How would you rank your stories based on their level of fluffiness (with the least amount of angst)?
So I don’t know that I have any In-Panem stories that are fluff, but the least angsty are probably:
As for modern day AU, there are a ton of them, but here are the top 5 based on stats:
Feel free to share your favorite seasonal fics, fanart, moodboards, or ideas you’d love to see or read! - anything from cozy fall feels, to humorous supernatural dilemmas, to horror/suspense!
Everlark Halloween Master List- includes witches, ghosts, vampires, lupine, zombies, and general horror
I’ve been following Spellbound by @katnissdoesnotfollowback in real time, which has me in the mood for some Witchy high jinx! (I’d love to write some of my own, but can’t formulate a full concept at present ☹️) So then I read Make it Work By @captainseaweedbrains /populardarling which was lovely! Now I’m looking for more feel good witch fics!
In other Spooky Recs - @distractionsfromthefood suggested The Contractor (creepy!) by @endlessnightlock - which reminded me of Impetuous (I married a monster)
Please Send Seasonal Favs! (And don’t be afraid to recommend yourself!)
Check out @charlunday ‘s Monster Peeta and AU Meta!!! As well as Vampirelark and Vampire!Katniss by @little-lynx
There has to me so much more - send them my way!
(I know @andretries has some too but I can’t search them 😫)
Keep the recs coming!! Don’t forget to check the reblogs for more!!
@thgfanfictionlibrary is working on cataloging THG fics and authors. L also put together a Fall/Harvest/Spooky Masterlist!
As I was rereading Paperwork Signed Haymitch by @oakfarmer I discovered the Octoberlark Collection!
Also recently read Trail Games by girl_aflame - it’s cute!
Share your favorite Autumnal Fics!
@mollywog adding on some more fanart!
Thank you all who replied to my Ao3 bookmark question! Many of you indicated that you use bookmarks for beloved stories to revisit or for fic recs, so I thought it would be fun to start a tag game:
Rules: Share (one of) your first Ao3 bookmark(s) then tag others to join!
I picked my first non-hunger Games bookmark (since I’ve talked about my first THG bookmark many times).
I love Jane Austen’s Emma and discovered cwmilton while looking for book/2009 miniseries Emma fanfiction. ‘A Very Good List’ was the first of theirs I discovered and it’s a delight! Recommend!
Tagging all who replied to my earlier post (thank you!!): @dead-dolphins @firawren @caesarflickermans @kingedmundsroyalmurder @maidstew @dorcaloveskotlc @teafiend @those-things-we-said @margarita-secreta @youreyesholdgalaxies @mtk4fun @giedd @no-where-new-hero
Plus anyone else who would like to join!
Last year around this time I was itching to read and write something seasonal but didn’t know where to start. I had caught up on Spellbound by @katnissdoesnotfollowback (which is obviously brilliant!) and was on the hunt for other witchy AUs when I came across Make it Work by @captainseaweedbrains
This Fic is so sweet! The witchcraft is charming and the whole story has a sitcom/romcom feel. Go check it out!
Both stories inspired me to write my own little witchy fic - Everyday Magic
Last year around this time I was itching to read and write something seasonal but didn’t know where to start. I had caught up on Spellbound by @katnissdoesnotfollowback (which is obviously brilliant!) and was on the hunt for other witchy AUs when I came across Make it Work by @captainseaweedbrains
This Fic is so sweet! The witchcraft is charming and the whole story has a sitcom/romcom feel. Go check it out!
Both stories inspired me to write my own little witchy fic - Everyday Magic
oh you all really like the cute stuff holy shit
anyway i wrote The Lighthouse Keeper and i was like yay! fluff accomplished! and then i talked to people and reflected for .06 seconds and realized the backstory is in fact dark as hell 🫠
It so good y’all.
Went on an Emma bender and read every single one of these today - so good!!
Kicking my feet at your author’s note at the end of the most recent chapter
If I had to do a recap of this chapter, it would be like this:
Katniss: "I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony."
