Hello, everyone! Let's talk about Central City Summerween! Buckle up, it's going to be a long post!
First, I'm going to shout out @scheherezhad, because she desperately wanted this thing to exist and put so much work into making this a reality!
Second, there I made a collection for CC Summerween here. All the rules posted below are also in the profile on AO3.
Now that all that's out of the way, let's talk about all the fun stuff!
This celebration will last the entire summer, from June 22 to September 22! Any and every type of fanwork is welcome, as long as the Central city inhabitants are the focus.
Please keep in mind that these prompts are meant to be as scary or as silly as you want them to be! This summer, spooky and spoopy is in!
Each week has a different theme that you can use as inspiration, and you can also earn merit badges by creating works during the week that match our merit badge list. (At the end of the summer, you'll get a fun little virtual sash with all the merit badges you managed to complete.)
Week 1 (June 22 to June 28)
Ghosts/Ouija Boards/The Other Side
This is the week to write about ghosts, haunts, and the invisible.
Merit Badge Prompts: Journalism, Music
Week 2 (June 29 to July 5)
Abandoned Buildings/What We Leave Behind
This is the week to write about haunted houses or scary abandoned buildings. Attachment to a place, whether good or bad.
Merit Badge Prompts: Fire Safety, Weather
Week 3 (July 6 to July 12)
Camp Slasher/Stalker/Stranger Danger
This is the week to write about camp counselors being hunted, scary slashers in dreams, or unknown watchers.
Merit Badge Prompts: Search and Rescue, Track and Field
Week 4 (July 13 to July 19)
Cosmic Horror/Madness Beyond Comprehension
This is the week to write about unknowable beings, the vastness of the universe and how much we actually don't know!
Merit Badge Prompts: Art, Space Exploration
Week 5 (July 20 to July 26)
Lycanthropy/Shapeshifting
This is the week to write about how a person or creature's shape can change and what it can mean to be both human and other!
Week 6 (July 27 to August 2)
Vampires/Hospitality Rituals/Death as Seduction
This is the week to write about hot-or-not vampires, the eeriness of rituals, or how people can make the worst ideas seem like the greatest thing ever!
Merit Badge Prompts: Cooking, Crime Prevention
Week 7 (August 3 to August 9)
Cryptids/Urban Legends/ What Really Exists in the Dark?
This is the week to write about your favorite creepy legends or mysterious Sasquatches in the woods!
Merit Badge Prompts: Camping, Fish and Wildlife Management
Week 8 (August 10 to August 16)
Infection/Epidemic/The Doctor is In
This week is the week to write about scary medical stuff! Apocalypses! A silly doctor who isn't as scary as he seems!
Merit Badge Prompts: Life Saving, General Sciences
Week 9 (August 17 to August 23)
Poisons/Jungles/Everything Wants to Kill You
This is the week to write about dangerous places and situations! Jumanji it up! Survivor with life-or-death stakes!
Merit Badge Prompts: First Aid, Wilderness Survival
Week 10 (August 24 to August 30)
Something in the Water/Things in the Deep
This is the week to write about oceans and lakes and rivers, and the things you can find in them!
Merit Badge Prompts: Climbing, Nature
Week 11 ( August 31 to September 6)
Gothic Horror/Everyone Has A Secret
This is the week to write about crumbling mansions, slow decay, and secrets!
Week 12 (September 7 to September 13)
Mad Science/It Lives!
This is the week to write about scientists with wild plans, robots, or try to make sense of Central City's ever growing Meta population!
Merit Badge Prompts: Electricity, Chemistry
Week 13 (September 14 to September 22)
Talent Show
Did your story grow way, way longer than you thought it would? Did your story decide it needed six seasons and a movie? Don't be embarrassed! Show off your monster of a story during the end of summer Talent Show!
We have a full summer planned for you, as you can see. This is meant to be fun and low stress. You can do as few or as many of these events as you would like!
1) We're cobbling together a challenge specific Tumblr at @centralcitysummerween
It's still under construction, but you can follow that blog for updates if you don't want to follow me.
2) For ease of tracking cool new fan work (and making sure we track merit badges correctly!) we will be using #ccsw2025 and #Central City Summerween 2025 as our official tags.
