#au-gust 2024

[howtodrawyourdragon]

A late piece for AU-gust 2024's Day 1 "Canon Divergence." A late piece because I really wanted to come up with something for that day and I just could not come up with anything until I had the brilliant idea to genderbend the blorbo of our shows.

Her hair is a mess because she's Hiccup and she just spend some time either flying or wrestling with Toothless, probably.

Is she looking guilty? Worried? Did she get caught with her dragon? Perhaps!

-XOXOX-

Please do not repost or misuse my art.

AU-gust card and gradient layerless version below.

[rainbow-nerdss]

AUgust announcement!

Gonna be posting a chapter of this fic every day for the month of August. It's a little different from my usual AU-gust projects in that I'm aiming for all of my prompt fills to be part of one over-arching story. I am SUPER excited to start sharing!

I will be posting on ao3, and sharing snippets/links on here!

Please like this post if you wanna be on the tag list for this project! 💙💙

Title: Where there's smoke

Summary:

His eyelids are heavy. His lungs ache. The smoke is dense and thick, slowly suffocating him. Eddie feels himself drift as Buck’s voice penetrates the smoke, cuts through the fog in his brain. “Eddie, stay with me. Stay with me, Eds.” Eddie wants to stay. He wants to open his eyes and see Buck. He doesn’t want to leave. But he’s so tired, and sleep is calling him. Maybe it will be okay. Maybe his dreams will be sweet. Maybe there’ll be peace, there. And maybe, if he just rests for a little while, he’ll be able to find his way back.

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[tryan-a-bex]

Words: 1.9k Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Sandman (TV 2022) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne/Charles Rowland, Modern Johanna Constantine/Death of the Endless, Crystal Palace & Niko Sasaki Characters: Crystal Palace (DCU), Niko Sasaki, Charles Rowland (DCU), Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, Jenny Green (Dead Boy Detectives), Modern Johanna Constantine (The Sandman TV), Death of the Endless, Kingham and Litty | The Dandelion Sprites Additional Tags: AU-gust | August Writing Challenge, Everybody Lives, Found Family, literally found, witchery, summonings, it's scary for the characters at times but not for us, I don't like writing thrillers I guess too much adrenaline, Returning Home, Charles and Edwin meet Death of the Endless, Crystal's Tree Summary:

Crystal finally gets a response to her texts to Niko, and the Dead Boy Detective Agency turns their resources to finding her back.

“I’ll be back soon, I promise.” Crystal stared at the text on her phone. In the last two months, she’d sent hundreds of unread texts to Niko’s number. Someday, the number would be passed on to someone new and she’d have to stop, she knew. But this. This wasn’t the “you have the wrong number” text she’d been dreading. (It was way too soon for that, anyway.) This was Niko. Or at least, there was no sign of it being fake that she could use to convince herself otherwise. Crystal realized that there were tears running down her face.

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[howtowhumpyourhiccup]

Predatory

Summary: Written for Day 22 of AU-gust 2024. Set during Httyd 1. Orphan AU, I guess. Hiccup loses Stoick during a raid and he's in shock. The wrong kind of man sees an opportunity.

Warnings: Implied Major Character Death

Rating: Teen and Up

Dead Dove: No

Words: 405

Prompts: Orphan

Fandom: How to Train Your Dragon

Characters: Hiccup, Gobber, Spitelout

Pairing: /

Author's Notes: Completely taken by surprise myself. I saw the AU-gust blog place today's card and that gave me the sudden idea to write this fic. Might look back at previous prompts, maybe I'll write a couple more, who knows.

Enjoy!

-XOXOX-

He should probably feel sad or angry, he should curse the dragons as he watches the fire rise and consume the ship, but Hiccup feels nothing.

That is his father on the funeral pyre and he feels nothing.

“It’s okay to cry, lad. You know that, right?” Gobber asks softly, taking a knee next to him as his arm settles around Hiccup’s shoulders. All of Berk is here at the docks or up on the cliffs for the funeral, a silence dominates them. It was during a raid that Stoick died. He did so protecting his son, he died a father.

Hiccup doesn’t give him any sort of a reaction, simply stares ahead and watches the fire. Why should he cry? He feels nothing.

Gobber watches him a moment longer, not missing the hollow pain in his eyes, the way he just seems so dull and muted. Like life could go ahead and pass him by now and he wouldn’t miss it.

So he sighs sympathetically as he rises, his knees aching. No child should have to bury their parents this young, but Hiccup has no one now. His mother died when he was a babe, his father when he was 15 and he has no other blood relatives. No grandparents. That leaves him as the sole Haddock, still the heir, probably chief by tonight. It’s early morning now, Berk wasted no time building Stoick a funeral pyre, he deserves to be taken away to Valhalla to feast until Ragnarok.

With one last rub on his upper back, Gobber decides to give Hiccup a moment. He didn’t help with the pyre, he didn’t help with anything, but they don’t blame him like they would with his other mistakes. Every attempt to talk with him is met with silence, like he’s not even here. Everyone can tell that he’s in shock.

But when Gobber leaves him be, someone else takes his place and rests a hand on his shoulder.

“Don’t worry, Boy-o,” the hand’s owner uses a nickname usually reserved for his own son. “You’ll be alright, we’ll make sure of that.”

Something inside of him causes Hiccup to move, to give some kind of a reaction at long last. He looks up and finds Spitelout standing by his side.

But he thinks nothing, he still feels nothing. And so he looks back at the fire consuming his father and Spitelout pulls the future chief closer.

