#drabblefest

[mariaofdoranelle]

I saw these two ex to lovers prompt and I can't choose so if you like them you can pick one or both idk ahaahaha

- sending their ex a book a day, the first word of each title spelling out an apology.

-ten years after their breakup one receives a letter inviting them to their exes wedding with a “help me” written in a tiny font on the bottom.

You Still Would’ve Been Mine

Written for my Drabblefest

I wrote both, but with a twist (not exactly an apology and it’s ten months instead). I hope you like it 😆

PS it’s canonverse

960 words, no warnings

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If Rowan listened to one more word about Terrasen or Adarlan, he was going to lose his mind.

He wasn’t even a useful prince, he had no idea what he was doing in Sellene’s Throne Room.

“The merchants won’t stop complaining ever since Adarlan made these new trade deals,” Uncle Ellys explained, “Terrasen’s goods got into the Adarlanian market like the plague.”

“Enda,” Sellene called from her throne. “send word to our spies.

After every other family member was dismissed with an assignment to do, it was just Rowan and Sellene there.

“C’mere.” She kindly requested him to come closer. “Rowan, we are losing Erliea’s biggest kingdoms. The Fae from Adarlan now have access to Terassen’s Fae liquor, magic hospitals, magic schools, every month is a new thing. And now this.” Sellene took a deep breath and rubbed a hand on her face, letting her shoulders drop for a moment. “I know you don’t talk about Terrasen, but I need you to tell me what you saw.”

“I saw nothing,” he answered with a neutral face, masking his tense body.

It was true. It was supposed to be a trip with Fenrys to visit Galan, and they ended up being guests in the Ashryver party to visit Terrasen.

Rowan’s presence wasn’t political, and the only thing he saw was walls ornate with gold, silk bedsheets and the top of pine trees when he was flying, using his hawk form to sneak in and out of the crown princess’ bedroom.

Rowan’s ground his teeth, his pulse racing. Well, that was before she not only backstabbed him, but his entire country as well.

“Okay, I got it,” Sellene said when she sensed the growing notes of rage in his smell. She bit his lip and fiddled with an envelope in her hand. “This came in for you.”

Rowan snatched it from her hands. “I thought the mail interceptions were over when Maeve died.”

Sel grimaced. “Lorcan gave me this one because he thought it was an exception, sorry. I didn’t open it, though.”

An exception indeed. Rowan opened the seal with one of his blades, wishing he could use it to stab the wedding invitation instead.

The King and Queen of Terrasen request the pleasure of your company—Rowan rolled his eyes—at the marriage of their daughter, Aelin Ashryver Galathynius, to Duke Perrington, blah blah blah.

Rowan was once told it would be his name instead, but those promises were long gone.

I’m yours, she said, her smile lit through the darkness. Tell Sellene to request an official political alliance with a marriage proposal, and I’ll be officially yours.

Rowan was on a boat home the next day.

He shook his head, his heart constricting as he tried to shake off the memories too. Especially the ones of him learning, right before leaving Doranelle again, that Aelin’s hand was already promised to another.

Rowan’s eyes skimmed through the wedding invitation, until he found something that made his heart stop, the world world narrowing down to two little words in the bottom of the invitation, in a familiar handwriting.

Help me

“What?” Sellene said while snatching the invite from his hands. “Gods, I’m never talking about Terrasen with you again. Your smell gets weirder and weirder and— oh, shit.” She looked up, eyes widened and personal scent tinged with alarm. “Have you been in touch with her?”

“No.”

Sellene sent him a cut-the-bullshit look.

He crossed his arms. “She’s been sending me books. Just that.”

“Not a word? Just books?” She got up when Rowan nodded in confirmation. “Where do you keep them?”

They both shifted into their bird forms and flew out the window towards Rowan’s bedroom, where he kept a small collection of books he didn’t want to store in the Royal Library.

If Sellene heard how fast Rowan’s heart was beating, she didn’t show. His insides were quivering as he scrambled his mind for answers, but nothing came.

Sellene shifted back and frowned at the bookshelf, both hands on her hips. “Just the books, no letters attached?”

“Yes. These ones.” Rowan pointed at the books with one hand, fingers tangled in his hair with the other. “They’re in the order she sent, it stopped a couple of months ago.”

His cousin barely heard him, completely focused on the books. “Havelok the Dane, Erec and Enide, Laxdæla Saga and Piers Plowman.” Sellene’s index finger ran across these four book’s spines. “Side by side like this, as if they were in a box set, it kinda looks like they spell ‘help’.”

“What?” With his heart beating out of his chest, Rowan grabbed a piece of paper and scrabbled the titles there, in the order Aelin sent him.

