Behind the thick red curtains

Title: Easter
Fandom: Spooks (MI5)
Rating: G
Length: 200 words
Summary: A double drabble of Easter fluff

( Adam bleerily )

 

 

greywash posted: Magicians 4x13 spoilers ongoing, natch

I am one of those who is debating doing a de-rec of the show. Below cut, trigger warnings and spoilers for those who are still unspoiled.
( triggers )

I know this sounds dramatic, I know it's not rational, but I'm not rational right now, and it's bothering me enough to put it here.

I recced this show for a lot of reasons, but one of them was for how it handled mental illness and how much work they put into doing it well, showing both short- and long-term consequences and ongoing issues. To anyone who watched because of those recs, I'm so sorry.

Our new challenge is our forty-third:

AMNESTY

During amnesty challenges, you can post works for any of the challenges we've had to date:

The Lost Hour, Triangle, Anywhere But Here, Stages, Five Things, Do-Over, Genre, Drag, Communication, Self-Portrait, Breakfast, Performance Anxiety, Double, Role Reversal, Win or Lose, Old Friends, Mythology, Wire, Cliché, Secrets, Borrowed Title, School, Ghosts and Gore, Warmth, Interruptions, Solitary, Apology, Season, Masks, Elusive or Ephemeral, Introductions, Diamonds and Pearls, The Other Side, Purgatory, Horoscope, Candles, Not What It Looks Like, Games, Comfort, Teaching, Technology, Dangling, Kids, Silver Lining, Stuck, Spicy, Bruise, Entertaining, Backward, Photo, Washing, Transformation, Trapped, Red, Teamwork, Z, Weather, Seven, Resolutions, History, Lost and Found, Telephone, Rough, Question, Revision, Jewelry, Element, Shinies, Flight, Fight, Drugs, Monsters, Health and Fitness, Hot Water, Family, Doorway, Puzzles, Enemies, Footwear, Exploration, Music, Sweet & Sour, Haunted, Choices, Mirror, Disaster, Contraband, Kindness, Sea Life, Burn, Fast-Forward, Fancy, Arithmetic, Stripes, Locked, Chemistry, Unidentified Object, Refusal, Wager, Punch, Midnight, Dancing, Flavor, United, Scales, The End of the World, Sleepless, Floating, Identity, Cake, Cheating, Date, Dirty, Hit the Wall, Air, Relative, Hand, Gift, Fortune, On the Outside, Memory, Metal, Voice, Up, One Night Only, Ink, Wish, Shot, Hide and Seek, Wolf, Rose, Whistle, Egg, Crack, Numbers, Suitcase, Ball, House, Honor/Honour, Step, Honey, Confession, Station, Keeping Score, Rock, Villain, Square, Naked, New, Dog, Lever, Party, Together, Apple, Mending, Paper, Shoulder, Rush, Pool, Abandon, Tree, Fast or Slow, Toes, Thief, Loud, Glass, Best, Disguise, Messenger, Pair, 24 Hours, Glue, Name, Check, Office, Rude, Drive, Ice, Murder, Stretch, Drinking Alone, Blanket, Slice, Fall, Diary, Breakdown, Butt, Hunt, Generosity, Ring, Witness, Truth or Dare, Language, On Top, Wave, Did What Where?, Ship, Prediction, Knock, Bar, Feed, Green, Eye, Never, Mountain, Variation, Customs, Book, Promise, Reflect, Key, Throw, Note, Restraint, Wings, Point, Light, Cave

Of course, you're always welcome to post multiple works to any challenge if you finish them before the challenge closes, but that isn't always possible. So dust off those unfinished works and half-formed ideas -- now is the time!

In amnesty rounds, please include the challenge you are posting for in the subject line of your post (eg, Fortune Challenge: Guardian: Podfic: Behind the Mask).

Each work created for this challenge should be posted as a new entry to the comm. Posting starts now and continues up until the challenge ends at 4pm Pacific Time on Wednesday, May 1st. No sign-up required.

Mods will tag your work with fandom, media and challenge. When you've posted entries to three consecutive challenges, you will earn a name tag, and we'll go back and tag all your previous entries with your name.

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Our Birthday Bingo is open until July 1st 2019: click here for details, to request a card or to claim a Bingo badge.

Also, keep an eye out for the next ffw_social post, which will go up in the next couple of days. If you haven't joined the comm yet, it's never too late to come and check it out. (Remember, posts are locked, which means you have to join to see them.)

