🌸🍀 Hello And Welcome To Our (first) Flufftober Spring Edition 🌸🍀

🌸🍀 Hello and welcome to our (first) Flufftober Spring Edition 🌸🍀

SURPRISE 😁

Yes, we've decided that one month of the year simply isn't enough anymore! So we would like to fill two weeks in March with as much fluff as possible 🥰 for that to happen, we present you with 14 prompts, some of them neutral, some very much sping-themed.

How does this work?

Pretty much like our regular Flufftober event in October, so you'll find all the common rules and info below the cut. Contrary to the big event though, this one here only runs for two weeks instead of the entire month, and we set the date from March 11th to March 24th! So prompt one is NOT supposed to be posted on March 1st but instead on March 11th! Prompt two is for March 12th, prompt 3 for March 13th, and so on...

Since this is a smaller prompt list, you also won't find any prompt extras to switch these out with, sorry. Maaaybe if this event is a success, we'll think about changing that in upcoming years 😉

Below the cut, you'll find all our rules, posting info, and all the prompts in writing. If you have any more questions, please feel free to send us asks 🥰

Friends, we so hope you love this surprise and that the prompts may inspire a lot of fluffy creations! We wish you a great start to the new year and as always

Happy Creating 🥳

Standard Blog Rules & FAQ

(Due to previous asks, we made sure to add more points to this section - while they're not new rules, they're new to this list, so you'll find them colored green)

No inc*st or p*dophilia - we can’t keep you from writing it or creating art for it but it won’t be reblogged. No inc*st: This rule does not apply to distant cousins and such, as you might find in the LotR fandom (or basically in all of European Monarchy). The line we draw is at direct blood relations (siblings, (grand)parents, kids) and/or legal guardianship. No p*dophilia: This rule does not rule out fandoms that feature teenagers such as Harry Potter, Heartstoppers, Hunger Games, etc. It also doesn't mean you can't write about their time together as teenagers! It's aimed at ships in which one is a minor and the other is not - but since even that has grey areas, the rule is this: if you keep it SFW, all is good and allowed, we don't care; if it turns NSFW, be mindful of the legalities of the world/society/times your characters live in.

No hate or ship bashing - we’re all different and we all love different things. As long as it doesn’t go against rule #1, it’s allowed.

Tag correctly! Trigger warnings (including cheating!), ships, ratings, (pure) smut, etc - it’s all fine as long as you tag it.

There’s absolutely no word count restriction, write as little or as much as you like.

In regards to art, anything goes: drawings, paintings, collages, mood boards, gif sets, videos, playlists… the sky’s the limit (though not really…). If you would like to create a podfic, the fic you're using does not have to be new - your creation will be new!

You can mix and mash different mediums however you like, be it within one prompt or on different days.

While we can’t force you to write fluff or create fluffy art, please try to keep in mind that this is a fluff event 😉 that, of course, doesn't mean you can't combine it with angsty/whumpy prompts - hurt/comfort is absolutely welcome!

You can start creating as soon as you see this - but please refrain from posting before the respective day.

If you post early, we will schedule your post for the correct day; if you use multiple prompts in one creation, we will post on the earliest day you used.

You can participate on as many days as you like, even if it’s just one; you can also create multiple entries for the same day.

You can replace as many original prompts as you like with our prompt extras; you can also combine them with the original prompts or create for them in addition, that's completely up to you.

It’s okay to write one story/a series for all the prompts.

You do not have to stick to one character, ship, or even one fandom - switch as often as you like to or even write for multiple ships for one day.

The ship does not have to be a romantic one! Friendship and family feels are more than welcome (but this is not a way to get around rule #1!)

Original works as well as OCs in fandoms are welcome! But please make sure to mark these clearly, either in the tags or the post itself. We're not familiar with all fandoms (though we're definitely learning a lot!), so we're not always sure what might be an OC and what might be such an unknown side character not even Google can find them...

Reader insert fics (for example "character x reader") as well as RPFs are absolutely allowed.

Other languages are also welcome - just make sure to clearly mark the day and fandom so that we can still easily reblog.

This event can be combined with other events as long as the other event allows it.

Late entries are always welcome, even if it is months or years later.

All fandoms and ships are welcome - fanon and canon - as long as they’re of age (in case you want to add smut) and not related.

Posting

Posting to tumblr

Please use the tag #fluffspring2024 Make sure there is NO SPACE between fluff and spring and 2024! We will NOT be checking other variations of this tag!

