#RARE Secret Santa

[stpaulofsuburbia]

Raggedy Andy and the Christmas Time Challenge

Happy Holidays, @strawberryxfieldz ! I hope you enjoy you Andy-stuffed treat! Sorry if it's a tad late...

Synopsis: It's time for Marcella's toys to plan for their Christmas meal! But when Andy wants to take control, time literally stands in his way.

Fandom: Raggedy Ann/Rag Dolly 

Character: Raggedy Andy, Raggedy Ann, Teddy, Camel, Baby, Marcella mention, Poppa mention, General D mention

Dynamics: Raggedy Andy and Raggedy Ann, Raggedy Andy and Teddy, Raggedy Andy and Camel

Rating: General

“It’s time to plan for Christmas dinner, everyone!” Raggedy Ann proclaimed, a ruler in one hand and a piece of chalk in the other. 

Marcella’s five toys all clapped and hollered at the idea, even Andy, who usually hated planning. It brought out everything he didn’t like about the other toys. Teddy was overattentive and used long words, The Camel with the Wrinkled Knees moped if no one liked his ideas, and Baby would come up with a silly fashion stuffed dance like in the movies (and also moped if no one liked her ideas.) Besides, he was always “spur of the moment”, a firecracker, a whizz kid, and anything else that sounded amazing. He wasn’t for dinner planning, even if presents came after.

“First order of business,” Ann said as she pulled in the kid sized chalkboard, “is who’s gonna plan it. I did the Fourth of July, Teddy did Columbus Day, and Baby did Thanksgiving. This time it will be Andy!”

“Pass,” Andy said, closed his eyes and leaned back. “Toss it over to Teddy. He loves overthinking.”

Teddy grimaced at the remark. “While it’s true I do like to ‘overthink’ on projects, I propose it’s fair to pass it on to Camel, since he hasn’t had the chance to plan a holiday dinner yet.”

Camel’s droopy eyes grew wide. “Me?! Oh thank you so much, friend!” He reached his floppy legs across the table to shake Teddy’s hand. Andy, sitting between them, could see why the wrinkled knees were in the name. Andy folded his arms and closed his eyes with a huff. All he had to do for the next hour was half-listen for the chance to make some wise jokes and jabs.

“First off, we need a brilliant, delicious, green bean casserole!”

Andy’s eyes popped back open.

“Green bean?!” he yelled at the humpbacked horsey. “GREEN BEANS?!?”

“Andy, hush!” Ann demanded, pointing her ruler in his face. Andy pulled it from her hand and pointed it back at her. 

“No, YOU listen! I hate these boring planning sessions for holidays I could spend doing a million other things than cooking, cleaning, or singing, and now…GREEN BEANS?!!?”

“Well, you chose not to plan this dinner, so that’s on you.”

“Well,” Andy said, “I change my mind. I SHOULD plan Christmas dinner. I’m a million times more qualified.”

Ann sat down in her chair. “Okay, then. How are you more qualified?”

“I–” Andy started before realizing he didn’t know. He thought back to all the little lessons Marcella’s old man would always give her to see if there was anything. Then he remembered her at his sewing table showing how to tell time.

“I can tell time!”

Andy gave the surest smile imaginable with a squishy (but tough!) pair of crossed arms to boot. 

The other dolls weren’t convinced. Teddy raised a questioning eyebrow and pulled out a polished, gold painted watch. They opened it and showed the inside to Andy.

“Can you tell me the time on this watch?”

Andy leaned in and squinted. There was a circle of small dashes with squiggles placed around it. What did any of that have to do with time?

“Take your time,” Teddy said with a wink. “I’ll give you thirty seconds.”

Andy could’ve given up, but he didn’t want to look stupid in front of everyone. And he certainly didn’t want green beans.

“Oooooone…” he strained. He looked back at the others. Baby’s head was coked to the side, Camel was biting his teeth, Ann already covered her mouth to hold back a huge laugh, and Teddy stared like General D’s less dreary child.

“Forty-five seconds,” the bear said.

Andy looked over the face for clues. He spotted a line with a tiny diagonal on the top and a little line on the bottom. That must be a “one”.

Then, he remembered something the old man told Marcella.

“This one is also a five.”

The one is a five? How is that possible? Still, a clue was a clue! Andy scanned the clock’s face for some other hint. He looked at the big and little lines coming from the center. Maybe they pointed at numbers? 

“Poppa, do the big hand point at the hours?” Marcella asked her dad in that same conversation.

“No, chick, that’s the little hand’s job!”

“That’s dumb,” Marcella told him.

Andy agreed. But wait…the little line was pointing at the one! He was halfway right! Now the minutes. The big line was pointing at a triangle with a long line, three spots down from the one. Was it four minutes?