The Cave challenge is now closed. Here are the entries:

The Mystery of the Red House: Fanfic: Interesting Times, by smallhobbit
Guardian: Fanfic: The Moon and All the Stars, by green
Adventure Time: Fanfiction: Last Night I Felt Real Arms Around Me, by infinitum_noctem
Guardian: picspam: A Dog's Den, by teaotter
Torchwood: Fanfic: Huddling Place, by badly_knitted
Slings & Arrows: Fanfic: the baseless fabric of this vision, by fengirl88
Shazam!: Fanfic: lair, by gunsnships
The Magicians: Fanfiction: both her terror and her gentleness, by templemarker
The Vampire Diaries: Fanfic: i'm faking glory, by elasticella
Ghost Rider: Fanfic: It's A Trap, by rokhal
Batman - Fan Fic - Succumbing to the Lies, by katyastarling
Guardian: fanfiction: all I need to know, by china_shop
No Fandom: Wallpaper: Light at the End of the Tunnel, by jordannamorgan
no fandom : icons : spelunking opportunities, by highlander_ii
Star Wars: Fanfic: Peace and Truth, by drabblewriter
Guardian: fanfiction: Once Upon a Time in Dixing, by china_shop
Torchwood: Fanfic: Stalled negotiations, by m_findlow
The Little Mermaid: Fanfic: Unequal Exchange, by fengirl88
Silmarillion: Poetry: Riddle of Caves, by lferion
The Libertines: Fic: Stuck, by caveat_lector
Magic Knight Rayearth: Fanfic: A small proposition, by down
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress: Fic: A Moment's Rest, by jordannamorgan


Also, congratulations to those who earned name tags and achievement badges this round:

badly_knitted, who earned The Stalwart
elasticella, who earned The Governor of Gendom
elen_nare, who earned The Babysitter, SBIGTTS: Writing (GOLD), The Time Turner
lferion, who earned a Bingo!


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Thank you to everyone who participated! You're now free to post your entries to your journal or wherever else you'd like. If you're archiving on AO3, you can add your work to our fan_flashworks collection there.

New challenge coming right up!

Title: A Moment’s Rest
Author: jordannamorgan
Fandom: Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress
Characters: Ikoma and Takumi.
Setting: During episode six.
Rating: G.
Length: 550 words.
Summary: A brief moment of respite after the cave rescue at Yashiro Station.
Notes: This is also for the prompt of "That Incident In Detail" at genprompt_bingo.

( A Moment’s Rest )

Title: A small proposition
Fandom: Magic Knight Rayearth
Rating: General
Length: 1500ish words
Content notes: None
Author notes: Stand-alone but set after the Presea/Hikaru pre-relationship thing I posted a couple of rounds ago here. For cave, also for generous for ffwks bingo.
Summary: Hikaru was always so generous with everything - her time, her belongings, her heart - that it made it decidedly hard for Presea to ask a favour of her. Because she knew Hikaru would likely say yes whether she wanted to take part or not in whatever venture Presea was proposing.

( A small proposition )

Title: Stuck
Fandom: The Libertines
Characters: Carl Barât, Peter Doherty
Rating: Mature
Length: 200
Notes: All takes place in one minute
Content notes: None

( Stuck )

Title: Riddle of Caves
Fandom: The Silmarillion
Challenge: Cave
Bingo prompt: Mending
Rating: G
Length: 100
Content notes: N/A
Author notes: Thanks go to Zana, Morgynleri & all the lovely Silmarillion writers for inspiration and encouragement.
In Bunn's Return To Aman series, Bilbo and Fingon are having a long-running, friendly game of riddles. Maglor is not playing (aside from suggesting increasingly arcane rules), but I think he wrote this one.
Summary: A somewhat etymological riddle involving caves and stars.

( Riddle of Caves )

The acclaimed _Goblin Emperor_ is on sale for 1.99! The link below includes lots & lots of sites & formats.

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781429946407

This book is so good, I read it twice in the same year. Compelling world-building, & one of the kindest main characters ever. *insert incoherent, euphoric squee-ing here*

Well, that takes care of reading matter for my next flight.

*heads off to share the love*

Title: Unequal Exchange
Fandom: The Little Mermaid (Hans Christian Andersen)
Length: 100
Content notes: choose not to warn
Rating: G
Author note: also a fill for the Scales square on my bingo card.
Summary: In the cave of the sea witch, you sign away your voice in pursuit of a vision.

