now the night is coming to an end (the sun will rise and we will try again) (Beowulf)
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iddyiddybangbangTitle: now the night is coming to an end (the sun will rise and we will try again)
Author: Halja
Fandom: Beowulf
Word Count: 22,429
Rating: M
Warnings: Canon-Typical Violence, Canonical Character Death, Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism
Summary: Twelve years. And now, at last...
Or, Beowulf's stay in Heorot, as seen through the eyes of Hrothgar's thyle.
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Author: Halja
Fandom: Beowulf
Word Count: 22,429
Rating: M
Warnings: Canon-Typical Violence, Canonical Character Death, Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism
Summary: Twelve years. And now, at last...
Or, Beowulf's stay in Heorot, as seen through the eyes of Hrothgar's thyle.
Read on AO3
Leverage: The Food Cart Job, by page_runner
Sep. 13th, 2025 01:35 pmbirdylion posting in fancakeFandom: Leverage
Pairings/Characters: Alec Hardison/Parker/Eliot Spencer, Peggy Milbank, Amy Palavi
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 21452 words
Creator Links:![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
page_runner
Theme: food & cooking, casefic, competence, outsider pov
Summary:
She was only here for a long weekend, using this convention as an excuse to see Alice for the first time in over a year, or using Alice as an excuse to get away for a convention, or using both as a reason to finally take a vacation, because it was about damn time.
At least, that was the original plan.
Reccer's Notes:
Peggy Milbank is a side character who appears in 2 episodes: once when Parker's alias "Alice White" gets called in for jury duty, and once when Parker, Sophie and Tara sneak into a ball at an embassy for an event where Peggy does the catering.
This fic has her meeting the team once more, and has her involved in a job in Portland when they investigate a sketchy business man who drives independent food cart owners out of business, not shying away from inflicting violence on them in the process.
While the team does their thing, Peggy offers to take over the food cart, and does so with remarkable competence - learning a whole new cuisine on the fly. Food plays a big role in the whole story, because of their case, but also because now there are several people in one place who care a lot about food. It's also about a community of food cart owners. And just like Eliot found a way out of his violent life by learning how to cook, there's a side plot in this story how he does that for others too.
While the ship Eliot/Parker/Hardison isn't the main focus, it is definitely in the background, and Peggy's perspective is a really nice outsider POV on them, so I tagged it as such as well.
Fanwork Links: The Food Cart Job on ao3
Pairings/Characters: Alec Hardison/Parker/Eliot Spencer, Peggy Milbank, Amy Palavi
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 21452 words
Creator Links:
Theme: food & cooking, casefic, competence, outsider pov
Summary:
She was only here for a long weekend, using this convention as an excuse to see Alice for the first time in over a year, or using Alice as an excuse to get away for a convention, or using both as a reason to finally take a vacation, because it was about damn time.
At least, that was the original plan.
Reccer's Notes:
Peggy Milbank is a side character who appears in 2 episodes: once when Parker's alias "Alice White" gets called in for jury duty, and once when Parker, Sophie and Tara sneak into a ball at an embassy for an event where Peggy does the catering.
This fic has her meeting the team once more, and has her involved in a job in Portland when they investigate a sketchy business man who drives independent food cart owners out of business, not shying away from inflicting violence on them in the process.
While the team does their thing, Peggy offers to take over the food cart, and does so with remarkable competence - learning a whole new cuisine on the fly. Food plays a big role in the whole story, because of their case, but also because now there are several people in one place who care a lot about food. It's also about a community of food cart owners. And just like Eliot found a way out of his violent life by learning how to cook, there's a side plot in this story how he does that for others too.
While the ship Eliot/Parker/Hardison isn't the main focus, it is definitely in the background, and Peggy's perspective is a really nice outsider POV on them, so I tagged it as such as well.
Fanwork Links: The Food Cart Job on ao3
Stand the Bitter Night (Doctor Who)
Sep. 13th, 2025 09:16 amnatequarter posting in iddyiddybangbangTitle: stand the bitter night
Author: natequarter
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963)
Word Count: 10,039
Rating: T
Warnings: None
Summary: Even in the years between leaving the TARDIS and meeting Josh Townsend, Sarah regularly managed to get herself into trouble. Sometimes that trouble is close to home.
Read on Ao3
Author: natequarter
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963)
Word Count: 10,039
Rating: T
Warnings: None
Summary: Even in the years between leaving the TARDIS and meeting Josh Townsend, Sarah regularly managed to get herself into trouble. Sometimes that trouble is close to home.
