Title: The Good Old Days
Fandom: BtVS
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Buffy.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 300
Spoilers/Setting: Years after Season 7.
Summary: Buffy thinks back on how things used to be.
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 471: Amnesty 78, using Challenge 455: Long.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BtVS, or the characters.

Title: Taken by Sleep
Fandom: Kingdom Hearts
Pairings: Braig/Terra-Xehanort
Rating: General
Length: 838
Author's note: Title taken from a lyric from Xemnaspresso, which is itself a parody of Sabrina Carpenter's Espresso. This fic draws loose inspiration from both songs.
Summary:
Xehanort wakes to find a particularly thoughtful gift at his desk, and a particularly provoking visitor in his room uninvited.

( Taken by Sleep )

Title: animals with long necks
Fandom: none
Rating: none
Content notes: none
Artist notes: All images used from an image search.
Summary: 20 icons

( animals with long necks )

Title: Free
Fandom: Charmed
Author: Apache Firecat
Dedicated To: To Shannen, To Jordan, and to another 8-year-old girl in not altogether a different situation
Characters: Andy/Prue
Rating: G/K
Summary: She's lived for so long in a life that wasn't really hers, since she was eight years old.
Word Count: 2,627
Written For: Fan FlashWorks Challenge 459. Amnesty: 455. Long and 100 Ships 52. Salt
Warnings: Character Deaths
Disclaimer: All characters within belong to their rightful owners, not the author, and are used without permission.





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

Original Work: Art: IM LONGCAT by himejoshiheart
FAKE: Fanfic: Being Himself by badly_knitted
9-1-1: Fan Fiction: Long Wait by darkjediqueen
Miss Marple: Fanfiction: Knitting by smallhobbit
The Dragonriders of Pern: Fanfiction: Thread Will Fall by infinitum_noctem
Lord of the Rings: Fanfiction: Caverns Old by with_rainfall
FAKE: Fanfic: Long And Winding Road by badly_knitted
Death In Paradise: Fanfic: The Night Watch briarwood
King Lear: Fanfic: Act VI, scene 1 by sabcatt
Torchwood: Fanfic: Gone but not forgotten by m_findlow
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Fanfic: Dolled Up by veronyxk84
Leverage: Fanfic: here and now by fadedwings
Modao Zushi: Fanfic: Don't take too long by yoshishisha
X-Men: fanfic: Burgers by highlander_ii

Also, congratulations to those with_rainfall who earned a name tag 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.

Next round coming right up.

Title: Burgers
Fandom: X-Men movies
Rating: PG
Length: short
Content notes: none apply
Summary: Logan's back after being gone for a while...


( Burgers )

Title: Don't take too long
Fandom: Modao Zushi
Rating: G
Length: 326
Content notes: Nie Mingjue, Nie Huaisang, Bittersweet, Mention of Nie Mingjue's death
Author notes:
Summary: Don't take too long was a familiar phrase between them.

( Story )

Title: here and now
Fandom: Leverage
Pairing: Alec Hardison/Parker/Eliot Spencer
Rating: Teen
Length: 100 words
Warnings: no standard warnings apply
Summary: a bittersweet little drabble in Eliot’s POV

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Title: Dolled Up
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Characters/Pairing: Buffy/Spike (Spuffy)
Rating: PG-13/Teen
Warnings: some coarse words
Length: 200 (Google Docs)
Setting/Spoilers: Set in a post-comics alternate future where Buffy and Spike are an established couple.
Summary: Dinner plans are slightly delayed.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.

Challenge: #455 - Long

Also for: #356 - Puddle by anythingdrabble

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Title: Gone but not forgotten
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 935 words
Content notes: Spoilers for Big Finish audiobook “The Conspiracy”
Author notes: Written for Challenge 455 - Long
Summary: The prospect of Jack being gone again is a tough one to grapple with.

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Title: Act VI, scene 1 (The King's castle)
Author: sabcatt

Fandom: King Lear (Shakespeare)
Prompt: long
Rating: T
Words: 595
Dramatis personae: Duke of Albany, Edgar (now Earl of Gloucester)

Summary: Some time after the curtain falls, Albany and Gloucester talk.
Notes: A character study in script format. Contains references to Renaissance-tragedy-typical death, murder, etc. Stylistically imitating Shakespeare, hence the diction, styling, and lack of stage directions.

( Scene: The King's castle. )

Title: The Night Watch
Fandom: Death in Paradise
Rating: All ages
Length: 3,000 words approx
Content notes: Very brief reference to suicide.
Author notes: Challenge: Long. DIP always starts with a murder. I had an idea about a story where the team are racing against time to prevent a death, rather than solve one. This story isn’t quite what I originally planned, but I like how it turned out.
Summary: A late night call to a radio talk show

( Story )

Title: Long And Winding Road
Fandom: FAKE
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Dee, Ryo.
Rating: PG
Setting: Throughout the manga, to beyond Like Like Love.
Summary: It’s been a long road to get here, but worth every mile.
Word Count: 619
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 455: Long.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.

Title: Caverns Old
Rating: G
Word Count: 689
Fandom: LotR
Content notes: N/A
Author notes: I've been meaning to write this for a long time.
Summary: Legolas and Gimli in Aglarond.

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Title: Thread Will Fall
Fandom: The Dragonriders of Pern
Rating: G
Length: 90 words
Summary: 3 sentence fic. The Red Star is coming, and the people of Pern are woefully underprepared.

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Title: Knitting
Fandom: Miss Marple
Rating: G
Length: 322 words
Summary: Miss Marple knits to distract her mind

Title: Long Wait
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Discussion of Child Abuse, Discussion of Domestic Violence
Fandom: 9-1-1
Relationships: Evan Buckley/Tommy Kinard
Tags: Found Family, Established Relationship, Hurt/Comfort
Summary: Tommy hadn't thought about having a family of his own in a long time. Not until Evan.
Word Count: 8,163
Author Notes: Written for the Big Moxie 2024 Quarter 3 prompt of Found Family.
Beta: Grammarly

Title: Being Himself
Fandom: FAKE
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Bikky, Carol, Ryo, OCs.
Rating: PG
Setting: Before and during the manga.
Summary: Bikky hates the color of his hair, but that doesn’t stop him wearing it long.
Word Count: 704
Content Notes: Nada.
Written For: Challenge 455: Long.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.

Title: IM LONGCAT
Fandom: Original Content
Rating: PG
Content notes:
Artist notes: this is my fursona
Summary: i'm longcat

Our new challenge is:

LONG

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, September 20th. No sign-up required.

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