[siderealdei]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jango Fett/Obi-Wan Kenobi Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Jango Fett Additional Tags: AU-gust | August Writing Challenge, Alternate Universe - Royalty, Alternate Universe - Steampunk, Arranged Marriage Series: Part 6 of AU-gust 2024 Summary:

AU-gust 2024 Day 14: Princes & Princesses

Journeyman Engineer (Prince) Obi-Wan Kenobi of Coruscant finds himself confronted with an arranged marriage to Jango Fett, son of the Mand'alor, in order to keep tensions between the two kingdoms from boiling into war.

[jhdanes]

When you are starting Au-gust 2024 in May already, and have everything planned, and you know people will freak about the ships 😈 also will be posting them on tumblr and tiktok so peeps can see XD

[blackwood4stucky]

author: aspen blackwood | au-gust writing challenge

event: au-gust 2024

echoes of crystal springs | 🅼

prompt: space travel stucky [james “bucky” barnes x steve rogers] series: burning embers of a dying world synopsis: Brooklynd, the capital city on Vanaheim - 10923 Steve looked at the brunet haired baby boy with pointed ears in the bassinet, the omega he would one day take as his wife. He could just barely hear the adults talking on the other side of the room as they whispered about courtship and marriage. He couldn’t believe the Ljósálfar would travel so far from Álfheim to discuss such topics. He was a mere five year old boy, what did he know of alliances and weddings?

aspen’s vault: fics masterlist | aspen’s world: bingo & events participation masterlist

april showers bring m-au flowers | trick au treat

[surelynotshirley]

Title: (check)mating season

Rating: G

Fandom: Honkai: Star Rail

Pairing: Renheng, (one-sided) Jingheng

Link: Here!

hikaru no go inspired au

[piperslovebot]

AU-gust 2024

Gwen and Leia try to escape a Zombie Apocalypse together. Complete AU.

wc: 78 | ao3 | alternate universe august: day 4 | AU-gust prompts (@augustwritingchallenge) | 004, zombie apocalypse | fandom: that ‘90s show | rating: teen +

[vivifriend]

Au-Gust Day 3: Dark Academia

Rated M for some suggestive language. Nothing explicit.

[inkwell1013]

AUgust Day 1 - Life On The Rocks

https://archiveofourown.org/works/57835690

Saki always planned to get out of Inaba the second she could, consequences be damned. Then, a few things happened in short order: her jackass boyfriend ditched her after months of promising they would leave Inaba together; she discovered the dead body of Ms. Yamano hanging from telephone wire; and she followed Hanamura, Satonaka and Narukami into a television. There, she discovered a doppleganger who seemed to know a little too much about her. Just like that, the girl who was meant to die got a second chance at life.

Coauthored by @thebigpapilio @mushroomfusion245

[augustwritingchallenge]

We present to you, the AU-gust 2024 prompt list! 🎉

What is AU-gust? It stands for Alternate Universe August, and it is a creative challenge for everyone. Writers, artists, fans; anyone can join! Be sure to check out our FAQ for more answers! Join us on Twitter, AO3, Discord and under the tags #au gust and #au gust 2024.

Special thanks to @yaoyorozoops for creating our wonderful graphics!

[tryan-a-bex]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Crystal Palace (DCU), Charles Rowland (DCU), Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, Jenny Green (Dead Boy Detectives), Tragic Mick (Dead Boy Detectives) Additional Tags: AU-gust | August Writing Challenge, Alternate Universe - Retail, Process of Becoming an Animagus, Found Footage Summary:

A fix-it fic for Tragic Mick:

Charles was doing his magic with the lock picks, and Crystal was brainstorming possible passwords to disable the alarm. Guessing right was the easiest possible solution. The door sprung open, and as Charles cheered and Edwin glowed with approval, Crystal stepped in and tried 12345 for the alarm password. It worked. Damn, Mick, she thought. Being a walrus cursed to live as a human shopkeeper because of your excessive curiosity is no excuse for using the most basic password ever. He probably never changed the default. Ah well, their gain.

[howtowhumpyourhiccup]

To Outlive

Summary: Written for Day 4 AU-gust 2024 and July Break Bingo. Set in a Modern Zombie Apocalypse. Protecting your son when the world is literally coming to an end is not easy. But Hiccup did get hurt and Stoick intends to not let it happen again.

Warnings: Mentions of sickness, mentions of tendons

Rating: Mature

Dead Dove: No

Words: 1 107

Prompts: Zombie Apocalypse (AU-gust), Severed Arteries or Severed Tendons (July Break Bingo)

Fandom: How to Train Your Dragon

Characters: Hiccup, Toothless, Stoick, Gobber

Pairing: /

Author's Notes: A prompt from day 4, but posted today. Because I'm not really looking that closely at the dates for AU-gust. :)

I just love writing these AUs. (◡ ‿ ◡ ✿)

Enjoy!

Card below the Keep reading.

-XOXOX-

[siderealdei]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Obi-Wan Kenobi/Darth Maul Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Darth Maul Additional Tags: AU-gust | August Writing Challenge, Alternate Universe, Jedi Maul (Star Wars), Animal Transformation Series: Part 5 of AU-gust 2024 Summary:

AU-gust Day 12: Animagus(/Animal Shifter)

Padawan Obi-Wan is already running late on a day when his arch-rival has decided to greatly inconvenience him.

[kingrhyth]

I can't lie I listen to Legally Blonde the Musical at least once a week this was bound to happen (And y'all voted for this in the Au-Gust poll so you're partly to blame)