215 | Trick or Treat 2019 Recs

[straightforwardly]

As always, I haven’t finished commenting, but here are my recs for this round of Trick or Treat!

First off, my excellent, excellent gifts:

Haunting (1170 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
Characters: Original Shěn Qīngqiū, Original Luò Bīnghé
Additional Tags: Ghosts, Haunting, Obsession, Canonical Character Death, Implied Original Luò Bīnghé/Original Shěn Qīngqiū, Minor Original Shěn Qīngqiū & Yuè Qīngyuán
Summary: It took effort to willingly become a ghost. It took not just power, but force of will. It took spite.

The Enormous Thousand-Blood-Swords Tempest Demon (1354 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
Relationships: Luo Binghe/Shen Qingqiu
Characters: Shen Qingqiu, Luò Bīnghé
Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Trapped in a Small Space, Coffin sex, Hand Jobs, Blood, Humor, Monster - Freeform, Post-Canon, Luo Binghe is improving at sex, not that that's saying much, Extra Treat
Summary: Sometimes, discretion is the better part of valor. But as they hide from a ravenous monster, Luo Binghe isn't exactly being discreet.

And now for some of my other favorites:

All Her Thorns (Beauty & the Beast, Belle & Ensemble, <1K)
The rose is beautiful when Belle first sees it, but deformed.

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Communication is Key (Harry Potter, McGonagall & Snape, Snape & Lockhart, 1.3K)
Minerva McGonagall's morning instantly got better when Snape was forced to do Gilderoy Lockhart's teacher evaluation.

Standing at the Mouth (Harry Potter, Tom Riddle & Amy & Dennis, 1.6K)
"There’s a cave right below us. You can see the entrance if you lean over the edge of the cliff. It looks rather large."

Let me go, let me go, Amy thought, but she could say nothing.

"I wonder what’s in it?" Tom asked the air, and that was the only warning Amy had before they were falling, falling –

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A Tangled Mess (Knitting RPF, Red Heart Super Saver Yarn, Drabble)
Red Heart Super Saver saw the newest addition to the sewing basket and knew envy.

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song and light (Lord of the Rings, pre-Legolas/Gimli, 2.3K)
Legolas was away much among the Galadhrim, and after the first night he did not sleep with the other companions, though he returned to eat and talk with them. Often he took Gimli with him when he went abroad in the land, and the others wondered at this change.

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Favorite Haunt (Original Work, Ghost Cat, Art)
A ghost cat takes a ghost cat nap.

Graveyard Tree (Original Work, Cherry Tree with Bodies Buried Beneath, Art)
The souls of those buried under the cherry tree wait in the branches as dawn rises.

memory of water (Original Work, Ghost of a Dried-Up River, <1K)
There used to run a river here, they say.

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System Temporarily Unavailable, Please Don't Abuse The Substitute! (The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System, Shen Qingqiu & System, 1.9K)
The System has to go bail another System's world out of a plot crisis.

It told them that its Host would notice, but did they listen? Of course not.

Trust Fall (The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System, Mobei-Jun/Shang Qinghua, <1K)
Mobei-Jun can't fly.

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Those New Chickens (Stardew Valley, Leah & Female Player, 1K)
Many, many things have changed, but some have stayed the same.