The Ramblings Of A Creature Of Hobbit

For prompts relating to superstition:

Eating one grape for every stroke of midnight on New Year’s will bring you a happy year. (Spain.) (Riverdale - Veronica's family tradition brings no one luck)

“What’s the deal with the grapes?” Archie had asked at Veronica’s New Year’s party. He’d never seen quite so many grapes in one place before.

“Oh, it’s a Spanish tradition,” Hermione Lodge had explained. “Supposedly, if you eat one grape for each stroke of midnight at New Year, it brings you luck. My mother always swore by it.”

“Hermione’s mother swore by a lot of things,” Hiram continued. “But this one always seemed harmless, so we kind of continued the tradition.”

“How about it, Reggie?” Josie asked. “Think some of these will bring you luck on the football field?”

“It’s about talent, not luck,” Reggie smirked, “you’ve either got it or you haven’t. Superstition’s dumb.” However Reggie did help himself to the grapes, followed by Josie who said they might bring her luck in her singing career.

“You don’t need something like that to bring you luck, Josie,” Cheryl chimed in, although she did also accept the grapes when Josie offered them.

“Betty?” Veronica asked, handing her the plate.

“Yeah, I think I will,” Betty said. “I could use a little luck right now.” Archie wondered whether this was in reference to her on-off relationship with Jughead, who had opted not to go, saying he wanted to spend the evening with his father and the Serpents, or whether it related to what she had confided in him about her intention to seek out her long lost brother, but he wasn’t going to ask her in front of everyone. Kevin smiled and accepted the plate from her, and then passed it to Veronica.

“What do you say, Archikins? Think we need a little luck for the coming year?” Veronica grinned as she passed the plate to Archie.

“Sure, why the hell not?” Archie laughed as he helped himself as the clock began to chime, ringing in 2018.


Looking around at his friends now, at Cheryl who had become estranged from her family, at Josie and Kevin who had learned uncomfortable truths about theirs, at Betty who had come to regret tracing her brother, at Veronica who had become ostracised by so many of her former friends after Ethel had outed her knowledge of the plans for the prison to the whole school, Archie was beginning to think Reggie was right, it was dumb, and the grapes had brought none of them any luck at all.



Wear new clothes on Easter for good luck. (Pretty Little Liars, Hanna - Hanna's attempt to impress Sean Ackard in freshman year at the Easter party backfires.)



She knew it was just some stupid superstition about a new dress for Easter.

But it was Sean Ackard, hosting a party for everyone in their grade while his parents were away, and Hanna wondered if maybe this was going to be the day he was finally going to realise he liked her. She’d probably have bought something new anyway, or at the very least wanted to. So she’d dragged Emily to the mall especially to pick out something new, tried on about a hundred dresses before finally fixing on the one she liked.

Why is it that everything looks so much better on the mannequins than on me? Hanna wondered to herself as she put the new dress on on the night of Sean’s party. It hadn’t looked this bad in the store. But now, looking at herself in the mirror at home, she looked…fat. Fat and disgusting and ugly.

Remember the saying, she told herself. New clothes on Easter bring you luck. And with Aria, Emily and Spencer beside her telling her she looked great as she got ready together, Hanna chose not to worry about it.

“Ta-dah!” Alison DiLaurentis, the fifth member of their group walked in, carrying an armful of bags, doing a twirl as she showed off her new dress.

The exact same dress Hanna was wearing. And looking a hundred times better in it.

“Oh, I’m so sorry, Hanna!” Ali exclaimed, in that fake tone of voice which told Hanna she was anything but. “I didn’t realise this was the one you bought, sweetie.”

“But…” Emily began, and Alison gave her a ferocious glare, and in that instant Hanna knew what had happened, that Emily had told Ali what she had chosen and Ali had decided to upstage her by buying the same outfit for herself.

“I’d offer you something of mine to change into,” Alison smiled sweetly, “but I’m not sure I have anything quite the right size.”

“It doesn’t matter,” Hanna snapped, yanking the dress over her head, throwing it to the floor and grabbing an old black one that everyone had seen several times over. “It looks better on you anyway.”

Whoever said new clothes at Easter brought you luck was an ass.