Read on Ao3
Challenge #1058: refine
Sep. 12th, 2025 06:12 pmprimsong posting in dw100Challenge #1058 is refine.
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 1058: refine on any story posted to this challenge.
[#273] Imprisoned Again (The Fantastic Journey)
Sep. 12th, 2025 04:41 pmbadly_knitted posting in fandomweeklyTheme Prompt: #273 – Bad Timing
Title: Imprisoned Again
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Rating/Warnings: PG
Bonus: Yes.
Word Count: 1000
Summary: Once again, two of the travellers find themselves taken prisoner…
Last Man Standing (MCU)
Sep. 12th, 2025 11:51 amflockofcrows posting in iddyiddybangbangTitle: Last Man Standing
Author:flockofcrows
Fandom: MCU
Pairing: James "Bucky" Barnes/Clint Barton
Word Count: 9919
Rating: T
Warnings: Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Summary: The Avengers are dead, Loki has brought about Ragnarok, and Bucky Barnes is on a one man mission to put an end to it all.
Read it on AO3 here.
Author:
Fandom: MCU
Pairing: James "Bucky" Barnes/Clint Barton
Word Count: 9919
Rating: T
Warnings: Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Summary: The Avengers are dead, Loki has brought about Ragnarok, and Bucky Barnes is on a one man mission to put an end to it all.
Read it on AO3 here.
Leverage: What are friends for, by Hagar
Sep. 12th, 2025 09:12 ambirdylion posting in fancakeFandom: Leverage
Pairings/Characters: Maggie Collins, Eliot Spencer, Alec Hardison, Parker (Leverage), Amy Palavi
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 711 words
Creator Links:Hagar
Theme: food & cooking, gen
Summary: Her ex-husband's associates are occasionally useful. For example, when Maggie has a really bad feeling about her latest client.
Reccer's Notes:
Maggie visits the brewpub looking for help regarding a client of hers. It's lovely how the food she is served there acts as kind of character description for the relationship between her, Eliot, Hardison and Parker.
Fanwork Links: What friends are for on ao3
Pairings/Characters: Maggie Collins, Eliot Spencer, Alec Hardison, Parker (Leverage), Amy Palavi
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 711 words
Creator Links:
Theme: food & cooking, gen
Summary: Her ex-husband's associates are occasionally useful. For example, when Maggie has a really bad feeling about her latest client.
Reccer's Notes:
Maggie visits the brewpub looking for help regarding a client of hers. It's lovely how the food she is served there acts as kind of character description for the relationship between her, Eliot, Hardison and Parker.
Fanwork Links: What friends are for on ao3
Mo Dao Zu Shi: a loaf of bread is not a substitute for a blank cake, by Anonymous.
Sep. 8th, 2025 06:27 pmfull_metal_ox posting in fancakeFandom: Mo Dao Zu Shi
Pairings/Characters: Gen; M/M; Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian; Lan Yuan, Wei Wuxian, Lan Wangji, OCs
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 2,442 words
Content Notes: No Archive Warnings Apply, anonymous author, autobiographical incident, Chinese diaspora feels, inappropriate choice of rabbit food, racist microaggression, secondhand embarrassment
Creator Tags:
Based on a True Story, yes my mom really couldn't find a basic cake and so we had to go with bread, Fluff, Family Feels, Family Fluff, Baking, Icing, Frosting, AHAHAHAAHAHAHAHH THOSE ARE TAGS, Michael's (the store) makes a big appearance, Father's Day, but idc if it's not father's day yet, I was inspired, Inspired by Real Events
Creator Links: none
Theme: Food & Cooking, Cultural Differences, Family, Fluff, Modern AU, Slice of Life
Summary: In which Sizhui and his Baba ice a loaf of bread for Father's Day (plus some angst, but we don't really have to get into specifics do we?)
Author’s Notes:
something i wrote while having writers block
enjoy
(also stay safe and wash your hands and quit going outside if you are)
this isn't really asian rep it just happened when i was 10 and i typed for two hours also its may and here we are with a fictionalized crackheaded version of what happened
yes there were mean girls
… lan zhan's the one getting the cake because his personality's the closest to my dad's but like my dad cut off the frosting and we ended up using the bread for other stuff
Reccer’s Notes: The Chinese-American author posted this anonymously on 8 May 2020 for U.S. Asian and Pacific Islander Month, apologizing that “this isn’t really asian rep”; given that the canon creator is Asian, her target audience is Asian, the characters are Asian, and the OP is Asian fictionalizing their Asian family’s real-life experience, I personally don’t see how it can avoid being Asian Rep.
