Title: On Parodies and Special Guest Stars
Author: lt_indigo
Fandom: Supernatural
Rating: PG
Length: 2,119 words
Warning: meta. Extreme meta.
Summary: In which Dean dreams a dream.
Author's note: With apologies to The Hillywood Show.

( On Parodies and Special Guest Stars )

Title: Such Heavy Bones
Fandom: The Vintner's Luck
Rating: G
Length: ~ 500
Content notes: N/A
Author notes: The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox is an amazing novel and the central theme in it is a male/male love story between the vintner Sobran and the fallen angel Xas. I read it last year and thought it really deserved a wider audience/fandom.
Summary: For a long time, dancing was the closest Xas could get to flight.

( Such Heavy Bones )

Title: A Lesson in Slow Dancing
Fandom: Pretty Little Liars
Rating: G
Length: 200 words
Author notes: Takes place about a year before the start of season one.
Summary: Emily is nervous about her first dance. Alison is there to help.

( A Lesson in Slow Dancing )

Title: Like a Wave
Fandom: Mass Effect
Rating: PG
Length: 484
Pairing: Kaidan Alenko/male Shepard
Content notes: Post canon, subsequent to Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut, destroy ending
Author notes: This takes place approximately seven months after the Reaper War was won. Shepard is making progress in his recovery from being found barely alive. He and Kaidan are in Vancouver and it's Shepard's voice. The title and end quote are from "The Fiddler of Dooney" - W.B. Yeats.
Summary: Commander Shepard doesn't dance.

( Like A Wave )

Title: Beyoncé is my Spiritual Twin
Fandom: Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Content notes: Playlist, selected lyrics, two graphics.
Fanmixer notes: The title is a quote from Gina. The first letters of the song titles spell out her name :)
Summary: Dance is Gina's passion.

( Read more... )

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



Blood Blockade Battlefront: Fanfic: Moon River and Me by dekiaixdevil
Agent Carter: Fanfic: Dance Steps by sholio
Doctor Who: Fanfic: Invitation to the Dance by clarasteam
Ar Tonelico: Fanfic: Kagura by redsixwing
Multi-Fandom: Rec Set: Three Fanworks by elizabeth_rice
Sevenwaters Trilogy: Poetry: The Otherworld Watcher by acidblackcherrim
Final Fantasy: Fanfic: Dancer by wallwalker
The Hobbit: Fanfic: Dancing by lferion
The Vintner's Luck: Fanfic: Such Heavy Bones by ardyforshort
Sherlock: Fanfic: CLoud Dancing by clarasteam
Final Fantasy VII: Fanfic: Cleris, Tiferis, Cloti & Charis by sanctum_c
Final Fantasy VIII: Fanfic: Second Dance by sanctum_c
Mass Effect: Fanfic: Like a Wave by mareel
Elune Saga: Fanfic: First Dance by samuraiter
Carmilla: Fanfic: nothing to prove and nothing to lose by clarahow
Captain America: Fanfic: Steve/Bucky ballet school AU by daria234
Cabin Pressure: Fanart: Dancing with the demons by lothiriel84
North and South: Fanfic: Sun After Rain by thesmallhobbit
Avengers: Fanfic: Dancing Through Life by katleept
Torchwood: Fanfic: Dancing on my own by m_findlow
The Hobbit: Fanfic: Pas de Deux by vix_spes
Torchwood: Fanfic: A Merry Dance by badly_knitted
The Phonetic Alphabet: Fanfic: Delta, Alpha, November, Charlie, Echo by scfrankles
Supernatural: Fanfic: On Parodies and Special Guest Stars by lt_indigo
Pretty Little Liars: Fanfic: A Lesson in Slow Dancing by xjadedgrlx
Brooklyn Nine Nine: Fanmix: Beyonce is my Spiritual Twin by elen_nare
The Avengers: Fanfic: Pirouette by salmon_pink


Also, congratulations to:

thesmallhobbit, who earned The Unstoppable, and The Yulegoat (GOLD)
lt_indigo, who earned Countess of Comedy, Heartbreaker (SILVER), and Early Bird (GOLD)
scfrankles, who earned Countess of Comedy
vix_spes, who earned a name tag


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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.

New challenge coming right up!

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

Blood Blockade Battlefront: Fanfic: Moon River and Me by dekiaixdevil
Agent Carter: Fanfic: Dance Steps by sholio
Doctor Who: Fanfic: Invitation to the Dance by fengirl88
Ar Tonelico: Fanfic: Kagura by redsixwing
Multi-Fandom: Rec Set: Three Fanworks by elizabeth_rice
Sevenwaters Trilogy: Poetry: The Otherworld Watcher by acidblackcherrim
Final Fantasy: Fanfic: Dancer by wallwalker
The Hobbit: Fanfic: Dancing by lferion
The Vintner's Luck: Fanfic: Such Heavy Bones by lexigent
Sherlock: Fanfic: Cloud Dancing by fengirl88
Final Fantasy VII: Fanfic: Cleris, Tiferis, Cloti & Charis by sanctum_c
Final Fantasy VIII: Fanfic: Second Dance by sanctum_c
Mass Effect: Fanfic: Like a Wave by mareel
Elune Saga: Fanfic: First Dance by samuraiter
Carmilla: Fanfic: nothing to prove and nothing to lose by clarahow
Captain America: Fanfic: Steve/Bucky ballet school AU by daria234
Cabin Pressure: Fanart: Dancing with the demons by lothiriel84
North and South: Fanfic: Sun After Rain by thesmallhobbit
Avengers: Fanfic: Dancing Through Life by katleept
Torchwood: Fanfic: Dancing on my own by m_findlow
The Hobbit: Fanfic: Pas de Deux by vix_spes
Torchwood: Fanfic: A Merry Dance by badly_knitted
The Phonetic Alphabet: Fanfic: Delta, Alpha, November, Charlie, Echo by scfrankles
Supernatural: Fanfic: On Parodies and Special Guest Stars by lt_indigo
Pretty Little Liars: Fanfic: A Lesson in Slow Dancing by xjadedgrlx
Brooklyn Nine Nine: Fanmix: Beyonce is my Spiritual Twin by elen_nare
The Avengers: Fanfic: Pirouette by salmon_pink