Since tags are sometimes wonky, make sure to also mention us with @flufftober in your post

We will try to catch them all, but please don't be mad if we miss a post or if it gets reblogged a bit late

If you're absolutely certain a post has slipped past us, feel free to send an ask with the link to your post

To make reblogging easier for us, make sure to add the following tags: #fluffspring2024 #day [xy] #[fandom] #[ship and/or main character(s)]

Posting to ao3

You can add your creation to the collection Flufftober Spring Edition 2024 (flufftober_spring_edition_2024)

Late entries are always welcome, on tumblr as well as the ao3 collection! Neither will close - but like always, reblogs will become less regular the more months have passed...

Prompts

1. New Beginnings

2. Banter, Joking, Fun

3. Spring Cleaning

4. “Let me take care of you.”

5. Honey & Bees

6. Sharing a Blanket

7. Giving someone a Present

8. Breakfast in Bed

9. Daisies

10. Iced Beverage

11. Enjoying the Fresh Air

12. Claiming, Clingy, Possessive

13. “It’s still too cold.” - “No, it’s not.”

14. Putting down Roots

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event 💥 flufftober prompt challenge fluffspring2024 because there can never be enough prompts in my doc give them some fluff for a change well at least I'll try

Fanfic Writer Friday (FFWF)

Alright fellow fanfic friends, it’s Friday, the best day of the week, and it’s about to get a lot more fun. Ya know why?

Reblog this post if you want people to send you asks about your writing process, wip/fics, or headcanons today! For each ask you get, send an ask back in return!

This is a weekly event, to be held every Friday (obviously) and is open to all fanfic writers in any fandom! Don’t be shy about sending asks to blogs you don’t know—this is a great way for writers to get to know different blogs and fics, and make new friends!

(in case you feel like you’ve seen something like this before, this is based of of writeblr’s Storyteller Saturday, aka STS!)

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42donotpanic

1 year ago

Sweet & Spicy Bingo is back!

After some time on Twitter and a long absence, Sweet & Spicy Multifandom Bingo has moved to Tumblr for another seasonal event. Welcome & welcome back to past & future participants!

'Sweet & Spicy' is meant to convey the idea that wholesome vibes and not-so-wholesome vibes can coexist in fandom, whether in separate works or combined into one. Prompts may have positive or negative connotations, but you’re free to use them however you’d like!

Signups for our Winter Edition are open until December 20th, but there's no deadline on submissions.

Winter Event | General Info | AO3 Collection

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1 year ago

Past Challenges/Events - Masterlist

LGBTQ Bingo : Masterlist / @lgbtqbingo / Blackout

AUgust Writing Challenge 2022 : Masterlist / @augustwritingchallenge / DNF

AUgust Writing Challenge 2023 : Masterlist / @augustwritingchallenge / Completed

April Showers bring M-AU Flowers 2024 : Masterlist / @augustwritingchallenge / Completed

AUgust Writing Challenge 2024 : Feel my Signs and Watch my Words (AUgust Writing Challenge) / @augustwritingchallenge / Completed

Bucky Barnes Bingo Round 5 : Masterlist / @buckybarnesbingo / Bingo

Bucky Barnes Bingo Round 8 : Masterlist / @buckybarnesbingo / DNF

Comfortember 2023 : Masterpost / @comfortember / Completed

Flufftober 2022 : Masterlist / @flufftober / DNF

Flufftober 2023 : Masterlist / @flufftober / DNF

Flufftober Spring Edition 2024 : Springtime Fluff / @flufftober / Completed

July Break Flash Bingo 2023 : Masterlist / @julybreakbingo / Blackout

July Break Bingo 2023 : Masterlist / @julybreakbingo / Blackout

July Break Mini Bingo 2023 : Masterlist / @julybreakbingo / Blackout

Marvel Rare Pair Bingo Round 1/2 : Masterlist / @marvelrarepairbingo / Bingo

Marvel Rare Pair Bingo Round 3 : Masterlist / @marvelrarepairbingo / DNF

Masturbation Midsummer : Masterlist / @sniperjade / DNF

Slash Multiverse Daily Pride Prompts 2023 : Masterlist / @slashmultiverse / Completed

Slash Multiverse Daily Winter Prompts : Masterlist / @slashmultiverse / DNF

WinterIron Bingo : Masterlist / @bingowinteriron / Bingo

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8 months ago

The slide is also light purple. The title reads, in the same green calligraphy-type font, “contents,” all lower case. The body of the text is a thin san-serif font also in green; it is a bullet point list of one through five. They explain five stages of a relationship.
One says “Fervor, the honeymoon phase.”
Two says “Denial, the fear phase.”
Three says “Bargaining, the questioning phase.”
Four says “Hesitance, the Learning phase.”
Five says “Peace, the growth phase.”

