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Fannish Fest February day 3: A Character Who Deserves More Love
Prompt from @thepromptfoundry
Usagi’s dad from Sailor Moon!
We don’t see a lot of him, but he’s clearly good natured and sweet, gladly shares chores with his wife, cares about his family, and just rolls with it when, for instance, his teenage daughter says she’s friends with a cat.
Like he is uncommonly involved and carrying for a 1990s anime dad and I love him.
Late to today's Fannish Fest prompt by @thepromptfoundry - favorite bit of fannish history.
I know I have a better answer for this somewhere in my head, but all I've been able to come up with is the Cassie Claire Plagiarism Exposé. Watching those chapters drop with the tables showing entire paragraphs she'd stolen was simply epic.
Fannish Fest February day 5: Characters Swapping Clothes
Prompt from @thepromptfoundry
Howl's Moving Clothesswap
(Also available to read on Ao3)
Sophie thought she might die laughing, lungs burning, eyes watering, curled involuntarily with her knees to her chest as Howl flounced through the room in one of her dressed.
“I don't think I'm pretty at all,” he said with a dramatic swish of his recently-bleached hair. “Not like my sisters—no, I'm the smart one,” he twirled, “the responsible one.”
“Howl!” Sophie shrieked, completely failing to sound affronted.
He continued, undeterred. “That's why I do things like wander off into the wilderness alone with no plan and thrust myself upon famously dangerous wizards—because that's so responsible of me!”
“That is not what happened!” she objected, throwing a decorative pillow he dodged easily.
“That's how I remember it,” Howl said with a shrug, settling to sit on the edge of the hearth, smoothing the skirt over his legs as he did. It was scandalously short on him, the gazelle-legged fool. He slid a conspiratorial look towards the fire. “What do you think, Calcifer?”
“I think I'd better not get in the middle of this,” Calcifer grumbled, tossing up a little spray of sparks as he pulled another log into the grate for himself.
Howl gave a little half nod of respect for the demon's abstention and crossed his arms, leaning back against the tile work. “How—”
“You're going to get soot on my dress.”
“I'll wash it. How—”
“You never do the washing!”
“I might if you ever let it sit for longer than five minutes!” Howl laughed. “How do you remember things, then?”
Sophie glared at him, then got up from her armchair with a roll of her eyes, pulled the ribbon tying back her hair, shook it out, paused, stalked across the room to grab one of Howl's flashy oversized jackets from the coat tree by the door, slung it around her shoulders, and drew herself up with a deep breath. “I'm Howl Pendragon,” she announced, strutting forward like a peacock, “and the Wizard Jenkins, and at least half a dozen other aliases, because if I have to face a single responsibility or consequence I will simply dissolve into a pile of goo.”
“Hey, now,” Howl warned, but there was a chuckle to his voice.
“I act like a heartbreaker, but I am, in fact, such a desperately insecure twit,” she draped an arm across his shoulders, “that I will literally dissolve into a pile of goo over not being blond.”
With a chagrinned grimace and half a laugh, he pulled her into his lap and tucked his face into the side of her neck. “In my defense, I do look good blond.”
She kissed the top of his newly-cornsilk hair. “You are so shallow sometimes. But,” she sighed, “you are pretty.”
He looked up at her, expression serious. “So are you.”
She smiled and kissed him. One hand coming up to tangle in her starlight-silver hair, he kissed her back.
An exasperated huff of embers floated up the chimney.
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Owl House (Cartoon) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Raine Whispers & Original Character(s) Characters: Raine Whispers, Amber (The Owl House), Original The Owl House Character(s) Additional Tags: Post-Episode: s03e03 Watching and Dreaming (The Owl House), Teacher-Student Relationship, Nonbinary Character Series: Part 2 of Tutoring Summary:
Raine and an unexpected blast from the past. (Will make much more sense if you read “Tutoring” first.)
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Day 6 of Fannish Fest February, @thepromptfoundry
Day 2 of Fannish Fest February by @thepromptfoundry. Current Blorbo :)
Day 3 of @thepromptfoundry 's Fannish Fest February: underappreciated characters.
Was just going to do an in-style doodle of Barcus, but was talking with my SO, who didn't realize he's a boy-faced dog, and we touched on how unnerving he would actually look.
