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✦ August of Whump 2024 Masterlist ✦

Title: Somewhere Beyond the Sea Fandom: The Blacklist Rating: M Genre: Romance, Angst, Whump, Hurt/Comfort (this fic doesn't even know what it is, and I love it) Summary: Reddington's latest Blacklister is the face of a successful cruise line — and a former competitor in the luxury goods smuggling business. To obtain Albert Sconce's ledger, Liz and Ressler will have to go undercover as newlywed, prospective clients for an extended cruise on Sconce's newest ship. As they blur the lines they'd otherwise never cross, danger unfolds at every turn, threatening to sink their op and take them down with it.

This fic is built around the August of Whump 2024 prompt list, and this will be the masterlist for my selected prompts! Excited to give this a go, @augustofwhump!

Risk

Shock

Shady Business

Screams

Ache

Confusion

Promise

Attack

Caged

Secret

Insecurity

Deal

Guilt

Darkness

Claustrophobia

Disaster

Stress Position

Unavoidable

Midnight

Escape

Scraps

Stitches

Possession

Humiliation

Insults

Heartbeat

Machine

Bloody Nose

Control

Gift

Fuck It We Ball (lol)

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I’ll be attempting this with a full-length fic in The Blacklist fandom! It’ll be my first major story outside of BttF in a LONG time, but I’ve always wanted to make a long fic out of an entire prompt list, and there is A LOT of Whump in that fandom! Even though it’ll also be romance/ humor/ angst/ hurt/ comfort lol.

It won’t be that long; I’m only doing 1K per prompt, so it’ll be novella length. Already got 18.5K done! This thing came out of nowhere and I’m excited to give it a go!

AUGUSTOFWHUMP ’24

A new whump event/challenge set in August, run by @painonthebrain!

Write-up of prompts & rules under the cut!

AUGUSTOFWHUMP PROMPTS:

Day 1: food / risk / overexertion

Day 2: iv / shock / cry for help

Day 3: poison / shady business / freezing

Day 4: filth / screams / open wounds

Day 5: stranded / power tools / ache

Day 6: confusion / spark / veins

Day 7: time loop / rot / promise

Day 8: rejected apology / trap / attack

Day 9: role reversal / caged / body modification

Day 10: secret / exhaustion / publicity

Day 11: freedom / scars / insecurity

Day 12: deal / monstrous / anger

Day 13: witness / resigned obedience / bootlicking

Day 14: dehumanization / darkness / alone

Day 15: salt in wounds / phobia / revenge

Day 16: hunt / disaster / dread

Day 17: experimental serum / cramps / stress position

Day 18: came back wrong / unavoidable / muzzle

Day 19: salvation / midnight / mistake

Day 20: contaminated / escape / test

Day 21: set up to fail / bitter / creep

Day 22: stitches / robbery / insects

Day 23: feral / possession / fate

Day 24: humiliation / gilded cage / jewelry

Day 25: barbed wire / insults / tear stains

Day 26: sensory deprivation / heartbeat / tape

Day 27: proof / memory / machine

Day 28: bloody nose / medic / abandoned

Day 29: control / touchstarved / broken glass

Day 30: blindfolded / obsession / gift

EDIT: I forgot day 31 so that’s “fuck it we ball” day. Make whatever you want. LMAO

ALT PROMPTS:

Drowning

Broken trust

Claustrophobia

Guilt

Human shield

Locked outside

Whipping

Collapse

The only survivor

Scraps

Outcast

GUIDELINES:

Prompts should ideally be responded to in the form of whump

Creators can make any type of media they want (Yes, this includes any kind of media, no matter how niche. As long as it’s creative, it’s allowed)

You can do as few or as many prompts as you like

You can complete these prompts in tandem with any other event or other prompts (such as in combination with Bad Things Happen Bingo, @randowhump’s Birthday Whump Event, AU-gust, etc.)

