Flowers for my followers - A Writing Challenge
I can not believe that I have hit such a number! I honestly don’t know why I have so many people following me, but I am beyond flattered and thankful!
I have had this blog for years but rarely used it. A little under a year ago I decided to take a leap and post my fanfiction, and look at how far we have all come together! I have made some wonderful friends, there are so many people I have come to love, tagging them all would take hours. Anyone and everyone I have spoken to on here, including my lil anons, please know I adore you so much. I want to celebrate with you guys who have shown me so much support and love, and I thought of different ways I could do that including sending everyone flowers, but that would cost me upwards of 20 grand! So here’s another way to share flowers with you all.
Whether you take part as a writer or a reader, I hope you enjoy this little writing challenge. Please reblog and like the submissions and give the authors all the love they deserve.
Rules –
You don’t have to be following me to take part, in fact if you aren’t following me then I commend you on your good decision making skills.
This is a challenge for Reader x Character stories, not OC x Character, please use Y/N or nicknames.
This is a Marvel/MCU writing challenge
No smut or romance for underage characters, that includes aging up or down.
Use warning and tags appropriately if your story contains smut and/or any potential triggers.
Anything longer than 500 words must have the ‘read more’ line.
Please tag me (@the—sad—hatter) and #hattersflowers so I can read and reblog.
Please state which flower/s you chose.
I’ll be making a Masterlist of all submissions, but you can request to be left off of it if you so choose.
You can make it as long as you want, but please only submit one-shots.
You can send me a message or an ask if you have any questions, I'm happy to try and answer them.
You don't have to claim your prompt/flower, they are all open to all.
You can use as many flowers as you like, make a bouquet if you will.
Submission must be sent by February 12th.
Anon submissions –
If you want to submit a story but don’t want to do it publicly, you can send it to my email address
[email protected]
Please include a pseudo name that I can use to post it for you so that there is no confusion about the fact I did not write it.
The Flowers –
The flowers don’t represent quotes or prompts, they represent themes and emotions. How you interpret that theme is up to you, and you can combine flowers or just use one. Let your imagination and creativity run free, and have fun!
e.g – You could choose Marigold and write a story about sorrow.
Anemone - Vanishing hopes
Balm - Compassion
Bittersweet – Truth and Loyalty
Caladium - Immense delight and joy
Dog Rose - Pleasure and Pain
Euphorbia - Persistence
Fern - Fascination
Geranium - Folly, Stupidity
Gerbera - You are the sunshine of my life
Gloxinia - Love at first sight
Goosefoot – Insult
Ivy - Affection
Indian Cress - Resignation
Ipomen Scarlet - Embrace
Indian Cane - Rendezvous
Jasmine (Indian) – Love
Jasmine (Yellow) – Elegance
Jasmine (Spanish) - Sensuality
King's Spear - Regret
Laurel - Glory
Magnolia - Perseverance
Marigold - Sorrow
Manchineel - Betrayal
Nasturtium - Conquest
Nightshade – Truth
Nettle - Cruelty
Orchid - Beauty
Orange Blossom - Eternal Love
Ophrys Fly - Mistake
Olive - Peace
Petunia - Resentment
Peach Blossom - I am your captive
Queen Anne's Lace - Fantasy
Rose (Red) – Passion
Rose (White) - Virginity
Rose (Yellow) - Infidelity
Rose (Coral) – Desire
Rose (Pink) - Secret love
Rose (Pale pink) - Joy
Rosemary - Remembrance
Rhododendron – Beware
Snowdrop – Hope
Snapdragon – Strength
Spider Flower - Elope with me
Star of Bethlehem – Reconciliation
Tulip (Yellow)- Hopeless love
Tulip (Red) - Declaration of love
Thornapple - I dreamed of thee
Tuberose - Dangerous pleasures
Teasel – Misanthropy
Violet – Modesty
Violet (White) - Let´s take a chance
Vervain – Enchantment
Water Lily - Purity of heart
Windflower – Sincerity
Wood-Sorrel – Joy
Whortleberry – Treachery
Yarrow- Healing
Yew – Sadness
Zinnia - Thoughts of absent friends
Zinnia (Magenta) - Lasting Affection
Zinnia (White) - Goodness
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An Otter's Song
a fucking FANTASTIC poem by dice anon!!! he submitted it and asked for it to be posted, so he could stay on anon, so I will put it under the cut :) it's SO fucking good holy shit
An Otter's Song
He wasn’t known for his knowledge, ever.