There is an image of Bucky Barnes’ dog tags from the Marvel Cinematic Universe to the left. They dangle midair with the top-most tag in focus in the center and the other a bit blurrier at the bottom of the image.

A section-title card for Fervor, the honeymoon phase. The background is a darker sage green, with a longer flat oval (light purple) in the middle surrounding the title for the slide. The slide is minimalist and calming with a sans-serif font for details and a fancy-looking, calligraphy-type for the title. This slide reads at the top: “Excitement, tension (the best kind), foot-in-mouth.”

This slide includes a photo-set for the honeymoon phase of the fic. The slide is pale purple. In big sage green letters at the bottom, it reads “it starts on a park bench,” referring to the opening scene of the fic.

Four images are lined up in the top half of the slide: from left to right, we have
One - two men’s hands. The man on the (viewer’s) left is reaching for the one on the right. Their fingers brush hesitantly. The person on the right is wearing a leather jacket and a striped shirt underneath; the man on the left’s outfit is black. This image has a darker sage green border.
Two - a series of four texts incoming on an iPhone that read: “Really, I just enjoy you,” then “I like talking to you,” then “I like looking at you,” then finally, “I like being around you”. This image has a darker sage green border.
Three - a golden dog paw high-fives a large man’s hand. On the hand is a ring on the right-hand ring finger. Underneath this image reads “Lucky’s Rating: five stars.” This image is shorter than the others to accommodate its accompanying text, and has a dashed dark green border.
Four - a sign that reads in shaky handwriting, all caps: “It’s all going very well, no problems at all”. This image has a dark green sage border. A song recommendation sits at the bottom of the slide: “My Type,” by Saint Motel.

A section-title card for Denial, the fear phase. The background is a darker sage green, with a longer flat oval in the middle surrounding the title for the slide in light purple. It is the same style as the previous section-title card.

This slide reads at the top: “Anxiety, insecurity (the worst kind), fear.”

This slide is another image set of four on a pale purple background. On the top in a thin green font, all caps, reads a quote from the fic. It says "“I’M SORRY, JUST GIVE ME A MINUTE.” BUCKY SAID IT AGAIN, FROWNING EVEN MORE AS HE STUDIED CLINT FOR A MOMENT." The images from left to right take up 70% of the slide.
One - a man sits in a warm-toned brown leather chair on the viewer’s right side of the image. He wears a black long sleeve, and his right hand rests on a pale wooden cane. The image is starkly lit with dark background. In the same fashion as the last photo set, this is one of three images with a green border.
Two - a series of four band-aids overlapped at angles in purple. They read “Bitch” in clouds, the second “Fuck” in all caps in white on purple background, the third “OW” with three exclamation marks in purple on white, and the last “SHIT!” in white on purple. Beneath this image reads “Lucky’s Rating: One Star.” To accommodate this text, this image is shorter than the others and has a dashed green outline.
Three - The reverse of the hand-written sign from the Honeymoon phase which reads “It’s going very badly it’s a terrible disaster” in the same handwriting. This image has a green border.
Four - A glitching image of a man, horizontal lines obscuring his face. He is wearing all black, shorts and a hoodie. It appears to be security footage. This is the final image with a green border. At the bottom of the slide is a song suggestion: “What If It Doesn’t End Well,” by Chloe Moriondo.

A section-title card for Bargaining, the questioning phase. It is the same style as the previous section-title cards with green background and purple oval.

This slide reads at the top: “wonder, trepidation, indecision.”

A pale purple background with an image of a CD on the left. The CD has written in sharpie: “Everything I could never tell you.” The image is outlined by a dashed green circle.

The slide is titled “Could I really have this?” in quotes on the right side of the slide. It is in darker green in a large, calligraphy-type font. Underneath this title, it reads in a smaller, thinner font, “Bucky and Clint circle each other, disbelieving of the reality of their connection. Curious, lonely, yearning, they must each decide: “Could I really have this?” Trust, or walk away?” End text.

At the bottom, a song suggestion: “Walk Above the City,” by the Paper Kites featuring MARO.

A section-title card for Hesitance, the learning phase. Darker sage green with light purple oval.

This slide reads at the top: “surprise, curiosity, desire.”

