TWFF Challenge #48 Fics!

@major-trouble​ MoC-ed for us this time and picked this gorgeous shot which she took herself!

How many of the fics do you think are about time travel? 

You can read them all here!

And then guess who wrote what here!  You do not need to have written to play the guessing game; it’s open to everyone!

Your authors this round are: @katwriteswitcherthings​, @brighteyedjill​, @inexplicifics​, @pherryt​, @kittsfics​, dawnoftheagez, @flawney​, myself, @inthepocketofherraincoat​, @xianvar, @thirstyforred​, @ialwayscomewhenyoucall​ and @feedingmyinsomnia​.

TWFF Challenge #47 Results

As a group, we got 6 out of 7 right!

@ialwayscomewhenyoucall was correctly identified as the author of A Bard Doth Not a Jealous Witcher Make by 57% of people who guessed!

@inexplicifics was correctly identified as the author of Homelight by 43% of people who guessed!

@feedingmyinsomnia was correctly identified as the author of kiss those scars that never heal by 67% of people who guessed!

@peaktotheocean was not correctly identified as the author of Light.

@xianvar was correctly identified as the author of Something Strange, Something Familiar by 83% of people who guessed!

@violaceum-vitellina-viridis was correctly identified as the author of study break by 83% of people who guessed!

eatingcroutons was correctly identified as the author of To the young by 71% of people who guessed!

If you want to participate in the next one, feel free to join the Discord!

TWFF Challenge #47 Fic Revealed!

The prompt this round was:

You can read all the fics here!

And guess who wrote what here!  Guessing is open to everyone; you don’t need to have written or anything!

Our authors this round are: eatingcroutons, @inexplicifics, @violaceum-vitellina-viridis​, @xianvar, @ialwayscomewhenyoucall​, @feedingmyinsomnia​, and @peaktotheocean!

TWFF Challenge #46 Authors Revealed!

As a group, we got all 11 right! Go us!

@pherryt was correctly identified as the author of Caught in the Net by 60% of people who guessed!

@frenchkey was correctly identified as the author of The Curtains are Fucking Blue by 40% of people who guessed!

@feedingmyinsomnia was correctly identified as the author of escape from this life's masquerade by 100% of people who guessed!

@inexplicifics was correctly identified as the author of Fishing for Dreams by 83% of people who guessed!

@xianvar was correctly identified as the author of Footprints in Sand by 20% of people who guessed!

aleatory_fox was correctly identified as the author of How Far We've Come by 67% of people who guessed!

dawnoftheagez was correctly identified as the author of A Mer in our Nets by 50% of people who guessed!

@major-trouble was correctly identified as the author of The mother of what is and the son of what might be by 50% of people who guessed!

@peaktotheocean was correctly identified as the author of nest of nets by 40% of people who guessed!

@lambden was correctly identified as the author of oh, better far to live and die under the brave black flag I fly than play a sanctimonious part by 20% of people who guessed!

@kittsfics was correctly identified as the author of An Unexpected Catch by 67% of people who guessed!

If you want to participate in the next one, feel free to join the Discord!

TWFF Challenge #46

Our MoC this round was Zemyr and our prompt was:

Pirate AUs, ahoy!  XD

You can read all the fics here!

And then guess who wrote what here!  Guessing is open to everyone; you don’t need to have written for the challenge or anything!

Your authors this round are: @xianvar, @major-trouble, @feedingmyinsomnia, dawnoftheagez, @pherryt, @peaktotheocean, @inexplicifics, @frenchkey​, aleatory_fox, @kittsfics​ and @lambden​!

Egg Tree

Rating: T

Pairing: None (Gen Jaskier & Ciri & Geralt & Lambert & Coën & Yennefer & Vesemir)

Word Count: 4.3k

CW: Canonical character death (S2 & TW3)

Summary:  Ciri asks a simple question over breakfast. Jaskier overthinks it and panics. The repercussions of his fumbling answer are perhaps more enduring than he might have hoped.

Four Hours Ago

“Huh,” Ciri said as Jaskier gracelessly oozed himself onto the bench opposite hers at the table and fumbled blindly for cutlery. “Eggs.”

In the few days since his arrival, Jaskier had mastered the art of manoeuvring his mostly still unconscious body from his room to breakfast in Kaer Morhen’s great hall without really opening his eyes. It was, he thought, a clever compromise between his promise to himself many years ago, after his final finals at Oxenfurt, never again to wake up before the sun and the witchers’ insane insistence that breakfast was something that should happen in the early hours of the morning instead of around ten or so as the gods clearly intended. Even worse, Vesemir subscribed to the ‘most important meal of the day’ malarky (perpetrated by malicious early birds against the innocent night owls of the world), which meant that the breakfast served at Kaer Morhen was a hearty and substantial affair whereas lunch was a much leaner offering, more of an afterthought to tide one over to dinner than an actual meal unto itself. So all told, it was either get up to eat with the rooster's first crow or starve ‘til evening. In the face of that impossible choice, Jaskier did the best he could.

He was cutting it pretty close this morning, though—the only other person still at the table when he stumbled in was the Princess Cirilla, or Ciri as he was trying to remember she preferred being called—and so despite his valiant attempts to keep his mind as blissfully numb and as close to sleep as possible, the little pang of worry that he might have been too late and gone hungry had his consciousness close enough to the surface that the quizzical tone in Ciri’s voice could catch it, hook, line and sinker.

