desperate against his skin, like a threat; like a promise.

And she does, time and time again, for years, for decades, for long enough that he forgets to wait for her; long enough that he’s surprised somehow, just a bit, every time she comes back sharper-edged, leaner, a little less left of her to be honed.

“You’ll always come back to me,” he tells her, her face held between his hands, shadows blurring her lines, and smiles at the flare in her eyes; a promise, a threat.
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Re: So Bitter and So Beautiful (S&B, The Darkling/Alina)

[personal profile] caramelsilver 2022-01-17 11:06 am (UTC)(link)
THIS was exactly what I hoped I would get with this prompt! LOVELY! Love it!
vialethe: (S&B - Darklina hot)

Re: So Bitter and So Beautiful (S&B, The Darkling/Alina)

[personal profile] vialethe 2022-01-17 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
<3

I love writing them so much (and will happily fill more!) so I'm glad it's what you wanted!!
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Re: So Bitter and So Beautiful (S&B, The Darkling/Alina)

[personal profile] nasimwrites 2022-01-17 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"For long enough that he forgets to wait for her" </3 I love what she's able to reduce him to
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Re: So Bitter and So Beautiful (S&B, The Darkling/Alina)

[personal profile] swirlsngirls 2022-01-20 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
whoa that was so good
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[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-16 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
any, any, soulmate mark in unusual place
undeadrobins: (MCU: Hawkeye)

MCU, Clint Barton/Bucky Barnes

[personal profile] undeadrobins 2022-01-16 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
It stands to reason, Clint thinks, as he twists himself around to get a better look at his ass, that he'd get a soulmate mark in such a stupid place. At least he can be sure that no one will see it accidentally, unless he starts sleepwalking naked (he resolves to start wearing boxers at least when he's asleep) or if he's injured too badly to stop them looking (that one he can't prevent).

It's not until Bucky slaps him on the ass one morning as he walks past that his skin feels like it's on fire, and he realises that soulmate marks can be activated without skin-on-skin touch; apparently the tatty old sweatpants are thin enough that it still counts...
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Re: MCU, Clint Barton/Bucky Barnes

[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-16 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I was hoping someone would write about an ass soulmate mark, so thank you! :D
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Re: MCU, Clint Barton/Bucky Barnes

[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-01-16 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Hahahah, amazing!
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Geralt/Jaskier/Yennefer (the witcher)

[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-01-16 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
“You knew about the mark?” Geralt’s voice is as gruff as it always is, but Jaskier can see the intensity in his eyes- as if Geralt is seeing him in a completely new light.

“Of course I did,” Jaskier says, forcibly casual, “I have seen all of you Geralt.”

“Oh?” Yennefer raises an eyebrow, seeming suddenly interested in their conversation (which is just typical), “Do tell then.”
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Re: Geralt/Jaskier/Yennefer (the witcher)

[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-16 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
👀👀👀👀
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Re: Geralt/Jaskier/Yennefer (the witcher)

[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-01-16 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
XD
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You Are My Glory

[personal profile] ruanchunxian 2022-01-17 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
Jing Jing and everyone else around her had always thought that it was a mole on her right cheek, just under her eye, an innocuous mark that seemed make her appear softer on screen. With no other obvious marks on herself, Jing Jing had also always thought she had no soulmark and would always see the world in black and white; a challenge for her profession, to be sure, but she was still very good at what she did. Then, one day, she was drifting off to sleep in Yu Tu’s arms when he leaned down to press his lips gently against her close eyelids, making Jing Jing open her eyes, first lazily only to smile at him, then suddenly in full astonishment, as she watched colours suddenly bloom vividly before her eyes in such rich defintion that seemed to tilt her entire world off its axis.

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Re: You Are My Glory

[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-17 10:20 am (UTC)(link)
Aaaww, this is super sweet <3
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The 100, Abby/Raven

[personal profile] schoolsasaint 2022-01-17 08:28 am (UTC)(link)
If this were one of those movies, one of those airport novels, the glove would get in the way - block the signal, hide the signified, pave the way for weeks, months of fruitless yearning, of needless roadblocks, all to pay off in that big oh moment that anyone who's even heard of romance saw coming a mile away; probably in an airport, because what doesn't scream romance like a building designed to ship people as efficiently as possible (Abby might have some rather stringent standards for romantic tropes - and her daughter delighted in subjecting her to the worst of them).

It doesn't of course - you have to get specially made fabric if you want to forestall something so integral to modern society; no one wants to miss meeting their most perfect compliment, not even surgeons - especially not surgeons.

Still, Abby has to admit that, all situation induced adrenaline aside, seeing the shape of her fingertips blooming rainbow bright across shattered femur is rather out there, as placement goes.
wearing_tearing: black and white icon of a person holding a wolf mask to their face. (Default)

Re: The 100, Abby/Raven

[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-17 10:21 am (UTC)(link)
Oh wow, this is great!
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Dog's Heart (SK8; Joe, Adam, implied Adam/Tadashi)

[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-18 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"I told you," Adam snapped, eyes flashing, "I don't have a soulmark. My family were thrilled." he added in a mutter, tilting his head aside and pulling his hoodie a little further up.

"And I'm telling you-" Kojiro huffed and yanked the hoodie back down. "It's weird," he paused, looking at the bleeding heart again; there were little smudges above the top curves, like . . . he pushed Adam's hair aside and saw that the heart was the centre of a . . . pawprint? "to have it here, but you've definitely got one. Unless you've tattooed the nape of your neck." he added, releasing Adam as he pulled away this time.
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Re: Dog's Heart (SK8; Joe, Adam, implied Adam/Tadashi)

[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-19 12:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I would also never find a soulmark in that place, Adam, you are not alone XD
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Re: Dog's Heart (SK8; Joe, Adam, implied Adam/Tadashi)

[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-19 02:06 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a difficult spot! Unless someone else points it out to you . . . how would you know? X'D
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Yowamushi Pedal, Makishima & Tadokoro (implied Toudou/Makishima), Sleeping Beauty

[personal profile] mad_madam_m 2022-01-20 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
"I don't know what's weirder," Tadokoro said, waving around his sandwich, "that your soulmark is Sleeping Beauty, or that it's on your foot."

Yuusuke tossed a pickle at him. "I'm weird, so having a weird soulmark in a weird place is normal for me."

Tadokoro laughed one of his deep belly laughs. "That's true! So do you think you'll wake your soulmate from a hundred-year sleep?"

Yuusuke rolled his eyes and threw another pickle. "It's just a story, Tadokorocchi. Who knows what the mark means? None of them make any sense."

He went back to his own sandwich and tried very hard not to think of the climber from Hakone Academy's team, the one with the headband who'd nearly beaten Yuusuke in their last race, who rode his bike so silently that his whole team called him "Sleeping Beauty."