A kitten, adopted by
Scorching skies and stinging nettles,
was known.
He was perceived
And seen.
He existed.
Ivy leaves curled around his chest once
Suspicion making his eyes water.
Flashes of lanky reeds drifting in the breeze
And ivy leaves snaking through his bones.
The scorching skies and nettles protected.
The kitten, happy
Began his journey.
A crow’s feather in his paw
A grin on his face
And those eyes.
Yellow, gleaming white and blue in the sun.
The scorching skies once remarked it was akin to the light
Of the brightest fire in the sky
Glimmering across a frozen landscape
The sky cracks momentarily
And tears fall.
Nettlestem’s eyes, wide with fear.
Dog bites, huge and deep, cover her body.
The kitten, aged enough to grieve right, weeps.
His mama has passed
And it’s the first time he’s seen his mother cry.
Otterpaw wasn’t known for knowledge, ever.
He was seen as a playful cat
but one laced with a deep-cutting sadness.
He was perceived and seen.
He didn’t think he could exist like he had before
But he’d survive.
Not live, but survive.
Maple leaves covered his pelt
And the sun freckled the ground where he trained.
Training upon the cliff sides of the peak
He almost slips.
He gazes behind him and sees it for the first time
Practically stalagmites, the stones rise upward as if
To touch the stars
The distraction gives Maplethorn
A chance to dodge the next strike
Otterpaw almost falls, unbalanced.
Maple leaves push him back up from the cliff sides
And save him from those unforgiving spires.
A golden lion stands atop a stone
And gazes down upon him.
He is perceived in this moment
But not understood.
Otterslip.
He runs quickly, and was named for that.
But all he can think of are those rocks
That spiral up and down.
That pierces his dreams
And makes them bleed.
He runs and runs and runs and runs and–
An eagle’s call stabs into his heart.
The sun almost blinds him
And he practically falters.
He rips and rends into its flesh and feathers
And it falls.
The sky rushes around him as
He panics to get to his paws.
It feels horrible and the wind
Seems to be punishing him.
The sun blinds him.
The scorching sky does nothing.
Waltzes past without real care.
Blood stains Scorchstar’s mind.
Her scream is still echoing in her ears.
Reverberating and curling around her mind.
She cannot and will not
Forget it.
Otterslip was a fast cat, able to scale the cliff sides,
Quietly,
Quickly,
And efficiently.
He had to.
It could be a life or death moment.
Something snaps as hail beats down on him
And he lets it.
The scorching skies have
Stopped giving him warmth.
In her final gasping moments
She confesses to her son.
She killed the sun and snuffed it’s flames
And she made sure nobody knew.
He watches her, expression blank.
There was time to get help,
But Scorchstar refused it to make things right
With the stars.
She will remain among them in death
And he will not.
He snakes among the grasslands, claws out.
He needs to be angry
And to let it all out.
He hunts for a cat to hurt, and finds none.
Although, he does find three kittens
And they are hidden with plants.
Grass sways in the breeze, thick with dewdrops.
Yew berries dip low, heavy with their own weight.
Ivy, like before, winds upward.
It is not within his bones. It never will be.
He was perceived and seen.
He existed.
And he will make sure he is known.
A storm rumbles high above.
Whispers curling around his ears.
The wind rushes around him
Like before,
But now it is tainted with hostility.
Eyes blink open around him.
He is witnessed
And he is monstrous.
A dog’s snapping jaws, foam dripping red around it’s
Slobbering jaws.
Grasses torn up
Roots dislodged and ravaged.
Ivy leaves curling around
Weeping and crying.
Yew berries
Dripping with dewdrops and tears.
A dog has ruined his life.
The wounds of Nettlestem are seared into his eyes.
