Day Three Theme - Like the first dewfall on the first grass (BtVS)
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PROMPT: Day Three - The Caregiver
FANDOM: Buffy the Vampire Slayer {AU}
AUTHOR: kerk_hiraeth
RATING: PG-13
LENGTH: 1,000
CHARACTERS: OCs; Fatima El-baz & Sofia Blazhevich
SUMMARY: The duties of a Chaplain, whatever their religion are many and varied; sometimes causing reflection on their own lives.
A/N: This story is dedicated to Father Francis Mulcahy, as played by William Christopher on M*A*S*H between 1972 and 1983. That character heavily influences my conception of the Muslim, appointed by Buffy to be Chaplain to all the Slayers; (full name ~ Fatima Amastan Sultana Sara Tirzah Elbaz (or El-baz).
The background to her full name and their histories will, should my muse permit, be revealed in further stories but briefly, her family is from the Atlas Mountains of Tunisia; has mostly Amazigh & Hebrew origins, with some Arab threads as well. Her wife is Jewish from a conservative Orthodox sect. The Slayer is Russian but Roman Catholic, rather than Russian Orthodox.
Goddess be with you,
Father Francis Mulcahy, as portrayed by William Christopher
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Day 6: Fic Self-Rec - Hey Arnold! - Helga Pataki, Lila Sawyer
Feb. 6th, 2026 08:57 pmlightbird posting in halfamoonTitle/Link: Friend Indeed
Fandom: Hey Arnold!
Character(s): Helga Pataki, Lila Sawyer
Rating: Teen and Up
Prompt: Her Own Personal Code
Summary: The law wasn't always fair or moral, and sometimes you had to follow your own code.
Fandom: Hey Arnold!
Character(s): Helga Pataki, Lila Sawyer
Rating: Teen and Up
Prompt: Her Own Personal Code
Summary: The law wasn't always fair or moral, and sometimes you had to follow your own code.
Day 5: Fic Self-Rec - Hey Arnold! - Helga Pataki
Feb. 6th, 2026 08:51 pmlightbird posting in halfamoonTitle/Link: Getting Out
Fandom: Hey Arnold!
Character(s): Helga Pataki
Rating: Teen and Up
Prompt: The Outlaw
Summary: Dark AU future fic. She’d always wanted to travel the world with him.
Fandom: Hey Arnold!
Character(s): Helga Pataki
Rating: Teen and Up
Prompt: The Outlaw
Summary: Dark AU future fic. She’d always wanted to travel the world with him.
Day 4: Fic Self-Rec - Hey Arnold - Helga Pataki, Olga Pataki
Feb. 6th, 2026 08:37 pmlightbird posting in halfamoonTitle/Link: Shelter
Fandom: Hey Arnold!
Character(s): Helga Pataki, Olga Pataki, Grandma "Pookie" Gertie, others
Rating: Teen and Up
Prompt: Needs
Summary: AU fic. Grandma Gertie makes sure that anyone who needs shelter has it. Very slight h/t to the movie It Happened on Fifth Avenue.
Fandom: Hey Arnold!
Character(s): Helga Pataki, Olga Pataki, Grandma "Pookie" Gertie, others
Rating: Teen and Up
Prompt: Needs
Summary: AU fic. Grandma Gertie makes sure that anyone who needs shelter has it. Very slight h/t to the movie It Happened on Fifth Avenue.
Day 6: Fic - Starfleet Academy - Sam
Feb. 6th, 2026 08:29 pmalchemicink posting in halfamoonI was originally gonna skip this prompt because I couldn't figure out who to write, but then I watched last night's new Starfleet Academy episode, and decided I could be really literal with interpreting "her own personal code" as a prompt 😁 (anyway, no spoilers for episode 5 here)
Title: Technicalities
Fandom: Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
Character: Sam (Series Acclimation Mil)
Rating: G
Length: 150 words
Summary: Sam contemplates a question while waiting for her friends
Link: here on ao3 or you can read it under the cut below
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Title: Technicalities
Fandom: Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
Character: Sam (Series Acclimation Mil)
Rating: G
Length: 150 words
Summary: Sam contemplates a question while waiting for her friends
Link: here on ao3 or you can read it under the cut below
( Read more... )
Assignments Due Soon!
