face the strange

I just got these two wonderful ficlets as responses to my prompts at battleshipex. ♡♡♡ (I was not a participant, I just left prompts in the prompt collection, and two of them inspired someone, which is very exciting! :D)

Life and Death (631 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Sandman (TV 2022)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Death of the Endless
Additional Tags: Character Study, Introspection
Summary: Flowers and trees, such a perfect sampling of life.

days that end in why (300 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Wednesday (TV 2022)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Wednesday Addams
Additional Tags: Cats, During Canon, Episode: s01e01 Wednesday's Child is Full of Woe, not canon compliant but also not…not?
Summary: Wednesday knows the rumours. She’s heard them all her life.

I got this amazing gift yesterday! ♡♡♡ *happily rolls around in my dragon hoard of wonderfully fucked-up and beautifully gut-punching Yellowjackets gift fics*

blood & blackberries (865 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Yellowjackets (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Shauna Shipman & Taissa Turner
Characters: Shauna Shipman, Taissa Turner, Yellowjackets (TV) Ensemble
Additional Tags: Psychological Trauma, Hallucinations, canon-typical weirdness, Manicures & Pedicures, Mild Blood
Summary:

Taissa Turner, like the rest of the Yellowjackets, is not someone Shauna likes to remember. If anything when it comes to the Wilderness and those who lived there with her, she makes an effort in the opposite direction and calls it notes toward a forgetting.

(twenty years after the Wilderness, Shauna Sadecki remembers. shit gets a little bit weird)

Written for Every Woman 2023

Prompt 6: Hyacinth
Hyacinths symbolize jealousy, a desire for forgiveness, joy, and sincerity, depending on the flower color. Yellow hyacinths are linked to jealousy, purple flowers mean you're seeking forgiveness, and blue hyacinths are tied to sincere care.

And again, one not self-rec and one self rec. :)

A Father’s Demons (3030 words) by Chancy_Lurking
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Witcher (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon & Lambert, Lambert & Vesemir (The Witcher)
Characters: Lambert (The Witcher), Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon, Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia, Vesemir (The Witcher)
Additional Tags: Febuwhump, POV Lambert (The Witcher), I Shook A Witcher And Intergenerational Trauma Fell Out (The Witcher), Witcher Training (The Witcher), Child Abuse, Unintentional Harm to Children, Sort of? - Freeform, a weird mix of lambert's characterization, Suicidal Thoughts, Guilt, Emotionally Constipated Lambert (The Witcher), Hurt Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon, Hidden Injuries, Hurt/Comfort, Everyone Needs A Hug, Apologies, Drinking to Cope, mild vomit warning, Teaching your kids bad habits, then trying to do better, The Witcher (TV) Season 2, Mutagens (The Witcher), Side Effects
Summary:

Ciri’s knees almost buckle, the blood draining from her face and her scent going sour with pain and fear. He catches her by the arm reflexively, startled when she staggers, but that appears to make it worse. Geralt whips around to look at her when she can’t quite smother the pained sound in the back of her throat, but she instantly stands up straighter when she meets his gaze. She doesn’t pull out of Lambert’s grasp, though, just stands there, gritting her teeth and shaking.

Lambert lets go of her arm, takes a step back. “Does that hurt?” he asks, because he hadn’t even hit her that hard, what the fuck?

Ciri blinks at him, looking a little dazed on top of being ashen. “Isn’t… that why you did it?”

Rather abruptly, Lambert stops feeling anything at all.

 

(Lambert somehow became everyone he ever hated as a child.)

Prompt: “Does that hurt?”

kicking the old demons out by facethestrange
Fandom: Good Omens (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)
Characters: Crowley (Good Omens), Aziraphale (Good Omens)
Additional Tags: Fanart, Drawing
Summary:

It really is time to show Crowley's plants the kindness they deserve, whether they are perfect or not. Especially when they're not. Even Crowley knows that, but it doesn't mean that this change of perspective is easy for him.

➽ I got this awesomely soft gift this morning! ♡

#1 Bros Agenda (672 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Wilds (TV 2020)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Josh Herbert & Kirin O’Connor
Characters: Kirin O’Connor, Josh Herbert
Additional Tags: Trauma, Grief/Mourning, Nicknames, Religious Subtext, Josh POV, Best Bro Kirin O’Connor
Summary: Maybe this is enough. Just bros being bros.

➽ And one of my drawings got revealed, also this morning. :D (I'm not embedding it - it's mostly just cracky, but heed the content notes before you click.)

Dark Secret by facethestrange
Fandom: Barbie (Toys)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Characters: Barbie Roberts
Additional Tags: Body Horror, Cartoon gore, Fanart, Drawing
Summary: This Barbie is a serial killer.

!!! CACKLING! :D I just got the best, funniest gift about my faaavorite crossover scenario, and I can't even express how much I absolutely love it! :D

r/AmITheAsshole: AITA or Do I Have A Stalker? (538 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Wilds (TV 2020), Yellowjackets (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Gretchen Klein & Callie Sadecki
Characters: Callie Sadecki, Gretchen Klein
Additional Tags: Crossover, Unconventional Format
Summary: Callie takes to the internet after a run-in with Greatchen.

