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

[ever-neutral.livejournal.com]

Harry Potter, Tom Riddle/Bellatrix Lestrange, hundreds of dreams taking place around you

[softly-me.livejournal.com]

The idea of this ship in the shiny-happy ficathon intrigues me =D

[amazingly-me.livejournal.com]

...Your icon is probably the greatest thing I have ever seen.

[softly-me.livejournal.com]

I KNOW RIGHT???

It was made by the amazing hazy_crazy. I get so excited when I'm talking about HP because it means I get to use it.

[ever-neutral.livejournal.com]

It's been filled!! Look below! :D

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

[amazingly-me.livejournal.com]

Well. Bellatrix is happy? I don't know, Bellatrix Lestrange + shiny happy is not the easiest to achieve! :P

Title is from a Janis Joplin song (called, shockingly, "All Is Loneliness").

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Bellatrix's earliest memory is of her mother, pale skin and wide, dark eyes, cooing over her darling firstborn girl.

"You will be beautiful, my love," her mother said. "Beautiful and powerful, of course. They will all be so proud of you. So proud."

Bellatrix's father never called her "darling," but on her eleventh birthday, when she returned home from a day of shopping with the finest Slytherin green robes money could buy, he called her "the pride of the House of Black," which was infinitely better.

Bellatrix grew up in a mansion, a stately, twisted old place with centuries of portraits on the walls: the entire family staring down their noses at her with a regal, cold air. Her mother always stopped to smile quiveringly at them when she walked down the hall, grateful for her inclusion in the Noble and Most Ancient House of Black.

"We are so lucky, darling," she murmured one night after dinner. "So lucky to be a part of a family with so much to be proud of. Such pure blood. I had to marry for it but you, my beautiful Bella, you have been born into it. Someday you will understand what that means."

Bellatrix understands what it means the moment she sets foot within the walls of Hogwarts. Half of the students aren't even of pure blood, she can tell that much immediately. She curls into herself on the first night, the curtains of her four-poster providing flimsy protection against the mercilessly gray stone walls. She can feel this place trying to dilute her magic, trying to seep into her veins and make her something ordinary.

"Seven years," she whispers into the stifling air. "Seven years and you can leave. You'll never come back again."

But seven years is a long time to spend being dragged down, weighed on by students and professors and ideas that are so dull, so common. There are so few people in this school who know what it means to feel centuries of magic humming through them. Seven years is a long time to spend being hemmed in. Being flattened. So at the end of seven years Bellatrix bursts out into the real world in a panic, desperate to be among people who at the very least know when to bow down.

Tom will make the world bow down, she knows. Tom will be "my Lord" when all is said and done, and he will make everyone-- even those hopeless Mudbloods who crowd the halls of Hogwarts-- understand what it is to be worthy. Tom reminds her of the simple elegance in a well-cast spell and of the sheer, raw joy in performing the ancient magic. The promises he whispers while the rest of the world waits, unaware, are grand and sweeping and wonderful, and after seven years of dull terror the world bursts back into color before her eyes.

Re: Harry Potter - Tom Riddle/Bellatrix Lestrange - All is loneliness before me

[ever-neutral.livejournal.com]

OMIGOD. THANK YOU. (I seriously did not expect anybody to take up the challenge of happy Bellatrix/Voldemort.)

But this. This is perfect. Flawless Bellatrix POV, I even almost sympathize with her racism! Which... is a job well done, as far as I'm concerned. And this:

after seven years of dull terror the world bursts back into color before her eyes.

This is legit beautiful. It is. I do not know how you accomplished it, but it is actually poignant.

Sigh. Shippery bliss.

Re: Harry Potter - Tom Riddle/Bellatrix Lestrange - All is loneliness before me

[amazingly-me.livejournal.com]

I seriously did not expect anybody to take up the challenge of happy Bellatrix/Voldemort

I saw it and I thought, "what madness!" and then, pretty much immediately following on that thought was, "I MUST TRY IT" so, you know. That says something about me I am sure. :P

And I am, er. "Glad that you sympathized with her racism" just sounds a bit off but nevertheless! I am glad, because that was sort of the point. :]

I'm so happy that you liked it! It was such a totally unexpected prompt, you rock for leaving it. :D

Re: Harry Potter - Tom Riddle/Bellatrix Lestrange - All is loneliness before me

[ever-neutral.livejournal.com]

:D :D (No YOU rock more!! *g*) I'm just grateful because it's the first of my prompts somebody has seen fit to tackle. Madness indeed.

Re: Harry Potter - Tom Riddle/Bellatrix Lestrange - All is loneliness before me

[softly-me.livejournal.com]

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PERFECT BELLATRIX! I loved the snapshots of her relationships with her parents and how miserable she was at Hogwarts. It all made her finding Tom so perfect for her. Great work.