Can you believe there's only a week left before the seasons change? That means it's week 13 of CCSW, bringing our fun to a close with an end of season talent show. If you've got fills you haven't posted yet or you've been busily crafting a larger fanwork, now's the time to show them off!
Week 13 (September 14 to September 22)
Talent Show
Did your story grow way, way longer than you thought it would? Did your story decide it needed six seasons and a movie? Don't be embarrassed! Show off your monster of a story during the end of summer Talent Show!
In the year 1989, Len, a troublesome 17-year-old, is sent to Camp Rory, a camp for badly behaved teens in the middle of nowhere, where he meets the camp owners' son, 19-year-old Mick.
They fall in love, but not without consequences. Len, who had originally planned on running away the first chance he got, decides to stick it out so he can be with Mick, but the conditions are brutal, and the staff is even worse, inflicting all manners of physical and mental abuse on their charges.
Things abruptly take a sharp turn when a counselor is killed during a campfire circle. Did they fall… or were they pushed? One by one, the counselors meet violent ends as a mysterious masked killer stalks the woods, until finally, only Mick's parents are left...
It's already September, which means CCSW is almost in the home stretch going into week 11. What could our denizens of Central be hiding as temperatures creep slowly downward and the leaves prepare to change hue?
Week 11 ( August 31 to September 6)
Gothic Horror/Everyone Has A Secret
This is the week to write about crumbling mansions, slow decay, and secrets!
The summer is starting to wind down, creeping ever closer to spooky season as we hit week 10 at CCSW. Your mods are in for a week of rain and cooler weather, perfect for this week's theme.
Week 10 (August 24 to August 30)
Something in the Water/Things in the Deep
This is the week to write about oceans and lakes and rivers, and the things you can find in them!
Week 9 descends upon us here at CCSW like a pack of rabid drop bears raining down on unsuspecting victims. Keep your eyes open and your reflexes sharp for this week's themes around survival!
Week 9 (August 17 to August 23)
Poisons/Jungles/Everything Wants to Kill You
This is the week to write about dangerous places and situations! Jumanji it up! Survivor with life-or-death stakes!
Merit Badge Prompts: First Aid, Wilderness Survival
Hello, our Central City Citizens! Week 8 has arrived, and with it is our medical spookiness! (Anyone else find the dentist the scariest medical professional, or is that just me??)
Week 8 (August 10 to August 16)
Infection/Epidemic/The Doctor is In
This week is the week to write about scary medical stuff! Apocalypses! A silly doctor who isn’t as scary as he seems!
Merit Badge Prompts: Life Saving, General Sciences
@centralcitysummerween Week 1 - Ghosts / The Other Side
The nearest crossing point into the living land was the Central City Cemetary on the outskirts of town. There was a stone in the graveyard with his name on it but nothing under it. He couldn't tell if he was supposed to be grateful or not.
Only spirits with some sort of unfinished business keeping them from rest could wander freely in a living land. Stupid rule, if you asked him. It wasn't like regular humans could see spirits anyway, why would it bother them if there was a ghost staring them down on the toilet?
'Surely I qualify,' he thought. 'I've got nothing BUT unfinished business.'
How... tangible this world looked. How solid and unmoving and real.
And how strange that he couldn't actually feel or touch any of it.
Hello, our Central City Spookies! Welcome to week six! July might be over, but our Summerween is in full blast. Let's get the fangs out this week!
Week 6 (July 27 to August 2)
Vampires/Hospitality Rituals/Death as Seduction
This is the week to write about hot-or-not vampires, the eeriness of rituals, or how people can make the worst ideas seem like the greatest thing ever!
It's week 5, summerweenies! This month's full moon has already passed us, but don't let that stop you from exploring the thrills and chills of werewolves~
Week 5 (July 20 to July 26)
Lycanthropy/Shapeshifting
This is the week to write about how a person or creature's shape can change and what it can mean to be both human and other!
Psychiatrist Meets Psycho? - A Demon Possession AU
Dr. Leonard Snart, psychiatrist extraordinaire, studies Barry Allen, infamous serial killer who has always claimed to be possessed by an evil creature intent to destroy him and everything he cares about.