“You have fifteen seconds, Andy,” Teddy said, his glass eyes and everyone else’s eyes on him.

The four…four…five…the one is five. Five minutes?

“Yes, chick! The one is five minutes, the two is ten, and on and on.”

Two is ten, Three is fifteen, and four is…

“Twenty!! The time is one twentyyyy!!!”

Andy turned to Teddy so fast, it was a surprise his stitches didn’t rip. Teddy gave the small mouthed look they gave when Poppa was around. They looked down at the watch, then back at Andy.

“That’s correct!”

“YES!!!” Andy yelled as he jumped off the table and ran across the room, his legs propelling him over the bed and table and around the chalkboard. He jumped with the sounds of fireworks. “Boom! Boom!” Baby clapped with her porcelain arms and Camel with his felt covered hooves. Andy landed on top of the table and bowed.

“Now, back to business! The appetizer will be a giant, chocolate–”

“BWAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!” Ann laughed with an almost stitch ripping smile.

“What’s so funny, sis?” Andy asked with his hands on his hips.

Ann wiped a tear from her eye. 

“It’s just…wait, one second…BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!” she laughed again, falling over.

“What is it, huh?”

“T–Teddy’s…HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!”

“Spit it out!!!”

“THEIR WATCH IS BROKEN!!!!”

Ann went right back to laughing. Andy wouldn’t believe it.

“Gimme that!” he yelled at the nervously smiling bear and yanked the watch back from them. He put the watch by his ear. No ticking. He looked at the face again. The lines and numbers were right there, but the hands weren’t moving. 

“Why did you make me read the wrong time?” Andy demanded.

“Well,” Teddy started, then shrugged, “I didn’t ask for the current time. I wanted to see if you could.”

Ann stopped laughing.

“So…he won?”

“Yeah…I WON!!!”

Once he finished his second celebration, Andy spent the night giving lists of chocolate coated desserts and crunchy salted snacks. However, he couldn’t help but notice Camel seemed a little sadder than usual. Maybe the wrinkled old livestock really did want to plan this dinner. 

Daylight peeped through the windows and Poppa could be heard making coffee. He’d be in any minute.

“Close it up, Andy. Poppa’s gonna come soon,” Camel said surprisingly sadder than usual.

Andy looked over from the chalkboard and noticed Camel looking down with a huge frown. Maybe the wrinkled old livestock really did want to plan this dinner. He looked back at his sweets covered board.

He wrote down one last dish.

“How’s this dish?”

The toys gasped. Camel slowly looked up, then smiled as he read “Two pounds of green bean casserole.”

“But I’m not eating a single bean,” Andy stated, just so he didn’t look too soft.

[kickbutts-singsongs]

Okay but why did they never have any holiday themed POI episodes?

More specifically, how come they never had a Halloween episode and played “Somebody’s Watching Me” by Rockwell in the background?

[marvelrarepairbingo]

[Fanart] Bucky/Loki

Rating: General Audiences Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: Gen M/M Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, The Avengers (Marvel Movies) Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Loki, James "Bucky" Barnes & Loki Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Loki (Marvel) Additional Tags: Fanart, Digital Art, Gift Art, Gift Exchange Language: English Collections: Marvel Rare Pairs Secret Santa 2023 Published: 2024-02-02 Words: 0

For Artemis_Day on AO3

[mischief-and-tea-by-the-sea]

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Category: M/M Fandoms: Iron Man (Movies), Doctor Strange (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe Relationship: Tony Stark/Stephen Strange Characters: Tony Stark, Stephen Strange, Peter Parker, Calvin Johnson (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), Jiaying (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), Skye | Daisy Johnson, Lincoln Campbell Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Coffee Shops & Cafés, Coffee Shops, Alternate Universe - No Powers, Alternate Universe - Modern: No Powers, Confident Flirt x Oblivious, Sunshine Person x Grumpy Person, Fluff, Fluff and Humor, Holidays, Christmas, Christmas Fluff, Christmas Party, First Kiss, Kissing Language: English Collections: Marvel Rare Pairs Secret Santa 2023 Published: 2023-12-18 Words: 5,321 Chapters: 1/1

Summary:

Could this day get any worse at the start?

“Welcome to Espresso Yourself. What can I get for you, handsome?” a smooth tenor voice pulled Stephen out of his phone just as he’d hit send on the message.

Blinking, he stared across the counter at a man who appeared to be in somewhere in his forties, if the few pristine white hairs tinseled through his goatee and dark brown hair had anything to say about it. Stephen tucked his phone into his pocket while he just stared, his first thought being that this guy – unless he was the manager – looked entirely out of place in a job meant for teens and early 20-somethings trying to save up for a car or groceries or a trip home for the holidays after their semesters were over for the winter holiday.

