40 Days of Drabbles > 2026

Feb. 8th, 2026 07:45 pm
flareonfury: (Bex/Shane)
[personal profile] flareonfury
[community profile] 40daysofdrabbles - so I created this community a few months ago in honor of the old request challenge thing I used to do (of various degrees of success). I am tempted to use the community in the style of [community profile] adventdrabbles, 'cause it seems wasteful not do more with it. So I'll probably post "prompts" daily there for the period of Lent.

Lent is starting February 18th, and again I'm not really religious (despite my family wishes), but I figured I could try this challenge again and see if I could exercise my writing abilities a bit more. I'm gonna try and get everything written & posted by Easter, or by end of April at the latest. *fingerscrossed*

You do not have to be a "friend" to request a pairing, but if you are unsure of a fandom/pairing I like - my list is located here (while not complete exactly, it's mostly is) or feel free to check out the tag list on [community profile] harpiewriting for ships I've already wrote for. I also technically have a list of Crossover pairings but that hasn't really been edited since 2012 so yeah... Also some of these fandoms are old and I have not recently watched them (or at times finished them).

Request as much as you want since there are so many slots open.... I'll try to pick the ones I know for sure I can/will write & add them to the table. Prompts aren't required. (Or preferably use a prompt from one of my tables I need to write for! :P ) Drabbles will at least be 100 words, maybe more depending on the plot bunnies.

I rarely write dark fics, smut, or super angsty stuff, so if you prefer that, I might not be able to do it? If you have any Do Not Wants, let me know otherwise it'll be whatever my brain can think up.

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thisbluespirit: (writing)
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I was planning to type up some older ficlets I'd found in my notebook, including one for [community profile] no_true_pair, and when I opened the doc, found an all but complete one already typed up! So here's one I had mostly prepared much earlier but apparently gave up on for some reason.

For the Sept 2024 round of No True Pair, and also for [community profile] 51pluscrossoverfandoms, [community profile] 100fandoms & [community profile] allbingo Crime Classics.

Subdivisions (1073 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Discworld - Terry Pratchett, The Chronicles of St Mary's - Jodi Taylor
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Death (Discworld) & Madeleine "Lucy" Maxwell
Characters: Death (Discworld), Madeleine "Lucy" Maxwell, Leon Farrell
Additional Tags: Crossover, Alcohol, Drunkenness, Community: no_true_pair, Community: 51pluscrossoverfandoms, Community: 100fandoms, Community: allbingo, Max would like it to be known that none of this would happen if Peterson could drive straight, Death just wants to talk
Summary: Max continues trying to cheat Death, even when Death just wants to buy her a pint.
elf: A typewriter with a single page with the word "Story" on it. (Typewriter)
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From this thread at Bluesky - When people ask how to get into GA SF I always say that the right way is via some of those fat "Best Of" short fiction collections.

Long discussion, many comments, mostly agreeing that yep, the way to get people into SF is anthologies, not novels, especially "best of" anthologies rather than whatever theme-of-the-day was popular. Also many people agreeing that many of "the classics" do not hold up today, and "Heinlein juveniles + the Foundation trilogy" is not a good suggestion for a young teen who might be interested in scifi now.

So... if you were building an anthology of The Great Science Fiction, with a focus specifically on non-SF readers who might be interested, what would you put in it?

Some limitations may be in order )
thisbluespirit: (winslow boy)
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In the midst of writing five ways Sir Robert and Catherine could have got together post-canon for [community profile] yuletide, the inevitable result was also thinking about what if they were just married already. And I hadn't yet actually written them for [community profile] 100ships or TWB for [community profile] 100fandoms, so I scribbled this down somewhere in between or after the assignment, and here it is.

when all the leaves are gold (1497 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Winslow Boy (1999)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Robert Morton/Catherine Winslow
Characters: Robert Morton (Winslow Boy), Catherine Winslow
Additional Tags: Community: 100ships, Community: 100fandoms, Community: allbingo, Post-Canon, Edwardian Period, Marriage, Suffragettes, World War I, (outbreak of), Vignette, Happily married Sir Robert and Catherine, Established Relationship, 1910s
Summary: Catherine and Sir Robert, making a marriage work.