Havelok the Dane

Erec and Enide

Laxdæla Saga

Piers Plowman

The Divine Comedy

Amadís de Gaula

The Decameron

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

The Owl and the Nightingale

Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart

Doon de Mayence

Le Morte d’Arthur

Egil’s Saga

His entire world halted when he put them all together, four words tearing down his walls of hurt and resentment.

Help, dad sold me.

Rowan felt dizzy, barely breathing as everything clicked together.

All the trade agreements, scholar exchange, diplomatic alliances between Terrasen and Adarlan he heard of. It was all because Rhoe sold his daughter to the highest bidder.

Over his dead body.

He ran to his room, grabbed his sword and a pouch with enough gold for three intercontinental trips—one to go, two to come back—and tucked his wedding invitation into his jacket’s pocket.

Sellene’s eyes were firm as she clutched his forearm, putting all her Fae strength into her crushing grip. “Do not. Cause. An international disaster.”

Rowan just shifted into his hawk form and flew to the nearest port.

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[rebelpeas]

having a lottt of fun with mcyt drabblefest right now, and by a lot, i mean i’ve written two fics. you guys should come drabblefest with me. there’s sooo many good things in the prompt meme, and you can add your own requests until april 12th!! maximum wordcount is 300 words so where you’re a drabble purist, a loose flashfic enjoyer, or wanna try out that stackfic thing, you’ve got a niche here. pspspsps. surely you’ve got twenty minutes to write a tiny tiny fic this month. i look at you so enticingly. mcyt drabblefest. go there

[sparktober]

Theme Day 11 - Drabble Day

Write a drabble, rec a drabble. Having trouble thinking of a subject?Claim a prompt from the 2022 Sparktober drabblefest.

Up next:

Oct 12: Bingo Card fill Oct 13: Elizabeth Weir's Birthday

See all Theme Days in our pinned post.

[transfemzedaph]

ive got like. 4 prompts that im kinda like. hmmmm abt. for the drabblefest but my god i cannot bring myself to just start fucking writing.

[bluedalahorse]

oh! oh! I got some ideas for drabblefest? a series of drabbles that go together? and drabblefest is after I’ve turned my work in and am waiting for feedback so I may be able to participate???

(I may or may not but we’ll see)

and it’s a character people like! an idea people want to read! a very popular premise!

(just kidding again I know Vincent’s got fans I’m just roasting myself about never having an idea about Simon or that other guy)

[ao3feed-janeausten]

George Bares All

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/UCLpIDO by ClaireMorgan44 Wherein George Wickham drunkenly confesses all in Brighton before it even begins. Bless. Words: 877, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Series: Part 6 of December Drabblefest fics Fandoms: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, Jane Austen - Fandom, Pride and Prejudice & Related Fandoms Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: Gen Characters: George Wickham, Lydia Bennet, Colonel Fitzwilliam (Pride and Prejudice), Colonel Forster (Pride and Prejudice), Mrs. Forster (Pride and Prejudice) Relationships: Lydia Bennet/George Wickham Additional Tags: Drunken Confessions, drunk, Summer in Brighton, Pride and Prejudice what if, what if, Lydia does not elope, george is an idiot read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/UCLpIDO

[noctis-tempestus]

Tis the season to write holiday AUs~

For the @firebloodkink Kinkmas Sketch and Drabblefest 2024, based on this prompt:

"Criston meets Alicent's family for their first Sevenmas together — and then, mid-meal, sneaks off to hook up with her brother behind her back."

[paneville-obsessed]

The PSG team presents our annual Pansy/Neville fest for November.

Please click the link to sign up.

[lemonsharks]

talk shop tuesday! tell me about the last thing you wrote. what inspired it? what was your process of writing it?

Drabblefest, and I have no idea how I managed to produce a complete story in my current state (blargh)

I sort of blinked and it was there

[starvels]

allegro | starvels | 3k. T. | 7/31: continuing drabblefest

Steve/Tony. AU: Modern. Artist Steve. Purple prose. Holy shit what's happened to Tony?

Under Steve’s artist eyes, Tony’s living a lively pace. Clutching his secrets like fresh water pearls, he vaults between feeling he is profoundly seen and being profoundly found out.

[mariaofdoranelle]

this absolutely screams you and your writing skills and i'm so excited to see what you do with it

you bought me a SWORD? OH MAN IM GONNA BE SO DANGEROUS 

we both know who's saying this to whom hehehehehe

CONGRATS ON 300 I'M SO HAPPY FOR YOU

You Bought Me a Sword!?