Peeta: "Wait, is this fucking play about us?"
Haha thank you!! 🩷 I knew you'd like some P&P sprinkled in! 🤭
I always imagine Katniss and Peeta reading between the lines of those letters and trying to find some confirmation of what they suspect like
For the word ask game:
Pain, wonder, sleep, red, soft, and/or curious
Eee, thank you @waywardangel-wilds !! Okay, so this should be interesting. ;)
Pain & Wonder & Sleep (future scenes - not in the same part- for The Magic of Ordinary Days)
All the scrutiny, the tears she shed, the pain, and the desperation she felt when she traveled all the way to California, knowing he was there, but not once had he reached out to her.
He nodded, she saw how tired he looked, but along with that was weary. However, the infant in his arms, did wonders. He smiled despite exhaustion willing to take over. Elsa’s little hand reaching out, trying to figure things out, took hold of one of his fingers. or that sometimes you talk in your sleep about whatever it is you’re dreaming about;
Red (future scene in You Should See Me In a Crown)
“Miss Lucas,” I saw the older man, seated at the head of my dining table. He held a book in his hand, a goblet of red wine had been poured and sat on the table before him. “I hope you will forgive my rudeness in paying you a long overdue visit.”
Soft & Curious (from a future scene for The Old Therebefore)
The soft earth beneath her boot slipped and she went down into the mud resigned. She was far too young to be too tired to fight back. What no one knew was how she had been fighting her whole life to survive. She was tired of fighting. So very tired.
Such things were not spoken of outside these walls. Looking into the future was that of dark, evil practices. That did not stop those from crossing the threshold into divine practices. Curious to what lay in store for them.
AU ask - Everlark as penpals AU
thank you @mollywog, you come up with the coolest stuff!🧚🏻
AU game: send me an AU and i'll tell you 5 things that’ll happen in the story
1- this is an alternate universe without the games but there is mandatory military service for boys. they get drafted at the age of 18 and are assigned to service in another district for 2 years.
2- thinking this might be her last chance to thank peeta for the bread, katniss goes to the train station to send him off. but when she opens her mouth, she balks and says, “write to me, all right?”
3- as a baker, peeta initially thinks that he will be assigned to kitchen duty. but one of the commanders notices his art skills, and he is instead tasked to join expeditions and draw maps.
4- he spends the next 2 years telling katniss about the sights he sees over lengthy, vivid letters. In turn, katniss gives him news from home, and has to remind him to write to his parents every once in a while too.
5- when he is back, peeta expects to see his family in the station, and is pleasantly surprised that they are joined by the girl who will soon become his family!
This is now a story and I am head over heals!! Go check it out!!
I haven't read Something of Our Own yet but I want to SO BAD because it sounds so good. I'm waiting for my brain to have the spoons to tackle a fic that long but once it does I am coming for it 👀
ahh, thank you for wanting to give it a try!! I really hope you like it!! ♥️♥️ and omg I totally understand - whenever I have to reread it for continuity I'm like WHY IS IT SO LONG. lol
tbh I think the first 10 or so chapters can throw people bc all is not well and their circumstances don't make for an easy start. and like, Haymitch *is* a bit of a bastard and Hazelle is not perfect either, she can be just as high-handed as him (something I cackle at, bc it's what he deserves). it's very much a slow burn, even the friendship part. but I hope it lives up to how much I nitpick and talk about it, haha
Written for This Would Have Happened Anyway Summer 2024: Districts Apart. Rated T. Turn on the sound in the video to hear the District 4 wedding song used in this fic, "Voyage" by Christy Moore.
The sea reaches for the land, its waves rushing forward and extending as far as it can until it must return to that great unknowable realm. But it never stops reaching, never leaves the land alone. There on the shore, the sand and the salt kiss again and again.
So Peeta does with his little girl, his beard tickling her with his kisses. Child-giggles join the sounds of the waves outside the nursery, free and unburdened by any concerns. Outside the moon shines bright, its white reflection rippling on the dark water, while the room is filled with the hazy glow of nightlights, warding off any creature that would frighten the child.