( Unequal Exchange )

Today's prompt is: "discovering fanfic for the first time"

Title: Stalled negotiations

Title: Once Upon a Time in Dixing
Fandom: Guardian
Rating: G
Length: ~5,900 words
Notes: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan. Dixing is basically just one big cave, right? Caper fic, identity porn, handwaving Dixing’s corrosive effects, canon divergence AU set during ep 6, spoilers to ep 40. Also for the FFW Bingo prompt Wire and solo's prompt of Shen Wei, "There's an app for that." Much much thanks to mergatrude for hand-holding and trobadora for beta. <3 <3 <3 No warnings apply.
Summary: “Chief Zhao.” Shen Wei turns to the man who was and will one day be again his indomitable brother in arms, his lover and his friend. “I need you to stage a jailbreak.”

( Once Upon a Time in Dixing )

Title: spelunking opportunities
Fandom: no fandom
Rating: G
Content notes: None apply
Summary: icons of random caves - images found via google image search


( spelunking opportunities )

Today's prompt is: "found a baby bird"

Cassata Cake
https://odense.com/recipe.php?id=180&fbclid=IwAR1g6alNvRImJHDxavqcjYMJTF1opl0jSde1SCXVypfA4kl1bGEPv32X9sk

This rich Italian ricotta cake is often served at Easter. We covered it with Odense Marzipan rather than the traditional whipped cream and candied fruits.
TIME
40-45 minutes to assemble
6 hours refrigeration
Total time: 6 hours and 45 minutes

YIELD 12-16 slices
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Title: Light at the End of the Tunnel
Fandom: None.
Rating: G.
Summary: Desktop wallpaper, 1366x768 resolution.
Content Notes: A sunset view from a coastal cave.

( Light at the End of the Tunnel  )

Title: all I need to know
Fandom: Guardian
Rating: PG? (references to sex, but no actual sex)
Length: ~700 words
Notes: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, established relationship, secrets, no spoilers. Also for the FFW Bingo prompt, Floating, and kiezh's prompt of Shen Wei, "No. I won't." No warnings apply.
Summary: Three months of mutually investigating each other, occasionally crossing over into actual B&E and/or stalking, and Shen Wei decides to enforce his boundaries now, when they’re finally together?

( all I need to know )

Today's prompt is: "All bark and no bite"

Today's prompt is: "turning over a new leaf"

Title: Succumbing to the Lies
Author: Katya Starling
Fandom: Batman
Character/Pairing: Batman/Catwoman 
Rating: PG-13/T
Challenge/Prompt: Ficlets 17: Nonsense and Fan-FlashWorks 260: Cave
Warning(s): None
Word Count: 1,000
Date Written: 15 April 2019
Summary: She knows she shouldn't be here, but she can't seem to help it.
Disclaimer: All characters within belong to DC Comics, not the author, and are used without permission.






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Marlborough Pie
http://www.chewnibblenosh.com/recipe/marlborough-apple-pie/
Adapted from Cook’s Country

Marlborough apple pie is actually an old-school (pre-Civil War time) American pie. In this version, apples are shredded and cooked down in some butter, and then mixed into a rich, sherry-infused custard base, before baking. There are versions that called for applesauce instead of the shredded apples. Marlborough pie used to be a staple on American holiday tables, but has since, fallen out of fashion.

The shredded apples still gave the pie that apple crispy bite you’re looking for in an apple pie, but mixed with that creamy, sweet, spiced custard…well, it was really something magical.


Prep time: 10 mins
Cook time: 1 hour Total time: 1 hour 10 mins
Serves: 8 ( Read more... )

Title: It’s a Trap
Fandom: Ghost Rider (comics)
Characters: Robbie Reyes (Ghost Rider 2015), Eli Morrow (The ghost from Ghost Rider 2015), Noble Kale (The ghost from Ghost Rider 1990, who got his own body at the end of his series), Black Rose (Roxanne Simpson-Blaze, who was resurrected as a demon at the end of Ghost Rider 1990)
Rating: PG-15
Length: 4k
Content notes: Canon-typical violence (means: a lot). Bomb. Whump.
Author notes: For the fan-flashworks prompt Cave and my Birthday Bingo prompt Whistle.
Summary: Robbie, Noble, and Black Rose lure a white nationalist biker gang into a trap at the leader’s cattle ranch. Noble puts the Penance Stare on them. Robbie discovers that flaming skulls and improvised explosives don't mix.
 

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