Have at you! Welcome to Happyfest 2010!

[jadesfire]

HAPPYFEST IV

Yup, this is it, folks, the complete list of prompts for this year's Happyfest. The main difference this year is that we're open for art works as well as fic. Otherwise, the rules remain the same, the first of which is:

READ THE RULES BEFORE WRITING!

(there are notes about spoilers that I NEED you to read)

Comments

Torchwood; Back to Work; Gwen; PG

[jadesfire]

[example - see subject line!]

The happy goes here!

Doctor Who; Sonata; the TARDIS; G/post-Series 5 (Part 1)

[hematitebadger]

There is always music in the TARDIS. She is vast and complex and exquisitely alive, and every part of her thinks and feels and has a voice. Her engines thunder in bass drum rolls and hum in deep cello tones. Her monitors and instruments sparkle in flute trills. A thousand other systems hit every note in between, some of them speaking not through sound but through light and heat or a ripple in the air. She is an orchestra all her own, and every flight is a symphony.

It’s not often that the TARDIS deliberately composes. Most of her singing is simply the work of the moment, the everyday sounds of flight and pursuit and life made musical by the harmony of a thousand voices with a single goal. Not simple melodies but clear ones, and so familiar that sometimes she catches her pilot singing along under his breath. The music of everyday wonder.

Tonight is different. There is always music, but tonight there is a songIt has been a day of celebration for everyone, for her pilot whom she loves as much as she loves the stars, for the humans who

Part 2

[hematitebadger]

Someone hears. The TARDIS lets the most complicated part of her song follow her pilot to the library, where he wanders the stacks in solitude. So often lonely, but tonight just alone. All his rhythms speak of comfort and contentment, the peace of recognizing the rightness of the universe. She knows his song almost as well as she knows her own, its depth and complexity familiar and constant even if the voice changes now and then. And he recognizes her voice, hears and feels and understands it in ways that no human and no star could ever master. He feels the thrum of her engines singing to themselves, hears her fanfare to the stars, breathes in her lullaby to their human charges. And over it the TARDIS sings a song that’s just for him, a love song in violin patterns of changing light and bursts of warmth. He’s a part of the singing as well, and he is always, always the reason for the song

Re: Part 2

[persiflage_1]

I vaguely thought of writing for this prompt - but your offering is WAY better than anything I was thinking of doing.

Very nicely done...

Re: Part 2

[hematitebadger]

Thank you! This was the first prompt that jumped out at me and I knew right away that I had to write for it. I just love that little blue box.

Riptide; Snap-Happy; Nick/Cody ; PG

[tinx_r]

Cody's not exactly camera-shy, but it's taken Nick nearly a month to get the shot he wants. If he'd just asked, Cody would've posed, smiled - but that's not the point. That's not the picture Nick's after

Re: Riptide; Snap-Happy; Nick/Cody ; PG

[seraphina_snape]

Awww. So sweet. ♥

Sometimes he thinks he's wasting his time, his life, but even if he is, it's worth it. Cody's worth it.

Double awww.

~ sera

Re: Riptide; Snap-Happy; Nick/Cody ; PG

[tinx_r]

Thank you :) I was just in the mood for something sweet... so glad everyone else was too!

Re: Riptide; Snap-Happy; Nick/Cody ; PG

[speak_me_fair]

Awwww, that was just lovely! It did indeed bring the happy *smiles at you*

Avatar: The Last Airbender; Family; Toph & Zuko; G (post-series, mild spoilers)

[sholio]

The slate-tiled floor of Iroh's tea shop was cool and firm under Toph's bare feet. It informed her that Zuko's body language was tense and unhappy -- even more so than usual.

"I don't think I can do this, Uncle," he was saying as Toph skated lightly into earshot.

"Do what?"

"Everything. Being Fire Lord. I don't think I'm good at it. In fact, I'm pretty sure I'm not, and I’m terrified I’m going to screw up horribly and start another war or something."

Iroh laughed softly. His body said fond concern. "I think you are doing fine. My brother set a rather low standard, after all. You can only improve on his reign."

Zuko's body tensed even more. Anger, it said. "Is that supposed to make me feel better? That's the problem, Uncle. I come from a long line of bloodthirsty dictators. The only one who escaped that fate is you, and you abdicated the throne to run a tea shop

Re: Avatar: The Last Airbender; Family; Toph & Zuko; G (post-series, mild spoilers)

[topaz_eyes]

This is why Toph is awesome. Iroh's right--she is a wise woman beyond her years.

Re: Avatar: The Last Airbender; Family; Toph & Zuko; G (post-series, mild spoilers)

[sholio]

Oh yes, she is indeed! (And thanks!)

Re: Avatar: The Last Airbender; Family; Toph & Zuko; G (post-series, mild spoilers)

[michelel72]

So very true. And I love that Toph is the one who is both brave enough to say these things aloud and cranky enough to resent having to. Hee.

Avatar: The Last Airbender; Bright Side; Zuko/Gaang (gen); G (prompt: Truth)

[sholio]

There are a thousand ways to lie to yourself, and a million reasons. Zuko knows them all. But he's helpless in the face of these facts: Aang's honest affection, freely offered, though he knows he hasn't earned it. Katara's forgiveness. Toph's acceptance. Sokka's cheerful camaraderie.

For all the lies and self-delusion that it took to get him to the Western Air Temple in the first place, the truth Zuko knows, deep at heart, is this: no apology, no matter how heartfelt, makes up for all those times he tried to harm and capture and kill them. He can't fix it, can't make up for it. He can only move forward, and try not to do more damage than he already has.

But this, too, is truth: they understand that he's trying, and accept it. Accept him. Kind of maybe actually like him a little. And for that, he's willing to give up all the self-deluding, self-protecting lies, and face the naked ugliness of his own soul, the bitter realities of his past. He's done terrible things, with his eyes wide open, in full awareness of the facts. He's

Re: Avatar: The Last Airbender; Bright Side; Zuko/Gaang (gen); G (prompt: Truth)

[uh_oh_shuffle]

"You're brooding again, Sifu Hotmam,"

I really liked this.

Re: Avatar: The Last Airbender; Bright Side; Zuko/Gaang (gen); G (prompt: Truth)

[sholio]

Thank you! Zuko can brood like nobody else. *g*

Re: Avatar: The Last Airbender; Bright Side; Zuko/Gaang (gen); G (prompt: Truth)

[spunspider]

:D happies successfully achieved. zuko is such an embodiment of the Woobie, and aang's cheerful bounciness and how it makes zuko feel is spot on.