The gasping breaths of Scorchstar are whistling in his ears.
The scent of that crimson blood of Grassroot in his nose.
He lashes out, and the cliffsides rise up to greet him.
The storm rumbles, but ceases.
It’s screech echoes around the stones
It’s eyes stare as the sickening
CRACK
Echoes around the land.
He tastes iron on his tongue.
The storm has ceased.
Like his mother before him had snuffed out
The sun.
He runs.
He was named for his speed.
He stumbles.
Slipping on his past.
His eyes, once honored for their beauty
Are bloodshot as he yowls out.
The golden lion watches, horrified.
Like before
Otterslip is witnessed.
He is seen.
He will never be understood.
His flesh, destined to be meat and bone
And nothing else.
Otters are predators after all.
They must be dealt with.
The lion roars
And he runs.
He feels the thick light of the sun on his back
And he cannot tell if it is the damnation of Sunwish
Or the regret of his mother.
It doesn’t last long though.
Rain begins to beat down, thick and heavy.
Bulging with regret and woven with the scent of smog.
And those eyes.
Yellow, gleaming white and blue in the sun.
The scorching skies once remarked it was akin to the light
Of the brightest fire in the sky
Glimmering across a frozen landscape.
The fire is gone
Smoldering.
There are dancing colors in his vision.
Bismuth in nature and reflecting off each other.
He cannot remember where he is.
Blood stains his paw.
He shifts it, and pain fires up through his leg.
His leg aches.
The stones around him are gleaming with
That shimmering crimson.
That crimson that stains every moment of his life.
He looks back on his memories, operose.
Viscera and gristle stain his mind
And he feels guilt.
He does not know if he should.
The sanguineous nature of the clans
Stain his judgment, clouding it.
He is blind
And he is exactly what StarClan wants in a victim.
He stands before the stars.
Their judging gaze pierces him.
He is witnessed.
He is truly seen.
Every aspect of his life, examined.
Every action, weighed and debated upon.
The scorching skies say nothing.
The stinging nettles accuse her son of those crimes.
He will not get a chance to defend himself.
The stars will never understand him
And he will not try to get them to.
He doesn't understand himself.
All he knew is that there was a storm.
And that it beat down and oppressed him
And its winds spread lies.
But it was gone.
It’s eyes and lies
Dead by his own paw.
He is witnessed.
The trees branches wind around him
Bark snapping and curving around his pelt.
He screams.
He thrashes.
He cannot escape.
He speaks to another cat, one last time.
“I’m sorry! I’ll do anything, please!”
Stormsight watches, guilt clear in his eyes.
Otterslip screams.
Sinewy strength beats back at the branches.
“Let me see my daughter! I want to say goodbye!”
Grassroot does not appear.
Otterslip, lachrymose to a pathetic extreme
Wails for his life.
“Let me try to be better!”
The branches tug at his pelt.
“I’ll do good!”
Thorns stab into his brown pelt.
“This is not mercy!”
He screeches and sobs.
“This is DESECRATION!”
He roars.
The trees claim him.
His fatal wounds bleed
With a thick dark fluid.
It is practically oozing from his pelt
And from his open flesh.
There will be no storms here.
There will never be any sun
And no plants will sprout.
The ivy leaves that once woven around his bones have died.
The stinging nettles in his fur have shriveled.
The scorching sky has ceased its warmth.
The grasses, unrooted before, are gone.
The yew berries have rotten.
The ivy around his paws has crumbled.
He walks onward.
The red forest follows.
Its silence is oppressive.
A crow’s call makes his ears perk.
He looks up
And a new sight is before him.
A hazy image of the sky
And unfamiliar cats.
He turns away, lashing his tail at it.
He feels some of his feathers slip from his tail
And he turns to pick them up.
The image is gone, and so have the feathers.
Realization slams into him.
He is dead
But he still has power among the living.
And he will have to use it
To live again.
He was once witnessed
And he will inflict that pain upon another.
i wrote a snippet of this as propaganda for the favorite cat poll but then realized that it was actually turning out okay, so i finished it :3
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