Title: Battle of the Bulbs
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (ACD)
Rating: G
Length: 563 words
Summary: In the Sussex village where Holmes and Watson have retired the villagers are involved in an informal competition

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( The Prettiest Plant Slime )

Title: Blooming Flowers
Fandom: Castlevania
Rating: G
Length: 100 words 8 photos
Summary: Trevor Belmont sets out by himself, Sylpha would have told him it was a bad idea.

( Trevor's adventure )

 

Title: Harumi Necklace
Fandom: None
Rating: G.
Summary: A necklace of ceramic and stone beads with a stone leaf pendant.
Content Notes: Harumi means “spring beauty”. The ceramic beads of this necklace depict springtime blossoms of flowering trees, interspersed with black lava stone from volcanoes whose ashes enrich the soil.

( Harumi Necklace )

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

Barbie Movies: Fanfic: pink petals under a golden sun by skyrosebud
Torchwood: Fanfic: Blooming Lovely by badly_knitted
Merlin: Fanfic: For Freya by badly_knitted
Sherlock Holmes (ACD): Fanfic: A Garden To Plant by smallhobbit
Silmarillion: Fanfic: Rejoicing by lferion
She-Ra and the Princess of Power: Monorhyme: Plumeria Blossoms by infinitum_noctem
Guardian: Fanfic: Plum Blossoms by laireshi
Torchwood: Fanfic: In full bloom by m_findlow
My Chemical Romance: Fanfic: Fill my head with pieces by dreamersdare
No Fandom: Icons: Flowering Trees by jordannamorgan
Guardian: fanfic: the last to know by teaotter
no fandom : icons : purty by highlander_ii
Hannibal (TV): Fanfic: take a trip into my garden by smallredboy
Magic Knight Rayearth: Fanfic: In bloom by down

Also, congratulations to smallhobbit who earned The Tenacious badge this round!

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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.

Title: In bloom
Fandom: Magic Knight Rayearth
Rating: G
Length: 800ish words
Content notes: None
Author notes: Post canon, Umi and Clef hanging out
Summary: "Clef, those plants are trying to lean on you."

( In bloom )

Title: take a trip into my garden
Fandom: Hannibal (TV)
Rating: PG
Pairing: Alana Bloom/Margot Verger
Wordcount: 0.8k
Content notes: References to murder, but nothing big.
Author notes: Also for creativechallenges Shippy Building with the prompt "Garden", and for femslash100100 with the prompt "green".
Summary: Alana Bloom does not have a green thumb..
( Read more... )

Title: purty
Fandom: none
Rating: PG
Content notes: None apply
Summary: icons of flowers in bloom


( purty )

title: the last to know
fandom: Guardian
words: ~700
relationships: Zhao Yunlan & Da Qing , implied Shen Wei & Da Qing, implied Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
contents: AU: Da Qing remembers; misunderstandings; banter; implicit spoilers for a whole bunch of things
author's note: This is not exactly a sequel to not as though it was yesterday, but it’s set in a similar alternate universe where the 10,000 year-old cat doesn’t have amnesia

summary: Zhao Yunlan knows Shen Wei has secrets. He just never thought those secrets included a relationship with his best friend.

( Read more... )

Title: Flowering Trees
Fandom: none
Rating: G
Summary: Five icons of flowering trees in bloom.

( Flowering Trees )

Title: Fill my head with pieces
Fandom: My Chemical Romance
Characters: Frank Iero/Gerard Way
Rating: Explicit
Length: 1,218 words
Content notes: Contains swearwords, spanking, kink discussion, implied orgasm delay/denial, discussions of consent, explicit sexual descriptions
Author notes: It was never going to be flowers, was it? Title from The Paper Kites Bloom (I was looking for inspiration)
Summary: Sometimes right in the thick of things is when you discover what's true about yourself. What you do with that knowledge is entirely up to you.

( Fill my head with pieces )

Title: Plum Blossoms
Fandom: Guardian (novel, post-Shen San extra)
Rating: Teen
Length: 100
Author's notes: Shen San broke me, okay.
Content notes: Mentions of canon character death; spoilers for the Shen San extra.
Summary: Shen Wei doesn't see hope in the plum blossoms.

( Read more... )

Title: Plumeria Blossoms
Fandom: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
Characters: Perfuma
Rating: G
Length: 35
Summary: Perfuma joins the fight against the Horde.

( Read more... )

Title: Rejoicing
Fandom: The Silmarillion
Challenge: Bloom
Rating: G
Length: 100
Content notes: N/A
Author notes: Thanks go to Morgynleri & Runa for encouragement & sanity-checking.
Summary: A celebration with fireworks

( Rejoicing )

Title: A Garden To Plant
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (ACD)
Rating: G
Length: 621 words
Summary: Watson and Seth set to work on the Hopkins' flower garden.
Part of my Sussex Retirement 'verse.

( As Holmes had told Hopkins )

Title: For Freya
Fandom: Merlin
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Merlin, Freya.
Rating: G
Word Count: 250
Spoilers/Setting: The Lady of the Lake.
Summary: Merlin just wants to help Freya, any way he can.
Content Notes: None necessary.
Written For: Prompt 301: Bloom.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Merlin, or the characters.


( For Freya... )

Title: Blooming Lovely
Fandom: Torchwood/Doctor Who
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Jack, Tosh, Owen, Gwen, Eleventh Doctor, OCs.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 2216
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: The Torchwood Team winds up in an awkward predicament requiring the Doctor’s assistance.
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 301: Bloom.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.



( Blooming Lovely... )

Title: pink petals under a golden sun
Fandom: Barbie Movies
Rating: G
Length: 385 words
Content notes: None
Author notes: Gen, Anneliese & Erika, also for the prompt “roses” on my creativechallenges table.
Summary: Erika searches for inspiration in the rose bushes.

( Erika snuck into the royal gardens one spring morning, )

Our new challenge is:

BLOOM

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 Wednesday, June 10th. 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.

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 never too late to come and check it out. (Remember, posts are locked, which means you have to join to see them.)