([personal profile] edwardianspinsteraunt, the second section centres around the imminent announcement of WWI and fears in that regard, but only discussions of it, and the first section is entirely war-free anyway, so you are definitely safe there.)

Fresh Femslash Salad Bar (2026)

Feb. 2nd, 2026 10:22 am
abyssal_sylph: Hero is on Aubrey's side, he's smilling while holding Aubrey's shoulder, Aubrey is looking away, blushy. (og queer flag)
[personal profile] abyssal_sylph
The event is hosted here by [personal profile] elasticella

abyssal_sylph's salad bar
salad 1 slow dancing, Proposal & 600 words
salad 2 stargazing, Promotion & 200 words
salad 3 snowed in, Returning Home & 300 words
salad 4 cuddling, Graduation & 500 words
salad 5 renovations, Anniversary & 1000 words
salad 6 cooking together, Bon Voyage & 400 words
salad 7 waking up together, Retirement & 700 words
salad 8 first kiss, Wedding & 100 words
salad 9 second chance, Birthday & 800 words
salad 10 hair braiding, Funeral & 900 words

Some new prompts

Feb. 1st, 2026 02:04 pm
flareonfury: (Carol/Wanda)
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   [community profile] xmen100  @ [community profile] mcu100 
Submissions for the Bi-Weekly Prompt will be accepted until February 7, 11:59PM EST

 
  @ xmen100
   @ mcu100
Submissions for the Monthly Challenges will be accepted until February 28, 11:59PM EST
 
In honor of the various Femslash events that popped up this February, I figured I'd go with the theme for the pairings prompts. :D I picked two of my favorites.

Managed to finish my [community profile] smallfandomfest prompt early this morning (only 2 hours late...).

Signed up for the Fresh Femslash Salad Bar, figured I'd try my hand at it. If anyone has a particular femslash pairing they want to see (and you know I ship it or just ask, you never know - I haven't finished updating that list), feel free to request a pairing. I'm not quite sure what pairings I'll do, but that would be helpful to narrow it down.

Week 1 of the DCU Femslash February Comment Fest has started which is focused on drabble/short form, angst, and/or rarepair.

Wrote up a post at [community profile] supergirl_tv about current challenges/events happening, feel free to let me know if I missed any. I'm going to try do that monthly, but who knows.

Also did a "First Kiss" prompt at basically all my communities that I run.

Finished my Hunting Party icons for [community profile] tvmovie20in20 - shockingly early! I of course had to use Nick Wechsler's character Oliver for the "Space" prompt in honor of the first role I knew him from Kyle from Roswell. I used also a lot more textures than I normally do with this set so hopefully they turned out ok. XD Seriously if anyone starts watching the show and enjoys it, please let me know! It's a really small fandom so the more the merrier.
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 'allo and ahoy, fellow gumshoe!!
Welcome to what will be my fandom-based prrrrompts list.

Going to wait a few days to allow for our new Internet router to arrive as doing this on the phone gets tiring v. quickly.

See you in the cases!! πŸ”ŽπŸ”
Birdy 🐦 BardicRaven πŸͺΆ the One Who Tells Tales 🌻 🌞 😺 🐈 🐢 πŸ• 

Starfall Stories 51

Feb. 1st, 2026 08:08 pm
thisbluespirit: (fantasy2)
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I continue to make slow progress with recovering, which is very dull, but still generally in the right direction, however hard it is to be patient. I haven't been able to keep up much at all here, only in bits and pieces.

However, I realised I was behind with crossposting [community profile] rainbowfic pieces, and I can do that:

Name: Turn To Dust
Story: Starfall
Colors: Warm Heart #25 (Spite); Azul #9 (Willpower); Colour of the Day - 30/10/2025 (Wheedle)
Supplies and Styles: Charcoal + Chiaroscuro + Graffiti (for October Challenge incl. bonus prompt "Psychological Horror") + Novelty Beads ("But I am alive. And I am not afraid." from [personal profile] bookblather for Birthday Prompts 2021).
Word Count: 3808
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Mental manipulation, threat, injury, death.
Notes: Portcallan, 1313. Leion Valerno, Donn Chiulder, Tana Veldiner. (This isn't Psychological Horror as a genre per se, but I thought taken as a prompt, it fitted too perfectly not to use for this).
Summary: Leion faces his worst nightmare.