That couldn't be his soulmate. Yuusuke wouldn't be that lucky.
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Re: Yowamushi Pedal, Makishima & Tadokoro (implied Toudou/Makishima), Sleeping Beauty

[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-20 11:35 am (UTC)(link)
"None of them make any sense."

until they do 👀
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Re: Yowamushi Pedal, Makishima & Tadokoro (implied Toudou/Makishima), Sleeping Beauty

[personal profile] mad_madam_m 2022-01-25 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
Haha yup >.>
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In Sight (Tiger & Bunny; Agnes - implied Keith/Agnes)

[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-20 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
Agnes almost snapped out a reflexive question what the hell her new intern was staring at, then took a short, sharp breath and sent the boy scurrying off with new instructions.

She crossed into the bathroom, leaning over the sink with a sigh, tilting her head and examining her left eye. The familiar mark was impossible to miss - for anyone who looked her in the eye, anyone she looked at; a soft, but brilliant yellow sun and rays surrounded by softer silvery-blue stars that were harder to make out against the green of her iris.
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Re: In Sight (Tiger & Bunny; Agnes - implied Keith/Agnes)

[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-20 11:45 am (UTC)(link)
Oooohh, I never considered eye soulmarks before! The possibilities 👀
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Re: In Sight (Tiger & Bunny; Agnes - implied Keith/Agnes)

[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-20 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I had the thought and turned it over a bit considering who to inflict it upon; a friend decided me by pointing out how much Agnes would hate it. X'D But now I want to write more, longer things exploring the idea. . . 👀
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Re: In Sight (Tiger & Bunny; Agnes - implied Keith/Agnes)

[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-21 11:06 am (UTC)(link)
Do it! Write the thing 👀
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Re: In Sight (Tiger & Bunny; Agnes - implied Keith/Agnes)

[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-21 11:07 am (UTC)(link)
X3 ♡

(I do a set of soulmate fluff stories I call my Valentine's Spectacular every year; I may be contemplating if I can make this work for it. XD)
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Huadian (Scum Villain's Self Saving System, Original Luo Binghe/Original Shen Qingqiu)

[personal profile] marquisguyun 2022-01-21 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
Shen Qingqiu could feel the huadian burning itself onto his forehead as he made eye contact with his former disciple. The little beast had apparently crawled his way out of the Endless Abyss with the sole purpose of making his shizun's life even more difficult.

For decades, ever since he was only a slave child, Shen Jiu had jealously guarded the blank patch of skin on his forearm, trading his threadbare wrappings for a proper covering when he was accepted as a disciple of Qing Jing Peak. He cared little for protecting his own reputation -- that was a fool's errand -- but this one thing he had been able to keep to himself, away from the judgement of others.

It was just like Heavenly Demons, he thought sourly, to be so obnoxious even in this.
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Re: Huadian (Scum Villain's Self Saving System, Original Luo Binghe/Original Shen Qingqiu)

[personal profile] ilthit 2022-01-21 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
Ooh oh nooo he tried to kill his soul mate! That's so Xiao Jiu.
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Re: Huadian (Scum Villain's Self Saving System, Original Luo Binghe/Original Shen Qingqiu)

[personal profile] marquisguyun 2022-01-21 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
To be fair, he didn't know they were soulmates at the time (tho tbh that also feels par for the course with sj)!
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Re: Huadian (Scum Villain's Self Saving System, Original Luo Binghe/Original Shen Qingqiu)

[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-23 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Excellent!
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The Umbrella Academy (TV), Ben Hargreeves

[personal profile] fullupwithfire 2022-01-23 09:22 am (UTC)(link)
The morning of their thirteenth birthday is chaos that even Dad can't stop, with everyone waking up and looking each other over for the mark that should have appeared overnight. Even Ben, who hasn't thought about it all that much except when the others talked about it, can't help but start to get excited, watching them find their marks one-by-one: the small spot on Diego's left shoulder, the handprint that wraps around Allison's arm, the strange shape of the streak across Five's cheek.

Ben is the last one to look, and his heart sinks slowly when, even with help, he can't find that bright spot where his soulmate will touch him first.

He has to tear himself away from searching eventually, when Dad gets tired of waiting and demands they all come down for training. He's distracted through the usual drill, and Klaus gives him a sympathetic smile as he splits away from the group, moving far enough that the tentacles won't interfere with anyone else.

The bright orange striping across the inside of two of the tentacles is a whole new distraction. He hears a mutter behind him, and then another, but he can't take his eyes off the tentacles waving in front of him, ready to unleash damage and unmistakably displaying the mark he'd been looking for all morning.

"Number Six!" Dad snaps behind him when they go away again, but Ben doesn't stop laughing long enough to answer.
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Re: The Umbrella Academy (TV), Ben Hargreeves

[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-23 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Hahaha I love it!
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How Did You Even Find That [Legend Of Zelda (non-specific); Zelda & Link]

[personal profile] reverse_changeling 2022-01-26 10:27 am (UTC)(link)
The Hero is said to bear a birthmark in the shape of the Triforce. In most lifetimes, it is on the left hand. In others, the mark is more... oblique.

"You say you bear the mark of the Goddesses," Princess Zelda said, "yet I see no mark. Please, show me the proof of your fate."

"'Kay." was all Link said before tipping their head back and pulling at their nostril.
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Re: How Did You Even Find That [Legend Of Zelda (non-specific); Zelda & Link]

[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-26 12:55 pm (UTC)(link)
LOL Please, I love it XD
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[personal profile] reverse_changeling 2022-01-26 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
people did not get Weird enough with their placements so i wanted something really really funny. the triforce mark is kinda like a soulmate mark right? :^D

i was also inspired by a fire emblem: awakening comic where lissa was sad because her family bloodline mark wasnt visible and so a friend suggested it might be in an odd place, like between her toes, on her scalp, on the inside of an eyelid...
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[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-28 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
It really made me laugh, so thank you :D
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True Blood, Eric/Sookie

[personal profile] severina 2022-02-13 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
The soulmate mark fades and disappears within a year of becoming a vampire, so Eric is somewhat surprised to see a return of his shortly after a certain perky blonde first sets foot in Fangtasia, albeit in an unusual occasion. It can't be a coincidence, and he's not sure whether he's supremely annoyed or supremely pleased about this. Thankfully he's not shy, so Sookie will get a big surprise when she arrives at the bar tonight.
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Motherland: Fort Salem, Raelle/Abigail

[personal profile] swirlsngirls 2022-03-24 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
“Where’s your mark, Abigail?” Tally asked, after having shown her own on her midriff and seeing Raelle’s, a silvery-white one shaped almost like a dove, on the side of her neck.

Abigail smirked. “Yeah, mine’s super close to my vagina, so maybe when we know each other better I’ll show you guys.”

Tally accepted the explanation, but Raelle stared at her with burning eyes, and she couldn’t help but wonder if Raelle knew the truth—-that yes, it actually was just right above her vagina, but the real reason Abigail was reluctant to show her mark was that it too was a silvery-white dove.

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[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-16 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
any, any, haunted house
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Mad Max Fury Road, Cheedo

[personal profile] last_haven 2022-01-17 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
There is always sound in the Citadel, not that Cheedo had known that when they were still trapped in the Vault. There are sounds of hammering, hissing water in the hydroponic gardens, and the singing, screaming, laughing voices of humans.

