A final wrap up and tremendous thank you...
To all the wonderful authors and everyone else along the way that made this first go of the Eroda Fic Fest a huge success--thank you, thank you, thank you! Congrats on a job well done. These are some truly wonderful and peculiar fics. Below you'll find the collected works from our authors for this year's fest. Readers, don't forget to show our authors some love for all their hard work by leaving comments and kudos on their fics. 🐟💙
🐟 have a heart, look into a heart (44K) by adoremelikeasunflower // @adoremelikeasunflower19 Harry is a lighthouse keeper on Eroda and Louis is his assistant, and they're in love. Living on a small, secluded Island does not make anything easy. The story of their everyday struggles, finding self-acceptance, and one's own place in the world. 🐟 crystal clear (9K) by finelinegynandromorph // @finelinegynandromorph Moss, rock, and algae blend together as Bilal paws forward, grasping at slick wet earth, skinning their knees on slices of shells hidden in treacherous cracks. The rain is whirling their poncho up around their hips, letting icy wind in to bite angry welts into their hips. The stranger moves swiftly over the hill, with far more grace than Bilal can believe possible, and they trip in their haste to keep up with her, still unsure where she’s taking them.
Lightning and thunder split the sky together, and Bilal shivers violently, hurrying forward as fast as they can.
Or, a fisher searching for lobsters and an exile hoping to protect them are thrown together in a storm. Tangled thoughts on crustaceans, immigration, and indignity.
🐟 stole my heart (with just one hook) (4K) by sitandadmire // @louistomlionson Five times Louis gets jealous of Harry and his new friend, and the one time he finally faces the truth. About who he is, what his heart wants, and what the future holds.
Or: An Eroda AU.
🐟 peculiar ugly duckling (4K) by LadyLondonderry // @londonfoginacupinacup Loowee is a fish. Loowee is a fish born to a family of FOUS fish. You’ve heard of FOUS fish, haven’t you, reader? Yes, of course you have. Fish Of Unusual Size Fish, of course. (There’s no need to tack the word fish onto the end of FOUS like that, but they simply do. It’s like having an ATM machine). FOUS fish are all quite big fish, unusually large in size compared to the average fish of the ocean. Loowee the FOUS fish hates being big.
🐟 put your love in a bottle (and send it my way) (3K) by tommokat // @tommokat Today was going to be a good day. Harry just knew it. He knew it was going to be a good day because today was the 28th day of the month. And the 28th days of the month were bottle days. And bottle days were Louis days.
🐟 only thing i'll ever do (4K) by KatnissPotter1 // @othercinemastantan The lighthouse keeper of Eroda retired, handing the responsibility to Louis. He’s on storm watch when the peculiar boy asks him for help to find the fish. Will Louis help, or is the boy’s reputation too daunting?
🐟 driftwood (51K) by justanothershadeofblue (zjofierose) // @justanothershadeofblue Eroda was all Harry knew. He lived there all his life, but he always knew he was peculiar. He had dreams that go beyond this small, cold, and lonely island. He wanted to leave; he HAD to leave. But that meant leaving Louis... Harry is a lonely and depressed pop star who sailed out of his hometown on Eroda years ago to chase his dreams. He comes back to the island only to find his shining childhood best friend Louis just as cold and dreary as the island they grew up on.
🐟 I gave up hope and found you instead (14K) by Cyantific // @cyantific The entire village warned him not to go. Still, the peculiar boy from Eroda set sail on an odd-numbered day and, without knowing it, headed straight into the OFMD universe. While being held captive aboard the pirate ship Revenge, the boy meets a fisherman named Louis. Tasked by the captain to teach the reluctant boy to fish, Louis struggles to hide his frustration and hold his tongue. As difficult as it was to deal with this clumsy stranger, the skilled fisherman had worse assignments and more unpleasant partners, but none of them with a smile as bright as this peculiar boy had. A moment of unexpected distress catches them off guard, and both soon find out it’s much easier to catch feelings than fish.
OR: Where the Adore You music video ends and the Our Flag Means Death story begins.
🐟 the marmonton hotel (15K) by jaerie // @jaerie For several months, The Marmonton Hotel had been dark. Harry walked past it on his way home and knew they had closed their doors pending some major structural repairs that needed to be made to continue to operate commercially. The last Harry heard, the owners were thinking of tearing it down, which Harry thought was a shame. Each night he looked at the building and thought about everything it had witnessed over the long history of the town. It stood over and watched generations of celebrations and tragedies.
One night, in the light of the moon, he looked up to see a figure standing in the vacant hotel. The emotion in the eyes of the stranger was too tangible for his brain to conjure it up, a mix of fear and shock that Harry couldn’t place. He looked conflicted about being seen, hovering in the space just out of full view, but not so much that Harry thought the man had broken in. It wasn’t that type of feeling.
The next night he returned, and this time, he was pulled to walk in. He finds more than he was expecting, and an unexpected history lost to time.
Or the story of the ghost at The Marmonton Hotel.
🐟 a sea of paper stars (14K) by creamcoffeelou // @creamcoffeelou The Isle of Eroda holds her secrets close and her magic closer.