Feb. 6th, 2026 07:30 pmcandyheartsexAssignments will be due in a little over 24 hours!
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Day 6: Fic - Isaac Asimov "Nightfall" - Training for Darkness - Original Female Character
Feb. 6th, 2026 05:38 pmlogonaut posting in halfamoonTitle: Training for Darkness
Fandom: Isaac Asimov "Nightfall", Original work
Character: Original female character
Prompt: Her Own Personal Code
Rating: G
Length: 824 words
Summary: Loosely inspired by Isaac Asimov's novelette "Nightfall". The planet Lagash is constantly illuminated by six suns, and darkness does not exist here, because at least one sun is present in the sky at any given time. All Lagashians possess an intense, instinctive fear of the dark that causes them to go insane after just a few minutes of exposure to the dark. Once in several thousand years the suns and the moons align into a total eclipse that plunges the planet into darkness that all but guarantees extinction of civilization. The planetary authorities and clergy decide to train the people to tolerate darkness in advance of the event. They need volunteers to prove to everyone that it's possible.
The protagonist has a deeply personal reason to be the first volunteer.
Link: Read it on AO3
Fandom: Isaac Asimov "Nightfall", Original work
Character: Original female character
Prompt: Her Own Personal Code
Rating: G
Length: 824 words
Summary: Loosely inspired by Isaac Asimov's novelette "Nightfall". The planet Lagash is constantly illuminated by six suns, and darkness does not exist here, because at least one sun is present in the sky at any given time. All Lagashians possess an intense, instinctive fear of the dark that causes them to go insane after just a few minutes of exposure to the dark. Once in several thousand years the suns and the moons align into a total eclipse that plunges the planet into darkness that all but guarantees extinction of civilization. The planetary authorities and clergy decide to train the people to tolerate darkness in advance of the event. They need volunteers to prove to everyone that it's possible.
The protagonist has a deeply personal reason to be the first volunteer.
Link: Read it on AO3
There's no boat to take me where all the stars go to cross the water
Feb. 6th, 2026 03:34 pmsovayIt has been snowing lightly and steadily since I woke this morning. Those five hours of sleep were the most I have gotten in a seven-day week. At the moment a sort of bleach-silvered effect has started around the overcast sun: it seems to make the west-facing windows across the street reflect mercury-green. There were sunshowers in the snowfall, but not while I was out walking.
( I caught the stone that you threw. )
I can tell that my ability to think in media is reviving because in twenty-six years it had never occurred to me to fancast Stefan Fabbre and all of a sudden I thought that, fair-haired, dry-voiced, the moody, unsteady one in the family, in 1976 he would have been in Clive Francis' wheelhouse.gwynnega has suggested that Millard Lampell deserves his own Library of America volume and I'd order it in a hot second.
( I caught the stone that you threw. )
I can tell that my ability to think in media is reviving because in twenty-six years it had never occurred to me to fancast Stefan Fabbre and all of a sudden I thought that, fair-haired, dry-voiced, the moody, unsteady one in the family, in 1976 he would have been in Clive Francis' wheelhouse.
gwynnega has suggested that Millard Lampell deserves his own Library of America volume and I'd order it in a hot second.Day 5 - fic - Hazbin Hotel - Cherri Bomb
Feb. 6th, 2026 04:16 pmcornerofmadness posting in halfamoonTitle: Bad Girl Gone Good(on AO3)
Fandom Hazbin Hotel
Characters/Pairings, Cherri Bomb, Cherri/Sir Pentious
Summary: Cherri finds herself doing things she never imagined herself doing like writing letters and thinking about changing her ways.
Rating: teen
Content warning canon typical violence and bad language
p.s. I could use a Hazbin Hotel tag, thanks
Fandom Hazbin Hotel
Characters/Pairings, Cherri Bomb, Cherri/Sir Pentious
Summary: Cherri finds herself doing things she never imagined herself doing like writing letters and thinking about changing her ways.