Cheedo will take the cacophony outside the Vault any day of the week; better that than the violent whispers and echoes of broken women still ringing inside. How lucky she was, she knew now, to have avoided that fate.

Re: Mad Max Fury Road, Cheedo

(Anonymous) 2022-01-17 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, excellent.
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Re: Mad Max Fury Road, Cheedo

[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-17 10:22 am (UTC)(link)
This is really striking, I love it!
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Into a Ghost's Arms (Kagen no Tsuki; Tomoki, Adam/Mizuki)

[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-19 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
"Mizuki!" Tomoki called out, hopping off his bike and nearly stumbling as he rushed to follow his girlfriend, who showed no sign of hearing him. "Mizuki, wait!"

Mizuki slipped inside the boarded up old house and Tomoki hesitated, cringing, then followed her, feeling . . . stifled by the empty old place; he froze as it grew darker and he realised . . . the lights were turning themselves down as Mizuki got further away, and Tomoki's voice died in his throat.

"Adam!" Mizuki said happily, her voice softer and warmer than he'd heard it since her birthday party, when her best friend had shown her the pictures of. . . Shaking his head, Tomoki rushed after her, hoping it would be less creepy there.

It wasn't; the gas lights - surely they shouldn't work, not in this place? - had come up in warm golden tones, and Mizuki was wrapped in the arms of a strange man . . . and Tomoki could just see the light across the room through him.
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Re: Into a Ghost's Arms (Kagen no Tsuki; Tomoki, Adam/Mizuki)

[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-19 12:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Oooohhh, spooky! :D
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Re: Into a Ghost's Arms (Kagen no Tsuki; Tomoki, Adam/Mizuki)

[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-19 02:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks! I apparently couldn't resist going the incredibly obvious route of using a canon where there's a canon ghost-love-story. X'D
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Gargoyles, Alex, Elisa, Broadway, Lexington, Haunted

[personal profile] mad_madam_m 2022-01-21 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
"Do you think it's really haunted?" Alex asked, staring up at the old house with wide eyes.

"Could be," Broadway said. "It's really old. I bet a lot of people have lived there."

"And died there," Lexington added.

"Guys, knock it off." Elisa put a hand on Alex's head. "You're scaring him."

"I'm not scared," Alex protested, but he hid behind Elisa's legs anyway. Just in case.
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Supernatural, Dean/Castiel

[personal profile] severina 2022-02-13 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a run of the mill job with a standard haunting, but that doesn't stop Castiel from hovering near Dean as the salt circle is drawn and the iron is wielded and the spectre slashes against the invisible barrier. When he almost impedes Dean's swing for the third time, Dean rails at him.

But it's hard to take a step back when all you want to do is protect the man you love.
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The Sentinel, Jim Ellison

[personal profile] sallymn 2022-03-20 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)

Jim could feel the ghosts the minute he walked into the place, and he could see them the minute he entered what must have been the most over-pink-wallpapered, over-chintz-decorated, over-floral-carpeted room he'd ever seen in his life: dialling down the senses to near-zero didn't help one bit from the sheer visual pain the mass and muddle of sugary color and pattern caused his inner Sentinel, and he could still see, and sense, the ghosts.

The were three of them - little old ladies, like the Ghosts of Bad Family Reunions Past, Present and Please Christ Not the Future - all dressed in fuzzy, muzzy shades of pink, sitting primly on... well, on nothing, probably long-gone armchairs. One seemed to be knitting something that even a Sentinel couldn't see, the others had their hands folded neatly in their laps, and all three watched him with beady colourless (at least not more pink, he thought) eyes.

He winced; all that pink did not go with the red-brown stains on the over-floralled carpet, or the crimson-spattered kitchen knives neatly arranged on the (embroidered?) tableclothed table, or the massive, bloody gashes on all three ghostly bosoms....

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Re: The Sentinel, Jim Ellison

[personal profile] pattrose 2022-03-23 02:41 pm (UTC)(link)
That was interesting. I enjoyed it. I still love the Sentinel.
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Re: The Sentinel, Jim Ellison

[personal profile] sallymn 2022-03-24 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks! I do too :)
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Re: The Sentinel, Jim Ellison

[personal profile] mab_browne 2022-03-25 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
Sort of Arsenic and Old Lace vibes except that the little old ladies are the victims? And of course Jim can see them.
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Re: The Sentinel, Jim Ellison

[personal profile] sallymn 2022-03-26 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
Sort of, I guess :) The little old murder victims were just an odd idea, but I rather think I like it enough to put in my bunny pile...
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[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-16 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
any, any, hands
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Appreciation (Naruto; Kakashi/Shisui)

[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-16 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"You have very sexy hands, love." Shisui said, toying with Kakashi's fingers - long and graceful, steady and sure - and grinning as Kakashi's eye widened and his cheeks went rosy pink.

"The blush is pretty cute, too." Shisui added, leaning up and kissing his cheek.
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Re: Appreciation (Naruto; Kakashi/Shisui)

[personal profile] kiestan 2022-01-17 03:04 am (UTC)(link)

AYO AYO TOO CUTE

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Re: Appreciation (Naruto; Kakashi/Shisui)

[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-17 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks! X3
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Re: Appreciation (Naruto; Kakashi/Shisui)

[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-17 10:15 am (UTC)(link)
aaaww, this is so sweet!
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Re: Appreciation (Naruto; Kakashi/Shisui)

[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-17 11:40 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you! X3
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[Miraculous Ladybug] stitch witch (enchanté)

[personal profile] alexseanchai 2022-01-17 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
Marinette pinches a length of black spun-silk embroidery floss, tugs one strand free of the others, another, threads her needle with both; she picks up the gauzy crimson silk, stabilizer and pattern and hoop already secured to the fabric, and sets the needle to flashing: up-under-down-over up-under-down-over up-under-down-over, each loop of the chain stitch held snugly in place by the last. When she's satisfied with the black, she switches to gold, six backstitched lines crossing her black outlines, a circle with detailing just outside it, and a circle around each marquise shape; then green around the circles and green crossing gold and black lines, needle point separating the two strands of each stitch with each new stitch; then her plum-blossom pink for a five-spoked star before threading a different needle to weave the thread between the spokes: the techniques are fascinating, her skill mesmerizing, the grace and speed and delicacy of her motions entrancing.

"You could wait to daydream about taking this off me until after I'm done putting it on me," Marinette says, amused, and sets aside the future négligée on which she's embroidering gold-belled and -whiskered black cats with roses between their teeth (he dared her; he hadn't thought she'd do it) to capture Adrien's hands between hers and press a gentle kiss to each knuckle in turn.
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Re: [Miraculous Ladybug] stitch witch (enchanté)

[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-17 10:23 am (UTC)(link)
Hahaha, I love it!
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Ascendance of a Bookworm, Rozemyne/Hannelore, sewing her cloak

[personal profile] octahedrite 2022-01-17 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)

Walking into her living quarters, Rozemyne freezes in her tracks; Hannelore's embroidering, fingers moving deftly, her face a moue of pure concentration. Rozemyne's knight clatters into the room behind her, drawing Hannelore's attention; those beautiful hands still, quickly moving to hide away her work, and Rozemyne's face burns as she stammers an apology and beats a hasty retreat. How on earth is she supposed to get through a whole afternoon of meetings when all she can see is those hands, when she knows her wife is sewing her cloak?

