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

the hunger games - finnick/annie - so come again to the deep blue sea

[fragmentedsky.livejournal.com]

The Victor’s Village is on the water.

Probably, in the past, this has been considered an ideal spot. It wraps around a bay so blue that the color melts into the sky when the sun is at its highest point. The fishermen don’t come here, not because there aren’t fish but because there’s a ring of large rocks at the bay’s entrance, making the area private, perfect. Annie can remember a time when she would have given anything to live here, even in a little cardboard box, just to be able to live on these shores, to swim every day until she couldn’t and then fall into the white-warm sand and let the small waves bury her when high tide came in.

She even remembers one morning, years ago, absently, thinking the chance to live there might even be worth getting chosen for the Hunger Games. She quashed the thought immediately, but she can’t help wondering if it’s why the little slip of paper with her name on it was pulled out.

In the fourteen hours she spent in the water at the Hunger Games, in the dark water under the dark sky as she was surrounded by the gasps and gurgles and bloated corpses of her fellow players, she could think of nothing but that moment. That throwaway thought that had doomed her to die this way. There had only been five players left but she couldn’t keep count of the cannon shots, and when they pulled her up into the hovercraft she thought it was because she’d drowned and just not noticed.

Now she goes down to the bay every day. She measures the distance with her feet from her door to the water but she never goes in, never lets it touch her. She knows, someday, high tide will rise higher and swallow her, leave her to tread water until her muscles melt off her bones.

Today she’s up early. She measures. Eighty-one, eighty-two...

There’s something in the water.

A golden head rises out of the water, bright green eyes fixed on her. She recognizes him, of course; everyone recognizes Finnick Odair. He gives her an odd sort of smile, and she recognizes that too - she couldn’t tell you what it means, but it belongs to those who know what it’s like to be in the arena, and no one else.

“You never swim anymore.”

She takes a moment to sort out what he’s saying. She had been trying to count the waves, to see if they might chase him up the beach. The three steps he’s taken out of the water are still deep in the sand, though, so she must be safe. For now. For this moment, which once you’ve been in the arena is all you can really ask for. “I never swim,” she says.

“You used to, didn’t you?”

“How would you know?” She asks irritably. This intimacy they share is uncomfortable in its perpetual reminder. She wishes he would go away. She wants to make him say it - because it’s the reason you won.

But he doesn’t even hesitate, and that isn’t what he says. “Because you used to sneak out to learn to swim when you were a kid. I was always afraid to, but watching you swimming behind the boats at night was what made me want to learn.”

She hesitates. “I forgot. I forgot how.”

He shakes his dripping hair a bit, and water goes everywhere. For the first time in ages, she doesn’t leap away from it like acid. Drops land on her cheeks, cool and open, and she remembers what it feels like to rise up from deep water, toward the light, the pressure dropping as the whole world under the waves gets bigger and bigger.

“I can teach you,” he says.

Re: the hunger games - finnick/annie - so come again to the deep blue sea

[laeria.livejournal.com]

Hhh. I knew I liked you, and it's not even cause Ruth says you're the best ever.

This is perfect. I could honestly feel the water, the joy of water in the last paragraph. (Next-to-last? "toward the light", anyway, which, yesss.) I love that she was Finnick's hero even before the Games, I love her unreasonable amplified guilt. I love that she recoils from water (like Johanna!) but also yearns for it. I love that her life in Victor's Village is basically a summary of the life of Victors - you got what you wanted and now you can't stand it. I love the ray of hope that is Finnick (but also the fact she may have been his ray of hope before this). I lovelovelove the idea that fishermen's kids aren't allowed to know to swim but Annie does it anyway.

Thank you for writing me this, I'll be rereading it forever.

Re: the hunger games - finnick/annie - so come again to the deep blue sea

[fragmentedsky.livejournal.com]

Aw, thank you! Hey, I appreciate you giving me the excuse. It needs editing like whoa, I wrote it when I was bored in class, but I'm glad you like it. I just finished all three books and I needed some closure or just some more stuff with characters I did not get enough of (Finnick was like my favorite, I loved him to pieces, and I adored Johanna; I'm just glad one of them survived.)

Anyway, it's nice to meet you. I'm Abby.

Re: the hunger games - finnick/annie - so come again to the deep blue sea

[laeria.livejournal.com]

Cinna was my favourite, but Finnick's the immediate runner up. Along with Annie. Finnick/Annie as a unit. Makes me so very happy. I was spoiled for his death and yet it was devastating. I have several Issues with the books and dunno if I'm going to either write or read fic extensively, but this? Was perfectly precisely what I needed.

Also, I'm Chilla and I am charmed to meet you too. <3

Re: the hunger games - finnick/annie - so come again to the deep blue sea

[fragmentedsky.livejournal.com]

Oh god, I LOVED Cinna. He was the most badass. I really wished we'd seen more of Annie and Finnick/Annie, but I guess that's the limitations of first person perspective. I somehow wasn't spoiled for anything; I'm not sure how that happened. I have Issues with the books too, and I probably won't really delve into the fandom either (I'm a fan of everything but I only just got back into fandom in general and I'm still not that active in it) - they're a blast to read, but not my favorite series ever or anything. But I read the whole series in four days, so it kind of took over my brain. When I first left that comment to Ruth - that the book was in my bag - I hadn't actually started them yet. I'm a lit major, so I'm perpetually reading something, but this was a nice cool-down. If you have any other series suggestions, I'd love to hear them!

Re: the hunger games - finnick/annie - so come again to the deep blue sea

[laeria.livejournal.com]

I'm a fan of everything but I only just got back into fandom in general and I'm still not that active in it

Me too, me too! Well, for certain values of "back into" - I doubt I shall commit much public ficcing, apart from comment-a-thons. Also, I so did not miss the wank and am very carefully side-stepping it. (Only just watched BtVS, and, while I want some fic and some meta, I so do not want the apparent endless vitriol.)

The best book I've read recently was Feed by Mira Grant - which, okay, about zombies, sure, but it has the best narrator ever. It's the first of a trilogy, but the following books aren't out yet. Still, it works as a standalone and excels at some things I felt Hunger Games botched. (Like, say, characterisation.) I can't rec a series offhand, but I'll holler if I remember something.

Re: the hunger games - finnick/annie - so come again to the deep blue sea

[fragmentedsky.livejournal.com]

Yeah, ditto - these ficathons is how Ruth is snaring me into fandom. I'll read stuff, and I've always watched, you know, fandomy shows and read fandomy books, but I tend to like restricting my fandom to my terms, I guess. I'm a fandom introvert. (I grew up on BtVS, but I'm only just starting Doctor Who, which is what Ruth was not-so-subtly complaining about above.)

I will have to check those out! Yes, the Hunger Games series was pretty much full of stock characters with pretty much singular characteristic personalities. But I think mostly I missed having a quick, readable series to get lost in. Collins' prose was nothing remarkable either, but still fun. But yes, will look up your rec. I LOVE me some zombies and good characterization. Thank you!