Aurora Australis

Title: Moonlight becomes you (it goes with your hair)
Fandom: Chalet School
Rating: G
Length: 865 words
Content notes: For the "moon" challenge at fan_flashworks. Set after "The Chalet School and Rosalie". Hilda/Nell. Title borrowed from the song, and the ffw_social post!
Summary: After the end of term, Nell and Hilda take a moonlight stroll.

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Title: (If I Could) Fly
Fandom: High Rollers: Aerois
Rating: G
Length: 2451 words
Content notes: Set during episodes #50, A Desperate Escape, and #76, Echoes of the Galaxy.
Author notes: For the Gravity challenge at fan_flashworks. Title from "If I Could Fly" by Helloween. Am I mad I've already used "Fall Down or Fly" as an HR fic title? Take a wild guess! 
Summary: Quill's been hesitant to use this spell, but if ever there was a time to... Two times Quill casts Fly while in astral space.

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Title: Sentry's Painting
Fandom: High Rollers (Aerois)
Rating: G
Length: 1735 words
Content notes: Quill & Sentry, implied Quill/Lucius.
Author notes: For the "paint" challenge at fan_flashworks . I may have taken some minor liberties with the use and appearance of the "mending" cantrip!
Summary: Back on the airship, Quill returns the Solwynn painting to Sentry. 

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So thisbluespirit just reminded me of the existence of the poetry flashfic meme, which reminded me I had an unfinished one! So I dug it out and finished it:

Rules

1: Pick five fandoms. List them in alphabetical order.

2: Visit this site to find your first RANDOM POEM OF POWER. Write down the 5th line (yes, even if it's an E.E. Cummings poem and you wind up with an apostrophe). Repeat five times and - you guessed it - list them in alphabetical order! (No cheating, mind! This is a challenge and it's always been about creativity.)

3: I think you can see where this is going. Write a very quick 50-word half-drabble for each fandom (try to do it all in one sitting), using the line from the poem as a prompt. You don't have to include it in the half-drabble - it's just inspiration.

4: Bravo! Have a cookie.

I have lost the actual poem authors and names, so apologies for that, but here are the fics:

Chalet School (Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: )

“Is it not difficult, to teach girls of many nationalities? Are they not too different?”

Hilda smiles at the prospective parent. “There are some differences, certainly, but really what I notice most are their similarities! Under the veneer of training, the essential natures of our girls are much the same.”

Critical Role: Mighty Nein (nights of ink and dawn )

Caleb looks up, blinking wearily as he stretches cramped fingers. Finally, he’s finished transcribing the last of the scrolls he’s been carrying into his spellbook. Glancing towards the window, he’s surprised to see it’s not pitch dark any more, the first grey light of dawn beginning to spread. Worth it.

Critical Role: Vox Machina (of his audience )

Scanlan inspects the crowd in the tavern appraisingly. These people look mostly like farmers… the ballad of a ploughboy doing great deeds to win his true love’s heart, that should go down well. Leaping onto a table, he claps his hands. “Good folk! Can I interest you in a song?”

High Rollers: Aerois (or decorate. I wouldn’t ask for beautiful.)

Dropping her pack by the door, Aila looks around the room. Her room… She’s never had a room of her own, the clan lived in tents or rough shelters. She’s not going to go mad decorating, she’s not Lucius, but… feeling strangely daring, she hangs her tartan on the wall.

Swallows and Amazons (The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,)

Dot looks out of her tent, woken by the blazing summer sun. She knows the others think it very tame to be camping in the garden, but this is her first time waking in a tent! So she takes a minute to enjoy it, stories already weaving in her head.

Title: Shockwave
Fandom: High Rollers: Aerois
Rating: G
Length: 1331 words
Content notes: set at the beginning of Episode 56 (Hearts of Glass).
Author notes: For the "background" challenge at fan_flashworks . How this relates to the prompt: background made me think of NPCs, which made me think of Fayeth, which led to speculating on what she might have been doing in the background of the canon scenes.
Summary: After the explosion on the Stormchaser, Fayeth wonders and worries.

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Borrowed from thisbluespirit as usual - give me a number and I'll answer the question. 

1. favorite fic you wrote this year
2. least favorite fic you wrote this year
3. favorite line/scene you wrote this year
4. total number of words you wrote this year
5. most popular fic this year
6. least popular fic this year
7. longest completed fic you wrote this year
8. shortest completed fic you wrote this year
9. longest wip of the year
10. shortest wip of the year
11. fandom you enjoyed writing for the most this year
12. favorite character to write about this year
13. favorite writing song/artist/album of this year
14. a fic you didn’t expect to write
15. something you learned this year
16. fic(s) you completed this year
17. fics you’ll continue next year
18. current number of wips
19. any new fics to start next year
20. number of comments you haven’t read
21. most memorable comment/review
22. events you participated in this year
23. fics you wanted to write but didn’t
24. favorite fic you read this year
25. a fic you read this year you would recommend everyone read
26. number of favorites/bookmarks you made this year
27. favorite fanfic author of the year
28. longest fic you read this year
29. shortest fic you read this year
30. favorite fandom to read fic from this year

Title: Conversations
Fandom: High Rollers (Aerois campaign)
Rating: G
Length: 1499 words
Content notes: Spoilers for episode #44, The Elenasto Fiasco.
Author notes: This came from my own need for someone to talk to Lucius please...They had two days with nothing to do but talk things over, some sort of conversation must have happened!
Summary: After discovering Moonstar's identity, there's a lot to talk about.

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Title: Speak Low
Fandom: High Rollers (Aerois campaign)
Rating: G
Length: 1616 words
Content notes: Set during Episode 39 (uses dialogue from it), spoilers through that episode. Title comes from Much Ado About Nothing (‘Speak low if you speak love’).
Author notes: For the "heart" challenge at fan_flashworks. Inspired by this tumblr post which I have been thinking about for days... There were some very interesting RP choices in that scene, from Tom bringing up the ritual in the first place to Kim and Katie deciding that's what Nova and Aila would remember and think to tell him about!
Summary: Newly returned to the living, Quill has some questions.

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Title: Last Night on the Sea Bear
Fandom: Swallows and Amazons series - Arthur Ransome
Rating: G
Length: 500
Content notes: set after the end of "Great Northern?" - I assumed they would have one more night on board, what with everything that happens the last day.
Author notes: For the "sea life" challenge at fan_flashworks. Also for the "weakness" prompt in my 50x500 Swallows and Amazons challenge. In my mental timeline, Great Northern is in the summer of their last "all together" holiday, following John and Nancy's last term at school (it could happen one or two years before that, but I prefer to set it there).
Summary: On their last night aboard the Sea Bear, Susan and Nancy talk of new adventures ahead.

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