Written for my Drabblefest

THANK YOU SO MUCH. You and @elentiyawhitethorn both sent me this one, but I’ll see if I have another idea for this prompt heheh love you two so much ❤️❤️

Also I made it canonverse!! (Aelin’s birthday in HoF to be exact)

No warnings, 524 words

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The weight in Rowan’s sack was heavy, but not in a way that made his muscles burn, no. Instead, it felt heavy for the way it filled his heart with excitement and anticipation.

It was the princess’s birthday today, and a trip that would take one morning easily became an entire day of looking for something that’d light up her face. It had been easier than he anticipated since the merchants of the town she charmed were more than happy to see him, showing him all their goods before he could ask.

Still, Rowan felt an unusual twitch in his stomach every time he tried to anticipate what Aelin would look like when she first saw it.

Entering the kitchen, it was as full as usual.

“Price Rowan.” Malakai got up from a stool. “Any news on the murder?”

At the same time, Emrys said, “Want some porridge, Prince?”

“No,” he answered Malakai, then turned to Emrys to say the same, but stopped.

It was mid-afternoon, and Aelin almost burned out days ago.

He grabbed some porridge to take upstairs. Rowan found her lying in bed, reading a book she lent from another demi-Fae from the fortress.

The princess whipped her head towards him, the afternoon sun streaking into the room making her golden hair look like a halo. “How was it?”

“Predictable.” He opened his sack and grabbed one of the two packages. “Happy birthday.”

“You didn’t!” Aelin jumped off the bed. “I thought your gift was leaving me alone.”

“That’s insulting,” With Fae speed, he whisked the package away from her when she reached for it. “but I don’t think I could grant you such a gift, Princess.”

“Good.” Aelin gave him an adorable coy smile and extended her hands towards him, clenching them. “Now I want to see the gift you can give me.” She opened the package with a loud gasp, a thrilled gleam in her eyes. “Chocolate!”

Aelin sat up on the bed, tossing one into her full lips. And she moaned, the sound so unintentionally lascivious Rowan had to glance away in order to calm down the roaring in his blood.

“God, I missed those. Thank you.” She smiled at him, her eyes so content she looked intoxicated by the chocolate truffle.

“And…” he turned to grab the—

“You bought me a sword!?” When he handed it to her, Aelin’s jaw fell slack. “It’s so pretty!”

Rowan frowned at the overjoyed princess. Really, that was what she was thinking about? How the sword looked, not the first-rate steel or the easy grip of the hilt?

She was flailing the sword award, posing with it. “I’m going to be so dangerous now!”

“You like it?”

She bent her knees, side-thrusting the sword. “Fuck yes, I do!”

“Good.” As quick as his heartbeat, he took it from her hands. “I’ll keep it with your other blades.”

Her shoulders dropped. “Oh, come on!”

Rowan barely heard her protests, he was just swallowing his conflicted feelings down, repeating one thing to himself until he believed it.

Rowan was not, under any circumstance, physically attracted to that childish display of swordsmanship. Absolutely not.

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[rebelpeas]

hiii, i saw your post about the mcyt drabblefest and i was wondering where to sign up? is there a blog or a google doc somewhere?

there is a blog over at @mcytdrabblefest! however all you have to do to sign up is go to the ao3 collection and submit a prompt there :] there’s no matching or assignments or anything, you just put in prompts and then decide which ones you’d like to “claim” to fill yourself! there’s lots more info over at the blog and on the ao3 too.

[sparktober]

Welcome one and all to this year’s Sparktober, the annual celebration of John Sheppard and Elizabeth Weir from Stargate Atlantis. Whether you’ve been here since the beginning or just discovered this ship yesterday, please join in!

discord invite | ao3 | bingo cards | theme days | watch parties

If you're participating in the Sparktober fic exchange, stories are due October 12 at 7 pm EDT. It's too late to sign up and request fics, but anyone can post prompt fills and gifts to the collection.

dreamwidth | ao3 collection | tag set | requests | @swficathon

We're updating the tag system on this blog and will update this post when finished!

Details and a calendar of theme days/events are below the readmore:

What's Sparktober?

Sparktober started on Livejournal as an unofficial lighthearted call for Sheppard/Weir fluff fics in 2007, quickly expanded to all genres of Sheppard/Weir fanfics and other fanworks, and was formalized in 2010 in this vintage lj community. It's now an annual celebration of this ship and a wonderful community of fans that are still making friends and creating fic and other fanworks after all these years.

Where to party:

Discord (invite code): Join the Sparktober server for conversation, events, fanworks, and watch parties. New participants welcome!

Ao3 (Sheppard/Weir tag). You can also add works to the Sparktober collection, or add/claim prompts in the ongoing drabble collection. In addition to new works, this is a great time of year to archive any pre-ao3 fanworks as well, or share a list of recs/bookmarks...