Written for @koffeebiscuits

[jjdogasaur]

I CAN FINALLY POST THESE

Secret Santa prompts I did! Guess which one made me struggle more

Please interact with this I didn't spend a total of 8 hours over the span of 2-3 days for nothing

[andiwriteordie]

my byler secret santa gift for the wonderful @strangerange1s who had the sweetest prompt where mike gets to talk to will about his insecurities and will is there to listen and reassure him with sweet little kisses and all his love? i’m literally melting. this was so sweet and fun to write that it gave me cavities, paige!!! ❤️🫂

anyways, paige got to read this first, but i hope the rest of you enjoy too!! ❤️💚

[sokkas-first-fangirl]

Mirabel found herself in Casita’s kitchen, squinting at a recipe for orange and cranberry cookies. It was a new recipe book from the next town over and everything Julieta had baked from it so far was, of course, utterly amazing.

Mirabel wasn’t much of a baker, but she wanted to give her mamá a break, okay? A nice surprise. One less thing to worry about in the morning.

It’s just, you know, Casita was always so dang busy and Mirabel wanted this to be a surprise…So she was baking in secret at midnight.

Well, no one ever said it was a well thought out plan.

🍪

Mirabel wants to make a nice surprise for Julieta, but no one can ever accuse Mirabel of planning ahead. At least Bruno's happy to help her out.

Or: Mirabel and Bruno make cookies for Julieta, and Mirabel loves her family very much

🍪

For @junosaccount​ for the secret Santa exchange! Happy holidays 🎄

[shehungthemoon]

Wrote a ThorQuill-roadtrip-the-world fic for the MRP Secret Santa last week, and wanted to share it here! First time taking a stab at these two and I have to say they kind of stole my heart.

Summary: Healing was a slow process, and sometimes it looked like it would never happen at all. Thor had an idea to maybe help both of them.

Thor knew it was nonsensical, but he could have sworn he could feel a permanent chill creeping through the ship as the winter months got closer. He couldn’t really, of course—the emptiness of space was as stagnant as ever and the idea of seasons was moot without a planet beneath one’s feet—but nevertheless, he wrapped himself up in extra layers and more often than not spent his days hovering near the warmth of the engines.

Nothing much happened on the Danza. They would fly, refuel, find an odd job or two, and if public opinion permitted, stay for a few hours at whatever joint passed for a bar on whatever planet they found themselves on. And then they would be off again. It was aimless, passionless, and it ate away at Thor slowly. The crew walked around the metal corridors of the ship like ghosts, himself included, and it was always so cold.

As time went by, there were days where banter and arguing and sometimes even laughing found its way back by seconds and minutes into the ship. Thor watched the others slowly, so so slowly, gain animation back into their features with every week that passed. But one person didn’t. He stayed emotionless and broken and Thor’s chest would feel heavy every time he shared a room with him. Thor knew he felt the cold too.

“Quill,” he called out one morning (afternoon? evening? time was but a formality and a blur, at this point).

Quill stopped from where he was crossing the corridor a few paces away.

“Yeah?”

Thor ruminated a bit more, looked at Quill’s growing stubble and felt the way his own skin prickled with cold even underneath half-a-dozen layers. Quill raised his eyebrows, annoyance growing on his face.

“Any day now.”

Thor straightened his back, mind made up. “It is around the time of your Christmas, is it not?”

Quill blinked twice. “S’ppose so.”

“We should celebrate it.”

Keep reading

[scottxlogan]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Hawkeye (TV 2021), Black Widow (Movie 2021) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Yelena Belova/Kate Bishop Characters: Kate Bishop, Yelena Belova Additional Tags: Winter, Awkward Flirting, First Kiss, Awkward Crush, Snow

Summary: Kate Bishop has decided to spend the winter season with Lucky in the city away from it all just sorting her life out. On the eve of New Year's Eve at a NYC bar Kate discovers an old familiar face is back in town and set on delivering a special message to her.

This was written for the Marvel Rare Pair Bingo Secret Santa for @endlesstwanted and I hope they enjoy it :)

[silhouettecrow]

365 Days of Writing Prompts: Day 210

Adjective: Scarce

Noun: Miracle

Definitions for those who need/want them:

Scarce: (especially of food, money, or some other resource) insufficient for the demand; occurring in small numbers or quantities, or rare

Miracle: a surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore considered to be the work of a divine agency; a highly improbable or extraordinary event, development, or accomplishment that brings very welcome consequences; an amazing product or achievement, or an outstanding example of something

[its-like-looking-in-3d]

HAPPY HOURNITE SECRET SANTA @rinasred!!

im your secret santa,, i hope you like it!!