DO NOT use ai. I can’t be entirely sure what is or isn’t, but I trust you to at least put some type of effort in your creations. These events are no fun otherwise!

Tag & trigger warn your content accordingly

NSFW is allowed, however because I’m currently a minor, I will not look at or reblog it (Again, tag and label it!)

Tag your works as #augustofwhump and #augustofwhump2024. In addition to that, you can also tag this account — @augustofwhump. (Do not @ me in NSFW works.) I’ll try to reblog whatever I can!

EDIT: The August of Whump 2024 ao3 collection is here! It will be open for submissions on August 1.

I’m really excited (and nervous) to do this and I know it’s a bit early to post these prompts but whatever — it just means more time for people to work on prompts if they choose to do this event, right?

[herosofmarvelanddc]

Summary:

Three years ago, Ressler saw Liz get shot. He held her bleeding body, begging her to hold on. And then she vanished. Now, he’s moved back to Detroit, he’s raising Agnes, and he’s trying to move on. Until he gets a call from Aram.

So I wrote another little Keenler fix-it fic inspired by some of my favorite fanfics. Might add more, might not. Let me know what you think!

[febressuary]

Will there be an event this year? I’m ten foot deep into a Ressler/Keenler meltdown and I need to get this nervous tension out by writing about them.

Hi there! After thinking it through, we have decided not to host an official Febressuary event this year. It was already going to be challenging with the delayed S10 premiere and other factors but in the end, we realized that the three of us simply don't have the time to plan it and do it the way we like to do it with everything else going on in our lives.

That said, if your muse is talking, indulge it and write! If you're looking for prompts to guide you, there are tons of general fic prompts all over Tumblr. Just because there's no formal event doesn't mean people shouldn't create if they feel inspired!

[fancycaroline]

Fancy’s Fics: Keenler Edition

Excerpt and Intro to my Keenler Fic journey

Cyranoid Redux in a Drabble and a Half

Always: A Keenler AU in 6 parts

Between Sleep and Awake

(-warning: post Liz’s death and major character death)

Under My Umbrella

An additional little excerpt from one of my WIPs:

Excerpt from Blacklister 001: The Marchmaker

[cesraeborgia]

I don’t know if any of you still care, but, Chapter 10 of Endgame is up (I’m so sorry y’all!!) Long story short, terrible things have been happening the last two years, but I’m back to writing for as long as I can be, so enjoy! If there’s any of you out there that still want to read it:

Divergence from 7x19 - As Reddington and Katerina’s final showdown draws near, Liz is faced with an impossible decision as she remains torn between the pair. Turning to Ressler to help her choose, she must navigate their changing relationship whilst battling her inner demons. When Ressler is thrown into the crosshairs, she and the task force embark upon a journey that will change the tone of the taskforce forever.

You can read it here, and here’s a reminder that you can still send me prompts, here

[chartreuseblueandyellow]

I was CRAVING some Ressler and Agnes bonding moments considering we’ve never even gotten ONE SCENE of the two of them together in all 9 seasons, so (slightly unfortunately) Liz's funeral is a good place to start writing it.

This fic is basically the two of them dealing with their grief and slowly becoming a (slightly reluctant) father daughter duo.

It was meant to just be 1 or 2 chapters, but I've already written 4 and my writer brain has gone CRAZY so I actually have 14 (!!!) more chapters planned (for the moment!)

There’s angst and fluff and a whole heap of family :)

[resslershephard]

Finally wrote another Keenler fic, it’s long overdue but this pair needs some love. Please read and let me know what you think!

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Chapter Three: Shady Business

“This doesn’t work if it’s strictly professional because it isn’t,” Liz said. “If we’re honest now, the rest comes naturally.”