Title: The Return of Joaquin
Fandom: Riverdale
Pairings: Kevin/Joaquin
Characters: Kevin, Joaquin, Josie, Archie, Sheriff Keller, Penny.
Rating: PG
Warning: Spoilers for all aired episode but does diverge from show canon.
Summary: Kevin talks things through with Josie and his father; Penny offers to help Joaquin with his legal issue...but at a price.

( Not if you tell him you're willing to help him shaft FP )

First post:

For ama_ranth_827, Any, Any, She could melt all this snow if she wanted to. But then she'd miss those blue tones. (filled with Frozen, Elsa)

She should probably melt this snow right now, let the people of Arendelle have their summer back.

But Elsa remembers all those times Anna had asked her if she wanted to build a snowman and Elsa had just shut her out, so now would be a good way of making it up to her by building a snowman together.

Besides, what better way than a snowball fight to get to know Kristoff better?

For daria234, Arrow, Tommy/Oliver, it turns out there's an Earth where he and Tommy are married

He knows what happened on their earth, and he knows that the Oliver Queen on Harry's Earth is dead, but the encounter with Tommy Merlyn as Prometheus makes Oliver wonder what the fates of himself and Tommy were on other Earths.

When Harry tells Oliver he's actually asked the Council of Wells that question for him, Oliver expects to hear more stories of how the two were best friends, hopes there are no more verses where Tommy took Chase's place as Prometheus (he'll often be wondering how it came to that if that were the case).

He's not expecting to hear that Tommy and Oliver are married on Earth-42, which Thea finds hilarious and Felicity looks a little taken aback by, but Oliver can't help wondering about what their life is like.

For daria234, Arrowverse, any m/m or f/f, hard kiss (Alex/Sara)

It was true that it was never going to work; Alex would be returning to her own universe and Sara to who the hell knew what time periods.

But she'd taken Alex's mind off Maggie, helped her see that it was for the best and didn't have to be the end.

Alex broke away from Kara, called to Sara to wait, threw her arms around her and gave her the kiss that was guaranteed to make Sara remember her.


For eternal_moonie, Riverdale Chosie aka Cheryl/Josie, confession of the drawings (well, anything goes really, at least have it about the two of them)

"Glad it's you," Josie said as she saw Cheryl at her door, feeling she really needed her best friend now after what Kevin had just told her about their parents.

Too late she saw the drawing of the two of them in Cheryl's hands, saw the look on Cheryl's face as Cheryl said "I was going to find the right way to talk to you," and she finally understood.

So many thoughts flashed through her mind; the fact that she had accused Chuck wrongly, the fact that the one person she thought she could trust after Kevin's revelation had been lying to her, the fact that the Black Hood probably wasn't after her after all..."We need to talk," was all she could say, and she hoped the right words would come to her.



For caramelsilver, Harry Potter, any, Voldemort won (Narcissa)

She should be celebrating; it was what she and her family had always wanted: the Dark Lord had won, The Boy Who Lived lived no more.

Yet Narcissa no longer cared for his cause, had never been able to forgive the Dark Lord for recruiting Draco to his service at such a young age, for placing the pressure on him to kill Dumbledore.

As Lucius and Bellatrix cheered, Narcissa found herself wondering if it would have been better had the Dark Lord been defeated.


For eternal_moonie, DC Crossover, Evil Kara/Evil Oliver, equals

They should be as equals out there in the field, and it frustrated Kara that they couldn't be.

It was her stupid weak heart that held her back, that prevented her from being as active as she would like to be, that sometimes kept her benched while Oliver and Prometheus went out and did the hard work.

"Don't you worry about it," Oliver had said, "soon we'll be able to get our hands on the other Kara Danvers at the wedding, to get her heart, and then once you're fixed, we can be equals once again."



Anonymous, Any, any, call me by the old familiar name (OUAT, Regina)

She won't deny that there's a part of her that likes the fact that none around her know her as the Evil Queen, but see only their friend Roni who has done no harm to anyone.

Yet as she and Henry drive away from Hyperion Heights, she thinks of how even when Henry was estranged from her and lived with the Charmings, he still always referred to her as Mom.

Even knowing what Drizella had said about how bad things would happen if any hero broke the curse, Regina longed to hear Henry call her Mom again.


