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Fandom: The Scholomance series by Naomi Novik

Summary: The gradual, unlikely, inevitable and very necessary coming together of El, Aadhya, Liu and Chloe — as observed by the one most invested in their success.

Characters: El Higgins, Aadhya, Yi Liu, Chloe Rasmussen, the Scholomance

Words: 400

Notes: For Aishuu, for

chocolateboxcomm 2022.

Read on AO3, or here below:

( Four, Not One )

Fandom: Fleabag

Summary: A small thing in response to this wonderful prompt: "IS THE FOX MAGIC? Please say."

Characters: Foxes, Priest, Fleabag

Words: 100

Notes: For syllic, Yuletide 2021.

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ONE FOX

One fox, nose to the ground. Searching? Yes.

But not for a scent; searching for a trail of magic.

Two foxes meet in a park, confer. Did he go that way? No. That way.

Nine foxes converge beneath a window. Their quarry is inside, but not alone. Why must humans have so many emotions? It muddles the trail.

Eight foxes skulk away, one keeps watch.

Their quarry trails magic behind him; they’d like to learn his powers. But he always runs.

One fox pauses at a bus stop. A human points. The trail is strong now.

One fox goes on.

Fandom: Graceling Realm series by Kristin Cashore

Summary: Bitterblue and Giddon return home from Winterkeep a little different from how they left—and there's no keeping secrets from Po. ;-)

Characters: Giddon, Bitterblue, Po

Words: 100

Notes: A small Yuletide treat for

owlbeer, because the Yuletide Madness Drabble Invitational is such a delightful idea!

Read on AO3, or here below:

Po was at the docks, already smirking, when at last they disembarked in Monport.

“Oh, shut up,” Giddon told him, but it was hard to keep from grinning. He was fairly sure he’d been grinning since the moment he’d woken from his faint and found Bitterblue still alive.

Po embraced Bitterblue, then Giddon. Arm still slung around Giddon, he tousled Bitterblue’s wind-tossed hair, making her yelp. “You two finally figured it out, then?” Po asked, as Bitterblue shoved him away, then pulled him back to hug again.

“Yes,” Bitterblue said. “Now, you hush.”

Po only beamed at both of them.

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LIKE LEAVES AND KINGS

Summary: The leaves are falling, the seasons are changing, and adult life is rushing towards them. But the Marauders will always find time for one last hurrah.

Characters: Marauders, with perhaps a hint of Remus/Sirius

Words: 1200 (4 x 300)

Notes: This set of triple drabbles came about in part as my submission for hp_halloween... But in the process of trying to write one (triple) drabble, I accidentally wrote four. :-) Thank you to rachelindeed for betareading!

Read here below or on AO3.

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( Like Leaves and Kings )

Crossposts: https://starfishstar.livejournal.com/114523.html

RIVER, SEA AND STREAM

Summary: Remus and Sirius, three moments: in the sunlight of the old days, in the cold of the years apart, and in the quiet, hopeful days of coming back together.

Characters: Remus/Sirius

Words: 300

Notes: A quick triple drabble written for

shaggydogstail’s prompt in the 2019 Remus/Sirius

small_gifts fest:

“We twa hae paidl'd in the burn // frae morning sun till dine // But seas between us braid hae roar'd // sin' auld lang syne” (from Auld Lang Syne by Rabbie Burns).

Read here below or on AO3.

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( River, Sea and Stream )

Crossposts: https://starfishstar.livejournal.com/110263.html

ONE WEIRD THING

Fandom: Call Me By Your Name

Summary: Oliver is so irritatingly perfect. Why, Elio wonders, can’t he have just one weird habit?

Characters: Elio, Oliver, Samuel, Annella

Words: 200

Notes: A Yuletide Madness treat for

lionessvalenti.

Dear lionessvalenti, I read your Yuletide letter and I loved this prompt so much:

“What I love about this movie is its exploration of intimacy. It has these really beautiful moments or not just sexual/romantic intimacy, or the familiar intimacy of Elio and his parents, but the things people do when they're alone. The silly things, the mindless, the quiet. One of my favorite little scenes is that moment when Elio puts Oliver's trunks on his head. It's something no one would ever do with anyone around, but there's a freedom in being alone, and seeing someone just being alone makes this movie so beautiful. I think that's the beauty of the infamous peach scene, and Elio's reaction, is having those weird things we do by ourselves called out and noticed.”

