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Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Pairings/Characters: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
Rating: Mature
Length: 7,571 words
Creator Links: whateverrrrwhatever on AO3
Theme: Food & Cooking

Summary: John decides that California doesn't seem like such a bad idea.

It's an AU where John Sheppard inherits a supermarket right next to Cal and meets Rodney McKay, physics professor. They kiss. That's it, that's the fic.

Reccer's Notes: This is an *almost* complete AU, shot through with wonderful location details, wherein John is a veteran who spent time in Antarctica and Rodney is a professor at Berkeley. In a series of snapshots, John inherits a run-down local market, decides he likes the neighborhood, and sets about making a place for himself. Then one day, an "unnecessarily dramatic" (as described in the tags) Rodney walks through the door.

This was one of the first SGA AUs I read and it stayed with me. I truly enjoyed following John as he problem solves; first the store, then Rodney. (Spoiler: the solution is snacks.)

Fanwork Links: Story on AO3

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Title: Tom Riddle's Shattered Identity
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Tom Riddle/Lord Voldemort
Rating: G
Artist Notes: Original images are not mine.
Summary: Young Tom Riddle behind shattered glass. Lord Voldemort holds a wand. 2nd Image with Text: I am Lord Voldemort.

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Title: The Coffee Riddle
Fandom: Marvel Comics
Pairing: Clint Barton/Natasha Romanoff
Rating: Teen
Length: 450 words
Warnings: no standard warnings apply
Summary: Natasha stops by with a gift.
Vibes: Flirty and suggestive with a side of longing.

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Title: Mysterious Messenger
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author:

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Characters: Varian, the Rider, the Travellers.
Rating: PG
Spoilers/Setting: Riddles.
Summary: Varian had heard of the Riders, but the native Arawaks had neglected to mention that the mysterious messengers spoke in riddles.
Word Count: 527
Content Notes: Nada.
Written For: Challenge 491: Riddle.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.

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Title: What Am I?
Fandom: Original
Rating: G
Length: 8 line poem
Summary: A traditional 'What Am I?' poem

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Fandom: Leverage
Pairings/Characters: Alec Hardison/Parker/Eliot Spencer, Peggy Milbank, Amy Palavi
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 21452 words
Creator Links:

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Theme: food & cooking, casefic, competence, outsider pov

Summary:
She was only here for a long weekend, using this convention as an excuse to see Alice for the first time in over a year, or using Alice as an excuse to get away for a convention, or using both as a reason to finally take a vacation, because it was about damn time.
At least, that was the original plan.

Reccer's Notes:
Peggy Milbank is a side character who appears in 2 episodes: once when Parker's alias "Alice White" gets called in for jury duty, and once when Parker, Sophie and Tara sneak into a ball at an embassy for an event where Peggy does the catering.

This fic has her meeting the team once more, and has her involved in a job in Portland when they investigate a sketchy business man who drives independent food cart owners out of business, not shying away from inflicting violence on them in the process.

While the team does their thing, Peggy offers to take over the food cart, and does so with remarkable competence - learning a whole new cuisine on the fly. Food plays a big role in the whole story, because of their case, but also because now there are several people in one place who care a lot about food. It's also about a community of food cart owners. And just like Eliot found a way out of his violent life by learning how to cook, there's a side plot in this story how he does that for others too.

While the ship Eliot/Parker/Hardison isn't the main focus, it is definitely in the background, and Peggy's perspective is a really nice outsider POV on them, so I tagged it as such as well.

Fanwork Links: The Food Cart Job on ao3

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Fandom: Leverage
Pairings/Characters: Maggie Collins, Eliot Spencer, Alec Hardison, Parker (Leverage), Amy Palavi
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 711 words
Creator Links:

Hagar
Theme: food & cooking, gen

Summary: Her ex-husband's associates are occasionally useful. For example, when Maggie has a really bad feeling about her latest client.

Reccer's Notes:
Maggie visits the brewpub looking for help regarding a client of hers. It's lovely how the food she is served there acts as kind of character description for the relationship between her, Eliot, Hardison and Parker.

Fanwork Links: What friends are for on ao3

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Hey, everyone! It’s been a while, but we want to thank you so much for your comments and feedback on the Proposal to Remove the Challenge Tags post. It was all super helpful, and we spent a long time mulling over the best approach to take. We wanted to keep the functions of the challenge tags while freeing up tag space, and it was a bit of a conundrum.

Then

treonb kindly and wonderfully approached us about creating a comprehensive spreadsheet of all

fan_flashworks entries ever!!

This has ultimately resulted in a Community Report web tool, where you can search and filter the comm entries by challenge, fandom, and type. What’s more, exciting bonus! There’s also an individual Creator Report web tool, where you can see your own (and other’s) entries. Please take a look at these and try them out. We’re really excited about them.

(We are so grateful for all of

treonb’s amazing work on this -- please join us in a hearty round of applause!)

Data-cleaning is still in progress (especially wrt fandoms) and will likely be on-going, but we are proud to announce that our data project is open for business! Check these out:

Fan Flashworks Community Report

Fan Flashworks Creator Report

For the spreadsheet-y types among you, here is the complete dataset of fanworks, plus a full list of challenges, available in a community Google drive doc. An important note about using the spreadsheet: this is set as View only. If you want to sort or filter the data in spreadsheet form, you can either download your own copy or make a Filter View (by going to the Data menu and selecting Create filter view - this won’t affect other users’ view of the spreadsheet).

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We’re going to wait about two months to iron out any issues with these resources, and then we’ll remove the challenge tags from the comm, to give us elbow room to keep adding new creators and fandoms.

Huge huge thanks again to

treonb for all their amazing work on this project!!