Also, congratulations to:

thesmallhobbit, who earned The Unstoppable, and The Yulegoat (GOLD)
lt_indigo, who earned Countess of Comedy, Heartbreaker (SILVER), and Early Bird (GOLD)
scfrankles, who earned Countess of Comedy
vix_spes, who earned a name tag


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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.

New challenge coming right up!

Our new challenge is:

FLAVOR

As always, how you interpret the prompt is entirely up to 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 4 p.m. PDT on Saturday, June 20th. No sign-up required.

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.

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/

Also, keep an eye out for the next ffw_social post, which will go up in the next couple of days. If you haven't joined the comm yet, it's definitely not too late to come and check it out. (Remember, posts are locked, which means you have to join to see them.)

Our new challenge is:

FLAVOR

As always, how you interpret the prompt is entirely up to 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 4 p.m. PDT on Saturday, June 20th. No sign-up required.

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.

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/

Also, keep an eye out for the next ffw_social post, which will go up in the next couple of days. If you haven't joined the comm yet, it's definitely not too late to come and check it out. (Remember, posts are locked, which means you have to join to see them.)

Title: Cloud Dancing
Fandom: Sherlock (BBC)
Length: 475 words
Pairing: Sherlock/Lestrade
Content notes: no warnings apply
Author notes: sequel to Suddenly, A Familiar Song, from Sherlock's point of view. Direct quotations from The Sign of Three are taken from Ariane DeVere's transcript.
Summary: On the morning after the events of The Sign of Three, Sherlock wakes up with a hangover and finds that he is not alone.

( Cloud Dancing )

Title: First Dance
Fandom: Elune Saga
Rating: G
Length: 100 Words
Content Notes: None.
Author Notes: In honor of my departed save data for this game.
Summary: You can dance in your soul, but what if a soul is all you have?

* * * *

( First Dance )

Title: Cleris, Tiferis, Cloti & Charis
Fandoms: Final Fantasy VII
Rating: SFW
Length: 5488 words
Characters: Aerith Gainsborough, Cloud Strife, Tifa Lockhart, Barret Wallace, Hojo, Gast, Reeve Tuesti, Elmyra Gainsborough, OCs (kinda)
Relationship: Cloud/Tifa/Aerith
Summary: Dancing makes them more than the sum of their parts.
Notes: This is a sort of fusion with Steven Universe - though for the most part it is just gem-fusion as applied to the Cetra and how that might have amended the game story. The fic works off the old and mostly ignored notion that the Cetra originated from somewhere other than the Planet (to match to the gems of Steven Universe). The fic also draws heavily from two episodes of Steven Universe. "Lion 3: Straight to Video" forms the basis of Ifalna's message to Aeris. Most of the fusion moments are directly inspired by "Alone Together". Thanks to raaj as always for suggesting Clariti (I think) as an alternate ship-name and for Charis which I keep using.

( Cleris, Tiferis, Cloti & Charis )

Title: Pirouette
Fandom: The Avengers (Movieverse)
Pairing: Natasha/Wanda
Rating: R
Length: 322 words
Content Notes: Spoilers for Avengers: Age Of Ultron. Set after Avengers: Age Of Ultron.
Summary: Wanda is a whole new dance.


( “The way you move,” Natasha murmurs, lips pressed to Wanda’s neck. )

Title: Second Dance
Fandoms: Final Fantasy VIII
Rating: SFW
Length: 305 words
Relationship: Squall/Rinoa
Characters: Squall Leonhart
Summary: The second time has to be better than the first.
Notes: Occurring a little before "And Yet the Party Was Still Going"

( Second Dance )

Title: I Wanna Wake Up Where You Are
Fandom: Arrow
Rating: T
Length: 150 words
Summary: She isn't moping.
Challenges: fan_flashworks #122: flavor. femslash100 #462: hello.
1-million-words June Bingo: Card Teaching/Learning 5x5: Career Plans.
fills prompt from elasticella in drabble tag #6: Laurel/Nyssa: fries.
Note: Title and cut text from the Goo Goo Dolls' 'Slide'.

Laurel's alone in a booth, and if anyone were there, they'd probably tell her she was moping, but there isn't anyone here but the diner's owner and a couple of bored waiters, so she isn't moping. She picks up another fry from her plate and dips it in the shake, now almost as much out of habit as of neediness.

"You still do that?" comes a voice from out of nowhere - an achingly familiar voice.

Nyssa.

Laurel snaps to focus, and Nyssa emerges from farther down the aisle of booths, leather pants and jacket skintight and awkwardly floral blouse covering not quite enough skin to hide her bruises and scars.

Laurel gasps, emotions swell, and Nyssa smiles and slides into the booth, partaking in Laurel's midnight snack without another word.

"How..." Laurel starts to inquire when the plate's getting close to clean.

"I've been...looking into a change of career."