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Prompt: #462 - Royalty

This week's prompt is futile.

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Fanfic: Handyman

Title: Handyman
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Author:

veronyxk84
Characters/Pairing: Buffy/Spike
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Word count: 100 (Google Docs)
Spoilers/Setting: Set in S7, between eps. 7x12 “Potential” and 7x13 “The Killer in Me.”
Summary: Buffy fears another plumbing apocalypse, but it doesn’t seem to be the case.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.

Challenge: #492 - Wrench

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20 Kirk/Spock (Kelvin timeline) icons plus alts

I have been and always shall be your friend

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prompt: #461 - futile

[Challenge #461: Futile] Original Poem: Slippery

Title: Slippery
Fandom: Original poem (Greek myth references)
Rating: G
Warning: pretty vaguely, but political content

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All-Inclusive Promptober 2025 - Daily Scenarios Starting Today!

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Hilda the Plus-Size Pin-up: Hilda Shelters in Place, by ellen_fremedon for Topaz_Eyes.

Fandom: Hilda the Plus-Size Pin-up
Pairings/Characters: Gen; Hilda, Hilda’s animals, Hilda’s viewers, Hilda’s kindasorta personified sourdough strains.
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 2,947
Content Notes: Author Tract (COVID hygiene); canon-typical near-nudism; COVID-19 quarantine and the stresses thereof; Food Porn; music and instrument care nerdery; social media; some of Hilda’s chickens are for meat; sourdough nerdery; vintage textile nerdery.
Creator Tags: Epistolary, Pandemics, Recipes, Yuletide, Yuletide 2020
Creator Links: (AO3)

ellen_fremedon, (Bluesky)

ellenfremedon, (Dreamwidth)

ellen_fremedon, (Tumblr)

fremedon

Theme: Food & Cooking, Epistolary, Gen, Modern AU, Old Fandoms, (Secret) Hobbies, Small Fandoms

Summary: Welcome to Off the Grid at Chez Hilda, updated every Friday or whenever I feel like it. My artwork is at the Patreon link, and I don't need to remind lovely folks like you to like and subscribe, now do I?

Reccer's Notes: Hilda in 2020 is a rural lifestyle vlogger, addressing her audience from COVID quarantine and coping with lockdown in her characteristic down-home resourceful fashion (chaining canon illustrations into a storyline.)

The modernized context turns her repurposable-as-clothing floursacks into a vintage estate artifact, rhyming two historical periods of struggle and make-do as she renders them into masks. In the course of her expositions on things like feral cat rescue and wafflemaking, she casually drops evidence of an impressive and wide-ranging education; this is a woman who, in her witty conversational folksiness, gladly learns and gladly teaches. (Wonder if she and Manly Wade Wellman’s John the Balladeer ever met?)

This Hilda lives in a community, though; as the quarantine grinds wearily on, she grows increasingly fretful in her seclusion, mounting the soapbox to rant about neighbors who refuse to mask or isolate (this is 2020, before vaccines became available), and the parasocial companionship of her audience becomes increasingly precious.

Oh, and Hilda shares a recipe for her hybrid sourdough/baking powder waffles, complete with considerate substitution suggestions for various dietary limitations. (“This batter keeps in the fridge for a couple days, allegedly. I’ve never managed to test it.”)

Fanwork Links: Hilda Shelters in Place, by

ellen_fremedon for

Topaz_Eyes, for Yuletide 2020.

Disney_20in20 • Round 14

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Marvel: To The Heart by kyburg

Fandom: Marvel Comics, MCU
Pairings/Characters: Kamala Khan, Tony Stark, Sam Wilson,
Rating: Not rated
Length: 5k
Creator Links:

kyburg
Theme: food, trauma, team, characters of color

Summary:

It's a service day at the Masjid. Lentils, rice and everything nice.

What isn't nice are some the memories.

Good people make you their friend. Good friends know how to get to the heart of the matter.

Reccer's Notes: This is about the Avengers meeting Kamala Khan, Ms. Marvel. But it's also about friendship, and trauma, and memory, and moving on.

Fanwork Links: To The Heart

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!challenge week

Challenge Week 6 - Day 1

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SGA: Devil's Food by trophic

Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Rating: Explicit
Length: 2696
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: trophic on AO3
Themes: Food and cooking, Established relationship, Humor, Just plain fun

Summary: John wants a cupcake. Rodney wants a blowjob.

Reccer's Notes: This story focuses on UST between John and a cupcake which Rodney uses in a light dom/sub scene to wind John up. It's funny, very hot, and features a nicely pouty, turned-on John, a deviously masterful Rodney, and a delicious cupcake.

