Title: Weasley Travels
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: G
Length: 375 words
Content notes: none
Summary: The five youngest Weasleys leave Mrs. Weasley a note telling her where they've gone for the day, but with a twist. (If you aren't familiar with this type of puzzle, scroll down to the bottom for instructions.)

( Puzzle )

Title: Light the Day
Fandom: Star Trek Enterprise
Rating: PG
Length: 400 words
Content notes: AU based on the episode "E2"
Pairing: Jonathan Archer/Malcolm Reed
Author notes: This is an AU story that stands alone, though it could be considered a possible follow-up to Unsettled. It takes place ten years after Enterprise returns to Earth from the Delphic Expanse and makes reference to the Season 3 episodes "Azati Prime" and "E2". Jonathan and Malcolm have a long-established relationship; this is Jonathan's voice. The title is a reference to the lyrics quoted from "May It Be" - Enya.
Summary: A lingering question answered.

( Light the Day )

I've always loved AUs, and although they don't have to take place in an elaborately imagined and unfamiliar world to make me happy, it is kind of like stumbling across a free-pies-and-puppies store when they do. Building a fictional world -- whether you're creating it from the ground up or trying to recreate it from research and memory -- is not an easy thing to do. I struggle with it myself, and I have all kinds of admiration for those who can manage it adeptly enough that their effort is invisible.

These are some of the best examples of fannish worldbuilding I can remember coming across in various fandoms over the years. Some are recent and some are not.

( Five recs beneath the cut )

Also, because so many of them came up in my searches for fanworks to rec, ( here are a few resources for those of you who might be doing some worldbuilding of your own: )

I know there are probably plenty of examples of great worldbuilding I'm missing (and probably plenty of good resources, too). Please, leave your own related recs and links in the comments!

Title: Station: The Rose
Fandom: Revolutionary Girl Utena & LOST (crossover/fusion)
Rating: G
Length/size: 1800 words / 250px x 250px
Content notes: none
Author notes: I'm still not sure if this is a fusion, such that Utena and Anthy are transposed to the DHARMA Initiative on the island in LOST, or if it's multiversal crossover, where post-series, Utena and Anthy meet again. In the Initiative, on the island. :D?

Summary: Hybridized roses multiplied the wild rose's five simple petals into ornate, ruffled variations. This station will seek to explore chance, hybridize and disturb fate.
( graphic under here )

( story under here )

Title: Lucky Breaks
Author: hardboiledbaby
Fandom: Nero Wolfe (Rex Stout)
Characters: Archie, Saul, Orrie, Fred
Rating: PG
Length: 1,122
Content notes: none
Summary: A game of eight-ball reveals some interesting things. Written to the fan_flashworks "anywhere but here" challenge, and this prompt given to me long, long ago by non_canon: "I would love to see some gen of Archie, Saul, Fred, and Orrie being friends. Bonus points if you work in the idea of them being like a family." Nearly everything I know about pool I learned online, so please pardon any faux pas I've made in that area (or blame Wikipedia *g*).

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Title: neverlandwendytardismarypoppins
Fandom: Mary Poppins, Peter Pan, Doctor Who
Rating: G
Content notes: none
Artist notes: I don't know why, but I'm convinced Mary Poppins is the Doctor. I think it's the bottomless carpet bag and the coming and going, and the general awesomeness.
Summary: Mary Poppins is the Doctor and visits Wendy in Neverland

( Title )

Title: Just Past Midnight
Fandom: Portal
Rating: T for Teen
Length/size: 464 words
Content notes: none
Author notes: Portal fanfic! This such a great game, haha. GLaDOS is kind of tricky to write (and capitalize properly) but practice makes perfect, right?
Summary: Forget about seeing the sun. Right now, Chell would settle for a good watch. (GLaDOS and Chell have a rather one-sided talk.)

( There's no such thing as time anymore. )

The Anywhere But Here challenge is now closed! Here's a list of everything posted for this round:

Doctor Who/Torchwood: Fanfic: Time and Figurative Last Meals through Space by merryghoul
Suburgatory: Fanfiction: four different levels of difficulty by aphrodite_mine
GARO Makai Senki: Fanfiction: Passing a Note of Friendship by estirose
Transformers, Bayverse: Fanfic: Legacy by hellkitty
Honorverse: Fanfic: A Letter to Mike by aoifes_isle
due South: Fanfic: A Name of One's Own by luzula
Glee: Fanfic: The Plan (It's a Good One) by onlysmallwings
St Trinian's/Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: Fic: straight out of the fold of caution by lady_krysis
Doctor Who: Fanfic: Home Is the Place That's There for You to Leave by astrogirl2
Kushiel's Legacy: Fanfic: But Especially Here by musyc
XMFC: Fanfic: To Be Anywhere Else by helens78
Honorverse: Fanfic: To the Rescue by aoifes_isle
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: Fanfiction: the noblest thing which perished there by under_development
Donald Strachey Mysteries: fanfiction, fanknitting: "Last Resort" by storyfan
due South: Fanfiction: Wrong Time, Wrong Place, Right Idea by mizface
The Mentalist: Fanfic: Maroon Memories byelen_nare
Due South: FanFic: Our Only Home Is Bone by desireearmfeldt
X-Men: First Class: Fanfic: Anywhere But Here by pocky_slash
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Fanfiction: Maybe Here's Okay by misse
Star Trek: Enterprise: Fanfic: Light the Day by mareel
Multifandom: Rec Set: Worldbuilding by sprat
Revolutionary Girl Utena & LOST: Fanfic & Graphic: Station: The Rose by gloss
Portal: Fanfiction: Just Past Midnight by john_egbert
Harry Potter: Logic puzzle: Weasley Travels by princess_lirin
Original: Story: Nowhere near home by alteregon
Nero Wolfe: fanfic: Lucky Breaks by hardboiledbaby
Mary Poppins, Peter Pan, Doctor Who: Fanart: neverlandwendytardismarypoppins by cdnj

Thanks to everyone who played! You may now go ahead and re-post your entries at your own journal or wherever else you'd like. If you're archiving on AO3, you can add your work to our fan_flashworks collection there.

