Day 8; A Fanfic Trope You Always Love From @thepromptfoundry's Fannish Fest February Is Up Now!

Day 8; A Fanfic Trope You Always Love from @thepromptfoundry's fannish fest february is up now! <3

The prompt theme for March 2024 is March Magic!

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1 Witches 2 Spellbooks 3 Elemental Magic 4 Candles 5 Magic Words 6 Faeries 7 Augury (divination by the behavior of birds) 8 Dragons 9 Magicians 10 Accidental Magic 11 Spell Circles 12 Nature Spirits 13 Magic Wands 14 Potions 15 Magic Bloodlines 16 Transmutation 17 Cartomancy (divination by use of cards, magic enacted using cards) 18 Anthomancy (flower magic, divination by flowers) 19 Unicorns 20 Wizards 21 Necormancy 22 Familiars 23 Magical Cleaning 24 Bones 25 Crystal Balls 26 Magic School 27 Alchemy 28 Sorcerers 29 Stars 30 Curses 31 Remnants of Magic

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.

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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.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Owl House (Cartoon) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Camila Noceda, Eberwolf (The Owl House) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Magic-Users, Veterinary Clinic Summary:

Camila’s raising her young daughter, healing the animals that are brought to her clinic, and trying to avoid the Covens’ notice.

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Day 23 of Fannish Fest February, @thepromptfoundry