Fanwork Links: Devil's Food on AO3
and there's a podfic: Devil's Food [podfic]

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due South: Dinner and a Movie by Seascribble

Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Ray Kowalski/Ray Vecchio, Ray Kowalski/Ray Vecchio/Benton Fraser
Rating: Mature
Length: 1878
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: seascribble on AO3
Themes: Food and cooking, Polyamory, Domestic, Friends to Lovers

Summary: Benton has no reason to think anything in Chicago has changed during his absence.

Reccer's Notes: There's not a lot of food in this, but the Rays do make Benton dinner - even if it turns out that Ben's the main course. Some excellent Ray/Ray banter, a sensible discussion, UST finally requited, and a very hopeful ending. Fun, hot, and heartwarming - and the food sounded tasty, too!

Fanwork Links: Dinner and a Movie

Current Mood: contemplative
Current Location: Munich

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Alien: Earth 1.08

Darth Real Life hounds my every step these days, but I did manage to watch the ( Alien: Earth )

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Unchained Love: fanfic: an irresistible force

Title: an irresistible force
Fandom: Unchained Love (mods: you can use the Cdrama tag)
Pairing: Xiao Duo/Bu Yinlou
Author's note: spoilers for a minor scene.
Challenge: Wrench
Length: 100 words

Summary: Yinlou promised the flowers would fall from the tree. She doesn't like to break her promises.

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prompt: #461 - futile

[Challenge #461: Futile] Original Fiction: 'Pretty Futile'

Title: 'Pretty Futile'
Fandom: Original Fiction
Rating: G
Notes: Crossposted to

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[Harry Potter] Blackcest Fest 2025

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prompt: #461 - futile

[Prompt #461] BtVS / Spuffy — Pretty Lies, Rough Truth

Title: Pretty Lies, Rough Truth
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Characters/Pairing: Spuffy
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Word count: 100 (Google Docs)
Setting/Spoilers: Set in S6, during ep. 6x15 “As You Were.”
Summary: The lies and excuses Buffy tells herself for seeking out Spike won’t hold much longer...
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.

Prompt: #461 - Futile

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drabble_zone, My journal, Sunnydale After Dark

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Hawkeye: Slice of Life by aimmyarrowshigh

Fandom: Hawkeye, MCU
Pairings/Characters: Clint Barton, Kate Bishop, Bucky Barnes
Rating: teen
Length: 5k
Creator Links:

aimmyarrowshigh
Theme: food, team,

Summary:

“I’m not saying you need to decide right now. Or any time soon. But someday, you might want to walk away. And you’re luckier than most of the… superheroes… that I’ve ever known because you know what normal looks like. You know how to be normal. You can go back to normal if it’s what you want. And I know it’s not what you want right now, and I respect that, but I’m glad that it’s an option.”

Or, Clint and Kate challenge each other to prove they're the better New Yorker because they know the best food spots. Truths about superhero life and life in general come out along the way as they eat through the five boroughs.

Reccer's Notes: I love the humor and the support, and the way Clint mentors Kate.

Fanwork Links: Slice of Life

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Batman: Scheherazade by Cerusee

Fandom: Batman
Pairings/Characters: Jason Todd, Alfred Pennyworth
Rating: Gen
Length: 12k
Creator Links:

Cerusee
Theme: food, trauma, family, angst,

Summary:

Alfred angles himself so he can stir the diced pancetta, sizzling away in the pan, and watch Jason at the same time. “You’ve never shared the particulars of your…missing years.”

"Yeah.” The rhythmic thunk thunk of the knife against the wood falters. “The missing years."

"I wish you would.”

Or, the one where Alfred drags the tale of Jason’s death and resurrection out of him piece by horrifying piece.

Reccer's Notes: There are a lot of stories about Jason reconciling with his family and them learning all the things that happened to him from his death and resurrection onwards. This has a lovely focus on Alfred, and the trauma that Jason suffered, and their relationship

Fanwork Links: Scheherazade

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DS9: Hunger Pangs, by AuroraNova

Fandom: Deep Space Nine
Pairings/Characters: Kira Nerys
Rating: Gen
Length: 871 words
Creator Links:

AuroraNova
Theme: food and cooking, worldbuilding, trauma & recovery, old fandoms, gen, female characters, backstory

Summary: Starfleet personnel mistake minor inconveniences for real suffering. Kira knows the difference all too well.

Reccer's Notes: This is short, but it packs a punch and explores the differences in perspective between Kira and the rest of the command staff in a very visceral way.

Fanwork Links: Hunger Pangs