If you missed the deadline, please save your entry for the next amnesty round.

Also, this was our third challenge and quite a few people have earned a creator tag over the past ten days! In alphabetical order, they are:

gloss!
hardboiledbaby!
helens78!
hellkitty!
john_egbert!
lady_krisis!
luzula!
mareel!
misse!
missvmarigold!
mizface!
musyc!
sprat!
storyfan!

Congratulations to all of you! \o/

The next challenge will be posted shortly.

Reminder: You can see entries to the Dreamwidth comm on your Livejournal friends list by following dw_fan_flashwks, and you can see entries to the Livejournal comm on your Dreamwidth reading page by following lj_fan_flashworks_feed. We're also indexing the works on pinboard as fan_flashworks.

The Anywhere But Here challenge is now closed! Here's a list of everything posted for this round:

Doctor Who/Torchwood: Fanfic: Time and Figurative Last Meals through Space by missvmarigold
Suburgatory: Fanfiction: four different levels of difficulty by aphrodite_mine
GARO Makai Senki: Fanfiction: Passing a Note of Friendship by estirose
Transformers, Bayverse: Fanfic: Legacy by hellkitty
Honorverse: Fanfic: A Letter to Mike by morrigans_eve
due South: Fanfic: A Name of One's Own by luzula
Glee: Fanfic: The Plan (It's a Good One) by onlysmallwings
St Trinian's/Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: Fic: straight out of the fold of caution by lady_krysis
Doctor Who: Fanfic: Home Is the Place That's There for You to Leave by astrogirl2
Kushiel's Legacy: Fanfic: But Especially Here by musyc
XMFC: Fanfic: To Be Anywhere Else by helens78
Honorverse: Fanfic: To the Rescue by morrigans_eve
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: Fanfiction: the noblest thing which perished there by under_development
Donald Strachey Mysteries: fanfiction, fanknitting: "Last Resort" by storyfan
due South: Fanfiction: Wrong Time, Wrong Place, Right Idea by mizface
The Mentalist: Fanfic: Maroon Memories byelen_nare
Due South: FanFic: Our Only Home Is Bone by desireearmfeldt
X-Men: First Class: Fanfic: Anywhere But Here by pocky_slash
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Fanfiction: Maybe Here's Okay by misse
Star Trek: Enterprise: Fanfic: Light the Day by mareel
Multifandom: Rec Set: Worldbuilding by sprat
Revolutionary Girl Utena & LOST: Fanfic & Graphic: Station: The Rose by gloss
Portal: Fanfiction: Just Past Midnight by john_egbert
Harry Potter: Logic puzzle: Weasley Travels by princess_lirin
Original: Story: Nowhere near home by alteregon
Nero Wolfe: fanfic: Lucky Breaks by hardboiledbaby
Mary Poppins, Peter Pan, Doctor Who: Fanart: neverlandwendytardismarypoppins by cdnj

Thanks to everyone who played! You may now go ahead and re-post your entries at your own journal or wherever else you'd like. If you're archiving on AO3, you can add your work to our fan_flashworks collection there.

If you missed the deadline, please save your entry for the next amnesty round.

Also, this was our third challenge and quite a few people have earned a creator tag over the past ten days! In alphabetical order, they are:

gloss!
hardboiledbaby!
helens78!
hellkitty!
john_egbert!
lady_krisis!
luzula!
mareel!
misse!
missvmarigold!
mizface!
musyc!
sprat!
storyfan!

Congratulations to all of you! \o/

The next challenge will be posted shortly.

Reminder: You can see entries to the Dreamwidth comm on your Livejournal friends list by following dw_fan_flashwks, and you can see entries to the Livejournal comm on your Dreamwidth reading page by following lj_fan_flashworks_feed. We're also indexing the works on pinboard as fan_flashworks.

The original post on Dreamwidth has comments. Please reply there!

Title: Maybe Here’s Okay
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Rating: PG
Length: 295 words
Content notes: Pre-slash, Xander/Graham
Author notes: Just scraping in on the deadline again.
Summary: They’d always played ‘anywhere but here,’ and he’d always said the same thing.

( Amy Yip, in the water park. )

It's March 1st! Our new challenge is :

STAGES

As always, we leave it to you to decide what that means: maybe your characters are going through a stage, or maybe they're performing on one. Or maybe this is a western AU and they're stage coach drivers! Be creative, is the thing I mean to be telling you here.

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 4 p.m. PST on March 10th. No sign-up required.

Don't worry about tagging. 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.

As always, 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. \o/

It's March 1st! Our new challenge is :

STAGES

As always, we leave it to you to decide what that means: maybe your characters are going through a stage, or maybe they're performing on one. Or maybe this is a western AU and they're stage coach drivers! Be creative, is the thing I mean to be telling you here.

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 4 p.m. PST on March 10th. No sign-up required.

Don't worry about tagging. 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.

As always, 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. \o/