Title: moving on
Fandom: The Old Guard
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 364
Content note: canon typical death
Author's note: post canon
Summary: Camping trips, hunter gatherer style.

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Title: Birthday Card
Rating: G
Content notes: None
Artist notes: Quick lockdown-prompted watercolour and ink sketch to make a birthday card for my father-in-law.
Summary: Trees in Spring.

( Birthday Card )

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

Guardian: fanfiction: Masks and Recompense, by china_shop
Sherlock (BBC): Fanfic: Christmas Customs, by smallhobbit
Star Trek (aos): Fanfic: a most ancient custom, by elasticella
Orange Is The New Black: Senryu: Prisoner, by infinitum_noctem
Torchwood: Fanfic: Celebrating With Friends, by badly_knitted
Guardian: fanfiction: Coming Upstairs, by china_shop
Suits : art/icons : Ugly Sweaters, by highlander_ii
Torchwood: Fanfic: Sticking to tradition, by m_findlow
no fandom: icons: holiday icons, by teaotter
Star Wars Legends: Fanfic: Perfection, by drabblewriter
Fullmetal Alchemist: Fic: Misinformed, by jordannamorgan
The Hobbit: Fanfic: Custom, by lferion
Fallen London: fanfiction: Learning the Rules, by wallwalker
Good Omens: Fanfic: Customs Charges, by seasoliliquy
Cabin Pressure: Fanfic: Finnish Customs, by clarasteam
Magic Knight Rayearth: Fanfic: Celebration (clothing optional), by down



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


smallhobbit, who earned The Prognosticator (SILVER)



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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: Celebration (clothing optional)
Fandom: Magic Knight Rayearth
Rating: Teenish
Length: 1300ish words
Content notes: Mention of totally made up Cephiran religion and fertility festivals.
Author notes: Borrowing Festival from Milieva, who prompted this... Umi&/Clef
Summary: "Anyway, it's hardly a surprise if there's a lot of people pregnant at the moment. It's nine months since Festival, after all."

"What's that got to do with it?"

( Celebration (clothing optional) )

Title: Finnish Customs
Fandom: Cabin Pressure
Length: 200
Rating: G
Content notes: no warnings apply
Characters: Milo, Douglas, Arthur
Summary: In Milo’s experience, it is always a pleasure to do business exchange pleasantries and gifts with his old friend Douglas Richardson.
Author note: Milo's side of the exchange in s2 Ep01 Helsinki

( Finnish Customs )

Title: Customs Charges
Fandom: Good Omens
Rating: G
Length: 1100 words
Content notes: None
Author notes: There should be fancy clickable footnotes, let me know if they don't work!
Summary: Crowley hadn't invented countries, borders, or imports. But he had invented customs charges.

( Customs Charges )

Title: Learning the Rules
Fandom: Fallen London
Rating: PG
Length: 200 words
Note: POV of a player character that I'm still trying to flesh out - I'll name them later.
Summary: Some of the customs of the Neath work to a player's advantage.

( Customs )

Title: Custom
Fandom: The Hobbit
Challenge: Customs
Rating: G
Length: 111
Content notes: N/A
Author notes: Thanks go to the usual suspects for encouragement & sanity-checking.
Summary: It was customary

( Custom )

Title: Misinformed
Author: jordannamorgan
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist
Characters: Military OC, Kain Fuery.
Setting: General.
Rating: G.
Length: 383 words.
Summary: Residents of East City have gotten some odd ideas about alchemists.

( Misinformed )

Because it's the season! 5 winter/year-end holiday icons under the cut.

Feel free to take and use if you want them!

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Title: Sticking to tradition
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Jack, Ianto
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 1,240 words
Content notes: none
Author notes: Written for Challenge 247 - Customs
Summary: The boys reflect on some Christmas traditions.


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Title: Ugly Sweaters
Fandom: Suits
Rating: G
Content notes: None apply
Summary: Suits manip - Donna, Harvey and Louis in ugly x-mas sweaters, plus 3 icons from the manip

( Ugly Sweaters )

Title: Coming Upstairs
Fandom: Guardian
Rating: G
Length: ~700 words
Notes: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan pre-slash. Set pre-series, but contains spoilers for later episodes.
Summary: Shen Wei arrived in Haixing less than a week ago.

( Coming Upstairs )

Title: Celebrating With Friends
Fandom: Torchwood
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Jack, Ianto, TARDIS, Others.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1757
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Despite being far away from earth, some customs die hard. Ianto and Jack still make a point of celebrating Christmas every year, preferably in the company of family or friends.
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 247: Customs.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Set in my Through Time and Space ‘Verse.





( Celebrating With Friends... )

Title: Prisoner
Fandom: Orange Is The New Black
Characters: Piper Chapman
Rating: G
Length: 12
Summary: "I committed a crime. Being in here is no one's fault but my own."

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Title: a most ancient custom
Fandom: star trek (aos)
Rating: teen
Length: 579 words
Notes: also for ladiesbingo, established relationship (gaila/nyota)

( “It’s an ancient Orion custom! We have to keep him.” )

Title: Christmas Customs
Fandom: Sherlock (BBC)
Rating: G
Length: 415 words
Summary: John Watson wants to establish some Christmas customs for Rosie, but is getting little support from Sherlock.

( John Watson gave a loud sigh )

 

 

Title: Masks and Recompense
Fandom: Guardian
Rating: PG-ish?
Length: ~1,950 words
Notes: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan established relationship. Set during episode 17. Tons of thanks to trobadora for beta. <3 <3 <3
Summary: Shen Wei explains a Dixing custom; Zhao Yunlan makes amends.

( Masks and Recompense )

Our new challenge is:

CUSTOMS

As always, you can interpret the prompt literally or figuratively, in whatever way works for you and your preferred fandom and medium.

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 Monday, December 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.)