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


Original: Poetry: Esoteric Matches, by lferion
Original: Poetry: (mis)Matched, by alexseanchai
No Guns Life: Fanart (Wallpaper): Juuzou, by jordannamorgan
Once Upon A Time: Senryu: Playing Matchmaker, by infinitum_noctem
Guardian: fanfic: undocumented, by teaotter
Original: poetry: Current mood, by china_shop
Torchwood: Fanfic: In The Dark, by badly_knitted
Torchwood: Fanfic: Perfect match, by m_findlow
Shadowhunters: Fanfic: every version of me, dead and buried in the yard outside, by elasticella
FAKE: Fanfic: Snap!, by badly_knitted
Sherlock (BBC): Fanfic: Matching the Cards, by smallhobbit
Live Music: Photography: Dirty Laces & The Cavs, by caveat_lector
Original: Poetry: open heart robbery, by smallredboy
All-New Ghost Rider: Fanfiction: Greased Lightening, by rokhal
Transformers Animated: Fanfic: Worthy Opponent, by candyfox
no fandom : icons : strike a match, by highlander_ii
All Out!!: Team Play (fanfic), by ldybastet
Magic Knight Rayearth: Fanfic: matchless, by down
Joker (2019): Fic: Purpose, by jordannamorgan
Original : Poetry : Game, set and, by mergatrude


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


smallredboy, who earned 6 Challenge Streak, Brave New Fandoms, 10 Fandom Spread


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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.

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Title: Game, set and
Fandom: Original
Content notes: This is based on tanka form of 5 lines of 31 syllables or less, following the short/long/short/long/long form.
Author notes: not beta-ed
Summary: Sometimes you lose

( Game, set and )

Title: Madness, Like Gravity…
Author: jordannamorgan
Fandom: Joker (2019)
Characters: Joker (Arthur Fleck)
Setting: A certain eventful car ride…
Rating: Teen.
Length: 694 words.
Summary: Joker admires the beauty of it all.

( Madness, Like Gravity… )

Title: Matchless
Fandom: Magic Knight Rayearth
Rating: G
Length: 1500 words
Content notes: None
Author notes: Post canon, Umi and Clef and the other girls
Summary: They didn't have that much need for fire in Cephiro, and when they did need something to burn, well. Hikaru was normally happy to do the honours.


( matchless )

Title: Team Play
Author: ldybastet
Fandom/Pairing: All Out!! - Kirishima twins/Ebumi Masaru
Summary: Ebumi's relaxing but boring stay at an onsen turns a bit more interesting when the Kirishima twins show up.
Rating: Adult/NC-17
Content: Twincest, threesome, spitroasting, hook-up...
Disclaimer: All Out!! is the property of Amase Shiori, and I'm just borrowing her characters to illustrate my imaginary gay stories. No people, either real or fictional, were hurt or exploited in the writing of this story. Not making money from this, it's just for fun.
Notes: ~2150 words. Set at an unspecified time before the Hanazono tournament starts. Beta by the fabulous miss zabimitsuki!

( Team Play )

Title: strike a match
Fandom: none
Rating: PG
Content notes: None apply
Summary: icons of matches, both lit and unlit


( strike a match )

Title: Worthy Opponent
Fandom: Transformers Animated
Rating: General
Length: 215
Content notes: None
Summary: Megatron finally met his match in Optimus Prime.

( Worthy Opponent )

Title: Greased Lightening
Fandom: All-New Ghost Rider (Fullmetal Alchemist fusion)
Rating: PG-13
Length: 2764
Summary: Gabe Reyes is a normal fifteen year-old trying to survive being raised by his twenty-year-old brother Robbie, procrastinating on his schoolwork and his next D&D campaign by learning Alchemy from military textbooks he pirated off the Darkweb for funzies. He convinces Robbie to take an aptitude test with him.

( Read more... )

Title: open heart robbery
Fandom: None
Rating: PG-13
Length: 300~ words
Content notes: Blood, surgery. General wangsty poem-ness.
Author notes: Also for "Failures" in my allbingo's People-Watching Fest card.
Summary: We switch hearts.
( open heart robbery )

Title: Dirty Laces & The Cavs
Fandom: Live Music
Rating: General
Content notes: None
Photographer notes: Dirty laces with a perfectly matched support band, The Cavs. These were also taken at Chadderton F.C.'s bar right next to the pitch, though there wasn't actually a match on at the time...

( Dirty Laces & The Cavs )

Title: Matching the Cards
Fandom: Sherlock (BBC)
Rating: G
Length:471 words
Summary: Stanley Hopkins is using cards to help him make sense of a case

( Hello, Stanley )

 

 

Title: Snap!
Fandom: FAKE
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Ryo, Dee.
Rating: PG
Setting: After Vol. 7.
Summary: Ryo and Dee’s tastes in clothes are very different, so how did this happen?
Word Count: 742
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 281: Match.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.



( Snap!... )

Title: every version of me, dead and buried in the yard outside
Fandom: shadowhunters
Rating: teen
Length: ~1000 words
Author notes: post-canon, background ships, minor character death, title from hozier's jackie and wilson

“Why do I keep doing this to myself?”
“Oh darling, you know me, I’d take eternity over emotion every day of the week.”( Read more... )

Title: Perfect match

Title: In the Dark
Fandom: Torchwood
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Jack, Kathy Swanson, OCs.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 2342
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: While investigating sightings of strange creatures, Jack and Ianto come across something that has nothing to do with aliens.
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 281: Match.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.



( In the Dark... )

Title: Current mood
Fandom: none
Rating: G
Notes: "you are a china shop, i am a bull" is a lyric from "You Had Time" by Ani DiFranco. Many thanks to mergatrude for beta.
Summary: you are a china shop

( Current mood )

title: undocumented
fandom: Guardian
length: 100 words
contents: no warnings apply, near-past fic, Shen Wei

summary: It's the little things that trip him up.

( Read more... )

Title: Playing Matchmaker
Fandom: Once Upon A Time
Characters: Henry Mills
Pairings: Emma Swan/Regina Mills
Rating: G
Length: 15
Summary: Henry brings the Savior home.

( Read more... )

Title: Juuzou
Fandom: No Guns Life
Rating: G.
Summary: Desktop wallpaper, 1280x720 resolution.
Content Notes: The main character in the anime “No Guns Life” is a non-stop chain smoker, so…

( Juuzou )

Title: (mis)Matched
Fandom: Original
Rating: General
Length: 240 words
Content notes: Choose Not To Warn
Author notes: #alexseanchai's parents' a+ parenting
Summary: Socks.

( Story )