[Context for fandom-blind readers: In this world, brides sew protective charms into their spouse's clock. It's a lovey-dovey newlywed activity.]

Edited 2022-01-17 18:56 (UTC)
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Re: Ascendance of a Bookworm, Rozemyne/Hannelore, sewing her cloak

[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-18 03:55 pm (UTC)(link)
That's so lovely!
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Re: Ascendance of a Bookworm, Rozemyne/Hannelore, sewing her cloak

[personal profile] octahedrite 2022-01-18 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)

<3 Thank you.

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Lessons of Hands (Sakura & Ino, Naruto, Sasuke, Kakashi, Sakura/Lee) x5

[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-19 04:55 am (UTC)(link)

Pulling and pinching, petting and pushing by turns, well-cared-for hands that had cared for her in turn - and grown alongside her own. Twined fingers that offered support, between the moments when they curled to lash out as the sharp voice did.

Sakura knew Ino's hands as well as her own, as well as she knew that no matter how much they grew, she would always be there when Sakura reached.


Soft - courtesy of the endless well of chakra raging in the trap at his core - just a little stubby, hands that were ever careful, offered openly . . . but not expecting to be taken. Hands that reached out no matter how many times they were slapped away or bruised.

Sakura watched Naruto's hands and took one in her own to keep him close, feeling a pang for the hurt she had caused, even if it was long forgiven.


Warm and dry, marked with shiny little speckles - burns, because no matter how precocious, everyone makes mistakes . . . particularly with no guidance. She had been caught by those hands, had clasped them to save him in turn . . . but every touch was fleeting, and somehow distant even when he was right beside her.

Sakura had learned from Sasuke's hands that he was too far away to ever be reached long before he struck her with them and left her behind.


Swift, steady hands, marked with a thousand scars and more - hands that had caught and supported Sakura since she was taking her own shaking first steps as a ninja. Hands that never faltered, through blood and darkness and past the ends of the earth.

Sakura beamed under the light touch of Kakashi's hand to her crown, knowing his distance belied the strength of his care.


Strong hands, endlessly, achingly gentle - tough with calluses beneath tight cotton binds, but light as silk on her skin. Hands that matched hers in the field and swept through broad gestures that showed his heart and truth.

Sakura smoothed her own hands over Lee's, drawing them forwards around herself and closing her eyes as she twined their fingers, trusting the love and care they promised.
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Re: Lessons of Hands (Sakura & Ino, Naruto, Sasuke, Kakashi, Sakura/Lee) x5

[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-19 12:46 pm (UTC)(link)
!!!! this is fantastic! <3
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Re: Lessons of Hands (Sakura & Ino, Naruto, Sasuke, Kakashi, Sakura/Lee) x5

[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-19 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! ♡
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six of crows, inej/kaz

[personal profile] peaked 2022-01-20 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
Kaz holds his breath; Inej gently takes his bared hands into her own. Her fingertips are calloused and softly scarred, but she holds his palms as if they’re delicate silks. He shivers when she traces the pads of her fingers against the backs of his and outlines the tip of his knuckles with her nails.

He stares at her as she smiles softly to herself; Inej doesn’t appear repulsed by the sight of his hands bared of their gloves. When he peers down to watch her fingers touch him, Kaz doesn’t once flinch.
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Re: six of crows, inej/kaz

[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-20 11:36 am (UTC)(link)
So I didn't know this about myself but apparently I have a lot of feelings about Kaz touching people, especially Inej, and this hits all of them? I love it 🥺
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[personal profile] peaked 2022-01-20 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm so glad you liked it! ♥ I'm just here to cause pain—I inflicted it on myself and I only thought it was fair to share it around. Kaz and touch and Inej is my favourite OT3!
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Sk8 the Infinity, Kaoru | Cherry/Kojiro | Joe, Knife Skills Are Sexy

[personal profile] mad_madam_m 2022-01-21 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
Kaoru sat at the bar with a tablet in front of him, flicking his way through his emails. His gaze slid over to Kojiro at the counter, chopping vegetables with a speedy, efficient flair, absently twirling the knife between his fingers as he moved between onions, peppers, shallots...

"Hey, four-eyes, what are you looking at?"

Kaoru did not startle, but he made sure his eyes were on the tablet so that Kojiro wouldn't see how his cheeks were burning. "My work, you overgrown gorilla, what do you think?"

"Mm-hmm." Kojiro slid a plate next to the tablet and kissed the side of his head. "You know, I can let you get up close and personal with my hands later."

Kaoru pushed aside the tablet and busied himself with his lunch. "You are insufferable when you're smug."

Kojiro kissed him again. "And you love it."
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Hands (The flight of the heron, Keith/Ewen, fix-it).

[personal profile] theseatheseatheopensea 2022-01-24 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
Perhaps, Keith thinks, it is the white sand that takes his breath away... or perhaps, it is the quiet spark in Ewen's eyes. But it does not matter, and he surrenders gladly--he is bound to this place now. In the darkness, by the peaceful water of the loch, Ewen's hands find his own--and his fingers are a flurry of tenderness, and they don't let go.
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Re: Hands (The flight of the heron, Keith/Ewen, fix-it).

[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-24 03:30 pm (UTC)(link)
This is very sweet <3
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Re: Hands (The flight of the heron, Keith/Ewen, fix-it).

[personal profile] theseatheseatheopensea 2022-01-24 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! They definitely deserve a sweet moment! <3

Obsidian & Blood, Acatl/Teomitl

[personal profile] notapaladin 2022-04-22 05:17 am (UTC)(link)

Acatl has beautiful hands. He has beautiful everything, really—face, body, heart, smile, and gods those thighs—but if you held a knife to Teomitl’s throat and forced him to pick, he’d probably say he loves the man’s hands the most. They’re narrow and long-fingered and elegant, striped with scars from his bloodletting, and he’s amazingly good with them whether he’s holding a knife or...

Well. Other things. And as much as Teomitl would normally love to dwell on those other things, right now he can’t really afford the distraction because Acatl is teaching him to wrap tamales. “The extent of my culinary expertise,” he’d said with familiar dry self-deprecation, but since Teomitl’s own cooking skills start and end with grilling things on sticks he’s looking forward to learning something new.

Scoop the filling onto the wet maize husk. Fold it carefully—carefully. Acatl’s so gentle with it. Tie it with a thin strip of the same corn husk, just to make sure it stays in place. Teomitl can’t believe he doesn’t break it.

“Now you try,” he says, and smiles.

Teomitl looks down at his own hands and the stack of maize husks in front of him. It can’t be that hard. He was paying attention, even if his mind’s eye is still mostly full of long brown fingers instead of the maize husks they were holding.