The author’s self-consciousness—both at the time of writing and in retrospect—is flying from the ramparts, and arguably an integral part of the story. They never did emerge from anonymity, and they’ve since deleted the story—which is a shame, because this is a valid slice-of-life in the Lynda Barry vein, with the OP’s imaginary friends as proxies. Since there seems to be no identifying information that could be used to trace them, I don’t think posting a Wayback Machine capture will expose them to further embarrassment.
And let’s not be like the Mean Girls at Michael’s, okay?
Fanwork links: a loaf of bread is not a substitute for a blank cake
Pairings/Characters: Gen; M/M; Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian; Lan Yuan, Wei Wuxian, Lan Wangji, OCs
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 2,442 words
Content Notes: No Archive Warnings Apply, anonymous author, autobiographical incident, Chinese diaspora feels, inappropriate choice of rabbit food, racist microaggression, secondhand embarrassment
Creator Tags:
Based on a True Story, yes my mom really couldn't find a basic cake and so we had to go with bread, Fluff, Family Feels, Family Fluff, Baking, Icing, Frosting, AHAHAHAAHAHAHAHH THOSE ARE TAGS, Michael's (the store) makes a big appearance, Father's Day, but idc if it's not father's day yet, I was inspired, Inspired by Real Events
Creator Links: none
Theme: Food & Cooking, Cultural Differences, Family, Fluff, Modern AU, Slice of Life
Summary: In which Sizhui and his Baba ice a loaf of bread for Father's Day (plus some angst, but we don't really have to get into specifics do we?)
Author’s Notes:
something i wrote while having writers block
enjoy
(also stay safe and wash your hands and quit going outside if you are)
this isn't really asian rep it just happened when i was 10 and i typed for two hours also its may and here we are with a fictionalized crackheaded version of what happened
yes there were mean girls
… lan zhan's the one getting the cake because his personality's the closest to my dad's but like my dad cut off the frosting and we ended up using the bread for other stuff
Reccer’s Notes: The Chinese-American author posted this anonymously on 8 May 2020 for U.S. Asian and Pacific Islander Month, apologizing that “this isn’t really asian rep”; given that the canon creator is Asian, her target audience is Asian, the characters are Asian, and the OP is Asian fictionalizing their Asian family’s real-life experience, I personally don’t see how it can avoid being Asian Rep.
The author’s self-consciousness—both at the time of writing and in retrospect—is flying from the ramparts, and arguably an integral part of the story. They never did emerge from anonymity, and they’ve since deleted the story—which is a shame, because this is a valid slice-of-life in the Lynda Barry vein, with the OP’s imaginary friends as proxies. Since there seems to be no identifying information that could be used to trace them, I don’t think posting a Wayback Machine capture will expose them to further embarrassment.
And let’s not be like the Mean Girls at Michael’s, okay?
Fanwork links: a loaf of bread is not a substitute for a blank cake
Dark Shadows: Mysterious Circumstances by WickerManStudios
Sep. 11th, 2025 09:53 ampronker posting in fancakeFandom: Dark Shadows
Pairings/Characters: Roger Collins, CC Female, Which Would Give Away Too Much If Named
Rating: G
Length: 2,394 words
Creator Links: AO3 Profile
Theme: Food & Cooking
Summary: Roger meets a friend for dinner who shares his discomfort regarding marriages.
Reccer's Notes: Roger remains one of my favorite Dark Shadows characters, acted superbly by Louis Edmonds, a veteran of stage costume dramas. He always wears period clothing with impeccable insouciance despite figure-hugging trousers, wing collars, and Victorian handlebar moustaches. In this fic, we see how much food presents an opportunity for revealing, soul searching reflections with a sympathetic friend, in fact so much that they don't even eat until the last paragraph or so. The universality of sharing food provides a letting down of the hair, so to speak, voluminous in his friend's case and not-so-much in his. There's an absolutely delightful twist at fic's end. Also, the AO3 profile mentions Author's website, WickerManStudios which contains stories along with more personal content.
Fanwork Links: Mysterious Circumstances
Pairings/Characters: Roger Collins, CC Female, Which Would Give Away Too Much If Named
Rating: G
Length: 2,394 words
Creator Links: AO3 Profile
Theme: Food & Cooking
Summary: Roger meets a friend for dinner who shares his discomfort regarding marriages.