Rating: M || Genre: Romance, Angst, Whump, Hurt/Comfort || Summary: Reddington's latest Blacklister is the face of a successful cruise line — and a former competitor in the luxury goods smuggling business. To obtain Albert Sconce's ledger, Liz and Ressler will have to go undercover as newlywed, prospective clients for an extended cruise on Sconce's newest ship. As they blur the lines they'd otherwise never cross, danger unfolds at every turn, threatening to sink their op and take them down with it.

[thetwistedargent]

[ Slight time jump. A little angst. Still moving forward. ]

Ressler doesn’t end up caving, not really, but he does keep Red updated about Agnes’s life. Although something tells him, that Red is very much aware already.

Still, Ressler feels like it’s somehow the right thing to do to keep him included from a distance. It keeps Red’s curiosity at bay and keeps him away from Agnes, at least that’s what Ressler hopes. I’m the end, all Ressler wants is to keep Agnes safe. He’s positive that keeping Red out of her life is the best way to do that, but he knows that keeping Red at least close enough to know what’s going on in her life is good for everybody.

So, Ressler sends pictures and updates. Videos of Agnes kicking the winning soccer goal. Pictures of Ressler’s painted nails. Agnes holding up an award from school. A group picture of Ressler looking terrified surrounded by five little girls at a Justin Bieber concert. He texts Red on the good days and even the bad days.

He even calls after a particularly bad day where Agnes is missing Liz and lashing out. It’s the first time she screams at him that he’s not her real dad, and it cuts Ressler deep.

“Donald? Is everything alright? Is Agnes ok?”

“Yeah, she’s, um, fine.”

“What’s wrong?”

“It finally happened today.” Ressler says after a long sigh.

“What happened?”

“She screamed at me and told me that I wasn’t her real dad.”

And Ressler can swear that he hears a sigh of relief on the other side of the phone. Reddington’s voice changes very quickly from concerned to what Ressler would call slightly amused.

“Well, she is a pre-teen, Donald. They have loads of hormones and wild emotions. She’s just taking out her frustrations for the world out on you because she feels safe.”

“You really think so?”

“Absolutely. She knows that you’re going to love and protect her no matter what. She knows that she can say cruel things to you without having to worry about you abandoning her.”

“Yeah, well, it still fucking hurts. I might not be her biological dad, but I am her dad in every other way. I’ve raised her for 5 years! I’ve played dress up with her. I’ve let her paint my nails every color under the rainbow. I learned how to braid her hair. I helped her with her math homework even though I suck at math. I’ve stayed up at night watching over her while she was sick. I’ve held her while she cried. I comforted her when woke up screaming in the middle of the night. I’ve never missed a ballet recital or soccer game or even been late to a school pick up! I even took her and some punk little boy to the movies and sat three rows behind them while they held hands! I’ve loved her like she was my own. I’ve kept her safe. I’ve never lied to her! I’m a good dad, Red!”

“Of you are, Donald. You’re an amazing father. Agnes is so lucky to have you in her life. Lizzie would be so proud of the two of you. And you know that if I didn’t think you were doing right by her that I would not let you continue to raise her.”

“I still think about her everyday. The older Agnes gets, the more she looks and acts like Liz. She’s so damn headstrong and stubborn, just like Liz. I worry about her sometimes.”

“You were always the only one who could keep Lizzie grounded. I have no doubt you were be the same guiding light for Agnes.”

“It’s hard though. I mean Liz was a grown woman. I could give her advice and have her back, but she wasn’t my responsibility. Agnes is. It’s my job to make sure that kid doesn’t end up screwed up like the rest of us. How am I supposed to do when there’s no part of her life that has ever been normal? Some days I wonder if this is how Sam felt raising Liz. Is Agnes doomed to follow the same path?”

“No.” Red says sternly. “We won’t let that happen. I won’t let that happen. I made mistakes with Elizabeth. I should never have come into her life. This time will be different.”

Ressler let out a sigh but stayed quiet, just absorbing Red’s words.

