Arctic Light

Stolen / respectfully borrowed from rionaleonhart, a Tumblr meme now removed from its native ecosystem and repotted on DW [ETA: now tweaked a bit]:

Give me any two (or more) characters from a canon I’m familiar with, and I’ll tell you how they would cope in an ‘oh no, there’s only one bed’ scenario!

What you get might be anything from brief headcanons/thoughts to a small fic, depending on how much I have to say about those particular characters.

(Currently traveling, staying overnight on the road, would enjoy some fun distraction.)

Update: Based on how the comments are going, I edited the instructions slightly to hopefully bend the requests a little more towards characters from the same canon. (If you want two characters from different canons, feel free to ask for it - there are no wrong answers, it's very open-ended - but I'm really only going to be able to do headcanons for those, as I can't easily write crossovers, and I'm hoping for some of the other kind of prompts too!)

A couple of bite-sized bits of tumblr promptfic written over the last week or so. (I plan to take more prompts soooon, in fact I'm thinking of running a general first-of-May promptfest here on DW as a reward for getting a draft done of the novel I'm currently working on - which is also why I've been slow about replying to comments lately ...)

1. Ivanova & Sheridan
Prompt: "This is not what I signed up for." Honestly, this could be any of the command crew. Originally posted here.

( 270 words )

2. Marcus & Stephen
Prompt: Marcus and Dr. Franklin gen story prompt request? Could be one of them getting hurt, or even just bickering back and forth (like they did in S4E9). Originally posted here.

( 370 wds )

One from the other day, one from today for my own prompt ...

And don't miss the fills post for everything posted so far!

Team + EvS, sleeping on each other

Originally posted here

( Sleeping on each other (EvS & Algy & Biggles) )

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No heat at the Mount St flat, any characters (Biggles & Algy, gen)

Originally posted here

( Heat out (Biggles & Algy) )

Written for Three Sentence Ficathon, my fills so far! These are nice and bite-sized, so pretty easy to fit in around my other writing when I feel like writing a little bit of fic (though sometimes they go longer).

( 1. Agent Carter, Jack Thompson, time loop )

( 2. any, any, deal with the devil (The Expanse, posted on AO3) )

( 3. MCU, Carol & Yon-Rogg, the inevitable result of sparring practice )

( 4. The Expanse, Erich, hanging with the Roci crew (mild S5 spoilers) )

( 5. any, any, discovery of a secret notebook (Iron Fist, Ward, post-season-one) )

An old-fashioned LJ-style comment fest ... because I think we could all use one.

1. Any fandoms are welcome - original works too!

2. Prompt in a comment like this:
Fandom, character(s) or pairing, prompt

Examples:
MCU, Loki/Natasha, lies
Any, any, heartbreak
Original, a war unicorn and her rider, first day of training

3. Fills can be any length, from one sentence on up. You can also post them elsewhere and link here.

4. Non-fanfic fills are welcome (art, podfic, etc).

5. Put "FILL" in the subject line of your fills to make them easier to find. (Not required, but helpful.)

6. You can also comment on other people's prompts if you see one you want to encourage! But keep it positive, please.

Promote wherever you like, and leave as many prompts as you want! ♥

Okay, I'm gonna do this. :D

1. Pick a prompt from the list below. (A more accessible text-based list is under the cut, also crossing out the ones which have already been picked, though double-claiming/some not getting claimed is probably inevitable and that's fine too.)

2. Give me a fandom and two characters, plus any additional details if you want. Any fandom I've written is fine to request (though admittedly the ones I've been actively writing lately, i.e. Defenders-verse, Agent Carter, the cosmic/magic side of the MCU, Stranger Things, and Alliance-Union, are probably the most likely to actually get written).

3. Original fiction prompts are also fine, so if you want, say "sparkly teenage unicorn shifter and her dad", sure, go for it.

4. Pairings are not guaranteed (except in original fiction; if you request a romantic couple I'll try to write them that way), but I think I can write gen combos of just about anyone.

5. I will write at least 100 words of whatever you asked for and post it on the appropriate day in October!*

*Results not guaranteed; I have a tendency to wander off from these projects halfway through. But I will TRY.



( Text list and claimed prompts under the cut )

The new (and last *sob*) Jessica Jones season comes out on Friday. Let's celebrate the world of the Netflix Defenders shows with a good old-fashioned commentfic fest!



