The Shiny Happy Comment Ficathon!

[dollsome]

Winter is coming; daylight is fleeting; for the students among us, end-of-semester hell is just about to rear its ugly head. What better way to combat such woes than with a super-cheerful comment ficathon?

Ergo:





The Rules Are Thus:

1. Cheerful prompts! I feel like there's not much regulation here in terms of pairings: almost every ship or pair of characters is capable of a fluffy/happy/silly moment, and if they're not in canon, then why can't they be in fic? However, any prompt involving, say, lyrics from Eminem and Rihanna's "Love The Way You Lie" is probably not appropriate in terms of tone. Unless it's the "guess that's why they call it WINDOW PANE" line, which will never stop being hilarious.

2. Prompt format should go thus:

Fandom -- Pairing or characters -- prompt

3. For the fic you've written, please put the following in your comment's subject line: 'Fandom -- pairing -- title.'

4. Be nice!

5. Spread the fun, if you are so inclined!

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6. Go forth and have a merry happy good time. :)

MASTER LIST
(in rather sloppy chronological order;
this will probably be maintained rather poorly, my apologies!)

Merlin - Merlin/Morgana - it's not easy having yourself a good time by dollsome

30 Rock - Jack/Liz - How Jack Donaghy Got His Groove Back, With Whales by dollsome

How I Met Your Mother - Barney/Robin - Operation: Stake It To Ted by noteasilywon

BtVS/AtS - Buffy/Spike & Cordelia/Angel - Midnight in the Olive Garden of Good and Evil by angearia

Merlin - Arthur/Morgana - Well, this is awkward by copperiisulfate

The Mummy - Rick/Evie - Reading Is Sexy by vega_ofthe_lyre

Gilmore Girls - Rory/Jess - I'm Dreaming of a by miraxcorran

True Blood/BtVS - Franklin & Spike - An Abundance of Window Pane by dollsome

Glee - Rachel/Jesse - I'll Never Tell by lettersandliars

Supernatural - Sam/Jess - Darling, we'll go a-drowning by taintedlove

Doctor Who - Amy/Rory - Worker Bees by lettersandliars

Glee - Brittany/Santana - "I'm just mad for you, and I'll always be, but naturally--" by amazingly_me

Twin Peaks - Cooper/Audrey - Hey girl, you've got a fine laugh, and I think that I can get used to that by lyssie

Being Human - Annie, George, Mitchell - "Annie, you can't keep the kitten. What if George eats it?" by nonky

Sherlock - Sherlock/John - Less than Clandestine by amazingly_me

HIMYM - Marshall/Lily, cast - it's not what i thought it would be (but what really is?) by portland_rain

The Office - Michael & Toby - Don't Go Breakin' My Heart by firthgal

Supernatural - Castiel - Heaven wasn't always hell by oceansex

BtVS - Buffy/Angel - Love is forever, right? by angearia

Dollhouse - DeWitt/Dominic - We Slay Dragons Together by derevko_child

The West Wing - Toby, Sam, & Josh - A Distinct Lack of Gravitas by amazingly_me

Supernatural - Anna/Ruby - Devil Meaning Well by oceansex

Anne of Green Gables - Anne/Gilbert - We should have a breakfast nook! by taintedlove

Legend of the Seeker - Richard/Kahlan - Just for tonight, darling, let's get lost by dollsome

The Vampire Diaries - Tyler & Caroline - TOGETHER, THEY FIGHT CRIME by nonky

Community - Jeff/Annie - O brave new world by dollsome

Glee - Brittany/Santana - You don't know how far I'd go by anthimeriate

Angel - Fred & Cordelia - Of Friendship and Tacos by superkappa

The Office - Jim/Pam & CeCe - Everyone's a Critic by firthgal

Community - Britta/Troy (and the gang) - El tango de sexual tension by dollsome

Glee - Kurt & Finn - Life is too short for traffic by storypaint

The Vampire Diaries - Caroline & Stefan - The Pros and Cons of Sparkling by law_like_love

Dollhouse - Topher - Aced The Tests, Never Did The Homework by kay_obsessive

Glee - Rachel & Kurt - Detour a Bad Day by storypaint

Lost - Kate/Sawyer - Just Like New Times by fragmentedsky

Doctor Who - Eleven/Rose - Top Hats Optional by laeria

The Vampire Diaries - Caroline, Elena, & Bonnie - Slumber Party by dranime203

The Vampire Diaries - Stefan/Elena/Damon - They say it's your birthday by austen

Battlestar Galactica - Adama/Roslin - carpe astra by pocochina

Merlin - Arthur/Merlin - Just One Hug by niftywithan

Harry Potter - Harry/Hermione/Ron - every stone you stood upon shifted, except for me by mollivanders