Rating: teen
Content warning canon typical violence and bad language
p.s. I could use a Hazbin Hotel tag, thanks
Stuff I Love: Top Ten Edition Challenge 1
Feb. 6th, 2026 08:56 pmflo_neljaA new challenge for February! ow pressure, one top 10 every week.
For the first week
Make a Top Ten list for your favourite standalone media and tell people exactly why you love it. This can be in any format - movies, one shot dramas, novels, short stories, plays, something else not mentioned here. Whatever you like!
( Top 10 of short stories that stayed with me )
Absolutely none of these stories are realistic, they all have some kind of supernatural or sci-fi element, which wasn't part of the selection, it's just how my tastes work :D
For the first week
Make a Top Ten list for your favourite standalone media and tell people exactly why you love it. This can be in any format - movies, one shot dramas, novels, short stories, plays, something else not mentioned here. Whatever you like!
( Top 10 of short stories that stayed with me )
Absolutely none of these stories are realistic, they all have some kind of supernatural or sci-fi element, which wasn't part of the selection, it's just how my tastes work :D
Challenge #1078: ensemble
Feb. 6th, 2026 12:22 pmprimsong posting in dw100Challenge #1078 is ensemble.
The rules:
The rules:
- All stories must be 100 words long.
- Please place your story behind a cut if it contains spoilers for the current season.
- Remember, you don't have to use the challenge word or phrase in your story; it's just there for inspiration.
- Please include the challenge word or phrase in the subject line of your post.
- Please use the challenge tag 1078: ensemble on any story posted to this challenge.
snowgrouseTitle: Sex Pollen, or, The Longest Lay in Chang'an
Author: Snowgrouse
Fandom: The Longest Day in Chang'an (2019)
Pairing: Gan Shoucheng/Tan Qi, Tan Qi/Zhang Xiaojing, Tan Qi/Gan Shoucheng/Zhang Xiaojing/Jia Liang, Yao Runeng/Original Male Character(s), Cui Qi/Right Cavalry Soldiers, The Peacekeepers/Right Cavalry Soldiers, Gan Shoucheng/Li Xiang Xiang/Original Male Character
Rating: NC-17
Genre: SEX POLLEN, Crack and Smut, Sex Comedy, Het and Slash
Warnings: The things sex pollen does to people, i.e. drugged consent and OOC behaviour, but everyone is having a great time, I promise. Peruse the Ao3 tags.
Length: ~9500 words
Summary: The Peacekeepers set out to investigate a new threat to the city of Chang'an: a strange yellow powder with aphrodisiacal properties. Problem is, only the biggest, most notorious pervert in town--yes, a certain guylinered cavalry general--knows what it is. Tan Qi nobly (and not at all blinded by pollen-induced lust) offers to sacrifice herself to hold back the ravishment rampage that might ensue. Meanwhile, in the Peacekeeper headquarters, an orgy has begun to unfold...
A/N: Yes. I went there, and I'm not sorry. Because Yao Runeng and Cui Qi get dicked! And hey, Gan knowing a lot about herbal and mineral medicines is based on historical fact. (Any excuse. I know.) See Ao3 for more notes.
("Dismissed," Li Bi says and waves his hand--it really is such a beautiful hand. Tan Qi wonders how many of his fingers he could slide inside a--
She beats a hasty retreat before she does anything stupid; she runs off to her room with her cheeks burning, her groin aching with packed-up blood.
On her way, she passes Cui Qi acting most strangely: he makes funny, high, whimpering noises and bangs his head against a wall.
"Shall I hire a flower girl, Captain?" Jia Liang asks.
"It's no use," a messenger pipes up, panting. "The town's been hit by some kind of sex plague."
"Sex PLAGUE?!" Cui Qi sputters.
"Yes," the messenger says. "That's what I was to report to you. All the prostitutes are overworked because the Peacekeepers and whoever else has come in contact with the powder are sex crazy at the moment; the brothels are fully booked for the whole week."