But just in case he could use the luck, he steals a quick kiss anyway.

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[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-16 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
any, any, airship pirates
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[personal profile] wellinghall 2022-01-16 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
You can be assured that every precaution will be taken against both airship pirates and the renegade Jarl of Akureyri. We have an experienced team of gunners*, who will employ the latest beam projectors in the defence of passengers.

*Second class passengers may be defended by trainee gunners.
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[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-16 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I love the footnote. XD
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[personal profile] wellinghall 2022-01-16 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! It's an excerpt from an existing (slightly) longer piece, which has several of them :-)
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Original, Safety in Fog

[personal profile] mad_madam_m 2022-01-22 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
Julian stood on the deck, as near to the edge as he dared, watching the other airship approach—pirates, Makoto had said, before he'd disappeared belowdecks with a grim look on his face. He returned now and joined Julian at the railing, eyes on the ship still following them.

Before Julian could ask, a fog billowed out from their own airship, and in moments, they were completely enveloped, and they quietly angled south from their previous heading. Even so, Julian did not breathe easy until the pirates' engines faded into the distance.

"Remind me to thank Mx. Dahl for her speedy assistance," Julian murmured.

Makoto tugged him close and kissed the side of his head. "Oh, don't worry, she'll make sure you don't forget."

The mentioned Mx. Dahl has weather-control powers, hence the fog.
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Final Fantasy VI, Setzer and Locke, Insistent Terminology

[personal profile] silveradept 2022-01-28 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
"You've thought about it," Setzer says, hands on the wheel, scanning the skies ahead. "Take the ship and go terrorize the world, grabbing whatever you want, as famous airship pi—"

"Treasure Hunters," Locke says, cutting Setzer off, "and no, what use would it be to hunt for treasure when there isn't any to be had in this forsaken world?"
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[personal profile] syrena_of_the_lake 2022-01-16 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Narnia, any, inappropriate appearance of a moose
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What happens when an unstoppable moose meets an immovable pelican?

[personal profile] adaeze 2022-01-20 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe: it is impossible for an unstoppable moose to exist in the same world as an immovable pelican.

Or maybe: it is inconceivable that an unstoppable moose exists in the same world as an immovable pelican.

Or maybe I should never have asked the question, thinks the muskrat.

(Anonymous) 2022-01-16 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
any, any, midwinter and midsummer
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Narnia, Digory & Polly

[personal profile] arveldis 2022-01-17 07:39 am (UTC)(link)
When the world at last came into focus, Digory and Polly discovered that the pool they had jumped into led to a world altogether strange: They found themselves standing on what seemed to be opposite sides of a dividing line, separating a land of snow and ice and driving winds, as cold as the depths of winter—which Polly stood in, shivering and wrapping her sweater tighter around her body—from a land of knee-high grass and birdsong and sunlight, as warm as the fullest flush of summer—which Digory stood in, peeling his coat from his shoulders.

“What is this place?” Polly asked, teeth chattering, and she at once leapt over to Digory’s side, where in an instant the warmth of the sun melted the snowflakes that had been gathering on her hair and shoulders, and she let out a great sigh of relief and tilted her face up to the sunlight.

“I don’t know,” said Digory, bending over to look at the divide between the two lands more closely—it was merely a furrow of empty soil, and the two lands abutted against it—before shivering in a sudden chill despite the warmth and adding, “but let’s not stay here any longer.”
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Re: Narnia, Digory & Polly

[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-01-17 02:03 pm (UTC)(link)
OOhhh this is really cool!! what an interesting world!
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His Dark Materials, Will/Lyra, midwinter and midsummer

[personal profile] octahedrite 2022-01-17 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)

When is the pain easier to bear?, Will wonders. Now, in the depths of winter, when he knows nothing of what she's doing, half a year's distance between their meeting -- a dull pain saps any warmth and robs him of his rest? Or the rending pain at midsummer when he knows she's near -- the pain of having her be so close, yet uncrossable fathoms distant?

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Re: His Dark Materials, Will/Lyra, midwinter and midsummer

[personal profile] yarnofariadne 2022-01-19 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Congrats on making me cry in three sentences ♥
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Re: His Dark Materials, Will/Lyra, midwinter and midsummer

[personal profile] octahedrite 2022-01-20 12:48 pm (UTC)(link)

AHAHA thank you :')

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Seasons of Flowers (Greek mythology; Hades/Persephone, Demeter)

[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-18 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Hades smiled as his wife spun in widening circles of a dance that called up ghostly flowers, the shades gathering around her and eventually joining in her dance - all of them unbothered by the chill.

He extended a hand in welcome as Persephone moved towards him on light feet, dipping his head for a kiss when she flung her arms around his shoulders.

"What have I done to deserve you?" he asked softly, and Persephone laughed, drawing his head down for another kiss.

~

Demeter hummed to the rhythm of the earth, a smile curving her lips as she watched her daughter whirl through a meadow speckled with flowers in a hundred shades of bright colour. The anthosai spun around her joyously, laughing and singing, and Demeter's smile widened as their pretty voices were caught by the wind.

Persephone caught her eye and blew her a kiss, and all the world was bright and warm.
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Re: Seasons of Flowers (Greek mythology; Hades/Persephone, Demeter)

[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-01-18 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh this is fantastic and lovely! I love how Persephone is happy in both places, and the repeat of the flowers and the dancing
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Re: Seasons of Flowers (Greek mythology; Hades/Persephone, Demeter)

[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-18 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks so much! ♡ I've written enough of these where Persephone is torn or struggles to balance, I kind of wanted to show one where she's happy wherever she goes as she passes among those she loves. >.>
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Re: Seasons of Flowers (Greek mythology; Hades/Persephone, Demeter)

[personal profile] ernest 2022-01-19 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
yesss, this is so lovely and joyful, and i love how persephone code switches and finds a different way to dance that fits wherever she is
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Re: Seasons of Flowers (Greek mythology; Hades/Persephone, Demeter)

[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-19 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks! I'm so glad it reads well~ ♡
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Re: Seasons of Flowers (Greek mythology; Hades/Persephone, Demeter)

[personal profile] yarnofariadne 2022-01-19 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh this is so beautiful! Absolutely wonderful ♥
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Re: Seasons of Flowers (Greek mythology; Hades/Persephone, Demeter)

[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-19 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you muchly! ♡
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[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-16 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
any, any, witchcraft
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Cartomancy (Marginal Prince; Red/Henri)

[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-19 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
"Hey, ah . . . Henri?" Red began, watching his boyfriend curiously, mind full of Haruya's ghost stories and Sylvaine's little . . . comments. "Are you. . ." he hesitated.

