Slightly late this time; oops. Anyway, I figure there are few things more annoying in this world than songfics. I also figure it’s important for any artist to know how to take something annoying and make it work. So, with that in mind, this cycle’s prompts are all songs. Use the lyrics, use the title, use the whole thing; doesn’t matter.

1. 12th September: Silverchair, “Straight Lines”

   Resent nothing
   There’s good will inside of me
   Wake me up lower the fever
   Walking in a straight line
   Set me on fire in the evening
   Everything will be fine
   Wake me up strong in the morning
   Walking in a straight line
   Lately I’m a desperate believer
   But walking in a straight line

2. 13th September: Ben Lee, “Catch My Disease”

   My head is a box filled with nothing
   and that’s the way I like it

3. 14th September: Tiga, “Far From Home”

   I listen to my friends when they say
   man just relax, cuz it’s a game,
   I’ve found they’re right,
   and now I see,
   I’m gonna have my fun
   and what will be will be

4. 15th September: Sky Salt, “How I Feel”

   I, I’m gonna smile at the sun and let it burn my face some more
   ‘Cause try as we might, we couldn’t capture the light
   Still shining brighter than before (brighter than before)
   I won’t let ‘em tell me that my feeling isn’t real
   When it’s simply how I feel

5. 16th September: Aimee Mann, “Momentum”

   But I can't confront the doubts I have
   I can't admit that maybe the past was bad
   And so, for the sake of momentum
   I'm condemning the future to death
   So it can match the past.

6. 17th September: Dresden Dolls, “Coin-Operated Boy”

   Coin-operated boy
   He may not be real, experienced with girls
   But I know he feels like a boy should feel
   Isn't that the point?

7. 18th September: Mika, “Grace Kelly”

   Say what you want to satisfy yourself
   But you only want what everybody else says you should want

8. 19th September: The Dandy Warhols, “We Used to be Friends”

   It's something I said, or someone I know.
   Or you called me up, maybe I wasn't home.
   Now everybody needs some time,
   And everybody knows

9. 20th September: 4 Hero, “Les Fleur”

   For all of these simple things and much more a flower was born
   It blooms to spread love and joy faith and hope to people forlorn

10. 21th September: OK Go, “Here It Goes Again”

    I guess there’s got to be a break in the monotony, but Jesus, when it rains how it pours.

11. 22th September: Scissor Sisters, “I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’”

    Cities come and cities go just like the old empires
    When all you do is change your clothes and call that versatile.
    You got so many colours make a blind man so confused.
    Then why can’t I keep up when you’re the only thing I lose?

12. 23th September: Zombina and the Skeletones, “Nobody Likes You (When You’re Dead) [De-Fleshed Remix]”

    An’ if I still had eyes, then I would surely cry,
    Nobody likes you when you’re dead,
    An’ that’s the story of my life.

13. 24th September: The Cure, “Wrong Number”

    You know I’m getting kind of worried
    She doesn't seem herself at all
    Lime green and a sickly kind of orange
    I’ve never seen her like this before

14. 25th September: Kylie Minogue, “Did It Again”

    Clever girl
    Think you’re right
    but what’s right from wrong?
    Little Mischievous
    You make it hard on yourself

15. 26th September: Creedence Clearwater Revival, “Fortunate Son”

    Some folks inherit star spangled eyes,
    Ooh, they send you down to war, lord,
    And when you ask them, how much should we give?
    Ooh, they only answer more! More! More!

16. 27th September: Sweet, “Ballroom Blitz”

    Oh it’s been getting so hard
    Livin’ with the things you do to me, aha
    Oh my dreams are getting so strange
    I’d like to tell you everything I see

17. 28th September: U2, “Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me”

    You don’t know how you got here
    You just know you want out
    Believing in yourself
    Almost as much as you doubt

18. 29th September: The Darkness, “Stuck In a Rut”

    The road is long and the lights are bright
    Just ‘cos you’ve lived here all your life doesn’t make it alright
    And the Golden Mile is paved with shite
    Don’t mind telling you I’m sick of walking up and down it every single fucking night

19. 30th September: Faith No More, “Falling to Pieces”

    Droplets of yes and no
    In an ocean of maybe
    From the bottom, it looks like a steep incline
    From the top, another downhill slope of mine
    But I know, the equilibrium's there
    Indecision clouds my vision
    No one listens

20. 1st September: Stella*, “Violent”

    Pretty violent
    Making up with an I.O.U.
    Could have circumvent
    From a passerby point of view
    What's a carnivore supposed to do?

21. 2nd October: angelspit, “Vena Cava”

    Heart removed neatly with a bowie knife
    Pick up the blade and join the dots

22. 3rd October: LUXT, “American Beast”

    There’s something to this thing that keeps me
    from the threshold of sleep.
    There’s something in my mind that’s thrilled at
    keeping secrets from me.
    Sometimes I see you there remember that you’re still part of me.
    And I can’t tear away regardless of the size of my teeth.