Doctor Who - River/Doctor - You're very pretty, you know. You're very rare, you know. by lyssie

Alias - Jack/Irina - A Murder Free Dinner by derevko_child

BtVS/Veronica Mars - Buffy and Veronica - girls in a gun store by mollivanders

Veronica Mars - Wallace & Veronica - shooting some hoops by polychromic

Battlestar Galactica - Gaius/Caprica Six - What's in a name, anyway? by mini_miss

Friday Night Lights - Coach/Mrs. Coach - Lazy Saturday afternoon by mollivanders

Caprica - Lacy & Barnabas - Emergence by odyle

Merlin - Arthur/Morgana (+ kind of ot4) - Objectivity by fragmentedsky

Harry Potter - Remus/Sirius - The Old Fablemakers by amazingly_me

The West Wing - Josh and Donna - And Most Fools Do by amazingly_me

Community - Britta/Professor Duncan - Alternative Lifestyles in Modern Discourse by nonky

The Vampire Diaries - Tyler & Caroline - TOGETHER, THEY FIGHT CRIME by nonky

BtVS - Spike/Drusilla - Callooh, Callay by marketchippie

Secret Diary of a Call Girl - Ben/Hannah - Best Friends with Wandering Eyes by nonky

Pirates of the Caribbean - Jack/Elizabeth - Winning is worth it by bellonablack

Battlestar Galactica - Kara/Sam - I'll sleep when I'm dead by nonky

Castle - Castle/Beckett - The Serenade of Romantic Doom by nonky

Modern Family - Mitchell/Cameron - Two Approaches To Baby-Naming by polychromic

The Vampire Diaries - Salvatore brothers & co. - Surprise is Not Only for the Living by ohwaluvusbab

Pirates of the Caribbean - Anamaria - What shall we die for by caffeineandink

Batman - Harley Quinn/Batman - I have dreams of orca whales and owls by clockwork_jo

AtS - Angel/Cordy, Connor, the team - Icy Peril by museofspeed

The Vampire Diaries - Damon/Elena - The Timeless Taste of Cracker Jacks by amoenavi

The West Wing - Sam/Ainsley - Deep Fried And Extra Fatty by magisterequitum

Lost - Dan/Charlotte - Keeping still to move by valhalla37

Skins - Freddie, Emily - And I won't let you choke by clockwork_jo

BtVS - Buffy/Spike - Her Dark Place Is Also Quiet by ohwaluvusbab

HIMYM - Barney/Robin - I know you get me (so I let my walls come down) by dollsome

BtVS - Spike & Dawn - The Cons of Anarchy by ohwaluvusbab

HIMYM - Ted/Victoria - Social Networking by ceridweyn_lin

Harry Potter - Tom Riddle/Bellatrix Lestrange - All is loneliness before me by amazingly_me

The West Wing - Ainsley - Last Friday night, yeah we danced on tabletops by amazingly_me

Lilo & Stitch/Calvin & Hobbes - What I Did On My Summer Vacation by amazingly_me

Pushing Daisies - Ned/Chuck - Loophole by polychromic

Glee - Brittany & Finn - Hip-hop and Hippos by polychromic

The Vampire Diaries - Damon/Elena - Get Thee Behind Me, Temptation by redbrunja

The West Wing - Sam/Ainsley - Baby, it's cold outside by magisterequitum

ER - Ray/Neela - Edge of Desire by xmarisolx

Comments

[just-drifting-6.livejournal.com]

Pushing Daisies - Ned/Chuck - loopholes

1/2 - Pushing Daisies - Ned/Chuck - Loophole

[polychromic.livejournal.com]

Sorry, this didn't turn out quite as shiny/happy as I'd like! I hope you enjoy it anyway :)


It was a normal Tuesday morning at The Pie Hole, and as the Piemaker touched a bowlful of moldering strawberries back to a pleasantly ripe state, he thought about how Chuck was now a part of his normal Tuesday mornings and how much better his life seemed for it. Although Digby had always proven to be a constant and dependable companion whose taciturn nature was nonetheless comforting, Ned’s daily life was now filled with a whirlwind of colour and cheerful chatter as well as a certain sense of completeness that he’d been missing since that fateful day 19 years, 43 weeks, 5 days, and 25 minutes ago.