“There were days that Sam felt just as lost as you, but you aren’t Sam. Being a father never came easy to Sam. He did the best he could, but he spent every day fighting his nature. You are a very different man, Donald. You are a natural father. You aren’t a criminal fighting his nature.” Red says with a hint of sadness.

“Dad,” a soft, remorseful voice comes through the other side of the phone.

“I gotta go.” Ressler says before quickly hanging up the phone.

Ressler turns around to see Agnes’s bright blue eyes filled with tears.

“I’m so sorry. I didn’t meant it. I didn’t mean any of it.”

Ressler’s heart breaks into a million pieces. He instinctively opens his arms.

“Hey, come here.”

She runs into his arms. He quickly wraps her in a protective hug.

“I know you didn’t mean it. You know I love you, right kiddo? No matter what.”

“I know. I love you too, dad.” She sniffles against his chest.

They were going to be ok.

[alyblacklist]

Hey Aly! Since you were right about the scar and sea theory, im very curious what do you think will be the reveal next week? whats all this about? do you have a story in your head about it? Maybe you will guess right again ;)

I've always been in the "third man" category as they like to call it on Reddit. The camp who believes that Red is not biologically related to Liz in any way. Not as her father, mother, uncle, name your related flavor person. I have also never believed that his interest in her is romantic so that narrows my "camp" a bit further in terms of the "third man" segment of the fandom. I think the show has highlighted the theme of "chosen family" (i.e., where your unrelated friends are closer than your actual relatives) throughout this series and that Red will fall into that category with respect to both Katarina and Liz. Maybe it's because I feel closer to my good, lifelong friends than to most of my relatives other than my kids (who I adore) and my husband (who I chose). It's not difficult to me to conceive of Red knowing Katarina that well. I assure you my best friend could accurately describe how I felt during both my pregnancies better than my actual mother could.

I always liked the idea of Red being some sort of handler to Dom/Katarina or a partner to Katarina. Rassvet really set me back a bit because I liked the idea of him being an Ilya type - that definitely fit with my world view. And then of course they walked it back. I always felt Red understood the Ressler/Liz partnership dynamic as someone who had had a similar relationship with her mother. Someone whose life became intersected with hers, possibly unrequited love, possibly like Ressler and Liz are now where we know there are real feelings and love but circumstances - fraught circumstances - keep ripping them apart, whether that's danger or the wrong man at the wrong time or the mission etc.

I'm not sure what to expect from next week (except more double speak and non-answer/answers). I hope (but am not optimistic) that they kill Rederina and eliminate that second imposter issue and clarify that Katarina and Red were always two separate people both before and after the fire. I think it costs them little to do that except hurting some feelings (*cough* Troy). But who knows. I lean towards the fact that we will learn that Red - whoever he was - had a deep connection to Dom, Katarina, Ilya, Stepanov AND LIZ that goes back both before her babyhood and through the night of the fire all the way on to the present. He didn't just magically reconnect with her in adulthood after watching from a distance. He's been watching her, protecting her, all the way as only the closest of people would do. She's the center of his 30 year mission/project. We'll see and if I'm wrong, there's always fanfic!

[fancycaroline]

Saving for later....

I wish you would write a cheesy little fic where Ressler and Liz are on a mission and they have to lie and then convince the enemy that they're together so they have to kiss you know to save the country

“The two of you…are…together?” the man asks, accent thick and heavy, gun pointed at the Liz and Ressler.  

“Yes,” Liz answers, the word long and drawn out and she slips her hand into Ressler’s.  She can only see him out of the corner of her eye, but she doesn’t miss the way he tenses when she squeezes his hand.

“As in…couple?” the man asks again.  It’s clear that their undercover work could use a little fine tuning.  If they can’t convince this guy that they are a couple, the whole op is dead. 

So Liz leans into it a little more, sliding her hand from Ressler’s hand up his arm to wrap around his bicep.  She rests her weight on him a little more, trusting him to bear her weight.  “Yes, he’s my…boyfriend,” she says and maneuvers herself so that his arm rests over her shoulders and her own wraps around his waist.  