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TWFF Challenge #45 Results

As a group, we managed to get all 8 authors right!

@peaktotheocean was correctly identified as the author of catchy by 60% of people who guessed!

I was correctly identified as the author of Egg Tree by 80% of people who guessed!

zemyr was correctly identified as the author of The Godfather by 67% of people who guessed!

dawnoftheagez was correctly identified as the author of Hatching Plans over Ham and Eggs by 83% of people who guessed!

@xianvar was correctly identified as the author of (Have you ever held your breath and asked yourself) Will it ever get better than tonight? by 80% of people who guessed!

@inexplicifics was correctly identified as the author of Nested by 83% of people who guessed!

@feedingmyinsomnia was correctly identified as the author of one of the gallows is left for you (but the wood is decayed) by 100% of people who guessed!

@brighteyedjill was correctly identified as the author of A Piece of Metal by 80% of people who guessed!

If you want to participate in the next one, feel free to join the Discord!

Hi! My apologies for the delayed response!

So, the first step would be to join the Discord! On the Discord, the prompt, the countdown and the link to the AO3 collection are all posted. There is also a Google calendar you can subscribe to with all of the flash fics which are scheduled for the rest of the year!

To write for the challenge, all you have to do is submit a fic to the AO3 collection before the challenge closes. (This is why you need to join the Discord or subscribe to the calendar, so you know when the challenge opens and closes.) When you go to the AO3 collection during an active challenge, there is a link in the top right to post to the collection. Here's a picture of what the button looks like from a past challenge. I highlighted the button in red.

When you click that, you'll get the normal AO3 posting page to fill out with the name of the challenge you are submitting to pre-filled out for you. Don't worry about making your fic anonymous or anything; that's all handled by the collection! Just fill out the AO3 posting page like you normally would and hit post.

And that's it! The fics will stay anonymous for one week so that everyone has time to guess who wrote what. The link to the Google form for guessing is posted in the Discord and on my Tumblr.

I hope you will choose to join us! I'm more than happy to answer any other questions to the best of my ability. :)

TWFF Challenge #44 Results!

This time we managed to get 8 out 10 authors!

dawnoftheagez was correctly identified as the author of The Bell of the Ball by 57% of people who guessed!

@lambden was correctly identified as the author of bird versus bard by 43% of people who guessed!

@brighteyedjill was not correctly identified as the author of Clothes Don't Make the Man.

Anoke was correctly identified as the author of Free Bird by 29% of people who guessed!

@peaktotheocean was correctly identified as the author of he's-at-home by 33% of people who guessed!

@inexplicifics was correctly identified as the author of If The World Were Otherwise by 100% of people who guessed!

@kimikocha was correctly identified as the author of The Sound of Music by 50% of people who guessed!

@pherryt was correctly identified as the author of Two Witchers and a Gods-Be-Damned Peacock by 83% of people who guessed!

@ialwayscomewhenyoucall was correctly identified as the author of We Belong, One to Another by 86% of people who guessed!

@feedingmyinsomnia was not correctly identified as the author of Welcome Home.

If you want to participate in the next one, feel free to join the Discord!

Ouroboros

Rating: T

Pairing: Deglan & Vesemir, Vesemir & Lambert

Word Count: 4.3k

CW: Injuries, Trial of the Grasses

There was a particular smell to basements and cellars, any man-made space that had been clawed from the bowels of the earth. It was a dark, damp scent, part earthy and vibrant, part musty and decaying no matter who owned the thing nor how diligently they had it cleaned. It was the scent of a transitional space, a battlefield of sorts, where the millions of tiny creatures that churned and teemed away mindlessly to till the fertile soil met the inexorable vacuum of a sentient species’ necessity and power to control their environment. And, like all battlefields, they attracted death-eaters: mildew and mould, the vulture and crow of the microscopic world.

They always made Vesemir slightly uneasy, an instinctive biological response to the scent trigger that bypassed his conscious mind and went right for his gut. He had heard it said that smell was the sense most closely tied to memory, and Vesemir believed it. One deep breath in and he was back in the cellars of Kaer Morhen lying in a pool of his own bodily fluids amongst the dead, the dying and the ‘lucky’ few who were being painfully reborn, all the while desperately trying to focus all of his nascent super-human senses on the comparatively neutral background of the basement instead. But one severely injured and one unconscious witcher were easy pickings out in the open—he needed to actually sleep, not just meditate, and Kreve only knew if Deglan was even going to wake up—so he wrinkled his nose, bit back the bile rising in the back of his throat, shifted the dead weight of his not-quite-dead-yet mentor on his one good shoulder and descended the worn stairs.

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TWFF Challenge #44 Fics Revealed!

For this round I decided to give our usual suspects a peacock for a prompt and see what they came up with!

You can read all the fics here!

And then guess who wrote what here!  Guessing is open to everyone who wants to play; you don’t need to have participated!

Your authors this time around are: @kimikocha​, Anoke, @feedingmyinsomnia​, @inexplicifics​, @ialwayscomewhenyoucall​, @peaktotheocean​, @pherryt​, dawnoftheagez, @lambden​ and @brighteyedjill​!