Title: Deal Table
Fandom: Oh My Darling Clementine - Song, The Silmarillion
Challenge: Deal
Bingo prompt: Mending
Rating: G
Length: 500
Content notes: Yes, this actually is a crossover.
Author notes: Thanks go to Zana, Morgynleri & Runa for encouragement & sanity-checking. Deal, in this context, is pine or fir-tree wood cut in planks and used for furniture and so forth.
Summary: A proposition out of a faery tale

( Deal Table )

Title: Play Ball
Fandom: Ballads
Length: 17
Content notes: canonical character deaths
Author note: The ballad in question is The Bitter Withy, which I first heard in Martin Simpson's version
Summary: Don't mess with Mary's son.

( Play Ball )

Title: In Gøta One Day
Fandom: Viking History
Rating: G
Length: 328
Content notes: N/A
Author notes: Thanks go to Zana, Morgynleri & Icka for encouragement & sanity-checking. Inspired by this video. Author of the original song is Tróndur Olsen.
Summary: A poetic translation/filk of a Faroese folk-song. Tróndur of Gøta (945-1035) wakens in the modern world.

( In Gøta One Day, )

Title: Mackerel
Fandom: Ballads
Length: 400
Content notes: no warnings apply
Author note: inspired by Child Ballad 36, The Laily Worm and the Machrel of the Sea
Summary: My father's wife changed me into a fish.

( Mackerel )

Title: Heartstone
Fandom: Box of Stones - Benjamin Francis Leftwich (Song)
Rating: G
Length: 1650 words
Content notes: Supernatural shenanigans.
Author notes: An attempt at figuring out why this song is called Box of Stones, and how it relates to the video for this song. (I'm gearing up for Jukebox Fest, can you tell?)
Summary: Every year, Ben brings the lady of the woods an apple, and every year, he gets something in return.

( Heartstone )

Title: After the event
Fandom: Ballads
Length: Haiku
Content notes: no warnings apply
Rating: G
Author's note: from an early version of The Water is Wide

( After the event )

Singer: Desiree Armfeldt
Title: I Shall Wear Midnight
Fandoms: Discworld/Tiffany Aching, Steeleye Span (band)
Characters: Tiffany Aching, Terry Pratchett
Rating: Gen
Length: < 5 mins
Disclaimer: I didn't create these characters, I don't own them, I derive no profit from their use.  Also, I didn't write this song, I just sang it.  If you want to hear it in its full glory, buy the album, which is well worth listening to.
A/N: Steeleye Span have an album called Wintersmith, which is collaborative pro-filk based on Terry Pratchett's Tiffany Aching series.  This is a recording of me singing the last song from that album, which the liner notes describe as "Tiffany's plea to Terry Pratchett for a life after life."  It's a bit of a stretch to fit the Locked challenge, but among other things, this song seems to me to be about a character wanting to break free of the prison of living in the world & the life created for her by the author.  It also strikes a chord with me because of the layers of transformative creativity going on here: filk based on fiction, with an additional level of the character breaking the fourth wall to comment on the author/character relationship.  And of course, I am now adding another layer of transformation by recording my take on the song.  I hope Steeleye Span and Terry Pratchett would approve of the spirit in which it's meant.  Characters, stories, lyrics and music perpetually take on new lives and new interpretations as they spread through the minds of different people...which is a certain sort of freedom.
Bookkeeping notes: New-to-me fandom!
Summary: "I have lived by the pen and I'll die by the sword, when you finally set me free."  In memoriam: Terry Pratchett.

Streaming/download link here.

Title: Peoples of Water and Wave
Fandom: Celtic Mythology, Scarborough Fair (Song)
Rating: G
Length: 200
Content notes: N/A
Author notes: Thanks go to Zana, Morgynleri & Icka for encouragement & sanity-checking. Inspired by the line 'Between the salt water and the sea strand' in the song Scarborough Fair, as well as by the picture.
Summary: A celebration of the life in salt water and sea strand

( Peoples of Water and Wave )

Title: Someday We May See
Fandom: the song Woman King, by Iron and Wine. OFC-centric.
Rating: PG-13
Length: 700 words
Content notes: Character death.
Summary: Hers was the kingdom, and the toil, and the children, for ever and ever.
Notes: I was thinking of doing the fic exchange jukebox_fest, but decided not to. Still, one of the nominated songs struck me with inspiration, and this is the result! You can read the lyrics here and listen to the song here. Thanks to raspberryhunter for the beta!

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Title: A Kid
Fandom: Danger Days
Rating: PG
Length: 331 words
Content notes: Mentions of Chara Death
Summary: Poison returns with a kid.

( A Kid )

Title: Four Letters
Fandom: Simon & Garfunkel: A Poem on an Underground Wall
Rating: NC-17
Content notes: swearing and offensive language
Artist notes: Um,I did A through Z, four letter words that I have the strongest response to.
Summary: I always wondered, which four letters did they mean?

( Four Letters )

First podfic on the comm! \o/ There's a love triangle of sorts in the story, but actually I think the triangle in this one is more the tension between the narrator, conventional life, and her dreams.

Title: The Hills of Iowa
Author and reader: luzula
Fandom: Dar Williams' song "Iowa"
Pairing: Narrator/OFC (femslash)
Rating: PG
Length: 28 m 11 s
Author's summary: My dreams didn't come true back in high school, and I sure didn't expect they would when I was middle-aged. It isn't the sort of thing that happens.
Notes: You can definitely listen to this without knowing the song, but here it is on Youtube if you want to hear it (and there are bits of it in the podfic, too). Thanks to cantarina for beta-listening!

Download at Sendspace.