The slide’s title is the three words from the previous slide in large green calligraphy-type font: “Surprise curiosity desire.”

Above the title, which is on the left side of the slide but vertically centered, there is italicised smaller text with a quote from the fic: “Yeah, Pretty Man?” Clint asked, brushing a kiss on the side of his head.” End text. The slide is pale purple.

The slide is split 67/33 with the smaller chunk on the right being an image of two men naked side by side. The image cuts off at their belly buttons and midthigh, focusing on their hands about to touch between them. Though they are naked the image is not sexual. The taller man’s left hand almost brushes the paler, shorter man’s right. The image is in greyscale. The border splitting the slide is a green dashed line, with a circle outlining a second circular image of two young men sitting side by side on a grassy cliffside overlooking a park. The two men, one raven-haired, one blonde, rest their heads on each other.

At the bottom of the slide a song suggestion is listed. “Please,” by Noah Kahan.

The final section-title card for Peace, the growth phase. It is again darker green with a light purple oval.

This slide reads at the top: “nurture, reciprocity, safety”

The slide is split vertically 40/60. The smaller chunk on the left is a dark sage green box that reads the title and body text in pale purple font, which are as follows:
Title: Accessible affection
Body text: learning to coexist with each other’s fears, anxieties, and quirks, Clint and Bucky continue to choose each other, for better or worse, every single day. End text.

The larger chunk is pale purple with a dark green dashed border. It has a large screengrab of a comic square - in the first panel of two, Clint says “Barnes.” as he looks at Bucky beside him in a green hoodie. In the second panel, they hug, Clint’s purple shirt clearly visible. Clint says “Missed you.” Bucky has a bag over his shoulder.

At the bottom is a song suggestion: “Grow as we Go,” by Ben Platt.

This pale purple slide, titled "Listen | the playlist," is a collection of the song suggestions with one bonus track, “Razor’s Edge” by Semler.
On the right are two separate comic panels cropped so they are circular in shape. - one is Bucky meditating with his legs crossed, Alpine stretching beside him. The other is Clint in a tactical suit hitting the ground, stars and lines coming from him as he impacts. This one is more cartoonish. Both are labelled with their respective characters.

MY TYPE - SAINT MOTEL
WHAT IF IT DOESN’T END WELL - CHLOE MORIONDO
WALK ABOVE THE CITY - PAPER KITES, MARO
PLEASE - NOAH KAHAN
GROW AS WE GO - BEN PLATT
BONUS: RAZOR'S EDGE - SEMLER

This slide is titled “learn | the representation” and is a darker sage green with a pale purple circular pie chart cut out.

The title is shadowed, in the same calligraphy-type font in green with a pale purple drop shadow for an interesting visual effect.

The pie chart is labelled on each wedge. The biggest wedge, 50%, says “use of mobility aids and accommodations (i.e. cane, service dog, sign language, caffeine)”
The next biggest, about 20% on the bottom left of the chart, says “meds (or lack thereof)”
The next, about 8%, says “scarring”
The next (about 15%) is covered by the title, and so the label is listed outside the chart. It reads “lipreading masks”
The final wedge, about 8%, says “boundaries”.

The final slide is titled “look: the timeline” and is light purple with green font. Along the bottom is a horizontal timeline in green with evenly spaced events that read as follows:
ONE First Date, Prospect Park. TWO First Videochat. THREE Second Date, Prospect Park. FOUR Third Date, Clint’s Place. FOUR-AND-A-HALF this is much closer to “Third Date” than the following event, and has a heart. It reads in quotes “Eat your ice cream, boyfriend.” FIVE End of Fic with a greater-than symbol and a number three to read a visual heart. SIX Game Night, virtual, followed by SIX-AND-A-HALF a final bullet point which also has a heart and reads “Bucky meets Clint’s friends”. This event takes place after the end of the fic and is hinted at within the story.

Above the timeline and to the left of the title, there is a group of four images all of small tattoos (meant to remind the reader of Clint’s various tattoos within the fic.) From left to right, there is ONE a vertical sword on someone’s arm, stabbing through three hearts (a reimagination of the tarot card, three of swords, which symbolizes being impacted by words, intentions, and actions of others, as Clint clearly is); TWO a pizza slice on someone’s wrist, cheese dangling off the corner; THREE a band aid in minimal detail, but with smooth lines, so not a stick-and-poke despite the simplistic art style (body part unknown); and FOUR a line of all-caps text on someone’s shoulder that reads “SUCK IT AND SEE”. End presentation.