Prompt 2: Gladiolus
Generally, gladioli represent strength of character, faithfulness, moral integrity, and remembrance. Gladioli are actually the traditional 40th-anniversary flower and the birth flower for the month of August! Each individual colour of gladiolus is also symbolic.

Again, two fanworks - one not self-rec and one self-rec. :)

Dreams (1079 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Katniss Everdeen & Rue, Katniss Everdeen & Primrose Everdeen
Characters: Katniss Everdeen, Primrose Everdeen, Rue (Hunger Games)
Additional Tags: Angst, Trauma, Post-Games (Hunger Games), Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Hurt/Comfort
Summary: Every night, Katniss dreams of the Games. And in every dream, she sees her: hurtling through the treetops, singing to the mockingjays, crumpling to her death, and breathing her last breaths.

Save the Direwolf by facethestrange
Fandom: Discworld - Terry Pratchett, A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Angua von Uberwald & Lady (ASoIaF)
Characters: Angua von Uberwald, Lady (ASoIaF)
Additional Tags: The Watch on a political mission in Westeros, Crossover, Fanart, Drawing
Summary: Angua gently and quietly unchains Lady, and sneaks her out of the castle before she can be executed. Risking a war between Ankh-Morpork and the Seven Kingdoms is worth it - no innocent wolf is getting killed when Angua is around.

sunshine_challenge has been going on for like 17 days before I found out about it, lol, and now I'm finally doing it. :D



Prompt 1: Iris
They can represent faith, hope, courage, wisdom and admiration. Specific flower colors attach further meanings to the pretty blooms. Purple iris brings a message of wisdom and compliments, while a bouquet of blue iris blossoms speak of hope and faith.

I'm going to be reccing two fanworks that make me think of the prompt - one not self-rec and one self-rec.

Harm No One (1703 words) by Griselda_Gimpel
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Lost
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
Characters: John Locke (Lost), Boone Carlyle
Additional Tags: Canonical Character Death, Hallucinations, Unreliable Narrator, Religious Themes, Mind Screw
Summary: Locke's experience after he sees the light in the hatch. Set during "Do No Harm".

Are You Ready for a Brand New Beat? by facethestrange
Fandom: Angel: the Series
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Lorne | Krevlornswath, Original Daemon Character(s)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Daemons, Pre-Canon, Sunflower Auction, Fanart, Drawing
Summary: Lorne and his songbird daemon Razz find a better world to live in.

I really could be having a better time today, but at least I got this awesome gift! ♡

Unfun Detour (1432 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Magicians (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: 23rd Timeline Quentin Coldwater & 40th Timeline Quentin Coldwater
Characters: Quentin Coldwater, 23rd Timeline Quentin Coldwater
Additional Tags: Alternate Timelines, Dimension Travel, 23rd Timeline (The Magicians), Beast Quentin Coldwater, Awkward Quentin Coldwater, Grief/Mourning, Brief Weird Jump Into Another Timeline
Summary:

Through means Quentin doesn't quite understand, he has a brief meeting with...himself. Though—not quite.

➽ Jaskier and his eyeliner from the S3 trailer has been, like, ON my mind A LOT, so now y'all gotta look at him too. xD

➽ The June Something starts today, I'm only going to do it until I go on holiday in a week (:D :D :D), but it's fun to have these questions. :D



Day 1: What show or movie original cast would you like to see reunite for an update - where the intervening time has passed and we're getting a view of where they are now along with glimpses on how they got there?

I really want to say Lost, but honestly we know a lot about what happened to everyone because of the last season being so far in the future. xD Then again, we don't know the details, so 20-years-later-but-before-S6 would be a fun place to visit! And I'm so happy we got exactly this for The L Word, which would probably be my second choice. :D OH, I KNOW - BSG! Everything that happened on Earth 15 years later and in the meantime! ♡ (I once got a future fic about Hera as an exchange gift, which is one of my favorite things! ♡)

I got this wonderful (10K!) gift at 90s_channel_tv_exchange today! :D What an amazing ride it was! ♡♡♡

the fall (10577 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Trek: Voyager
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: B'Elanna Torres & Naomi Wildman
Characters: Naomi Wildman, B'Elanna Torres, Samantha Wildman, USS Voyager, The Doctor (Star Trek)
Additional Tags: Dreams, Dreams vs. Reality, Sentient Spaceship Question Mark, Child's POV, Unlikely Friendships
Summary:

No one in Engineering thinks Naomi’s just being silly. They think she’s in the way, or else they don’t think about her at all. But the ship computer said Seven’s in Engineering, and Seven promised she’d help Naomi with her homework today, so Naomi puts on a brave face in the turbolift and starts to make her way down.

(Naomi falls much further than she should — in the wrong direction, no less — and she can't seem to find her way back home.)