"No, darling, only a seer," Henri said absently, smoothing his fingers over the cards and beginning to lay out a complicated pattern, "no witchcraft, only patterns and premonitions."
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Re: Cartomancy (Marginal Prince; Red/Henri)

[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-19 12:44 pm (UTC)(link)
LKJDFLKSF ONLY PATTERNS AND PREMONITIONS ok XD
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Re: Cartomancy (Marginal Prince; Red/Henri)

[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-19 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
And somehow flawlessly knowing the future at all times, you know, as you do. XD (There's a throwaway mention in canon of his grandfather being an alchemist who created the elixir of life, too. In this . . . supposedly non-magical anime. X'D)
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Re: Cartomancy (Marginal Prince; Red/Henri)

[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-19 03:42 pm (UTC)(link)
There's no magic here, move along move along ~ XD
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The Secret Circle, the girls, witchcraft

[personal profile] notoriousreign 2022-01-20 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
Practicing with Faye and Melissa and Diana shouldn’t be this fun, especially when Cassie didn’t think much about it when she was with Adam or Jake. She felt as if she was channeling an inner goddess whenever she was with them and she wondered why it took so long for her to accept it.

With Diana back there was no stopping them on what they could do.
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Re: The Secret Circle, the girls, witchcraft

[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-20 11:37 am (UTC)(link)
I haven't thought about The Secret Circle in so long?? This is great!
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Harry Potter, Ginny Weasley, Prodigy

[personal profile] silveradept 2022-01-28 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
In most Wizarding families, the children begin to exhibit their wizarding aptitude or witchery skills around age ten or twelve. Ginny Weasley manifested hers by snagging a Golden Snitch in flight as it zipped through the stands when she was six.

In retrospect, it seems obvious that she would be responsible for the Sight-Sharpening Charm now embedded in all magnifying equipment, but at the time, she was still enshrouded by the affair of Harry Potter and the Battle of Hogwarts.
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Re: Harry Potter, Ginny Weasley, Prodigy

[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-30 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Wonderful!
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Once Upon a Time, Rumple/Belle

[personal profile] severina 2022-02-13 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
"Have you seen?" Belle squealed, her arms overflowing with oversized cabbages and cucumbers and turnip.

"You must have a green thumb indeed, dearie," Rumple answers.

He has enough power that the spell on the vegetables was but a trifle, but when Belle smiles giddily at him Rumplestiltskin knows that he would pay any price to see her happy.
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Supernatural, Dean/Castiel

[personal profile] severina 2022-02-13 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"I hate witches!" Dean fumes.

Castiel glances down at the silken twine that encircles them, testing its mettle against his powers; when it gives not an inch, he resolves to get comfortable until Sam can find a counter spell. He is so close to Dean that his nose nestles behind Dean's ear; he drowns happily in the scent of Dean's shampoo and his cologne and the sweet scent of his skin.

Castiel, it turns out, is quite fond of witches.
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Queer as Folk (US), Justin & Daphne

[personal profile] severina 2022-02-13 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's this shop on George Street," Daphne says as they meet up at their lockers between classes. "Their love potions are guaranteed!"

"Like I need a love potion when I've got this," Justin says, grinning and turning around to wiggle his ass in the middle of the hallway.

Daphne takes a mental note to remind herself that her best friend is a. gay, and b. in love with someone else, but that doesn't stop her from looking and drooling just a little. After all, he does have a very fine ass.
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[personal profile] syrena_of_the_lake 2022-01-16 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Any, any, the worst pun you can think of
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[Miraculous Ladybug] will you mari me

[personal profile] alexseanchai 2022-01-16 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"One more thing," says Chat Noir to the reporters assembled for the official story of Hawkmoth's defeat, and turns to Ladybug, fishing out a box large enough it might take the world a few heartbeats more to realize it means the same as a small square box does when someone on one knee holds it out to another: "Be mine, ma belle?"

No wonder Adrien made off with Marinette's two-centimeter pink satin ribbon—there's enough length here to go twice around her wrist, enough width to be plainly visible on camera, and the knot securing the copycat Chat Noir collar bell is loose enough she'll have no difficulty repurposing the ribbon for something more everyday—but also, no fair.

"No fair," Ladybug says, sitting on Chat Noir's conveniently offered knee so she can balance her open yo-yo on her knee and get out her own surprise even while he's tying on her engagement bracelet, "I wanted to ask you to marry me, ma fleur!"

Chat Noir blinks down at the silk corsage: a vivid red rose blossom ringed with little marigolds and buttercups, with myrtle, olive, and rosemary to wrap around his wrist. (There may be a half dozen 'officially licensed imitations' in stock on the website of 'the artist Ladybug commissioned', as of an hour or so from now when Marinette makes the listing go live.) "You're the best part of my life too," he says, sincere enough it takes vast willpower not to just kiss him breathless on camera, "and that is the best pun I've ever heard."

"I knew I should have gone with chou à la crème de la crème," Ladybug says dryly, producing a cream puff from Tom & Sabine's, threaded onto kitchen twine.

There: now the photos announcing the superheroes' engagement will show them kissing less passionately and more full of laughter.

(Adrien's engagement ring is slim rose gold with a small princess-cut diamond, and his wedding ring will be a plain rose-gold band; Marinette, unwilling to wear rings that might catch on her sewing or need removed to wash her hands before baking, instead got her ears pierced for what she isn't admitting is the first time, the silvery starter studs serving as her engagement earrings, and at their for-family wedding ceremony Adrien will exchange those for mother-of-pearl; they've already been asked why these don't match, and plan never to explain why they do.)
Edited (quadruple drabble now, as well as 3^3 sentences) 2022-01-17 06:35 (UTC)
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Star wars, Narnia business.

[personal profile] adaeze 2022-01-21 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
You don't need to see his identification.
(We don't need to see his identification).
These aren't the dryads you're looking for.
(These aren't the dryads we're looking for).
He can go about his business.
(You can go about your business)
Move along.
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Re: Star wars, Narnia business.

[personal profile] sincereously 2022-01-28 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
Lol, perfect. :-D
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[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-16 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
any, any, heat wave
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ATLA

[personal profile] dawen 2022-01-16 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm melting," Sokka whined, pulling his shirt away from his sweaty chest and flapping it half-heartedly, "even the water is warm!"

"I don't see the problem," Zuko said, twisting his hair up off his neck and jabbing a metal hair stick in to hold it up, "it's usually hotter next month."

Sokka flopped facedown on the dry grass and whined.
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Re: ATLA

[personal profile] cofax7 2022-01-17 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
Poor Sokka, his range of acceptable temperatures doesn't overlap with Zuko's at ALL.
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Re: ATLA

[personal profile] dawen 2022-01-17 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
Growing up at the South Pole and being friends with someone who grew up in the tropics will do that! XP
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Re: ATLA

[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-17 10:16 am (UTC)(link)
I love it! I also happen to be Sokka this exact moment because it's an unbearably hot summer where I live lol
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Re: ATLA

[personal profile] dawen 2022-01-17 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
haha, I'm glad you have a character to commiserate with, then! don't melt ;)

Re: ATLA

(Anonymous) 2022-01-19 02:45 pm (UTC)(link)
:DDD Perfect.
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Re: ATLA

[personal profile] dawen 2022-01-19 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
haha thank you!
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Re: ATLA

[personal profile] yarnofariadne 2022-01-19 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Hahaha absolutely perfect!!
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Re: ATLA

[personal profile] dawen 2022-01-19 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
thanks! <3
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[personal profile] peaked 2022-01-20 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
Haha, I love this! I swear it could've been an interaction in the show.
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[personal profile] dawen 2022-01-20 09:57 am (UTC)(link)
thank you!! that's one of the highest compliments a fanfic writer can receive, lmao. <3
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Smothering Heat (Naruto; Madara/Tobirama)

[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-18 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
"Shouldn't your clan be used to this kind of thing?" Tobirama asked with amusement as Madara fanned himself with a folded district map.