So here's some unnerving realistic-ish Barcus.
Day 8; A Fanfic Trope You Always Love from @thepromptfoundry's fannish fest february is up now! <3
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Owl House (Cartoon) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Eda Clawthorne & Darius Deamonne, Darius Deamonne & Raine Whispers, Eda Clawthorne/Raine Whispers Characters: Darius Deamonne, Eda Clawthorne, Raine Whispers Additional Tags: During Timeskip in Episode: s03e03 Watching and Dreaming (The Owl House), Teasing, Sharing a Bed Summary:
There’s been a reservation error. Darius is, once again, tired of Raine and Eda’s nonsense. *** For Day 8 of Fannish Fest February, @thepromptfoundry
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Owl House (Cartoon) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Eda Clawthorne/Raine Whispers Characters: Raine Whispers, Eda Clawthorne Additional Tags: Spoilers for Episode: s03e03 Watching and Dreaming (The Owl House), Harpy Eda Clawthorne, Sex Summary:
Raine’s face was very loud when they saw Eda transform. There’s finally time to do something about it.
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Day 9 of Fannish Fest February, @thepromptfoundry
Fannish Fest February day 6: A Fannish OC
Prompt from @thepromptfoundry
Per the results of the poll I made a few days ago, I'm writing about Leryk, one of my Star Trek OCs from Chiaroscuro. And in writing this, it turned into all OCs, so enjoy!
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Playing a drinking game the night before departure was probably a bad idea. Playing a drinking game with chocolate liquor when both chocolate and alcohol are intoxicants to your system is definitely a bad idea. That had not stopped Leryk from joining his partner—Bryn—and a fair handful of their former classmates and new crewmates from sprawling on the floor of what was meant to be a study room, three bottles of booze between them.
"Okay," Leryk said, cheeks flushed emerald and laughing. "Okay, um, letssee here. Never have I ever..." he locked eyes across the circle with T'ker, the one Vulcan who had deined to join the game, and grinned, "been to the Temple of Amonak."
T'ker leveled a hard look at Leryk, though his ability to be any kind of intimidating was severely undercut by the way he was clinging to the leg of the table next to him to keep from tipsily tipping over. "That play is obviously targeted."
"Yeah, no shit," Leryk laughed again. "You shouldn't've mentioned where you grew up. Drink."
T'ker totally didn't roll his eyes, not even a little bit. He knocked back a shot of shot of chocolate liquor, gave up on clinging to the table, and lay down. "I may have made a tactical error in agreeing to play such a game with you, in particular."
"Yeah," Leryk agreed with a hint of sympathy. "Between being a damn easy target for me, and getting caught in the crossfire of Akari trying to target me, you are now the drunkest I think I've ever seen a Vulcan. Congrats."
"Is chocolate intoxication drunk or high?" Bryn asked.
Leryk shrugged, as did all the other humans playing.
"Is the difference sal—" T'ker stopped mid-mispronunciation, tried again, gave up, and started the question over. "Does it matter?"
"Not really," Bryn admitted. "Akari, your turn."
Akari rested her chin on her hands, grinning like a shark. "Never have I ever gotten drunk or high off of chocolate."
"Oh, fuck you," Leryk snarled, pouring another shot each for himself and T'ker.
Fannish Fest February day 7: Patching a Plot Hole
Prompt from @thepromptfoundry
Okay, so it's not exactly a plot hole, but one of my favorite ever fan-explanations for something is the one concocted by Howl's Moving Castle fans to reconcile the differences between the original novel by Diana Wynne Jones and the movie adaptation directed by Hayao Miyazaki:
The book is how Sophie remembers things, the movie is how Howl tells the story.