23. 4th October: Android Lust, “Stained [Occultechnologies Remix]”

    I know of no remedy
    I know not how to cease
    This feeling of hate in me
    I just want to see you bleed

24. 5th October: William Shatner feat. Henry Rollins, “I Can’t Get Behind That”

    I can't get behind the Gods, who are more vengeful, angry, and dangerous if you don't believe in them!
    Why can't all these Gods just get along? I mean, they're omnipotent and omnipresent, what's the problem?

25. 6th October: Alex Lloyd, “Something Special”

    Broken hearts will never meet again
    We can try sometimes we’ll pretend
    Back inside, inside of you again
    My soul is lost and now I will pretend

26. 7th October: stellastarr*, “Sweet Troubled Soul”

    I want to suffer in your arms
    and when you're naked in the dark
    I want to see your face
    in the reflection of my bedroom stereo
    We'll take it slow
    sweet troubled soul

27. 8th October: Faith & the Muse, “Running Up That Hill”

    You don't want to hurt me,
    But see how deep the bullet lies.
    Unaware that I'm tearing you asunder.
    There is thunder in our hearts, baby.
    So much hate for the ones we love?
    Tell me, we both matter, don't we?

28. 9th October: Gavin Friday, “You Me and World War Three”

    Throw your arms around me,
    there's no time to be blue.
    It's the end of the world,
    let's talk deep and meaningful things.
    It's up to you and down to me… what's going on?
    It's you, me and World War Three.

29. 10th October: Tadpole, “Better Days”

    Sometimes I think I’m drowning and I wish someone would save me
    That’s not likely now
    Don’t quite have the strength in me to resist it,
    I don’t care, it’s nice.

30. 11th October: The Dissociatives, “Somewhere Down the Barrel”

    When everyone's a stranger
    They call for you by your first name
    And laugh at jokes you once made
    When you were a kid
    Somewhere down the barrel
    Lies a bullet that I can't keep
    And in these waters I'm wading for a reason
    After all, it's in my head
    

Title: The Finale
Original Series: Urban Nordica/DCU
Prompt: Revenge (Cycle 1)
Warnings: Bad Crossover Month. Violence.

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Title: "Molossus"
Original Series: Urban Nordica/DCU
Prompt: Duality (Cycle 1)
Warnings: Worst. Crossover. Ever.

(It occurs to me, just before the fist hits, that for all our screaming matches, Miriah and I have never actually come to blows.)

Title: "Inbetween"
Original Series: Corner
Prompt: Love (Cycle 1)
Warnings: None.

(There'd been a time, when he was younger, when his life had been full of fantasies.)

Title: untitled
Original Series: Corner
Pairing: Loki/Sigmund
Prompt: Protection (Cycle 1)
Warnings: none

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Title: "The Cruel World"
Fandom: Wildstorm (Gen¹³/Authority)
Pairing: Kid Apollo/Daybreaker
Prompt: Discovery (Cycle 1)
Warnings: D'uh... I'm not really sure when this is supposed to be 'set' exactly. As if anyone cares. Non-explicit slash. Angst. Waff. Lolteenagers.

(He was sitting with Contractor when it all started.)

Title: untitled
Original Series: Urban Nordica
Prompt: Rebirth (Cycle 1)
Warnings: Melodrama a go-go, violence.

(The wraiths swarmed over them like a vicious sea of inky black; individual shapes becoming lost and indistinct amongst the writhing throng of teeth and claws that ripped at her skin and her clothes and her hair and Miriah cried out in rage, fingers catching the edge of a crumbling windowsill.)

A fairly straightforward cycle for our first time; just words. Respond to them how you will.

1. 13th August: Rebirth
• loqia: untitled (original) [fic]
2. 14th August: Curiosity
3. 15th August: Discovery
• loqia: "The Cruel World" (Wildstorm/Gen¹³) [fic]
4. 16th August: Wonder
5. 17th August: Awe
6. 18th August: Protection
• loqia: untitled (original) [art]
7. 19th August: Comfort
8. 20th August: Love
• loqia: "Inbetween" (original) [fic]
9. 21st August: Duality
• loqia: "Molossus" (original/DCU) [fic]
10. 22nd August: Triumph
11. 23rd August: Consideration
12. 24th August: Refusal
13. 25th August: Regret
14. 26th August: Obsession
15. 27th August: Insomnia
16. 28th August: Mania
17. 29th August: Transformation
18. 30th August: Dementia
19. 31st August: Revenge
• loqia: The Finale (original/DCU) [art]
20. 1st September: Anger
21. 2nd September: Cruelty
22. 3rd September: Destruction
23. 4th September: Denial
24. 5th September: Despair
25. 6th September: Domination
26. 7th September: Chaos
27. 8th September: Death
28. 9th September: Grief
29. 10th September: Hope
30. 11th September: Annihilation