[ recs ] so many things!!
That is the first thing you should be doing. *points up* Such a fabulous idea for a ficathon, and there has been so much stunning fic to come out of it already, including a few for prompts I left, which I am reccing to all of you because I am absolutely delighted and unable to contain myself.
Also, to self-promote for a second, the POLYAMORY FICATHON is still going on, and you should all check it out if you haven't (or even if you already have tbh) because there are pages of stunning unfilled prompts waiting to be written. And some wonderful fic that has been written, which I am also reccing under the cut.
note: if I noticed it had been posted at the author's own journal since, I've tried to link there instead, but everything is from one of the two ficathons mentioned above
things delightful people wrote for me at the poetry ficathon:
and the rest you can keep by youcallitwinter l the vampire diaries, elena(/stefan/damon)
prompt: eventually something you love is going to be taken away. and then you will fall to the floor crying. and then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you’re falling to the floor crying thinking, “i am falling to the floor crying” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it - you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn’t paint it very well.
I legitimately don't even have words to describe how stunningly written this is, every little word every bit of the way through. Mesmerizing and brilliant beyond belief ugh. I. just. actually cannot cope. with this prose. and the whole damn thing.
so here we are again by softly_me l gossip girl, blair/dan
prompt: i’ve been rereading your story. i think it’s about me in a way that might not be flattering, but that’s okay. we dream and dream of being seen as we really are and then finally someone looks at us and sees us truly and we fail to measure up. anyway: story received, story included. you looked at me long enough to see something mysterioso under all the gruff and bluster. thanks. sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.
Dan writes a second book that is nothing and everything like his first book. Dan and Blair aren't together. Blair reads the book. This fic is gorgeous and hits at so much of what I love about these two, while feeling achingly spot-on.
even if you don't believe in god or fate, at least you can believe in narrative by lit_chick08 l the vampire diaries, damon
prompt: same as title
A great look at how Damon defines himself and is defined by others, and how he views his life as a story that he is trying to shape, always trying to shape.
saw you with your make-up running down by stainofmylove l skins, cook/effy
prompt: this is how you make meaning, you take two things and try to define the space between them.
Lovely piece set while they're ~on the run, with an aching atmosphere and great look inside Effy's thoughts and how she perceives and distances everything between them.
not for a prompt for a mine but also from the poetry ficathon:
be careful of the curse that falls on young lovers by opheliahyde l a song of ice and fire, jeyne/robb
prompt: I fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) by scorpiod1
GORGEOUS TWISTED FAIRYTALE PROSE that huuuuuuuuuurts in all the best ways possible and is without doubt a must-read for anyone who has feelings about these characters (or if you don't, you should read it anyway, and then you will certainly have feelings about them after this, js.)
and two recs from the polyamory ficathon that really hit me so far:
neon lights and slinking purple skies by sky_somedays l teen wolf, scott/allison/stiles
prompt: I spent my whole life driving in cars with boys / Riding 'round town drinking in the white noise
IT'S SCOTT/ALLISON/STILES. I NEED SO MUCH MORE FIC OF THESE THREE TBH. and this is the most perfect thing, I don't even know how to express my delight. It makes me ache and smile and clutch at my heart and you should all read it and write more of these three, please.
tonight i can write the saddest lines by ahigheroctave l the vampire diaries, damon/katherine/stefan/elena
prompt: I can write the saddest poem of all tonight / I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
A really gorgeous look at how these four are all tangled together, from the perspectives of Stefan, Damon, and Katherine, with great insight to the brothers and dopplegangr dynamics as well.
I'm working on compiling a really big rec list to be posted soon as well, just of a lot of the stuff I've been reading lately in a variety of fandoms, but for now there are comment ficathons going on and excellent things being churned out which you should all be reading, so enjoy. And go off and write more things for them!