Peeta pulls away, still hugging his daughter and savoring the moment before he’ll have to put her on the mattress, tuck her in, and say good-night. The little girl senses it and holds tighter around his neck.
“Papi,” Halcyon says, “Tell me the selkie story.”
Peeta knows she’s asking because she’s putting off sleep. It’s his favorite story of all and when his little girl asks, even he bends to the request.
“One story,” he agrees, then leans forward so their foreheads touch and her blue eyes squish closer together in his sight. “Then it’s bedtime, little star.”
Halcyon gives a hum of excitement and settles against her father’s heart, right where she’s laid her head ever since he held her in his arms for the first time. As he begins the story the same way he always does, she listens to the rumble of his voice in his chest, low and comforting.
by Narfff
When the war is over, men come back to Panem. Katniss losses her job and is desperate to find a way to help her family. Peeta Mellark might be the solution to all her problems.
Words: 7163, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English
Historical AU, Arranged marriage, mutual pining - I love this story!
Oh you think you were a fan of Maysilee Donner, Haymitch Abernathy, Haymitch’s family + girlfriend, Katniss’s parents, Plutarch Heavensbee, the Undersees, the second Quarter Quell, etc, BEFORE Sunrise on the Reaping was announced?
I wrote a historical AU, set in the Wild West called Wildcat. Featuring Haymitch as a doctor, Katniss and Johanna as outlaws and Peeta as a farmer.
In this AU, Haymitch served in the Civil War before becoming a doctor and ended up marrying Maysilee Donner, though she's dead by the time the main action of the fic happens. I ended up including backstories for the characters, including quite a bit of Maysilee. I didn't have a lot to go on for characterization but I had fun writing her.
Here's an excerpt:
“May,” said Haymitch, “I’ve come to apologize. I made an ass of myself-”
“Language!” she hissed, “My mother is surely eavesdropping.”
Haymitch chuckled, “I’ve heard much worse from her. Ask me some other time about when Jacob Undersee helped me steal a pie from her windowsill and she chased us down the street with a broom. I learned a few new curse words that day.”
Maysilee laughed, and Haymitch marvelled at his chance to hear something so pure and beautiful after years spent with the never-ending sounds of men in agony peppered with the distant cacophony of canonfire.
Haymitch was snapped out of his reverie by an exasperated snort from Mrs. Donner in the hallway.
“How about we pretend we didn’t hear that,” said Maysilee lightly.
“How about I offer to teach you some curse words I learned in the army if your mother feels the need to keep listening.”
At this point, Mrs. Donner came back into the room huffing indignantly, “You’re doing nothing to inspire my confidence, young man!”
“Mother,” said Maysilee, “If he does anything untoward, I’ll stab him with the fire poker. Just let the poor boy apologize to me in peace.”
This fic isn't complete, but I'm pleased to say that I'm finally working on it again.
Hi sorry to barge in on your ask box but I’m mildly embarrassed to make a post about this so I just thought hey maybe you can help me out finding this specific everlark fic?
What I remember is: K and P were friends or dating but went separate ways then later they reconnect because both are at Finnick’s party and he knows both K and P separately and then Finnick goes to introduce them to each other but realizes they already know each other from high school and then later there’s a scene where they both are in Finnick’s room and I think they just kiss and Finnick through the door asks them if they’re having sex in his bed but Katniss replies they’re on the floor and Finnick says something like “Next time I’m in your house I’m rubbing my balls over your pillows?” 😅
Sorry this is the only thing I remember and I’ve been wrecking my brain for months trying to remember the name so if you or any of your followers know this fic please let me know 🙏
Much appreciated.
Hey nonny!!
I know this one!!
question for the feed: post-war, if neighbors do feel concerned about living next to katniss and peeta, who are they more concerned living around? katniss or peeta?
This question reminded me of The kids are all right by keeptheearthbelow