“I’ve been thinking,” said Chuck as she carefully applied the lattice crust to her “Seize the Date!” pie, flour smudges on her cheek and berry juice staining her apron.

“You do a lot of thinking,” he paused with a smile that teetered on the edge of bashfulness, “I like that you’re such an intellectual thinker and I always appreciate it when you share the thoughts that you’re thinking with me. Not in a ‘you have to tell me everything ever because I’m a controlling and overly concerned boyfriend way”, just sort of in the vein of ‘I appreciate the privilege of being worthy enough of your confidences’.”

Normally he would have expected a hum of laughter at his unnecessarily long-winded reply, but Chuck merely applied the last piece of pastry to the pie with an air of soberness. “Are you happy, Ned?”

The Piemaker was taken aback by this question and the warm, fuzzy feelings that he had been indulging in only moments before promptly fled to make room for panic. “Happy? Of course I’m happy! Why wouldn’t you think that I’m happy?”

And then he blurted out the next, terrible thought that had dawned on him. “Chuck…” he said with all the courage of a quaking leaf, “Are you not happy?”

She looked at him a little forlornly for a second, but when she smiled he felt every tense muscle relax with an almost audible sigh of relief. “No, it’s nothing like that. I just wonder…” and she watched a little wistfully as a couple sitting in a booth reached their hands across the table to each other, “if all these by-proxy, prophylactic expressions of affection are enough. Sometimes I think with all the things you’ve been through, you deserve a little more. Well, a lot more, actually. I at least had my aunts growing up, but you didn’t have anyone.”

“I had Digby,” he said a little stoutly, and the golden retriever thumped his tail happily from his spot on the kitchen floor at the mention of his name.

“But you couldn’t touch him, Ned,” her smile waned a little, “I’m not trying to upset you but I can’t help feeling a little bit like I might be holding you back from really being happy sometimes. It’s like I’m reaping all the benefits of being Alive-Again and selfishly enjoying them on my own while you’re carrying all the burden.”

[stainofmylove.livejournal.com]

Glee, Jesse/Rachel - (865): all i wanted to do was something grown up. like go to applebees and drink.

[marketchippie.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHA

Watch this space.

[dollsome.livejournal.com]

Glee, Emma/Carl, Singing in the rain

[just-drifting-6.livejournal.com]

Dollhouse - DeWitt/Dominic - working together

[dollsome.livejournal.com]

Glee, Rachel/Finn, Finn bonds with Rachel's dads

[dollsome.livejournal.com]

Glee, Sue & Will, bad hair day

[dollsome.livejournal.com]

Gilmore Girls/Psych, Lorelai Gilmore & Shawn Spencer, Banter-off

[hyacinthian.livejournal.com]

HAHAHA OMG DO WANT.

[just-drifting-6.livejournal.com]

Dollhouse - DeWitt/Dominic - reunion

[dollsome.livejournal.com]

Random: guh, THAT ICON. SO PRETTY.

[just-drifting-6.livejournal.com]

Rizzoli and Isles - Jane/Maura - Christmas with the Rizzolis.

[just-drifting-6.livejournal.com]

Rizzoli and Isles - Jane/Maura - Sometimes, sometimes, sometimes, the only thing you have is a song/And in these times, in these times, in these lonely, lonely times, I will sing along

[stainofmylove.livejournal.com]

Skins, Cook/Naomi - (925): I literally paid him in shots to clean my entire apartment. he even vacuumed...who said alcoholism is a bad thing??

[dollsome.livejournal.com]

The Office, Oscar/Andy, Make Erin jealous

[softly-me.livejournal.com]

YES

[stainofmylove.livejournal.com]

Glee, Puck/Rachel - (716): Eventually the creepy theater major quirks will come out. Probably in bed. Like role playing as the Phantom of the Opera.

[stainofmylove.livejournal.com]

Skins, Cook/Effy - (407): And it was confirmed to me that I did in fact cut my girlfriend out of her dress with my sword.