This is a lookbook / illustrated guide to @42donotpanic's amazing fic titled "Not Just a Mask" in which Clint and Bucky, two disabled queer men, meet during / following the pandemic through online dating and explore themes of intimacy, vulnerability, and accommodation as they grow closer.

archiveofourown.org

Not just a Mask - Chapter 1 - 42donotpanic - Multifandom [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

The fic was created as part of the 2024 @winterhawkbigbang as was this lookbook. I had so much fun working with Panic and my fellow artists, whose works are linked on the ao3 page for the fic (AND ARE INCREDIBLE OH MY GODDD)! This lookbook was created using Canva and uses image descriptions. The playlist mentioned on slide #13 can be found on Spotify below!

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42donotpanic

1 year ago

Honestly as a blind person I’m so tired of seeing fictional blind characters who don’t use white canes or other guides. “They have special powers so they know what’s around them” or “they’re confident enough to not need a guide” are common tropes, and I’m tired.

Are people scared that using a white cane will make their blind character seem weak? They can’t use a cane because they’re so special that they already know what’s around them, and other blind people who use guides are inferior because they’re not special?

I’m tired. Give your blind characters white canes and other guides. Let them hold onto their friends, let them have guide dogs. Don’t make white cane users feel ostracized for not being “strong enough” to go without.

Another thing that pisses me off is when a sighted character comes up with the fantasy equivalent of braille and teaches it to the blind character. Braille was invented by Louis Braille, a blind man, in 1824. The blind character should be the one coming up with it.

Tldr I’m blind and tired of sighted people lol

🔪 Sighted People MUST Reblog This 🔪

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42donotpanic

9 months ago

bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

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42donotpanic

1 year ago

WIP game: coffee shop au, please!

(All of these look really interesting! 👀)

I'm not completely happy with the execution, but the basic Idea is a Coffee Shop AU (duh), probably no Powers, where Clint, Maya Lopez, Bucky and probably others work in a Café that specializes in accessibility. It's close to the University and Foggy has been going there for a while. He recommended it to Matt mostly because he's trying to set him up with Clint and that's where the story starts right now.

Like I said, I'm not happy with it yet and I still have to figure out the logistics and accommodations a Café like that would need.

But anyway, here's the first few paragraphs:

On a cold morning in early December, Clint was standing behind the counter of Double Shot Coffee. The typical morning crowd was already mostly gone, and Clint finally had a moment to drink his own coffee and chat with his coworker. Bucky had taken over the morning shift for Maya, and since their schedules usually didn’t line up, they had a lot to catch up on. While complaining about a professor who wouldn’t stop bugging him, Bucky stopped mid-sentence and signed "Bell." Clint looked over to the door and saw a young man enter. He was wearing a warm winter coat and dark-tinged glasses. At first, Clint was confused about the sunglasses on a cloudy day until he noticed the white cane the man was holding in his gloved right hand. He frowned and turned to complain to Bucky, but the latter was on his way to one of the tables to help a customer. Clint didn’t have a choice but to take the new guy's order himself. It wasn’t that he had a problem with blind people, because he really didn’t. The thing was just that he really didn’t want to talk today. He took a long sip of his coffee, preparing to talk to the guy. As usual, he didn’t wear his hearing aids; the café specialised in accessibility, after all, so he didn’t need them most of the time. The only times when he regretted being so uncomfortable just talking to his customers were situations like right now, when he had blind customers and no one was around to deal with them but him.

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asexual bucky barnes my wips clint barton matt murdock coffee shop wip tag game

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9 months ago

[Podfic] Every last piece - 42donotpanic pods (42donotpanic), AUofGoldandFantasies, StripedScribe - Daredevil (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Daredevil (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Matt Murdock/Franklin “Foggy” Nelson Characters: Matt Murdock, Franklin “Foggy” Nelson Additional Tags: Post-Episode: s03e13 A New Napkin, Grief/Mourning, Self Confidence Issues, Self-Doubt, Idiots in Love, Friendship/Love, Declarations Of Love, Tags Are Hard, Depression, Podfic, Podfic Length: 10-20 Minutes, Audio Format: MP3, Audio Format: Streaming, Audio Format: Download Summary:

Post S3, Foggy realises Matt doesn’t take his glasses off around him anymore and tries to get behind the reason for it.

Podfic of Every last piece by 42donotpanic. @42donotpanic organised a lovely multivoice podfic with me and @auofgoldandfantasies!! go check it out!

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42donotpanic

1 year ago