He got a glare and a muttered curse in response, but they were both weak; Madara closed his eyes again a moment later, grimacing and pulling the heavy mass of his hair away from himself briefly before returning to fanning himself as it fell down his back once more.

Tobirama snorted, rising from his desk and moving around behind his lover, trailing light fingers over his shoulders. "Here, let me help get this off your neck." he said, pulling Madara's hair up and back, beginning a thick twist.
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Re: Smothering Heat (Naruto; Madara/Tobirama)

[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-19 12:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Sometimes it's just too hot! This is great :D
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Re: Smothering Heat (Naruto; Madara/Tobirama)

[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-19 02:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Sometimes it really is. It's winter where I am rn but our summers are Death, and having long hair like Madara I uhhh channelled some feelings. *laughs*
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Re: Smothering Heat (Naruto; Madara/Tobirama)

[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-19 03:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I totally get that! I always let my hair grow during winter time so come summer I can have it up the entire time XD
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Re: Smothering Heat (Naruto; Madara/Tobirama)

[personal profile] dawen 2022-01-19 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I like how we wrote basically opposite ideas here. from "what are you talking about, too hot?" to "UGH TOO HOT even for me" XD
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Re: Smothering Heat (Naruto; Madara/Tobirama)

[personal profile] kalira 2022-01-19 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
That we did. XD XD I am Madara here, ugh hot no blegh XP (. . .and also my lord smothered in my own hair in the heat. XD)
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The Maze Runner, Frypan/Minho

[personal profile] severina 2022-02-13 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
It's sweltering and the boys are stripping down to trousers, but Frypan is acutely aware that he isn't quite as fit as the others; maybe it's a hazard of being a cook, too many extra tastes as the soup is simmering in the pot. He compromises by taking off his shirt but leaving his overalls on, happy to have that little bit of fabric to cover up the extra ten pounds he's carrying around his middle. It's only when Minho leans over and runs a finger down the strap and wiggles his brows during dinner that Frypan begins to wish for the heat wave to last just a little bit longer.

Obsidian & Blood, Acatl

[personal profile] notapaladin 2022-04-22 05:18 am (UTC)(link)

Walking out of the cool of his temple felt like entering a sauna. Acatl took a deep breath and instantly regretted it; the air felt and tasted like hot soup, and no sooner did it hit his nose than his sinuses all but clanged shut in self-defense. His heavy formal cloak was suffocating.

Ichtaca grunted instead of speaking. He grumbled something indistinct back. Unless you were actively channeling Mictlan’s power, it didn’t do a thing to dissipate the ovenlike heat. And of course it didn’t do a thing for the wet, clammy, disgusting feeling of sweat accumulating on your skin with nowhere to evaporate to. The thought of descending the temple steps in full noon sunlight made him want to cry, but he started walking anyway. One step at a time, he told himself. Think about anything else. Anything.

“Acatl-tzin!”

Oh no. Teomitl was at the base of the pyramid. Granted, he was often here at noon—since that terrible plague he’d made it a point to stop by, apparently in the belief that Acatl needed to eat something—but at the moment Acatl really didn’t have the energy to greet him. He nodded instead, hoping he wasn’t too badly wilted.

Instead of commenting on his appearance or the weather, Teomitl uttered the most beautiful sentence he’d heard all day: “I brought shaved ice for everyone!”

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[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-16 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
any, any, cursed to communicate only through singing/song lyrics
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Fill: Galavant

[personal profile] syrena_of_the_lake 2022-01-16 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
"I know it's getting old
but please don't yell and scold,
it doesn't help for you to rave and rant.

If ever I'm to speak
I must put tongue in cheek
and sing with rhythmic meter elegant.

I'm doomed to speak in rhyme,
my curse lasts a long time,
I'm tied by my ill fate to Galavant!"
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Re: Fill: Galavant

[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-17 10:14 am (UTC)(link)
This is AMAZING!!!
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[personal profile] peaked 2022-01-20 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
Absolute perfection and so in line with the show!
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[personal profile] scytale 2022-01-17 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
"So...we've been dating for a while now," she said, snuggling against him.

Jake nodded. "We've known each other for so long."

"I'm not sure three months is a long time. But never mind." She bit her lip. "So...I'm not seeing anyone else right now. Are you?"

He shook his head, and she smiled.

"I'd like you to be my boyfriend," she said, giving him a hesitant glance. "How do you feel about that?"

"A full commitment's what I'm thinking of," he said. "I just want to tell you how I'm feeling... Gotta make you understand."

He took her hand, trying to express the truth of his words through his voice and his eyes. "Never gonna give you up. Never gonna let you down. Never gonna run around and --"

She tore her hand away, bolting out of the couch. "You asshole! Are you rickrolling me? I was being serious, but you -- that's it, we're over!"

As she stormed out, Jake wished once again that he had been nicer to the old woman he'd met on his morning hike.
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[personal profile] eglantiere 2022-01-17 10:11 am (UTC)(link)
THE WORST CURSE :DDDDD
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[personal profile] scytale 2022-01-18 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
<3 (thank you for reading and commenting, here and elsewhere!)
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[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-01-17 10:14 am (UTC)(link)
LSDKJLSJFLS SCREAMING this is the best use of the curse :'D
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[personal profile] scytale 2022-01-18 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
:D Thank you! As soon as I saw your prompt, I knew I had to go for the rickroll.
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[personal profile] silveradept 2022-01-28 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
A rickroll is perfect for this situation. Well done.
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[personal profile] scytale 2022-01-30 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you!
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BtvS, Xander/Anya

[personal profile] tellshannon815 2022-02-09 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Sweet offers Xander an alternative to becoming his “bride”, and Xander initially thinks the offer is the obvious choice; considering the other option would have been becoming Sweet’s queen, he felt that being subjected to the curse of bursting out randomly into song for 24 hours longer than everyone else was preferable. At least this way, he got to stay in Sunnydale, and it gave him the option of the happy future with Anya that he had initially hoped that Sweet would show him.