[just-drifting-6.livejournal.com]

Dollhouse - DeWitt/Dominic - On the long, long lashes of your look/The one you give that says you love me

[caffeineandink.livejournal.com]

Are You Afraid of the Dark + Kristen + Belonging

[dollsome.livejournal.com]

Merlin, Merlin/Morgana, love spell

[fromiftowhen.livejournal.com]

ER, Ray/Neela, maybe this mattress will spin on its axis, and find me on yours

ER -- Ray/Neela -- Edge of Desire -- T

[xmarisolx.livejournal.com]

Neela especially loathes treating the crazies. Surly children, hypochondriacs, vagabonds that reek of pot and urine, prima donnas… they all bring their trials, but nothing—and she verily means nothing—irks her quite so much as the crazies.

“I need you to lick my balls,” a particularly gruesome man, recumbent on a cot unceremoniously parked outside of the bathroom, wheezes at her. He draws out each word slowly as if to make his insanity clearer. He is either drunk off his ass or in serious need of a psych consultation.

“Sir, I would like to ask you to refrain from speaking,” she calmly states as she reviews his chart. Even as the words cross her lips she knows they are as a useless as the “energy drink” she downed about an hour ago that has only made her jittery with her tiredness.

“Come on, you know you’re a cheater,” he chuckles.

Cheater? She asks herself. The word implies that the man knows that she is in a relationship, a presumption that she finds unsettling. Then she remembers her ring. So many years without one, and she forgets it’s there, sometimes.

“If I were a cheater, I would never cheat with you,” she retorts. “Wait one moment while I find somewhere else for you to park.” She walks off to find out if the crushed pelvis behind Curtain 6 has been taken to surgery yet.

For reasons unknown she thinks about Mr. Ball Licker later that night while she lies in bed. She thinks about herself. She’s never been a serial dater, and she’s happy for that. Not for herself. For Gallant. For Michael. Because of her shyness, and perfectionism, and foreignness and just… everything that she is, and the world is—she’s gone long stretches without intimacy before. She’s learned to validate herself, to console herself, to live the life of a person that doesn’t have that… someone to take care of her emotionally. So she doesn’t cheat. She can wait. She can be faithful while her man is very far away.

Although lately, it hasn’t been as easy. To just… do without. To content herself with emails, erratic phone calls and an occasional video chat. Not since… not since Ray entered the picture. It’s not easy to be alone when there is someone, someone bright and cheerful and uncomplicated, who takes the edge off. He’s sweet, Ray. Thoughtful. She likes the way he anticipates when she needs coffee… or when she needs to talk. He’s slightly nuts, but in the best way, the way that makes life more fun and less dreary; she could use more nuts in her life. And she can never miss the way his eyes sparkle when he suddenly turns around and she's there behind him. He can’t mask the excitement. She’s not sure she can either.

Sometimes at night, when she’s alone in bed, she imagines that in another life, another space, another time, where life wouldn’t be so complicated, that she would turn over in bed (where cold sheets lie now) and there Ray would be. He might tuck her tousled hair behind her ears with his calloused hands, lean in close and say something naughty but funny (so funny) and then tell her how beautiful she is. He might kiss her on the forehead, behind her ear—he might get lost in her neck, the stubble from his face caressing her skin. And she would let him, too, because in that world, it wouldn’t be wrong to touch, to feel, to hope... to love. She could be treasured, doted on, worshipped. And it would be right. Because she would belong to Ray and he would be hers.

[dollsome.livejournal.com]

Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Ben/Hannah, You think I'm pretty without any makeup on

Best Friends with Wandering Eyes, Ben/Hannah, Secret Diary of a Call Girl

[nonky.livejournal.com]

There's this extra kind of look men get, when they find out I'm a prostitute. It's not necessarily offensive, it's just . . . They can't not look me over, just to check out what's for sale. Some of them can't help asking how much, and when I tell them they get this look like they're being ripped-off just hearing it.

And Ben's never paid for me. He did, of course, when we were dating and when we went out as friends. He treated all the time, and had me over to his work to 'sample' new drinks he was creating. He just never expected he was buying me, even after he knew what I really did for a living.

It's the stupid things that kept me in contact with him even through the worst of our fights. He would give me shit about my job and then send me this awful t-shirt from one of his terrible weekends away with some other girl to apologize. I would have to take that awful shirt back to him to throw it in his face, and he would tell me the genuinely worst dating misadventures. He would grin and try to get me drunk, and I would slowly thaw out. Next thing we were bread and butter all over again, patched up like nothing happened.