The man across of them squints at them, still not convinced, and between that and the gun still pointed at them, Liz is starting to get nervous.  “Prove it,” the man demands.  

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[bnsammydee]

One of the few good things the last episode did is encourage me back to writing bc GODDAMN, writers, I guess I gotta show y’all how to write a happy ending??? Also, understand that any scene I write with Agnes and Red WILL be a Pinky scene!

[love-is-fiction]

Can y’all imagine the sheer panic Liz would feel NOW if Ress got taken. In season TWO she was terrified of losing him (“must have been terrifying” “it was”), of course we got her confession in ‘Brothers’ - her risking jail for him & literally telling him she can’t live without him - but in season EIGHT?? After everything?? The thought of him being physically harmed would drive her crazy; she would be relentless and in complete panic mode. She literally admitted to needing him to function - if that was directly threatened in a life-or-death context she would lose it.

The angst would be delicious

[cesraeborgia]

I See Fire, Hollowing Souls

Pairing: keenler

Word count: 3,000+

Rating: M

The Cook 5x12 AU; It's been two-and-a-half years since Tom's death, and Liz is only just beginning to find a new semblance of normal both in her life and in her relationship with Ressler. This newfound serenity is threatened, however, when the task force investigates an arsonist with a vendetta against women.

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[fancycaroline]

Oh, this was wonderful! 💗🤗💗

Hold me

Notes: this one is set a few days after 7.19 and it’s kinda au-ish bc Liz has intel she didn’t have at the end of 7.19 and she is kinda playing Katarina here. There’s smut here, people… also, I suck at endings.

Elizabeth couldn’t take any more of the lies and deceptions, she was so tired of Reddington dodging her questions, making her believe she finally had the truth, only for her to find out that it was all part of a scheme to mislead her again and again. Her life was messier than ever, even when she was a fugitive she was more certain of things than she was right now, second guessing everything and everyone around her. Well, not everyone.

After learning the true story behind Ressler’s father and his partner, she felt more confident to let him closer, to show more, like they had more in common. She was in desperate need of someone she could be fully honest with and for a long time she thought Donald Ressler couldn’t be that person. He was trutsworthy, but too righteous and for him everything was always so black and white and in her life things often got confusing. Elizabeth has loved him dearly for years, a man she could rely on and that cared deeply for her as he has proved many times before, but sometimes it was hard to find a connection. Not anymore.

She believed he’d never be completely on her side, he wouldn’t agree with her methods and how far she was willing to go to get the truth because sometimes she didn’t agree too, but wasn’t able to find a different way. Probably Reddington’s influence was getting the best of her or maybe the options just were that limited. Ressler wouldn’t cross such lines, wouldn’t understand. He would be too chained to the law, mister I’m just doing my job.

That kept her from being honest with him so many times. She trusted him and it pained her to keep him in the dark, specially when he confronted her but she was protecting him, his integrity and his honor. Those qualities sort of kept her distant as well, she needed to keep him untainted, but also thought he wouldn’t want anything to do with her quests or all the madness that came with. Although he has been present and has helped her through so much - and recently too, with her search for the imposter’s true identity - she still had that tight feeling in her heart that at some point he’d want out. So many people on her life have left, one way or the other, it was bowed to happen. Her mother, her father, Mr. Kaplan, Sam, Tom, her sister… she couldn’t lose him too,not Ressler.

He stayed though, no matter how many times she has intentionally or not pushed him away, he didn’t leave her. Sometimes she almost believed that could mean something, specially after she told him Reddington wasn’t who he said he was. Her partner committed perjury for her. That’s when she started second guessing her own feelings - and occasionally his as well. The way he treated her afterwards - not that before he hasn’t been dedicated, but that, for her, was almost like a wake up call. Made her realize that she needed him far more than she gave him credit for.

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