This is for all shows in the Netflix Defenders universe: Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Defenders, and Punisher.

Rules:

• All characters and pairings are welcome! No ship/character bashing.
• Crossovers are welcome as long as they include at least one Defendersverse character.
• Your prompt should include one or more characters ("any" is fine), and a prompt which may be long or short, specific or not, even a graphic or image. Use "/" for a romantic ship and "&" for a gen pairing.

Example prompts:
Jessica/Malcolm, picnic
Frank & any, teaching someone to use a gun
Elektra, "The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue"
any, visiting the Avengers tower

• Please include "FILL" in the subject line for your fills. This will help me compile a list of fills.
• There is no minimum or maximum length. Non-fic fills (e.g. art) are also welcome.
• Anonymous prompts, anonymous fills, more than one fill for the same prompt, and filling your own prompts are all fine. You can also use them to fill spaces on a bingo card, e.g. h/c bingo, if the bingo rules allow it.
• It's fine to comment on prompts with encouragement and squee as well as fills!

You are invited to add your fill to the Defenders Prompt Fest collection on AO3 if you like!


>>>> Master list of filled prompts.>>>>

I will add new fills as they come in.


SPOILER POLICY: When the new JJ season airs on Friday, I will create a new post for spoiler prompts and fills. Please avoid leaving spoilery prompts for JJ3 here. It's okay to include JJ3 spoilers in fills here, but please put SPOILER in the subject of the comment so people will know. (And to help your mod avoid being spoiled herself!)

The spoiler post for JJ3 spoilers is now up!

You are encouraged to promote this fest widely! It will remain open to new prompts until at least a couple of weeks beyond the airing of the new JJ season, and open to fills indefinitely.

But first, I have found the BEST prompt: DBZ, Vegeta, call center.

I really, really hope someone (not me) fills this. (I actually tried to figure out if I could do it, even though I haven't written him in 15 years, but I just can't. PLEASE, SOMEONE, WRITE THE THING.)

I love that the 3-sentence ficathon is up to 31 pages and something like 3600+ comments. In all honesty I don't actually feel that nostalgic for the old LJ days, but it's pleasantly reminiscent of it. :')

New ficlets:

• Stranger Things, Jonathan & Steve, car crash
• Stranger Things, Steve, resurrection
• Iron Fist, Ward & Danny, “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.”
• Defenders/Iron Fist, Misty & Colleen, cold hands
• Iron Fist, Ward & Danny, "I'm gonna go get blitzed on ibuprofen"

(The latter three were any fandom/any character prompts, but honestly that last one is SUCH a Ward thing to say, omg.)

My Three-Sentence Ficathon prompt fills so far:

• Arrowverse, Oliver/Barry, stranded without powers
• Thor & Loki, bodyswap
• MCU, anyone on the Asgardian refugee ship, A SPACE WHALE
• Stranger Things, Steve & Dustin, bees
• Stranger Things, Steve & the kids, experiment
• Agent Carter, Peggy/Jack/Daniel, time travel (kinda dark)

It's still going on if you want to leave prompts or peruse those already posted! There are a bunch of wonderful little fics posted, but this original little story is especially brilliant. It's a whole sci-fi story in just a couple of paragraphs, and the ending packs a wallop. I had to read it twice to understand what had happened, and when I did ... ow.

I've largely stopped crossposting my fic here, but I'm going to try to make more of an effort to crosspost stuff here from Tumblr (and vice versa, linking more of my DW stuff from Tumblr) so ... I've actually written quite a bit of Iron Fist fanfic, most of which is on AO3, but there was a discussion on the Iron Fist Discord yesterday about an AU in which Danny is an actual dragon, which resulted in me writing a number of snippets of it, posted here on Tumblr (and under the cut).

This is set in kind of a nebulous post-Defenders/IF-S2-ish timeframe, but isn't spoilery for anything in particular.

It also made me think about how Defenders would've gone if Danny could turn into a dragon, which for one thing would've made it much harder for anyone to get the drop on him let alone tie him to a chair, but I was also thinking what the Hand might've wanted him for would be far more dire - riffing off the dragon-bones thing in canon, what if they wanted him to obtain immortality from the physical properties of his dragon body? Basically they want to capture and vivisect him. D: (There's nothing like that under the cut. This is pure fluff.)

( Dragon!Danny snippets of a longer fic I'm not writing )