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What is this community about?
Sweet and short is a low-pressure community for creating small fanworks each week.

There will be four regular challenges each month. We will have amnesty days at the end of every month.

The schedule for regular months in 2025 looks like this:
1. Monthly prompts 10 out of 20
8. This or That NEW
15. Only Two = two prompts for writing, two prompts for icons
22. Micro Bingo = four prompts only
29. Amnesty Days

All challenges run until the end of the month, midnight in your timezone. Amnesty days end at the 1st of the following month.

For more challenge information, have a look at the Challenge Overview.

General Rules
Allowed are fics up to 500 words, small poems like haiku or tanka (3-5 lines), icons (100x100 px), and small graphics up to 500px width x height.
Note: During amnesty days, all rules are disabled, and everything is possible.

All fandoms, genres, and ratings are welcome, but please use warnings if applicable. Original works and real-person works are acceptable.

You can combine your works with any other challenge/community, as long as the work is created within the given challenge period at [community profile] sweetandshort.

Post your work directly to this community. Please use a header of your choice and put bigger works under a cut. You can also post your work at other places like AO3 or your writing journal - in this case, please leave a header and a link at [community profile] sweetandshort to keep the community running. I would like to ask you to keep the posts unlocked at least until the end of the following month.

Please use the following tags: creator, fandom, work type, and based on. If a tag is missing, use !tag needed.

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[sticky entry] Sticky: Works Overview

Mar. 15th, 2025 06:01 pm
prisca: (sweet short mod small)
[personal profile] prisca
Check out all the wonderful works created for this community.

2024
2025
stonepicnicking_okapi: holmes in silohuette (holmessilouhette)
[personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi
Title: Hesitancy
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (ACD)
Rating: Gen
Length: 200
Prompt: surprise
Summary: Watson reflects on the decision to go to Dartmoor with Sir Henry Baskerville.

Read more... )
tarlanx: Wen Kexing 3/4 body profile with purple background (Cdrama - Word of Honor 1 - WKX lavender)
[personal profile] tarlanx
Title: Zhu Yan
Author: Tarlan ([personal profile] tarlanx)
Fandom: Fangs of Fortune (TV)
Pairing/Characters: Zhu Yan
Prompt: Negative Space
Rating/Category: PG GEN
Size: ICONS

Fangs of Fortune - Zhu Yan 01 by Tarlan Fangs of Fortune - Zhu Yan 02 by Tarlan Fangs of Fortune - Zhu Yan 03 by Tarlan Fangs of Fortune - Zhu Yan 04 by Tarlan
 
scifirenegade: (rip | kurt & paul)
[personal profile] scifirenegade
Title: So flashes and so fades my thought, at strife
Author: [personal profile] scifirenegade
Character(s): Kurt Sivers
Pairing(s): mentioned Paul Körner/Kurt Sivers
Rating: General
Length: 100 words
Summary: The calendar pages are torn away day after day, year after year, and Kurt is afraid of forgetting.
Notes: Also for [community profile] comment_fic, prompt was "having trouble remembering specific aspects of someone they lost".

On my journal
stonepicnicking_okapi: holmes in silohuette (holmessilouhette)
[personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi
Title: 221 B
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (ACD)
Rating: Gen
Length: 300
Prompt: door
Note: POV building
Summary: How 221B helps divert its occupant.

Read more... )
scifirenegade: (blep | marquis)
[personal profile] scifirenegade
Title: Overwhelming
Author: [personal profile] scifirenegade
Character(s): Juliette, The Marquis of Pontignac
Pairing(s): Juliette/The Marquis of Pontignac
Rating: Teen and Up
Length: 100 words
Summary: Five puppies vs. the Marquis.
Notes: Also for [community profile] fic_promptly, prompt was "Behold...puppies!".

On my journal
prisca: (sweet short mod small)
[personal profile] prisca
For this challenge, you will have two options to participate.

You are a writer? Then the challenge Sentences might be for you.

I offer you two sentences:
1. On the attic, she discovered a photo album that revealed secrets she never expected to uncover.
2. Walking into the room, he suddenly found himself face-to-face with his best friend from his past life.


Your mission, if you want to accept the challenge, is to grab one of the sentences and use it as your story starter or your last line.
You are welcome to use both sentences in one story (as the starter and the last line).
Feel free to change personal pronouns.
Allowed are fics up to 500 words (+ the given sentence)

You are an icon lover? Then the challenge Themes might be for you.

I offer you two themes:
1. fantasy
2. negative space


Your mission, if you want to accept the challenge, is to grab one of the themes and create a minimum of four icons for it.
Icons should fit DW standard (100 x 100 px).


For both challenges: all fandoms, genres, and ratings are welcome, as are original work and real-person work.

You want to mix up both challenges? Go ahead, but stay to the requirements of every challenge.

When posting directly to [community profile] sweetandshort, please use a header of your choice and put bigger works under a cut. You can also post your work at any other place, but please leave a header and a link here to keep the community running.

Please tag your work with any appropriate tag.

This challenge runs until July 31, midnight in your timezone.