What I love about this is that it makes totally sense, and addresses literally every difference between the book and film (except for maybe one, the name change from Michael to Markle, but I think real world linguistic differences cover that one). Sophie has two sisters in the book, but one in the film? That's not important to Howl's narrative here, and frankly he might not be sure which sister is which anyway. Michael is a young adult in the book, but Markle is a child in the film? Well, if he's a teenager, to Sophie who's from a culture where people regularly enter the workforce and begin courting in their teens, of course he's an adult. But to Howl—who we know from the book is a 27 year old from our reality—yeah, no, that's a kid. Howl generally seeming like more of a jackass in the book? Of course he depicts himself in a better light. Omission of Howl being a random rugby playing Welshman from our world? Of course he leaves that out, it's not cool and it's a secret. The thing in the movie where Sophie kinda shifts back and forth in age while under the old-age curse? Howl's POV and awareness of Sophie's true age (and his affection for her) shining through. Every other omitted element, plot thread, and character from the book? Not important to Howl's narrative here. Every added element and difference in aesthetic? Howl believes in rule of cool; let the man embellish.
I love it. And I know I first saw this put forward in a tumblr post but I can't find it—if anyone has that post on hand or knows OP, please @ them with my appreciation for their briliance.
Fannish Fest February day 8: A Fanfic Trope You Always Love
Prompt from @thepromptfoundry
Not entirely sure this counts as a trope but it's definitely a thing and I wish it was more of a trope people tagged for so I could find it more readily, but fanfic—especially in some fandoms—has a tendency to take the barest hint of canon speculative biology for aliens, fantasy species, etc and just run with it. There are whole speculative biology write ups for various Star Trek species! Like, Yes Please, let's explore these characters' differences—bonus points if it's sexy, lol
Fannish Fest February day 9: A Headcanon With Canon Support
Prompt from @thepromptfoundry
Headcanon: Ennis del Mar from Brokeback Mountain is autistic.
Evidence: just, Heath Ledger's entire performance
Day 14; Your OTP (or OT3+) from @thepromptfoundry's February prompts
For me this has gotta be an OT3 actually, Bakugou Katsuki/Midoriya Izuku/Todoroki Shouto. What can I say, I just think they're neat.
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Owl House (Cartoon) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Eda Clawthorne/Raine Whispers Characters: Raine Whispers, Eda Clawthorne Additional Tags: During Timeskip in Episode: s03e03 Watching and Dreaming (The Owl House), Established Relationship, Nonbinary Character, Canon Disabled Character Summary:
One of Eda’s enduring joys was that, even with the demise of the original portal, piles of Human stuff somehow still landed in the Boiling Isles. (Eda takes Raine to a garbage pile for date night.)
*** For Day 14 of Fannish Fest February, @thepromptfoundry
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Owl House (Cartoon) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Eda Clawthorne/Raine Whispers Characters: Eda Clawthorne, Raine Whispers Additional Tags: Break Up, Pre-Canon, Backstory, Song Lyrics, Curses, Growing Up Summary:
Eda is pulling away, fighting her symptoms and trying to protect Raine. Raine just knows they’re being left behind and has to make a decision.
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Day 16 of Fannish Fest February, @thepromptfoundry
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Owl House (Cartoon) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Alador Blight & Darius Deamonne Characters: Darius Deamonne, Alador Blight, technically - Character Additional Tags: Pre-Relationship, Darius Deamonne-centric, During Timeskip in Episode: s03e03 Watching and Dreaming (The Owl House), Denial, Watching Someone Sleep Summary:
Darius stops at Blight Industries. Someone has to check on things.
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Day 17 of Fannish Fest February, @thepromptfoundry
Day 19; Different Versions Of The Same Character from @thepromptfoundry's fannish fest february is now up on AO3
(*whispers* as well as the first part of Day 15; A Crossover, which got way longer than anticipated)
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Owl House (Cartoon) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Eda Clawthorne, Owlbert (The Owl House), Hooty (The Owl House) Additional Tags: Post-Canon, During Timeskip in Episode: s03e03 Watching and Dreaming (The Owl House), Flying Summary:
There are some perks to the whole curse thing. The harpy form, for one.
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For Day 20 of Fannish Fest February, @thepromptfoundry
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Owl House (Cartoon) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Eda Clawthorne & King Clawthorne Characters: Eda Clawthorne, King Clawthorne (The Owl House) Additional Tags: Post-Episode: s03e03 Watching and Dreaming (The Owl House), Transformation, Humor Summary:
Eda wakes up in the mood for singing. King wakes up…different.
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Day 22 of Fannish Fest February, @thepromptfoundry