I tried for ages to write you a different, longer, more serious fic to that prompt, but it just wasn’t working out. Then Karios told me you like drabbles! So instead, here’s a (double) drabble for you.

Thank you to Karios for betareading. :-)

Read on AO3, or here below:

( One Weird Thing )

Crossposts: https://starfishstar.livejournal.com/102652.html

THERE ARE DAYS

Summary:

Sometimes Jack gets lost in how much he has lived through, how much he has lost.

Ianto always finds him.

Characters/Pairing: Jack/Ianto, with mentions of other characters
(set any nebulous time with the full team during the run of the show, and also CoE never happens, yes?)

Words: 600

Rating: PG-13

Notes: I was processing some feelings of my own, and they came out as Jack Harkness.

(A set of interconnected drabbles about Jack, Ianto, and im/mortality. Angsty topics, I suppose, but overall loving and hopeful.)

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( There Are Days )

Crossposts: https://starfishstar.livejournal.com/94748.html

TWENTY YEARS ON

Summary: Twenty drabbles about twenty characters, and where they are twenty years on from the start of the Harry Potter series – in honour of the twentieth anniversary of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, first published on 26 June, 1997. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HARRY POTTER!

Characters: Aberforth, Andromeda, Angelina, Arthur, Charlie, Dean, Draco, Fleur & Bill, George, Ginny, Hagrid, Harry, Hermione, Luna, Minerva, Molly, Neville, Percy, Ron, Teddy

Rating: G

Words: 2,000 exactly

Notes:

By “twenty years on from the start of the Harry Potter series” I mean I’ve set this roughly in the summer of 2011, so it’s 20 years after the start of the main action of Philosopher’s Stone (1991: Harry’s 11th birthday/getting his Hogwarts letter), and 13 years after the end of Deathly Hallows (1998: when Harry’s nearly 18).

Probably some small deviations here from Pottermore and latterly JKR revelations about characters’ post-canon lives, since I tend to view those as interesting expanded universe but not strictly canon, and because in some characters’ cases I’d already written stories and established headcanons before JKR’s info came out. Minor stuff, though! Details like where Fleur works. :-)

Read on AO3, or here below:

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( TWENTY YEARS ON )

Crossposts: https://starfishstar.livejournal.com/83182.html

Inspired by bfcure's Russian translation of my short Torchwood fic "Foreign Languages," I thought it would be fun to try my own hand at a translation...into German. This would not have been possible without the German-beta-work-extraordinaire of

vulcan_rhapsody. Thank you!!

FREMDSPRACHEN

Summary: Jack lernt sein Team in fünf verschiedenen Sprachen kennen.

Characters: das Team: Jack, Ianto, Gwen, Tosh und Owen.

Words: 5x100

Rating: G

Notes: Ursprünglich geschrieben für Challenge #342 bei

tw100: “foreign language”. Übersetzt von mir; Beta:

vulcan_rhapsody. Diese deutsche Version ist auch zu finden bei AO3: "Fremdsprachen".

Story:

( Fremdsprachen )

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NEVILLE LONGBOTTOM AND THE YEAR THAT WAS

Summary: It was the people around him who made it worthwhile.

Characters: Neville, Ginny, Luna, Snape, Hagrid, Seamus, Aberforth, Lavender, Ron, Hermione, Sprout, Hannah, Harry

Rating: T / PG-13 (implied violence, mention of character death)

Words: 14 x 100

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( Neville Longbottom and the Year That Was )

FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Summary: Five Torchwood members, five language-related anecdotes. Or, Jack Harkness gets to know his team, one foreign language at a time.

Characters: Hail, hail, the gang’s all here! Meaning: Jack, Ianto, Gwen, Tosh and Owen.

Words: 5x100

Rating: G

Notes: For challenge #342 at

tw100, “foreign language.”

Auuugh, sorry, I borrowed a bit of Sam Starbuck’s headcanon yet again, for Jack’s section.

Story also at AO3!

