The Take the Wheel challenge is now closed. Here are the entries:


The Libertines: Fic: Dave the Bad News Demon, by caveat_lector
Torchwood: Fanfic: Learner, by badly_knitted
The Legend of Korra: Tanka: Take the Wheel, Korra, by infinitum_noctem
Sherlock Holmes (ACD): Fanfic: Back Behind The Wheel, by smallhobbit
Silmarillion: Fanfic: Wheels, by lferion
ねこあつめ | Neko Atsume: Kitty Collector - Fanfic - Wheelman in a Tuxedo, by mergatrude
Guardian: fanfic: whereof we cannot speak, by teaotter
Torchwood: Fanfic: Short-lived, by m_findlow
The Umbrella Academy: Fanfic: take fate's wheel (respin, retwist, rework), by elasticella
Guardian: fanfiction: All the Colours of the World, by china_shop
Stranger Things: picspam: roadtrip, by skyrosebud
MCU (Doctor Strange): Fic: Summer’s Got Us Dusty from the Road, by jordannamorgan
Guardian: Fic: Lost in Translation, by firestar
Good Omens: Fic: "Behind the Wheel", by paynesgrey
Suits : fic : Go for a Spin, by highlander_ii
Star Wars: Fanfic: Take the Wheel, by drabblewriter
Stranger Things :: fic :: Shotgun, by sjnt
Magic Knight Rayearth: Fanfic: well packaged, by down


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


desireearmfeldt, who earned The Prognosticator
drabblewriter, who earned a Bingo!
elizabeth_rice, who earned a Bingo!, 25 Posted Works
paynesgrey, who earned a Bingo!

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Title: well packaged
Fandom: Magic Knight Rayearth
Rating: General
Length: 500ish words
Content notes: Slightly dubious driving
Author notes: Post-canon, Umi and Clef in a car. Written in under an hour...
Summary: The snacks weren't meant to be the hardest part of the journey.

( well packaged )

Title: Shotgun
Fandom: Stranger Things (SEASON THREE SPOILERS)
Relationships: Jonathan and Joyce Byers, Jonathan Byers/Nancy Wheeler
Rating: PG
Length: ~2500 words
Content notes: Weed is smoked
Author notes: I still love the Byers, all of them
Summary: A post-season 3 coda

( Shotgun )

Title: Go for a Spin
Fandom: Suits
Rating: PG
Length: ~400 words
Content notes: none apply
Author notes: AU where Harvey is an MLB pitcher; also fits my Suits bingo free space
Summary: Harvey lets Donna drive his sports car


( Go for a Spin )

Title: Behind the Wheel
Fandom: Good Omens (TV)
Rating: T/PG-13
Length: 1,084 words
Content notes: Aziraphale/Crowley post-canon. Fluff and Romance. 
Author notes: for the "take the wheel" prompt.
Summary: Aziraphale just wants to take things slow.


( Story )
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Title: Lost in Translation
Fandom: Guardian
Characters/Relationship: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
Rating: 15
Words: 783
Summary: It's not quite a meme, but it's the next best thing as an answer.
Notes: The note is blatantly borrowed from a post somewhere on tumblr that, alas, I can no longer find.

( Lost in Translation )

Title: Summer’s Got Us Dusty from the Road
Author: jordannamorgan
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe (Doctor Strange)
Characters: Stephen Strange, Christine Palmer.
Setting: Sometime after the Doctor Strange movie.
Rating: G.
Length: 1,156 words.
Summary: A starlight drive is Christine’s approach to an unresolved issue of Stephen’s.
Notes: Partially inspired by the song “Always On the Outside” by Common Children, which also provided the title.

( Summer’s Got Us Dusty from the Road )

Title: All the Colours of the World
Fandom: Guardian
Rating: G
Length: ~4700 words
Notes: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, happily ever after in a Dixingian shack, OFC outsider POV, post-canon (implied spoilers), AU - nearly everyone lives, hallowspunk? Many thanks to trobadora for beta. No warnings.
Summary: Wang Yurong was still angry about the light, about the days and nights, and how everything had suddenly changed exactly seventeen days too late. She’d grown up in darkness. She liked the dark. The new cycles were stupid and unDixingian and made her eyes hurt.

( All the Colours of the World )

Title: take fate's wheel (respin, retwist, rework)
Fandom: tua
Rating: teen
Length: 175 words

( It starts on a cold December morning in a coffee shop that’s ridiculously extravagant menu is only outdone by its prices. )

Title: Short-lived

title: whereof we cannot speak (thereof we must remain silent)
fandom: Guardian
pairing: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
words: 100
contents: AU - Silent Hill (not a crossover), epistolary,

Summary: Shen Wei has read the letter so many times. He knows the contents by heart.

( Read more... )

Title: Wheelman in a Tuxedo
Fandom: ねこあつめ | Neko Atsume: Kitty Collector
Rating: General
Length: 100 words
Content notes: Silliness
Author notes: Thank you to china_shop for beta.
Summary: Some of the cats have a rich fantasy life.

( Wheelman in a Tuxedo )

Title: Wheels
Fandom: The Silmarillion
Challenge: Take the Wheel
Rating: G
Length: 100
Content notes: N/A
Author notes: Thanks go to Zana, Morgynleri & Runa for encouragement & sanity-checking.
Summary: A moment Nerdanel never thought to see.

( Wheels )

Title: Back Behind The Wheel
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes(ACD)
Rating: G
Length: 230 words
Summary: It's 1919, and Holmes and Watson are re-united again.

( How are you? )

 

 

Title: Take the Wheel, Korra
Fandom: The Legend of Korra
Characters: Korra, Naga
Rating: G
Length: 25
Summary: Korra is not allowed to ride Naga through the streets of Republic City, so she needs to find another mode of transportation.

( Read more... )

Title: Learner
Fandom: Torchwood
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Jack, Ianto.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1557
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Jack throws Ianto a curveball when he suggests his lover take over the controls of their shuttlecraft.
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 268: Take The Wheel.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Set in my Ghost of a Chance ‘Verse.



( Learner... )

Title: Dave the Bad News Demon
Fandom: The Libertines
Characters: Carl Barât, Peter Doherty
Rating: Mature
Length: 1100
Notes: Peter and Carl decide it's time they did things their way. Part of an AU series but stands alone too.
Content notes: None

( Dave the Bad News Demon )