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At some point in between sitting down to write and finishing the night's wordcount, something went nasty on the right side of my neck. Suddenly and without any seemingly inciting cause, too. Not even lifting more weight than I should've tried or falling and landing badly. The oddness of it doesn't help the pain, but at least it seems to point to an acute cause that should, ideally, clear up after a hot shower and some sleep.

Waking up to hail this morning was a surprise; getting out of the subway after the day's rains had all passed to leave the air in one of those hauntingly fragile summer afternoons was just as much a surprise, if a far more pleasant one.

Current Mood: sore
Current Music: nothing now

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Our new challenge is:

YIELD

As always, you can interpret the prompt literally or figuratively, in whatever way works for you.

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 Friday, 20 June. No sign-up required.

Mods will tag your work with fandom 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.

All kinds of fanworks in all fandoms are welcome. Please have a look at our guidelines before you play. If you have any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to contact a mod. And if you have any suggestions for future challenges, you can leave them in the comments of this post.

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

S.W.A.T.: Fan Fiction: Different Meeting by

darkjediqueen
MCU: Fanfic: None of Us Stand Alone by

alexcat
Torchwood: Fanfic: Menagerie by

badly_knitted
Original: Fanfic: go on by

bluedreaming
Criminal Minds: Fanfiction: When Love Lasts by

infinitum_noctem
Spooks (MI5): Fanfic: Support Your Local Baby Bank by

smallhobbit
House of the Dragon: Fanfic: Weight by

peaked
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Fanfic: Crypt Hunting by

veronyxk94
Torchwood: Fanfic: You get what you give by

m_findlow
Star Trek Voyager: fic: substitute by

lilly_c
The Double: fanfic: competition by

teaotter
Suits: fanfic: Giving by

highlander_ii
Original Fiction: What Happened in 2013 by

analogbasilisk
Greek Myth: Fanfic: Charity by

drabblewriter
Guardian: fanfic: Raw Nerves, Old Scars by

china_shop

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

badly_knitted earned The Outstanding (11 Year Streak)!

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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.

Next challenge coming right up.

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Title: Raw Nerves, Old Scars
Fandom: Guardian (TV)
Rating: T-rated
Length: 1176 words
Notes: A million thanks to

mergatrude and

teaotter for beta. <3 <3 <3
Tags: Chu Shuzhi/Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, Zhao Yunlan & Da Qing, Shen Wei & Ye Zun. Post-Canon, Anger, Effects of Past Trauma, Complicated Relationships, Poly Relationships, Shen Wei misses his didi, Zhao Yunlan hates Ye Zun, Zhao Yunlan is triggered, Loyalties, Friendship, Clothes Sharing, Unreliable Narration.
Warning: This is set in a post-canon ‘verse where the canon events happened except that Da Qing took Zhao Yunlan’s place in the Lantern. Three difficult years later, Shen Wei and Da Qing came back. So Zhao Yunlan still has a lot of issues. This fic deals with intense feelings that aren't easily resolved.
Summary: Feel the anger and do it anyway.

( Raw Nerves, Old Scars )

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Title: Charity
Fandom: Greek Myth
Characters: Apollo/Admetus
Rating: G
Length: 220
Summary: It's the end of another long day, Apollo's head against Admetus's shoulder as they watch the sun go down, when the god-turned-mortal blurts, "Tell me you're not only kind to me out of a sense of charity."

( Read more... )

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Prompt: 481. Charity
Word count: 695
Rating: T
Summary: there are three versions of what happened to Prett when she was sixteen.
Warning for homophobia, mentioned conversion camps, mentioned teen pregnancy, implied child abuse.

( Read more... )

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Title: Giving
Fandom: Suits
Rating: PG
Length: short
Content notes: none applySummary: would you look at that, Mike might be in trouble again...

( Giving )

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Title: competition
Fandom: The Double (cdrama)
Content notes: none
Length: 100 words

Summary: Jiang Li stole everything.

( Read more... )

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Title: substitute
Fandom: Star Trek: Voyager
Rating: G
Length: 275 words
Content notes: missing scene, implied food poisoning from Neelix’s coffee substitute, early in canon and developing friendship
Author notes: Missing scene from The Cloud, takes place shortly after Neelix tries to give Kathryn the “even better than coffee substitute” and I borrowed two lines from the ep but everything else is mines. If you spot a wild goof give me a prod and I’ll try to fix it, the dyslexia is kicking my arse at the moment.
Summary: Kathryn looked at him, realising he was referring to the three days earlier in the month when he insisted he couldn’t leave his quarters and wouldn’t tell anyone the reason for it. “You tried it? What happened?”