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( Foreign Languages (five drabbles) )

SEASONS CHANGE BUT WE REMAIN

Summary: From “Flirtation” to “Babies” in the space of a year.

Characters: Remus and Tonks, with cameos by various others.

Words: 10 x 100

Notes: These are 10 drabbles (each exactly 100 words) written for 10 different prompts in the

rt_morelove Twelfth Night Tales event. They span the year of Deathly Hallows, from Tonks and Remus’ wedding to Teddy’s birth. Each drabble ends with a key word from its respective prompt; the prompts in full can be found in the end note.

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( Seasons Change But We Remain )

(cross-posted from

sirius_black)

SIRIUS...BLACK (SIX DRABBLES)

Summary: Sirius Black, and the most important people in his life. Six moments.

Characters: Sirius, Remus, James, Peter, Lily, Harry, the Black family

Rating: T / PG-13 (no pairings, but mentions of violence, grief, death, all that canon stuff)

Words: 6 x 100

Notes: This is a little challenge I set myself – six drabbles (each 100 words precisely), each set five years apart, each starting with "Sirius" and ending with "Black" – for “The Day of the Black Dog,” a Sirius-centric event happening today over at the

sirius_black community. Thank you to

huldrejenta for pointing me to that event!

Each heading shows Sirius' age/the year, and the person who's the focus of the drabble.

Story:

( Sirius...Black (Six Drabbles) )

OH THE RISING OF THE SUN AND THE RUNNING OF THE DEER

Summary: The Marauders act out a cheery favourite carol. (Christmas 1980.)

Characters: Lily, James, Sirius, Remus, Peter, baby Harry

Words: 100

Notes: This drabble (yes, it’s precisely 100 words if you don’t count the interspersed lyrics!) was inspired by

author_by_night’s prompt of “Christmas Carol: The Holly and the Ivy” at the

rt_morelove Stocking Filler Exchange, but then I just couldn’t seem to get this to be about Remus and Tonks – it insisted on being the Marauders instead. So, it's here, not there.

I kind of think this ought to be a picture, but I can’t draw, so it’s a drabble instead. If it’s songfic for a medieval Christmas carol, is it still songfic?

Story:
( Oh the rising of the sun and the running of the deer )

RON WEASLEY PROVES HIMSELF WRONG

Summary: Written for the Stocking Filler Exchange at

rt_morelove, for

gilpin25’s prompt: "Listen, no bloke in his right mind's going to fancy Tonks when Fleur's around." (Ron, HBP, Ch.5)

Characters: Tonks, Ron and Fleur

Words: 100 exactly

Notes: Dear reader, you’re going to have to squint at the timeline a bit with me here. Let’s imagine there’s a time at the start of HPB that’s after Fleur arrives at the Burrow and Ron says the bit above, but before Tonks gets too depressed to change her appearance, even though we know that’s not exactly the order in which things happened…

Also, hey, I wrote my first drabble!

Story:

( Ron Weasley Proves Himself Wrong )

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Four, Not One (The Scholomance)
One Fox (Fleabag)
Arrival by Sea (Graceling Realm)
Like Leaves and Kings
River, Sea and Stream
One Weird Thing (Call Me By Your Name)
There Are Days (Torchwood)
Twenty Years On
Fremdsprachen ("Foreign Languages" in German, Torchwood fic)
Neville Longbottom and the Year That Was
Foreign Languages (Torchwood)
Seasons Change But We Remain
Sirius...Black (Six Drabbles)
Oh the rising of the sun and the running of the deer
Ron Weasley Proves Himself Wrong

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Entries tagged with drabbles

Four, Not One (The Scholomance)

One Fox (Fleabag)

Arrival by Sea (Graceling Realm)

Like Leaves and Kings

River, Sea and Stream

One Weird Thing (Call Me By Your Name)

There Are Days (Torchwood)

Twenty Years On

Fremdsprachen ("Foreign Languages" in German, Torchwood fic)

Neville Longbottom and the Year That Was

Foreign Languages (Torchwood)

Seasons Change But We Remain

Sirius...Black (Six Drabbles)

Oh the rising of the sun and the running of the deer

Ron Weasley Proves Himself Wrong