Reccer's Notes: Roger remains one of my favorite Dark Shadows characters, acted superbly by Louis Edmonds, a veteran of stage costume dramas. He always wears period clothing with impeccable insouciance despite figure-hugging trousers, wing collars, and Victorian handlebar moustaches. In this fic, we see how much food presents an opportunity for revealing, soul searching reflections with a sympathetic friend, in fact so much that they don't even eat until the last paragraph or so. The universality of sharing food provides a letting down of the hair, so to speak, voluminous in his friend's case and not-so-much in his. There's an absolutely delightful twist at fic's end. Also, the AO3 profile mentions Author's website, WickerManStudios which contains stories along with more personal content.
Fanwork Links: Mysterious Circumstances
SGA: Battle Potato by fiercelydreamed
Sep. 11th, 2025 11:09 pmmific posting in fancakeFandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: Gen. Teyla Emmagan & Rodney McKay & John Sheppard & Ronon Dex
Rating: G
Length: 7229
Content Notes: No AO3 warnings apply.
Creator Links: fiercelydreamed on AO3, anatsuno on AO3, anatsuno on Audiofic Archive
Themes: Food and cooking, Team as family, Friendship, Hurt/comfort
Summary: The thing was, John had never been good at patient, and Teyla looked like okay was a couple galaxies over from wherever she was now.
Reccer's Notes: A touching hurt/comfort story set after the team rescues Teyla from Michael. Although Teyla and her baby are back in Atlantis, she's slow to recover and remains low and depleted. Rodney has a plan to cheer her up, though, involving food, and he ropes John in to help. It was I think written in the hiatus before the last season so a few minor details have been jossed, but that doesn't matter. This is the best sort of found family story, with them all rallying around to support Teyla. Lovely.
Fanwork Links: Battle Potato, and there's an excellent podfic read by anatsuno.
Characters/Pairings: Gen. Teyla Emmagan & Rodney McKay & John Sheppard & Ronon Dex
Rating: G
Length: 7229
Content Notes: No AO3 warnings apply.
Creator Links: fiercelydreamed on AO3, anatsuno on AO3, anatsuno on Audiofic Archive
Themes: Food and cooking, Team as family, Friendship, Hurt/comfort
Summary: The thing was, John had never been good at patient, and Teyla looked like okay was a couple galaxies over from wherever she was now.
Reccer's Notes: A touching hurt/comfort story set after the team rescues Teyla from Michael. Although Teyla and her baby are back in Atlantis, she's slow to recover and remains low and depleted. Rodney has a plan to cheer her up, though, involving food, and he ropes John in to help. It was I think written in the hiatus before the last season so a few minor details have been jossed, but that doesn't matter. This is the best sort of found family story, with them all rallying around to support Teyla. Lovely.
Fanwork Links: Battle Potato, and there's an excellent podfic read by anatsuno.
Iconic Items from Red White & Royal Blue by peachesobviously (SFW)
Sep. 11th, 2025 10:48 pmmific posting in fanart_recsFandom: Red White and Royal Blue (RWRB)
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: iconic objects from the movie
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: peachesobviously on tumblr
Why this piece is awesome: A lovely collage drawing of things occurring in the book and movie. Beautifully detailed, with an index!
Link: Iconic Items from Red White & Royal Blue
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: iconic objects from the movie
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: peachesobviously on tumblr
Why this piece is awesome: A lovely collage drawing of things occurring in the book and movie. Beautifully detailed, with an index!
Link: Iconic Items from Red White & Royal Blue
[#273 | Bad Timing] Challenge Post
Sep. 10th, 2025 11:45 pmfanweeklymod posting in fandomweekly| Challenge 273: BAD TIMING |
There may never be a good time to break that bad news to the rest of the team, or go start that difficult inconvenient project, or get a husky puppy that’s not housetrained yet… ...but for whatever reason, your characters have picked the worst possible time. Do your characters usually have pretty good timing, or do they have a knack for bringing things up at the worst possible moment? How do they handle a case of bad timing? What does the fallout look like? Write a story about bad timing. If your submission features this line, it will earn an extra point to be tallied in voting! |
| Challenge ends Monday, September 15 at 9:00PM EST. • Post submissions as new entries using the template in the profile • Tag this week's entries as: [#] submission, 273 – bad timing • If you have questions about this challenge, please ask them here |