Anya jokes about whether he’ll burst into a ballad, some kind of rock number, or whether he’ll do something different altogether and launch into a rap; Xander pretends to laugh along, fearing that instead he will sing something that reveals more to her of his fears regarding marriage.
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Re: BtvS, Xander/Anya

[personal profile] wearing_tearing 2022-02-11 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I love this!! And that last line packs a punch.
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[personal profile] wellinghall 2022-01-16 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Minder / Only Fools and Horses crossover, any, any
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[personal profile] raisedbymoogles 2022-01-16 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Breath of the Wild/Spirited Away, Haku|Kohaku, meeting the dragons of Hyrule
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[personal profile] wellinghall 2022-01-16 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
The Fairy-Feller's Master Stroke, any, any
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[personal profile] ranalore 2022-01-16 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
The Untamed, Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian, "I am a constant satellite of your blazing sun" - Vienna Teng
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[personal profile] wellinghall 2022-01-16 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court / Connie Willis Oxford time travel crossover, any, any
Edited 2022-01-16 20:16 (UTC)
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[personal profile] ranalore 2022-01-16 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
The Untamed, Jiang Cheng & Wei Wuxian, "You know I didn't want to have to haunt you" - Taylor Swift
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[personal profile] scytale 2022-01-17 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
(...I misread the prompt a bit, but um! We'll call it creative interpretation?)

Sometimes, he wishes Wei Wuxian's spirit would haunt him. A ghost may be dead, an abomination to be banished, but at least it can be talked to, fought with, seen. In the quiet of the night, Jiang Cheng has only memories.
Edited 2022-01-17 05:05 (UTC)
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CQL, JC & WWX, canon MCD

[personal profile] shadaras 2022-01-17 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
"I didn't— This wasn't something I ever thought could happen," Wei Wuxian said inside Jiang Cheng's head, which was awful for so many reasons—not the least of which was that Jiang Cheng had just watched his shixiong fall to his death—that for the first heartwrenching moments Jiang Cheng thought he was hallucinating from grief.

But no, Wei Wuxian kept talking, spilling out an increasingly panicked story about golden cores and demonic cultivation which was so tangled and familiar that—just for a moment—Jiang Cheng thought he'd be able to close his eyes and wake up from the worst dream he'd ever had to hear Wei Wuxian babbling about cultivation theory by the docks back home, like nothing had ever happened at all.

"I never meant to haunt you," Wei Wuxian said, voice full of helpless anguish, as Jiang Cheng turned away from the cliff—where Lan Wangji still knelt, frozen—and forced himself to walk towards the collapsing puppets Wei Wuxian had once controlled. "I only wanted you to live the best life you could."
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Re: CQL, JC & WWX, canon MCD

[personal profile] marquisguyun 2022-01-21 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
Oh man this hits hard 😭
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[personal profile] wellinghall 2022-01-16 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Discworld / Invisible Library crossover, any, any
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[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-01-16 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Narnia, any, time travel
last_haven: (narnia)

Lucy/Tirian was my childhood otp, so now I want them to go on an adventure

[personal profile] last_haven 2022-01-21 07:09 am (UTC)(link)
"Did you use my sister's horn to call me?" Lucy asks, still sawing away at the ropes that tie the man to the tree. She'd only just come back from having tea with Mister Tumnus, so she only had her dagger on her--sharp, yes, but hacking the rope was dulling the blade. She could only hope she wouldn't need it to be at its usual precise sharpness. "Who tied you up like this? Why did you call me?"

"No, no, I didn't use any horn," the man murmured, looking half delirious. He gazed at her with such wide eyes. "But you came--oh, Aslan sent you, didn't he? Oh, praise to him, you're Queen Lucy!"

It was odd--as Queen, their subjects often treated her with deference, but no one had spoken of her with awe since the days of the prophecy, back before they defeated the Witch. Even Narnia's greatest allies didn't look at them with such wonder, the four children who'd saved a country with the help of a god.

But this man had the look of a Narnian, despite the few numbers of humans in Narnia even years after their coronation, and as Queen she knew she needed to help him. As he fell, released from his bonds, she scooped him up, giving his hand a squeeze as well as smiling as warmly as she could. "Let's get you away from here and on the mend. Then, you must tell me everything."
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Re: Lucy/Tirian was my childhood otp, so now I want them to go on an adventure

[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-01-21 09:07 am (UTC)(link)
This is lovely! I love how you wrote Lucy
snacky: (narnia revolution)

Narnia, any, time travel

[personal profile] snacky 2022-01-25 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
It's the dragon soaring and roaring above him that has Tirian guessing he's not where -- when -- he's supposed be, for no dragons have been seen in Narnia for thousands of years.

But it's the man who grabs him and pulls him into the only hiding place available -- a small opening in the rock wall, too small to be a proper cave -- that convinces him, a man with a face he's seen in portraits and book illustrations and tapestries and carvings his whole life. "You... are King Caspian?"
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Re: Narnia, any, time travel

[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-01-25 08:32 am (UTC)(link)
Oh I love this! I feel like this could very easily turn into a fix-it, but's it's also just great to imagine their dynamic/adventures
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[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-01-16 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Narnia, any, Bism
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Narnia, any, Bism

[personal profile] snacky 2022-01-30 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
Puddleglum always swore, after his great adventure, that he'd never leave home again. Who would want leave such a lovely place as the Northern Marsh with his cozy wigwam, all his wiggle friends close (but not too close), especially the fine ladywiggle, Drizzlerue who knew how to keep a visit short and the eel stew warm?

But when King Rilian pays a visit, talking excitedly about finding a passage to Bism, Puddleglum knew he must leave again — after all, the King would need his steady, upbeat presence on this new adventure.
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Re: Narnia, any, Bism

[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-01-30 10:07 am (UTC)(link)
Oh my god, I love Puddleglum XD
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[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-01-16 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Narnia, any, the Garden of Youth
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Narnia, Lucy

[personal profile] animus_wyrmis 2022-01-16 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
The lands to the west of Narnia, where the sun set, rolled on over the hills as Lucy rode, always up the Great River, always with the afternoon sun in her eyes and her near-empty cordial at her hip. There were fewer and fewer inhabitants, until the day she made her way carefully up the cliffs of a waterfall and found herself alone -- and yet not alone, for in front of her was a great, walled garden with high, golden gates. "I am Queen Lucy of Narnia, come questing to the western end of the world. Will you see me?" she asked.

Soundlessly, the great gates opened, and from inside came a most delicious warm and golden smell, like high summer, and a voice said, "Welcome, dear heart."
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Re: Narnia, Lucy

[personal profile] animus_wyrmis 2022-01-16 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
The trees inside the garden were so tall that Lucy wondered that she hadn't seem them over the walls, yet not so tall that she couldn't have plucked their fruit. And from every direction came that smell, like sun-warmed fruit in midsummer, only the fruit was riper and sweeter than any she had known. The greatest tree, in the very center, had apples -- but what apples! Lucy had never seen nor smelled such apples. They were large and bright, and there a light seemed to shine from them which reached into the deepest shadows of the garden. You knew if you bit into one it would be just ripe enough, crisp and tart and sweet all at once. And in front of it all was Aslan. "Oh, Aslan!" Lucy said. "Is this truly real?"
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Re: Narnia, Lucy

[personal profile] elementalraven 2022-01-16 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Another one!!! I love it so much
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[personal profile] wellinghall 2022-01-16 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes Minister (or Yes Prime Minister) / The Leaky Establishment crossover, any, any

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