Our new challenge is:

YIELD

As always, you can interpret the prompt literally or figuratively, in whatever way works for 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 4pm Pacific Time on Friday, 20 June. No sign-up required.

Mods will tag your work with fandom 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.

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 ffw_social comm, it's never too late to come and check it out. (Posts are locked, which means you have to join to see them.)

Title: Their Love
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Explicit Sex
Fandom: S.W.A.T.
Relationships: Donovan Rocker/Molly Hicks
Tags: Established Relationship, Fluff & Smut
Summary: Donny loved them like this.
Word Count: 1,241

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

S.W.A.T.: Fan Fiction: Different Meeting by darkjediqueen
MCU: Fanfic: None of Us Stand Alone by alexcat
Torchwood: Fanfic: Menagerie by badly_knitted
Original: Fanfic: go on by bluedreaming
Criminal Minds: Fanfiction: When Love Lasts by infinitum_noctem
Spooks (MI5): Fanfic: Support Your Local Baby Bank by smallhobbit
House of the Dragon: Fanfic: Weight by peaked
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Fanfic: Crypt Hunting by veronyxk94
Torchwood: Fanfic: You get what you give by m_findlow
Star Trek Voyager: fic: substitute by lilly_c
The Double: fanfic: competition by teaotter
Suits: fanfic: Giving by highlander_ii
Original Fiction: What Happened in 2013 by analogbasilisk
Greek Myth: Fanfic: Charity by drabblewriter
Guardian: fanfic: Raw Nerves, Old Scars by china_shop

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

badly_knitted earned The Outstanding (11 Year Streak)!

\o/ \o/ \o/

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.

Next challenge coming right up.

Title: Raw Nerves, Old Scars
Fandom: Guardian (TV)
Rating: T-rated
Length: 1176 words
Notes: A million thanks to mergatrude and teaotter for beta. <3 <3 <3
Tags: Chu Shuzhi/Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, Zhao Yunlan & Da Qing, Shen Wei & Ye Zun. Post-Canon, Anger, Effects of Past Trauma, Complicated Relationships, Poly Relationships, Shen Wei misses his didi, Zhao Yunlan hates Ye Zun, Zhao Yunlan is triggered, Loyalties, Friendship, Clothes Sharing, Unreliable Narration.
Warning: This is set in a post-canon ‘verse where the canon events happened except that Da Qing took Zhao Yunlan’s place in the Lantern. Three difficult years later, Shen Wei and Da Qing came back. So Zhao Yunlan still has a lot of issues. This fic deals with intense feelings that aren't easily resolved.
Summary: Feel the anger and do it anyway.

( Raw Nerves, Old Scars )

Prompt: 481. Charity
Word count: 695
Rating: T
Summary: there are three versions of what happened to Prett when she was sixteen.
Warning for homophobia, mentioned conversion camps, mentioned teen pregnancy, implied child abuse.

( Read more... )

Title: Giving
Fandom: Suits
Rating: PG
Length: short
Content notes: none applySummary: would you look at that, Mike might be in trouble again...


( Giving )

Title: competition
Fandom: The Double (cdrama)
Content notes: none
Length: 100 words

Summary: Jiang Li stole everything.


( Read more... )

Title: substitute
Fandom: Star Trek: Voyager
Rating: G
Length: 275 words
Content notes: missing scene, implied food poisoning from Neelix’s coffee substitute, early in canon and developing friendship
Author notes: Missing scene from The Cloud, takes place shortly after Neelix tries to give Kathryn the “even better than coffee substitute” and I borrowed two lines from the ep but everything else is mines. If you spot a wild goof give me a prod and I’ll try to fix it, the dyslexia is kicking my arse at the moment.
Summary: Kathryn looked at him, realising he was referring to the three days earlier in the month when he insisted he couldn’t leave his quarters and wouldn’t tell anyone the reason for it. “You tried it? What happened?”

( substitute )

Title: You get what you give
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Owen, Ianto
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 1,363 words
Content notes: None
Author notes: Written for Challenge 481 - Charity
Summary: Ianto has charged himself and Owen with a less than ordinary Torchwood assignment.