January book bingo

Feb. 1st, 2026 07:26 pm
tellshannon815: (nadia)
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Graphic novel or comic: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/232479447-fate
No sex/romance: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77661.The_Daughter_of_Time
Novella: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/201750645-queen-b

Substitution list:
*Over 300 Pages
*Book in Series
*LGBTQ+
*Recommended
*POC Author
*Multiple POVs - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81307313-the-birthday-reunion
*Classic/Retelling
*Sci-fi/Fantasy
*Free Space
*Anthology/Collection
*Biography/Memoir
*Friendship
*Name in the Title
*Movie/TV Tie-in
*With a Woman Protagonist
*From the Library
*Thriller/Suspense
*Set Somewhere You've Been
*Non-Human POV
*Fairy Tale or Fairy Tale Retelling
*Under 100 Pages - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/230824619-death-row
*Romance Plot or Sub-plot
*Translated
*With a Blue Cover - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/213713209-the-wasp-trap
*Horror or Paranormal - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203578707-what-the-woods-took
*Colour in the Title
*Seasonal Read
*Number in title
*Three word title
*Craft, Hobby or Cookbook
*Written by an author from your state or country
*Animal on the cover
*Disability or Mental health
*Read a book from the year you were born
*Mythology
*Title begins with first letter of your name
*Dystopian
*Book mentioned in another book
*Diverse reads
*One word title
*Award Winning/Bestseller
*Disabled Author
*Non-western Setting
*Set in your state/country
*Title is at Least Five Words Long
*Indigenous author
*Has illustrations (but not a comic or graphic novel)
*Re-read

Total Eclipse Of The Heart {Poem}

Feb. 1st, 2026 12:06 am
abyssal_sylph: Venus has her hands in front of her mouth, she is looking straight ahead, at something utterly beautiful, she's in a forest. (venus (wktd))
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A poem about radihollow, specifically one where Radiance sings of stories.
[for the prompt "locked"]

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Birds In Hollow Knight/Silksong World

Jan. 29th, 2026 11:09 am
abyssal_sylph: Seer is surrounded by pillows, hunched over. (moth grandma! (hollow knight))
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So I saw this reblog chain on Tumblr talking about birds in Hollow Knight's world. & other posts showed me that I'm not the only one who say the Faylorn beast as a bird of this universe.

Now, the bugs of HK/Silksong aren't 1-to-1 in appearace or behavior to their IRL counterparts. Matises for example in real life mostly solitary (+ iirc only ants shed their wings in adulthood, and ony if they're a queen). So it's likely if birds exist in the HK/Silksong universe, they'd be diffent too. Now how they look like is likely up to interpetation of the fan, since the closest thing we have to a bird is the Faylorn. But as the reblog chain also stated, many birds (at least large to the bugs + insect eating ones) would be interpated as the dragons of their world.

Now dragons in our world aren't one thing. The main diffrence you may know is the western vs eastern divide in dragons. Where (iirc) the western dragons are brutish beasts to slay with fire, & where eastern dragons are often wise beasts who are more assoiciated with water. Of course there's nuaces that I'm not getting here. But just like how dragons in our world aren't thing, and birds are a diverse clade; birds in the HK/Silksong universe would likely be seem in various ways by diffrent cultural groups & goverments.
abyssal_sylph: Chise is looking ominously to the camera, butterflies surround her. (chise the sleigh beggy (tamb))
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So I saw a line on the hollowknight wiki that reminded me that the bugs of Hallownest thought The Pale King (TPK) created the world which- ummmmm.