( substitute )

hannah

The day's major accomplishment was getting some hand-holding for my hard drive problem and getting the man on the other end to laugh a bit when I said I knew enough to get myself into trouble but not how to get out of it. Hopefully I can get my act together enough to send it out for repairs in a day or two.

The secondary accomplishments were taking the stairs to the gym, and making an attempt to reach out when I felt myself going down a spiral.

Current Mood: thirsty
Current Music: You Turn Me On I'm A Radio (live) - Joni Mitchell

princessofgeeks

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Current Mood: pensive

hannah

Today's luxurious disappointments are in the fields of scheduling issues and data preservation.

The latter is because a hard drive stopped working. I got a couple error messages about moving and deleting files - "Error 0x8007045D: the request could not be performed because of an I/O device error" - which was soon followed by Error code 43, then "Cannot open drive for direct access". At this point, I'm pretty secure in saying it's not going to get fixed by trying the hard drive on another computer, or that I can fix it myself. As such, I'm going to leave it alone in the hopes it doesn't get worse and look into local data recovery centers to see which one can best help me.

In the former's case, it's because Escapade is scheduled opposite a few movie screenings at the MOMI I'd very much like to see. I can probably juggle them around, pick which movies versus which panels, and it's more than a little annoying to have to choose between two fun things to look forward to. As I said, luxurious disappointments.

Current Mood: irritated
Current Music: Will Ye Go, Lassie Go? - Sinners

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Title: You get what you give
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Owen, Ianto
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 1,363 words
Content notes: None
Author notes: Written for Challenge 481 - Charity
Summary: Ianto has charged himself and Owen with a less than ordinary Torchwood assignment.

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princessofgeeks

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Current Mood: cheerful

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Title: Crypt Hunting
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Author:

veronyxk84
Characters/Pairing: Spike
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: some coarse language
Word count: 100 (Google Docs)
Spoilers/Setting: Set in S4, some time between eps. 4x12 “A New Man” and 4x13 “The I in Team”
Summary: Spike has finally found a crypt to live in.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.

Challenge: #481 Charity
Also for: [June 10 out of 20] charity - dangerous - hunting - sick - tired by

sweetandshort

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( Crypt Hunting )

pensnest

I cooked a big breakfast this morning: chipolata sausages, bacon, black pudding, mushrooms, grilled tomato, fried egg. The meat products all came from our local butcher, and were so tasty it was hard to decide which should be my final mouthful*

Why the big breakfast? Beast is off—just now, in fact—for a concert this afternoon, so he won't need to be fed until the nice people who invited his chorus ply them with cake.

* I like to eat 'rotational', ie mouthfuls by turns, but make sure to save a tasty morsel for the last bite. Beast eats in a columnar style, devouring what's on his plate from least favourite to tastiest by eating all of each ingredient before moving on to the next. I suppose a case could also be made for eating in the same way but starting with the favourite.

Which way do you eat a plateful?

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Title: Weight
Fandom: House of the Dragon
Characters: Alicent Hightower (Alicent/Rhaenyra or Alicent & Rhaenyra)
Prompt: 481: Charity
Rating: PG
Length: 200 words
Content warnings: Implications of incest. Some gaslighting, as is Alicent's way.
Author’s notes: Set somewhere in season 1 before the big time jump. You can read this as shippy or not.
Summary: Is it not Alicent’s duty to pray for Rhaenyra’s sins?

( Alicent’s knees ache from the weight she carries. )

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Title: Support Your Local Baby Bank
Fandom: Spooks (MI5)
Rating: G
Length: 703 words
Summary: What it says in the title!

( Ros Myers knocked... )

hannah

I went to a master's program's commencement ceremony at the Apollo Theater today, and while I left after two hours and didn't see it end, based on how those first two hours and the setup went, I doubt anyone blasted any James Brown.

What a wasted opportunity.

I'm glad I went, though, for all its wasted opportunities and long-winded metaphor-straining speeches and a prerecorded speech from a chancellor that included a plug to sign up for the alumni association while detailing its many features. My sister in law E. and older brother J. seemed happy about it, and I'll know I was willing to make an effort to show up.

Current Mood: indifferent
Current Music: Breaking Glass - David Bowie

princessofgeeks

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