Title: Secondary Messenger
Author mafief
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (ACD)
Rating: G
Length: Four haikus
Content notes: Maybe slash (if you want it to be). Major character death (if you want it to be). Warning: liberal use of scientific terminology.
Summary: Secondary messenger: n. A substance whose release within a cell is promoted by a hormone and that brings about a response by the cell. Examples of secondary messengers are calcium, cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP), and inositol triphosphate (IP₃)

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Title: Blaming The Messenger
Fandom: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (TV)
Length: 300 words
Content notes: no warnings apply
Author note: thanks to owl_by_night for her help with this one.
Summary: It was not Grant’s fault that Napoleon was back, or that Lord Wellington had need of the Army’s magician again.

( Blaming The Messenger )

Title: Spider-Sitter
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe (Spider-Man)
Rating: G
Length: 1,215 words
Content notes: Set early in Spider-Man: Homecoming, spoilers for Captain America: Civil War

Summary: Happy did not sign up to be a glorified babysitter. Good thing he knows his boss well enough to hear what he doesn't say when he assigns him to be the go-between with Peter Parker.

( Spider-Sitter )

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

Spooks (MI5): Fanfic: The Telegram, by smallhobbit
Killjoys: fanart: Be Not Afraid, by teaotter
Babylon 5: Fanfic: Arrangements, by badly_knitted
Teen Wolf: Fanfic: Known/Unknown, by green
Jeremiah (TV) : Fanfic : God's messenger, by prisca
Yuri!!! on Ice: Fic: no more sighing or lying, by smallredboy
Torchwood: Fanfic: A Bit Of A Jam, by badly_knitted
Torchwood: Fanfic: Harbinger, by m_findlow
Fullmetal Alchemist: Fic: Cryptic, by jordannamorgan
Original: Poetry: Harbinger, by lferion
Sailor Moon: Fanart: 7 icons, by snowynight
Greek Mythology: Fanfic: Message Received, by fadedwings
Avatar: The Last Airbender: Haiku: Goodbye, Hawky, by infinitum_noctem
Suits : icons : Delivery for Kumquat McGillicutty, by highlander_ii
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: Fanfic: Blaming The Messenger, by clarasteam
Sherlock Holmes (ACD): Haiku: Secondary Messenger, by mafief
Original: Poetry: Angel, by thewhitelily
Rogue One: Fanfic: More Than a Messenger, by drabblewriter
Marvel Cinematic Universe: Fanfic: Spider-Sitter, by philote_auctor
jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: Fic: Nothing Except a Battle Lost, by owl_by_night


Also, congratulations to those who earned name tags and achievement badges this round:

fadedwings, who earned 10 Fandom Spread
mafief, 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:

PAIR

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 Wednesday, September 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/

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Title: Angel On My Shoulder
Fandom: Original
Challenge: Messenger
Rating: G
Length: 164 words
A/N: The word 'angel' is derived from the Greek word for messenger.
Summary: Some angels have a hard job getting their message heard.

Title: Nothing Except a Battle Lost
Fandom: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Rating: PG
Length: 1118
Pairing: Jonathan Strange/Major Grant
Content notes: Major character death
Author's notes: Many thanks to Fen for cheering me on in the writing of this, particularly when the deadline was looming! The title is a quote from Wellington - nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
Summary: After the battle of Waterloo, a messenger tells Grant that Merlin is dead


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