Tumblr: @sparktober. Post in/follow the #sparktober and #john x elizabeth tags.

Activities:

Bingo cards for fanwork inspiration are available for 2024! Info post on tumblr | Card generator

Theme days: New this year, we have theme days, with a topic for each day of the month to inspire discussion/fic recs/new work. (Theme days don't expire; feel free to reply to prompts on other days.)

Watch parties: Each weekend, we have watch-along parties with live chat in the discord. Announcements are tagged #Sparktober Watch Party. We watch two episodes, starting Saturdays at 22:00 UTC [which is 6 pm Eastern time; 5 pm Central time; midnight Sunday Belgian time; and 9 am Sydney time].

Fic Exchange: See the dreamwidth for more info.

Calendar:

Theme Days are in plain text and other events are in bold.

October 1 (Tue): Bingo Card Theme Day.

October 2 (Wed): Earth Setting Theme Day.

October 3 (Thu): Fix-it Fics Day.

October 4 (Fri): SGC Theme Day.

October 5 (Sat): Post a Sparktober bingo card fill (or excerpt). Watch Party (check posts or discord for episodes & times)!

October 6 (Sun): Angst Theme Day.

October 7 (Mon): Fluff Theme Day.

October 8 (Tue): Women of Atlantis Recs / Fanworks Theme Day.

October 9 (Wed): Post a Paragraph of Your WIP Day (as a little treat).

October 10 (Thu): Women of the SGC Recs / Fanworks Theme Day.

October 11 (Fri): Write a drabble from one of the prompts of 2022’s drabblefest.

October 12 (Sat): Post a Sparktober bingo card fill (or excerpt). Sparktober Fic Exchange fics due & Watch Party (check posts or discord for episodes & times).

October 13 (Sun): Elizabeth Weir’s Birthday Theme Day.

October 14 (Mon): Kate Heightmeyer Theme Day.

October 15 (Tue): Post recs or drabbles based on your favorite romance trope.

October 16 (Wed): Teyla Emmagan Theme Day.

October 17 (Thu): Hurt/Comfort Theme Day.

October 18 (Fri): Best Joe Flanigan / John Sheppard Picture Day.

October 19 (Sat): Post a Sparktober bingo card fill (or excerpt). Sparktober Fic Exchange fics revealed & Watch Party (check posts or discord for episodes & times)!

October 20 (Sun): Radek Zelenka Theme Day.

October 21 (Mon): Best Torri Higginson / Elizabeth Weir Picture Day.

October 22 (Tue): AU Theme Day.

October 23 (Wed): Evan Lorne Theme Day.

October 24 (Thu): Favorite Stargate Picture Day.

October 25 (Fri): Offworld Adventure Theme Day.

October 26 (Sat): Post a Sparktober bingo card fill (or excerpt). Sparktober Fic Exchange authors revealed & Watch Party!

October 27 (Sun): Favorite Sparky Fic Theme Day.

October 28 (Mon): Laura Cadman Theme Day.

October 29 (Tue): Pretty Hell Joe/Torri RPF Theme Day.

October 30 (Wed): Filled Bingo Card Theme Day (or however far you got!).

October 31 (Thu): Spooky / Dark Elizabeth/John fic.

[aceandnancy]

Submit Drabblefest Prompts!

The official launch of the 2020 Fall Drabblefest will be on Tuesday, September 29th. I am currently finalizing the list of prompts, but I am looking for more.

If there’s a prompt you would like to submit, please reply to this post or drop a message in the ask box. More choices means more participation and that means more fic which we desperately need in this fandom. 

It is VITAL that as many people as possible participate no matter if you have written fanfiction before or haven’t written one in a decade. 

Submissions will be closed on Sunday, September 27th. So please, please, please submit ASAP!

[bluedalahorse]

but do I wanna do some kind of interconnected story made up of brief oneshots for All The YR Characters I Care About Most Month (aka February) like I did for drabblefest

or

[ao3feed-janeausten]

George Bares All

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/Fjvb4u8 by ClaireMorgan44 Wherein George Wickham drunkenly confesses all in Brighton before it even begins. Bless. Words: 877, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Series: Part 6 of December Drabblefest fics Fandoms: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, Jane Austen - Fandom, Pride and Prejudice & Related Fandoms Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: Gen Characters: George Wickham, Lydia Bennet, Colonel Fitzwilliam (Pride and Prejudice), Colonel Forster (Pride and Prejudice), Mrs. Forster (Pride and Prejudice) Relationships: Lydia Bennet/George Wickham Additional Tags: Drunken Confessions, drunk, Summer in Brighton, Pride and Prejudice what if, what if, Lydia does not elope, george is an idiot read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/Fjvb4u8