It didn't take money with Ben, or for him to see me at my best and go mad after me - it took a million dumb little rows and silly gestures to make it better. It took telling him exactly how much I was asking for, and seeing him look positively scarred I didn't ask a million.

And if there's a fairytale ending here - no guarantees, just hopes - it will be that though a lot of men have paid for me, Ben has always wanted to earn me and wasn't sure how.

[stainofmylove.livejournal.com]

Glee, Quinn/Sam - (818): I kind of want you to get arrested just so I could frame an avatar mugshot.

[thisissirius.livejournal.com]

Merlin -- Merlin/Morgana -- i see a future shine so bright

[stainofmylove.livejournal.com]

Skins, Katie/anyone - (985): she told me to hold the wheel while she hung out the sunroof and cursed the old lady behind us out.

[stainofmylove.livejournal.com]

Community, Britta - (410): Wait time out. Did I start last night with pants?

[dollsome.livejournal.com]

Pirates of the Caribbean, Jack/Elizabeth, A compromising position

Winning is worth it.

[bellonablack.livejournal.com]

The one sure way to guarantee an honest game of cards with Jack Sparrow was to take away his sleeves.

Which she did on her first win at the game, based upon stragedy and observation. Now, he had to take off the article of clothing of her choice. Fifteen ticks of a clock later, she was regretting it. He was still pulling out cards, borrowed priest ropes...sketches. Books which were unapprorpiate.

"Stop, stop," she commanded. He raised an eyebrow. "I do believe you have too many fraudulent tricks to know which to cheat with."

"Won't need to cheat," Jack said, his head tilted. He always seemed so sure, knowing, even when he (seemed) to speak nonsense. She wasn't going to get flustered, wasn't going to get angry. (or feel a twinge of guilt for her past misdeeds.) She was a captain herself after all.

"Well, you don't need to cheat to be be...to lose," she said, chosing her words with detachment.

She took his hat too. Another thirty ticks. She applied the same priniciple she applied to his clothes.

Elizabeth took no prisoners. She was gambling for his ship, for his crew, and for treasure. For a very important reason, more important than he could imagine. It was only a matter of finding where he hid the gold. God, he was losing badly.

It was then, as his clothes came off...and off...and there were more articles...then there were very few articles of clothing left.

"You're losing on purpose," she said, outloud and suddenly as the thought had come to her. He watched her steadily, and it seemed that blushing was not under her command.

"If that can be called losing," he mused. "I see you've won another-."

"No," she said. "No. I won't win by you...giving it to me," she said.

"You lose more than you win, in this game. But that makes the winning more worth it," he said, standing up. She averted her eyes while he put back on his numerous, silly articles of clothing that she had no interest in.

"Lovely. You've made me lose the money for my child. I thank you very much, Jack, I do."

She turned around, to go out the door and down to the boat against the dock.

"You don't want that boat."

She looked over her shoulder, watching his dark eyes for a hint. Obviously it was a trick. "You don't want me to take that boat. For a reason. Or should I..."

He shrugged and picked up a key to the chains. "You're getting paranoid, love."

Suddenly, how it was played, made her want to take the key from him. She got up close, and he took a deep breath, his eyes draw towards her despite himself.

"I just know you too well," she said. "You must get tired of those who don't..."

"You do want to leave with something, don't you?"

She moved closer, closer, eyes on his lips, and moved her hand towards his wrist. "One very small, simple thing." She brushed the inside of his wrist, lighlty.

"For a kiss?"

There was...some sacrifice to be made. "For what?"

"What you want. Kiss me and I'll give you what you need."

She was always willing to step up to the challenge. She pressed her lips against his, and she wanted...she remembered years ago, and even though he was so...she kept kissing him because she wanted it to be a good kiss he couldn't cheat at. That was all.

Jack stepped away first, smiling at her expression. "Nothing better than a hat, in that case," he said, and tossed his randomly on the floor. She gaped at him as he pushed by. "And you know, you won that. I need the key to get off this rock."

"Then do that," she said, as lightly as she could. She listened to him leave and went over to the hat, in order to stomp it. On first stomp--she heard the odd echo, and the sound of a metallic key fall to the ground.

Elizabeth knelt down and pulled on the floorboards--to see the treasure lying underneath her feet. A burst of dizzying relief and warmth swept over her.

She smiled her first real smile in years.

[dollsome.livejournal.com]

Modern Family/How I Met Your Mother, Mitchell/Cam and Barney/Robin, Fizbo meets Robin Sparkles