For celeste9, Flarrowverse, Barry/Kara/Oliver, why me

"So I've been thinking about stuff, you know, since we met our Earth X counterparts, well, thinking about us," Kara began.

"You mean how we ended up together on that verse, when it took us so long to even become friends over here, and now you're wondering why us?" Oliver asked.

"Because her taste obviously took a nosedive over there," Barry quipped, clapping Oliver on the back before kissing Kara on the lips.


Anonymous, Any, any, do not weep, maiden, for war is kind (Game of Thrones, Margaery)

As Margaery dressed for her wedding to Joffrey, she couldn't help but think of her grandmother's words in the days before she set out for King's Landing.

"You need not fear, Margaery," Olenna had said, "for though that rat-like Littlefinger is speaking of your wedding now, it is still possible that Stannis will win the battle and your wedding may not happen."

As Joffrey choked on his poisoned wine, Margaery found herself remembering Olenna's words again.



For lizzie_marie_23, fairytales, any, 'cause when you find yourself a villain in the story you have written it's plain to see (OUAT, Regina)

She'd thought that in rewriting her history she would give herself a happy ending.

Yet while she is the villain in the version where she becomes Snow White's stepmother, in the version where she leaves her arranged marriage and marries Robin Hood, Regina has caused Snow and Charming never to meet and Emma never to be born to break the curse that Rumple still made sure was cast.

Whichever version was the truth, Regina still felt that she was the villain of the piece.


For ama_ranth_827, Supernatural, Dean Winchester, "A boy needs his father."

Sometimes Dean wanted to ask his father how John could have gone off and left him and Sam for days at a time, after his belief that Henry Winchester had abandoned him, and especially once he knew of Adam's existence.

He'd thought that Ben could be a chance for him to prove that he could be the father that John was not. But then Soulless Sam had returned, and Dean knew he had to walk away, and in that moment a part of him understood John better.



Anonymous, Any, any, and death I think is no parenthesis (Legends of Tomorrow, Jax)

He still hears his voice sometimes, imagines what he would have said in situations, even finds himself calling Mick "Mr. Rory" once as Grey would have done.

Technically their psychic link should have become separated in the moments before Grey died. Yet Jax believes his family were right, he's still there as a part of him.


For bm_shipper, Dynasty, Steven/Sammy Joe, "Don't tell me you didn't need that as much as I did!"

"This was a mistake, and it shouldn't happen again," Steven said the morning after Thanksgiving when he woke up next to Sammy-Joe. "After everything that's happened, with your fake robbery, your not giving me an alibi, the time I walked in on you in bed with Ted, not to mention that we're related by marriage, we shouldn't see each other any more."

"After everything that happened with Claudia, and your father and Fallon, it's been an interesting day," Sammy-Joe replied, "so don't even try and tell me you didn't need that night of relaxation like I did."


For ama_ranth_827, Any, Any, There’s going to be very painful moments in your life that will change your entire world in a matter of minutes. (TVD, Elena)

There have been too many of these painful moments, moments which meant that Elena's life would never be the same again.

First her parents, then Jenna, then Alaric, and all the time Elena thinking that they could have been avoided if she had made different decisions.

Damon thinks turning her humanity off might help, Bonnie and Caroline think it's crazy, but Elena just needs some time of not feeling pain.



For ama_ranth_827, Any, Any, Your biggest mistake ever was giving up on me. (Shadowhunters, Sebastian)

So Jocelyn had written Sebastian off, believing him dead, never trying to look for him.

And Sebastian knew of the way she had reacted to Jace when she believed him to be her son, rejecting him and pushing him away, just as he believed she would have been to the real Sebastian had she known.

Giving him up was a big mistake, and if Lightwood hadn't already ended her while possessed, it would have been her last.


For ama_ranth_827, Any, Any, “What do you mean I’m too loud? It’s not like I’m SHOUTING IN YOUR EAR! (Friends, Chandler/Monica)

"A little louder, Monica, I don't think they heard you back at Central Perk," Chandler said as Monica pointed out a little too loudly that Donald Trump was getting out of the elevator.

"What do you mean? It's not like I'm shouting in your ear, Chandler," Monica proceeded to do exactly that.

Maybe he should have been better about it when Monica insisted on moving rooms about 19 times, saving this mood now...or maybe this whole weekend had been a mistake.



More will follow!