"What powder?" Cui Qi asks, adjusting the bulge in his less-than-pristine trousers.
"I was told you had confiscated it," the messenger replies.
Jia Liang winces.
"What are you grimacing at?" Cui Qi asks him.
"Well, Captain," he says awkwardly, then looks up at him meaningfully. "...General Gan?"
"What do you mean, General Gan?" Cui Qi grabs him by the collar and slams him up against a wall. "Stop talking in riddles!"
"Well, Captain," Jia Liang stammers, now erect in spite of himself, simply from being in such close contact with another human being. "You... know what they say about him, don't you, Captain?" he searches Cui Qi's eyes. Even if he hasn't lived here long, every officer in Chang'an surely knows of General Gan's notorious reputation with women.
"What do you mEAN?!"
"No woman is safe around him," the messenger murmurs. "Even without aphrodisiacs. And if he gets his hands on the powder...")
Author: Snowgrouse
Fandom: The Longest Day in Chang'an (2019)
Pairing: Gan Shoucheng/Tan Qi, Tan Qi/Zhang Xiaojing, Tan Qi/Gan Shoucheng/Zhang Xiaojing/Jia Liang, Yao Runeng/Original Male Character(s), Cui Qi/Right Cavalry Soldiers, The Peacekeepers/Right Cavalry Soldiers, Gan Shoucheng/Li Xiang Xiang/Original Male Character
Rating: NC-17
Genre: SEX POLLEN, Crack and Smut, Sex Comedy, Het and Slash
Warnings: The things sex pollen does to people, i.e. drugged consent and OOC behaviour, but everyone is having a great time, I promise. Peruse the Ao3 tags.
Length: ~9500 words
Summary: The Peacekeepers set out to investigate a new threat to the city of Chang'an: a strange yellow powder with aphrodisiacal properties. Problem is, only the biggest, most notorious pervert in town--yes, a certain guylinered cavalry general--knows what it is. Tan Qi nobly (and not at all blinded by pollen-induced lust) offers to sacrifice herself to hold back the ravishment rampage that might ensue. Meanwhile, in the Peacekeeper headquarters, an orgy has begun to unfold...
A/N: Yes. I went there, and I'm not sorry. Because Yao Runeng and Cui Qi get dicked! And hey, Gan knowing a lot about herbal and mineral medicines is based on historical fact. (Any excuse. I know.) See Ao3 for more notes.
("Dismissed," Li Bi says and waves his hand--it really is such a beautiful hand. Tan Qi wonders how many of his fingers he could slide inside a--
She beats a hasty retreat before she does anything stupid; she runs off to her room with her cheeks burning, her groin aching with packed-up blood.
On her way, she passes Cui Qi acting most strangely: he makes funny, high, whimpering noises and bangs his head against a wall.
"Shall I hire a flower girl, Captain?" Jia Liang asks.
"It's no use," a messenger pipes up, panting. "The town's been hit by some kind of sex plague."
"Sex PLAGUE?!" Cui Qi sputters.
"Yes," the messenger says. "That's what I was to report to you. All the prostitutes are overworked because the Peacekeepers and whoever else has come in contact with the powder are sex crazy at the moment; the brothels are fully booked for the whole week."
"What powder?" Cui Qi asks, adjusting the bulge in his less-than-pristine trousers.
"I was told you had confiscated it," the messenger replies.
Jia Liang winces.
"What are you grimacing at?" Cui Qi asks him.
"Well, Captain," he says awkwardly, then looks up at him meaningfully. "...General Gan?"
"What do you mean, General Gan?" Cui Qi grabs him by the collar and slams him up against a wall. "Stop talking in riddles!"
"Well, Captain," Jia Liang stammers, now erect in spite of himself, simply from being in such close contact with another human being. "You... know what they say about him, don't you, Captain?" he searches Cui Qi's eyes. Even if he hasn't lived here long, every officer in Chang'an surely knows of General Gan's notorious reputation with women.
"What do you mEAN?!"
"No woman is safe around him," the messenger murmurs. "Even without aphrodisiacs. And if he gets his hands on the powder...")
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