oldmanatom: (bottom dollars and better days)
title: and the days pass slowly by
fandom: Stardew Valley
character(s)/pairing(s): it's a variety show in here! for characters, in order of appearance: Maru, Penny, Jodi, Caroline, Pam, Emily, Sandy, Abigail, the Desert Trader, the Traveling Merchant, Haley. for pairings: Maru/Penny and Emily/Sandy.
summary: Eight moments in the lives of some of those who live and work in Stardew Valley.
crossposted: AO3 / Tumblr

this is a collection of the drabbles i wrote and posted for the Stardew Valley Fanfic Writer's Guild's Labor Day drabble challenge on Discord, with an additional two ("sailing on a sunbeam" and "a warm port") that i wrote post-challenge to even out the number of drabbles.

the challenge was to get the drabbles all in at 100 words or less while writing on the four different prompts we got over the course of the weekend. i hit the mark with some of them, and went a little over with others. this was a ton of fun, and i'm happy with the results! it was also great reading everyone else's drabbles and takes on the prompts, as well.

for this Dreamwidth post, i'm throwing them all into the same post, because i'm not looking to fight with even the beta post editor for four posts or eight separate chapters like i did with the crossposts. apologies for any formatting weirdness, in advance.

( drabbles ahoy! )
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hello! i'm oldmanatom—Atom for short—and this is my writing journal. i mostly write fanfiction; see my tag page if you're looking for something specific. my fic is crossposted here and those posts are always public. currently, i don't really post beyond fic posts, so there's nothing that's locked, but if that changes, i'll update this post.

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[last updated: 9/18/26]

 

oldmanatom: (never meant to save anyone)
Title: Hot Days, Hard Work (VVIB 2. Deng Wei (Bartender, Cook))
Fandom: Fallout
Character(s) [pairing(s)]: OCs [Various, none involving canon characters]
Summary: The wasteland's full of jobs to do and people to do them, from soldiers to raiders, from merchants to thieves. Question is, what do the people think about what they do to make a living? [Interviews with wastelanders, where they "talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do." Based off of Working by Studs Terkel.]

[Chapter Index]

( Deng Wei is the bartender and cook at Patty's, an inn built in a large pre-War train station. )
oldmanatom: (best waterin' hole in the west)
Title: Hot Days, Hard Work (VVIB 1. Rocket (Jet Cook))
Fandom: Fallout
Character(s) [pairing(s)]: OCs [Various, none involving canon characters]
Summary: The wasteland's full of jobs to do and people to do them, from soldiers to raiders, from merchants to thieves. Question is, what do the people think about what they do to make a living? [Interviews with wastelanders, where they "talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do." Based off of Working by Studs Terkel.]

[Chapter Index]

( You see this? )
oldmanatom: (technical difficulties)
Title: Hot Days, Hard Work (Vice, Virtue, and In Betweens - Opener)
Fandom: Fallout
Character(s) [pairing(s)]: OCs [Various, none involving canon characters]
Summary: The wasteland's full of jobs to do and people to do them, from soldiers to raiders, from merchants to thieves. Question is, what do the people think about what they do to make a living? [Interviews with wastelanders, where they "talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do." Based off of Working by Studs Terkel.]

[Chapter Index]

( This is the kind of world where people are going to do what they need to so that they make it to tomorrow morning. )

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