:::

Challenge Reminder:
10 out of 20
This or That
veronyxk84: (Vero#s5Spuffy)
[personal profile] veronyxk84
Title: Sunlight and Danger
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Author: [personal profile] veronyxk84
Characters/Pairing: Spike (implied Spuffy)
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Some coarse language
Word count: 200 (Google Docs)
Spoilers/Setting: Set in S5, during ep. 5x08 “Shadow”
Summary: Spike’s POV when he sneaks into Buffy’s bedroom.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.

Prompt [#7]: Dance

Crossposted: [community profile] drabble_zone, [community profile] anythingdrabble, My journal, Sunnydale After Dark


READ: Sunlight and Danger/Double drabble )
veronyxk84: (Vero#CorazonSalvaje)
[personal profile] veronyxk84
Title: Dejar Todo Atrás / Leave Everything Behind
Fandom: Corazón Salvaje (TV, 1993, Mexico)
Characters/Pairing: Juan/Mónica
Rating: G
Word count: 483 / 488 (AO3)
Summary: Ten years later, Juan and Mónica’s past knocks on their door again. But there’s no more room for hatred and resentment.
Note: Written in Spanish and translated in English. Both versions are available.

Challenge: July This and That: Rare Fandoms

Read on AO3:
Dejar Todo Atrás (ESP) / Leave Everything Behind (ENG)

 
stonepicnicking_okapi: sugacypher3 (sugacypher)
[personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi
Title: Temptation
Fandom: BTS
Pairing: SUGA & jhope
Rating: Gen
Length: 200
Prompt: temptation
Summary: Yoongi is taking antibiotics.

Read more... )
veronyxk84: (Vero#s11spuffy)
[personal profile] veronyxk84
Title: Evil Lightbulb
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Characters/Pairing: Spuffy
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: some coarse language
Word count: 200 (Google Docs)
Setting/Spoilers: Set post-S11 (comics) in an alternate reality where Buffy and Spike are an established couple.
Summary: Spike wants to fix a flickering light in the basement.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.

Prompts [#5-#6]: Cake - Shadow

Crossposted: [community profile] 100words, My journal, Sunnydale After Dark


READ: Evil Lightbulb/Double drabble )
scifirenegade: The seventh Doctor and Ace standing under an umbrella and having a grand ol' time. (seven & ace)
[personal profile] scifirenegade
Title: Give Chase
Author: [personal profile] scifirenegade
Character(s): Bob Herrick
Pairing(s): n/a
Rating: G
Length: 150 words
Summary: Bob shouldn't have been allowed to drive, that's what Superintendent Chester said, at least not in England, but in situations like those, they let him loose.
Notes: Also for [community profile] fic_promptly, prompt was "Any police fandom, any, getting a flat tyre while chasing a suspect".

On my journal
veronyxk84: (Vero#s11spuffy)
[personal profile] veronyxk84
Title: Surprise Family Gathering
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Characters/Pairing: Spuffy, Dawn
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Word count: 100 (Google Docs)
Setting/Spoilers: Set post-S11 (comics) in an alternate reality where Buffy and Spike are an established couple.
Summary: Buffy has bad mayhem memories linked to her birthday... But it doesn’t always have to end in mayhem.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.

Prompts [#3-#4]: Delight + Surprise

Crossposted: [community profile] 100words, My journal


READ: Surprise Family Gathering )
scifirenegade: (erik)
[personal profile] scifirenegade
Title: Philately
Author: [personal profile] scifirenegade
Character(s): Otto Becker
Pairing(s): n/a
Rating: G
Length: 100 words
Summary: Otto's thoughts on stamp collecting.
Notes: Also for [community profile] fic_promptly, prompt was "Author's choice, author's choice, collecting stamps". For the record, this is an American film about a man, Otto, who takes the place of his evil twin and destroys a Nazi spy ring from within. He's a good man.

On my journal
veronyxk84: (Vero#s6Spuffy)
[personal profile] veronyxk84
Title: Lingering Dream
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Author: [personal profile] veronyxk84
Characters/Pairing: Spuffy
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Word count: 200 (Google Docs)
Spoilers/Setting: Set in S6, after ep. 6x17 “Normal Again.”
Summary: Buffy’s sleep is troubled and haunted by dreams.
Notes: also for #457 - Tangled Up by [community profile] drabble_zone, #397 Milk by [community profile] anythingdrabble

[Prompts #1-#2]: Temptation - Pyjamas

Also on my journal


READ: Lingering Dream/Double drabble )
scifirenegade: (blep | marquis)
[personal profile] scifirenegade
Title: Triangle
Author: [personal profile] scifirenegade
Character(s): The Marquis, Didier
Pairing(s): Didier/Marquis(/Juliette)
Rating: G
Length: 300
Summary: If the Marquis and Juliette were a couple, and Didier and Juliette were a couple, then what were the Marquis and Didier to each other?
Notes: Also for [community profile] fic_promptly, prompt was "any / any / we're dating the same person so... what are we?". I'm the only one writing for this fandom :')

On my journal