(i realised i had the opportunity to title it with that song yea ngl sjfjskf)

[multiversal-madness]

Love scrolling through the Laydore tag and looking at the 17 posts, only four of which aren’t from me-

[nevergonnasimpyoumikey]

This fandom is full of so much talent, like holy shit, I love you guys

[marvelrarepairbingo]

Rating: Explicit Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Category: M/M Fandom: X-Men (Movieverse) Relationship: Logan/Scott Summers Characters: Scott Summers, Logan (X-Men) Additional Tags: Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Scott Summers Deserves Happiness, Scott Summers Needs A Hug, Logan is a Softie (X-Men), Sexual Content, telepathic trauma, Not Jean Grey Friendly Language: English Collections: Marvel Rare Pairs Secret Santa 2023 Published: 2024-02-03 Words: 2,474 Chapters: 1/1

Summary:

After a bitter argument with his ex, Scott is rescued from his doubts by Logan.

Written for @mischief-and-tea-by-the-sea / Wolfsheart on Tumblr.

[mischief-and-tea-by-the-sea]

Rating: Mature Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Category: M/M Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel (Comics)The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Thor (Movies) Relationship: James "Bucky" Barnes/Loki Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Loki (Marvel), Sharon Carter (Marvel), Melinda May, Phil Coulson Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Established Bucky Barnes/Loki, Mission Fic, Madripoor (Marvel), Magical Artifacts, Power Broker Sharon Carter (Marvel), Not Sharon Carter Friendly, Implied Sexual Content, Implied/Referenced Sex, Flirting, Pet Names, BAMF Loki (Marvel), BAMF Bucky Barnes, Protective Bucky Barnes, Protective Loki (Marvel), Theft, Gunshot Wounds, Car Chases, Tony Stark's Cars, Coulson's Bus, Affection Language: English Collections: Marvel Rare Pair Collection, Marvel Rare Pairs Secret Santa 2023 Published: 2024-01-30 Words: 6,854 Chapters: 1/1

Summary:

To prevent the Ka Stone from being purchased and in the wrong hands, Bucky and Loki are sent in by the Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D to Madripoor, a place Bucky is far too familiar with. The mission, however, should be easy enough. Until it isn't and the Power Broker gets involved to keep it for an even higher paying client.

[rayghosts]

tim drake is a rare case where every wild, out-of-context thing you hear about him gets even wilder with context

made up a fake uncle to avoid getting adopted? first he had to steal his dead dad's will and change it to include the name of his fake uncle, then he forged an entire legal paper trail to fool even batman, and finally hired an out-of-luck actor to play the uncle and had brainstorm sessions with him about his character backstory. judging from his surprised reaction when bruce offered to adopt him, he probably did this to avoid being put into foster care and didnt even consider that bruce might want to adopt him (even though he already adopted three orphans before him) (and then bruce learned about this and gave him more freedom and crimefighting gear so tim could like him)

snuck into gotham during no man's land? he did this twice, first by himself to meet his girlfriend in the hospital while she was giving birth (he snuck into the ER as a nurse), then with his young justice friends who thought he was having daddy issues with batman and wanted to help (this was before he was adopted by bruce) (they also picked up an atlantean tourist on the way who wanted to sightsee gotham)

blew up several of the league of assassins' secret bases? before that he spent days working with them as a member to gain their trust (this was when he robbed that art museum) and all the while they were holding his dad's coworker's daughter who came to search for tim and learned about his secret life as an assassin before she learned he was robin (and then somehow fell in love with him)

becomes evil batman who kills in the future? not only that, he also convinces his friends to be evil with him and then takes control of half the country right after he kills every rogue in gotham and also his aunt. tim fought this version of himself at least three times, and each time swore that he would never become gun batman (he still becomes gun batman)

used his own legal last name as a hero name? he didnt even come up with the idea for that, he met an alternate earth version of himself (also evil) who was using that name and thought "oh that's a good name" and stole it for himself. he didnt bother to check if other drake's identity was public before he started using it. then he got pulled aside and told off personally by batman for using such a dumb name and that's why he's not called drake anymore

insulted jason to his face while he was trying to kill him? did this multiple times and even kicked jason in the nuts once (not while they were fighting, just as payback) (he's jason's favorite brother now)

and then anything that happened with young justice doesnt need any context because it's exactly as weird as it sounds. yes, he did save the fate of a planet by playing baseball with his friends. yes, they did invade an entire sovereign nation to rescue their one friend's parents who had turned into babies. yes, they did see santa claus die in a fiery explosion