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Fandom: Mo Dao Zu Shi
Pairings/Characters: Gen; M/M; Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian; Lan Yuan, Wei Wuxian, Lan Wangji, OCs
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 2,442 words
Content Notes: No Archive Warnings Apply, anonymous author, autobiographical incident, Chinese diaspora feels, inappropriate choice of rabbit food, racist microaggression, secondhand embarrassment
Creator Tags:
Based on a True Story, yes my mom really couldn't find a basic cake and so we had to go with bread, Fluff, Family Feels, Family Fluff, Baking, Icing, Frosting, AHAHAHAAHAHAHAHH THOSE ARE TAGS, Michael's (the store) makes a big appearance, Father's Day, but idc if it's not father's day yet, I was inspired, Inspired by Real Events
Creator Links: none
Theme: Food & Cooking, Cultural Differences, Family, Fluff, Modern AU, Slice of Life

Summary: In which Sizhui and his Baba ice a loaf of bread for Father's Day (plus some angst, but we don't really have to get into specifics do we?)

Author’s Notes:

something i wrote while having writers block

enjoy

(also stay safe and wash your hands and quit going outside if you are)

this isn't really asian rep it just happened when i was 10 and i typed for two hours also its may and here we are with a fictionalized crackheaded version of what happened

yes there were mean girls

… lan zhan's the one getting the cake because his personality's the closest to my dad's but like my dad cut off the frosting and we ended up using the bread for other stuff

Reccer’s Notes: The Chinese-American author posted this anonymously on 8 May 2020 for U.S. Asian and Pacific Islander Month, apologizing that “this isn’t really asian rep”; given that the canon creator is Asian, her target audience is Asian, the characters are Asian, and the OP is Asian fictionalizing their Asian family’s real-life experience, I personally don’t see how it can avoid being Asian Rep.

The author’s self-consciousness—both at the time of writing and in retrospect—is flying from the ramparts, and arguably an integral part of the story. They never did emerge from anonymity, and they’ve since deleted the story—which is a shame, because this is a valid slice-of-life in the Lynda Barry vein, with the OP’s imaginary friends as proxies. Since there seems to be no identifying information that could be used to trace them, I don’t think posting a Wayback Machine capture will expose them to further embarrassment.

And let’s not be like the Mean Girls at Michael’s, okay?

Fanwork links: a loaf of bread is not a substitute for a blank cake

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Title: HQ Fun
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Explicit Sex
Fandom: S.W.A.T.
Relationships: Molly Hicks/Donovan Rocker
Tags: Established Relationship, Roleplay
Summary: Donny really loved Molly and the fun they have.
Word Count: 2,662

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Fandom: Dark Shadows

Pairings/Characters: Roger Collins, CC Female, Which Would Give Away Too Much If Named

Rating: G

Length: 2,394 words

Creator Links: AO3 Profile

Theme: Food & Cooking

Summary: Roger meets a friend for dinner who shares his discomfort regarding marriages.

Reccer's Notes: Roger remains one of my favorite Dark Shadows characters, acted superbly by Louis Edmonds, a veteran of stage costume dramas. He always wears period clothing with impeccable insouciance despite figure-hugging trousers, wing collars, and Victorian handlebar moustaches. In this fic, we see how much food presents an opportunity for revealing, soul searching reflections with a sympathetic friend, in fact so much that they don't even eat until the last paragraph or so. The universality of sharing food provides a letting down of the hair, so to speak, voluminous in his friend's case and not-so-much in his. There's an absolutely delightful twist at fic's end. Also, the AO3 profile mentions Author's website, WickerManStudios which contains stories along with more personal content.

Fanwork Links: Mysterious Circumstances

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Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: Gen. Teyla Emmagan & Rodney McKay & John Sheppard & Ronon Dex
Rating: G
Length: 7229
Content Notes: No AO3 warnings apply.
Creator Links: fiercelydreamed on AO3, anatsuno on AO3, anatsuno on Audiofic Archive
Themes: Food and cooking, Team as family, Friendship, Hurt/comfort

Summary: The thing was, John had never been good at patient, and Teyla looked like okay was a couple galaxies over from wherever she was now.

Reccer's Notes: A touching hurt/comfort story set after the team rescues Teyla from Michael. Although Teyla and her baby are back in Atlantis, she's slow to recover and remains low and depleted. Rodney has a plan to cheer her up, though, involving food, and he ropes John in to help. It was I think written in the hiatus before the last season so a few minor details have been jossed, but that doesn't matter. This is the best sort of found family story, with them all rallying around to support Teyla. Lovely.

Fanwork Links: Battle Potato, and there's an excellent podfic read by anatsuno.

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Stargate Atlantis: A Supermarket in California

Riddle/Transformation/Identity: Harry Potter: Wallpaper: Tom Riddle's Shattered Identity

Marvel Comics : Fanfic :The Coffee Riddle

Multifandom Exchange: AspecEx - Sign-Ups are Opened! Nominations Close Soon!

The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: Mysterious Messenger

Multifandom: Vocabulary Word Prompt Community

Invisible Inc. Datalog Exchange (2025)

Ninjago: Masters of Promptjitsu

Original: Poetry: What Am I?

Leverage: The Food Cart Job, by page_runner

Characters20in20 • Round 18

Disney_20in20 • Round 13

Ships20in20 • Round 01

Leverage: What are friends for, by Hagar

Admin: New fan_flashworks community tools, and the fate of the challenge tags

Mo Dao Zu Shi: a loaf of bread is not a substitute for a blank cake, by Anonymous.

S.W.A.T.: Fan Fiction: HQ Fun

Dark Shadows: Mysterious Circumstances by WickerManStudios

MDZS Time Warp Exchange

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