( Read more... )

Title: Crypt Hunting
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Author: veronyxk84
Characters/Pairing: Spike
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: some coarse language
Word count: 100 (Google Docs)
Spoilers/Setting: Set in S4, some time between eps. 4x12 “A New Man” and 4x13 “The I in Team”
Summary: Spike has finally found a crypt to live in.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.

Challenge: #481 Charity
Also for: [June 10 out of 20] charity - dangerous - hunting - sick - tired by sweetandshort

—
( Crypt Hunting )
 

Title: Weight
Fandom: House of the Dragon
Characters: Alicent Hightower (Alicent/Rhaenyra or Alicent & Rhaenyra)
Prompt: 481: Charity
Rating: PG
Length: 200 words
Content warnings: Implications of incest. Some gaslighting, as is Alicent's way.
Author’s notes: Set somewhere in season 1 before the big time jump. You can read this as shippy or not.
Summary: Is it not Alicent’s duty to pray for Rhaenyra’s sins?

( Alicent’s knees ache from the weight she carries. )

Title: Support Your Local Baby Bank
Fandom: Spooks (MI5)
Rating: G
Length: 703 words
Summary: What it says in the title!

Title: When Love Lasts
Fandom: Criminal Minds
Pairings: Jennifer "JJ" Jareau/Emily Prentiss
Characters: Emily Prentiss
Rating: G
Length: 88 words
Summary: Emily chooses her family.

( Read more... )

Title: go on
Fandom: Original
Rating: G
Length: 100 words
Content notes: implied invasion/colonization in the past (science fiction)
Author notes: The title is from 10:10 o’clock by Lynn Moe Swe, translated by ko ko thett. I wanted to make this fit a fandom, but I got to the end and sat on it and I still haven't found one of mine for which this resonates.
Summary: In which two young people, not quite friends, on different sides of [something], talk anyway.

( Read more... )

Title: Menagerie
Fandom: Torchwood
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Jack.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 824
Summary: More alien creatures have fallen through the Rift and Ianto is starting to wonder how he’s supposed to cope with caring for so many different species.
Spoilers: Nada
Warnings: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 481: Charity at fan_flashworks.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood or any of the characters.

Title: None of Us Stand Alone
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: PG
Length: 681 words
Content notes: This is post Endgame
Author notes: My grandmother used to say 'Charity begins at home' because she never gave anyone anything.
Summary: Tony has a surprise for Steve at his charity ball.

( None of Us Stand Alone )

Title: Different Meeting
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Explicit Sex
Fandom: S.W.A.T.
Relationships: Donovan Rocker/Molly Hicks
Tags: Getting Together, Different First Re-Meeting
Summary: Molly wanted company, and she got it in tow forms. A kitten she named Menace and a boyfriend, both got on the same day.
Word Count: 3,981

Our new challenge is:

CHARITY

As always, you can interpret the prompt literally or figuratively, in whatever way works for 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 4pm Pacific Time on Tuesday, June 10th. No sign-up required.

Mods will tag your work with fandom 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.

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 ffw_social comm, it's never too late to come and check it out. (Posts are locked, which means you have to join to see them.)

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

Lucky Star: Icon: Nap, by vampireshmu
S.W.A.T.: Fan Fiction: Sleepy Thoughts, by darkjediqueen
Torchwood: Fanfic: Naptime, by badly_knitted
The Legend of Korra: Fanfiction: Demands Are Not Welcome Here, Turn and Walk Away, by infinitum_noctem
Miss Marple: Fanfic: An Old Lady's Privilege, by smallhobbit
Star Trek Voyager: fic: nothing is better, by lilly_c
Guardian: fanfic: softening, by china_shop
Original Fiction: Heroics Aren't For Boys, by analogbasilisk
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Fanart: Shuteye (9 icons), by veronyxk84
Torchwood: Fanfic: Put to rest, by m_findlow
The Double: fanfic: tangible, by teaotter
Greek Myth: Fanfic: Fate and Care, by drabblewriter
Marvel Comics | icons | snoozing, by highlander_ii


Congratulations to analogbasilisk, who earned a name tag!

\o/ \o/ \o/

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!