[NOTE: silksong spoilers + no content warnings apply]

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Steampunk In Space! Ideas

Jan. 28th, 2026 11:34 am
abyssal_sylph: Chise is looking ominously to the camera, butterflies surround her. (chise the sleigh beggy (tamb))
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So this post talked about tech ideas for a sci-fi setting which is steampunk in nature. Here's my attempt to share my thoughts on it:

Anti-Gravity
iirc Victorians didn't think they'd get to space because at the time, rockets sucked. And so they thought they'd use anti-gravity tech. Now, with steampunk in space we props have to bend a lot of suspension anyway, and magic (even in low amounts) might be needed. Depending on if reletivity still existing, this could be a way for the people to get to space without electricity. Though if they have anti-gravity tech or magic, i can see it also bleeding through their infrastructure & sports. Astronauts IRL do training in underwater to prepare for little to no gravity. So I don't think it's absured for water + wuxia level sports to become popular.

The Gun
Now this idea I adore. Basically one idea early people had for getting into space was, just a big gun & shooting the people into space. My & I discusses many of these ideas & he suggested that the moduals would be water-filled, to avoid the astronauts getting injured. Which basically makes them reverse submarines. Which I think is fitting, with how ocean obssessed victorians were. I think it's fun to think of space as a special ocean or "Sea of Stars", so I'm biased towards this idea. But I'd still like anti-gravity wuxia.

Other Things
Other things that I'd think happen:
- Ladies being banned from space travel for a bit, only to be later allowed. Maybe they even have their own Amelia Earhart.
- People being banned from space travel till 16 cause of how terrorizing it is.
- So many company towns, oh god /intrigued.
- If radios aren't a thing yet, astronauts could possible mostly communicate via morse code + heliographs.
abyssal_sylph: Chise is looking ominously to the camera, butterflies surround her. (chise the sleigh beggy (tamb))
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The thing is that we/I read chapter 45 a WHILE back. But remember that it was very cool! A friend told me they stoped watching/reading it cause it bored them. But I'm personally happy with the more slice of life style storytelling the manga has. I like the growth that Chise is undergoing, it makes her more indepedant iirc & I find that wonderful for her! Though I do wonder what she sees in Elias, though that might be me wanting a kismesis for Elias ^_^; & while I still don't like how Joseph was instroduced. I do like that he got given compassion by the narrative. So he's not a one-sided bad guy, even if he's in a coma rn. + to the people who pale ship Chise & Joseph; I see you <>

There was also the problem of me not being able to read the manga for a while. But I should be able to read more soon-ish

12 Week Year WAM Week 05

Jan. 26th, 2026 10:36 pm
andersenmom: KwangHaeng with snear and hat over his eyes, predebut (Days Like These)
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Weekly Score: 67.8 (40/59)

(I'm improving! wahoo!)

Goal 1: Increase my spirituality. 72% (18/25)

Review: Getting better at this. I figure I'll be writing a lot this week, as I have a lot to process. I'm not sure how it's all going to work, but I'll do my best.

Goal 2: Fit better in my clothes / feel better in my body. 58% (15/26)

Review: I'm still working on this, but I have plans, and I think those will work out. I'm having the worst time with actually drinking, which I shouldn't because my skin is practically flaking off, it's so dry (cold!). Stretching is harder than I expected, but still going to happen.

Goal 3: Whittle down my to-do list. 88% (7/8)

Review: This is the only one I didn't improve on, and I'll work to fix that, too. For the most part, though, I'm pretty happy with what I did.

Intentions for the future: G1: I'm going to focus on actually getting my journal written in. Things are going, and I need to process them. If I can make myself write about them. G2: I'm still working on recording everything - that's where a lot of the problem is - and on walking. I'm going to miss a couple of days because of appointments in the morning. And I have some extra stretches for my elbow, and I'm excited to try them out.

Catching up

Jan. 26th, 2026 11:44 pm
tellshannon815: (jenna)
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two log cabins with snow on the roofs in a wintery forest the text snowflake challenge january 1 - 31 in white cursive text

Challenge #10: Big Mood (Board)

CHOOSE SOMETHING YOU LOVE AND CREATE A MINI MOOD COLLECTION OF THREE (or more) ITEMS THAT EVOKE YOUR FEELINGS ABOUT IT. You don’t have to limit yourself to visual media, or collect the items into a special format like a square (though you can if you’d like).

I have gone with one of my top three shows, Dark, and song lyrics that fit particular characters.

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