Separated from his study object by a transparent wall, Leonard feels himself growing closer to Barry every day. Dangerously close. An unlikely pair to fall in love - yet it happens. But Barry is not alone in his cell, his dark passenger always by his side. A dark passenger that doesn't know love, and ends it instead…
Fandom/Characters: Arrowverse - Lisa Snart & Leonard Snart
Rating: Mature
Word Count: 3,531
Warnings and Tags: mentions of past abuse, implied child abuse, drug paraphernalia, abandoned houses, season one, sibling relationships, Lewis is a shit, anxiety, discomfort, flashbacks, scents and smells, angst, Mrs. Snart, medical trauma, references to domestic abuse, death via illness, loss, ghosts, ghosts of the mind, post particle accelerator explosion, pre Going Rouge, happy ending
Summary: Len and Lisa return to their childhood home for the first time in decades after someone made a complaint about the smell.
Written for the @centralcitysummerween event for the prompt(s): Week 2 Abandoned Buildings/What We Leave Behind
Author Note: Oh, this took me so much longer than I wanted it to and got so much longer than I wanted it to, but it's done! Definitely not what I set out to write, but it works. I even made a GIF! Mainly because I couldn't find the one I wanted, and then remembered why I don't make many GIFs haha. Anywho, I hope you all enjoy it! Happy Reading! ❤️
Read a snipping from, Home, Rated Mature, below or in full on my Ao3.
*note, this story (and all of my others) on Ao3 is locked for registered Ao3 users.
Home
It wasn't a place they often visited, with its boarded up windows and overgrown ivy. The paint had chipped and curled away from the paneling and eves of the old house. He couldn't remember the last time they had visited the building that haunted their memories.
They wouldn't have come back, but it was technically his now and so when someone complained about a rotting smell wafting from the house and filling the neighborhood, they had to come back home. Back to the home that haunted their minds, that had changed their dreams, and shaped their futures. A home that had abandoned them long before they abandoned it.
Len sighed, stepping off his bike as Lisa parked hers behind him. His frown was permanent as he took off his helmet, gazing at the home they had attempted to forget. His confident stroll was slower than usual as they approached the old house from the street and Lisa was already on the phone half arguing, half screaming at the pest control they had hired that wasn't there.
It was a tactic, her tactic.
He knew it well, she was procrastinating and being larger than life as she stopped just before the concrete walkway that sat half sunken, cracked, and woven with plant life. The older Snart's face was caught somewhere between neutral and the sneer that desperately wanted out as he shouldered past his sister and took the path to the old and creaking porch. Blue eyes narrowed at the familiar front door, Len steeling himself at the smell that was already wafting through the summer breeze.
One of the front room's windows stood open, board gone and glass shattered. The broken glass stood jagged around the frame and the old screen, that had clearly been slashed, was now flapping angrily in the summer breeze. Len grumbled something under his breath as he looked over the front window. He was sure that he had boarded all the windows when they had left the house. He hoped it was just some squatter who had left food or themselves there to rot, though he couldn't believe someone would be stupid enough to break into the Snart house.
The sneer that had been fighting to escape managed its goal then, blue eyes glaring at the flap of the torn open screen before landing his gaze on the lock that still held the faded front door closed. He shook his head, following the broken concrete path up to the porch steps. He was going to track down and kill whoever had broken in and forced them back here, he promised himself as he took the short couple of steps up to the porch and front door.
The elder of the two could hear Lisa trailing behind him, huffing into her phone as he used the key pad before twisting an unused key in its lock and finally pushing open the front door. Len paused there, staring into the long foyer that was marked by time and littered with trash, the smell stronger now. Len didn't move from the threshold, memories scattering through his mind at the sight of empty bottles as they rolled through the hall at the slight push of air from the open door. Memories of safeguarding little Lisa and the anger he had brought onto himself for it.
This is the week to write about camp counselors being hunted, scary slashers in dreams, or unknown watches.
Merit badges: Search & Rescue, Track & Field
You can fill these or any previous prompts at any time, or jump into future prompts, if that's what melts your s'more. And don't forget, we'd love to see all types of fanworks! Art, vids, podfic, moodboards, macaroni sculptures, or whatever else you're moved to create!
