Singing the Body Electric

Title: Hogwarts: A Horror Story
Author: Anonymous
Fandom: Harry Potter/Welcome to Night Vale
Characters: Cecil Baldwin, Albus Dumbledore, The Sorting Hat
Rating: General
Word Count: ~1200
Prompt: "Cecil-centric Hogwarts AU."
Content Info: n/a

When you are 13, you spend one month of your life in an alternate dimension where everything is the same except the strange but certain feeling that everyone else is hiding a third eye under the hair on the back of their head, and two months of your life in a British school for witchcraft and wizardry. These two facts are not related, but aren't the foibles of puberty so precious? Ah, the places we go!


Title: The Interest of Towns
Author: Anonymous
Fandom: Welcome to Night Vale
Pairing: Carlos/Cecil
Rating: General
Word Count: ~2000
Prompt: "For as long as there’s been Night Vale; there’s been Cecil. There has always been a soothing voice carried over the sand wastes and scrublands. Always."
Content Info: n/a

Carlos is very busy. He can be forgetful of the little human things, that he needs to sleep and eat and live.

Cecil is very understanding about this. He knows that Carlos subsists off of pure science, off of thought and reason. He knows that this is Carlos’ funny little quirk that he needs to work around, in the same way that if he had dated the Scout master he would have dealt with a man in constant communion with terrible things and small children, which are sometimes the same thing.

Cecil deals with it by leaving Carlos food and post-it notes, reminding him of things that needed to be done. Carlos listens to the radio every night now, like every citizen of Night Vale does, so Cecil reminds one listener in particular that although the lights overhead may be frightening and mysterious, they will be there tomorrow. Probably.


Title: Earl/Cecil; one sided sad longing
Author: Anonymous
Fandom: Welcome to Night Vale
Pairing: Cecil/Earl, Cecil/Carlos
Rating: General
Word Count: ~1300
Prompt: "Cecil/the Scout Leader- because there is definitely a backstory there. ("We could have had something...")."
Content Info: n/a

The next time they met, Earl swore he was going to play it cool. Just coffee. They could just go for coffee. If coffee went well, maybe a movie. There were places to see movies in Night Vale, right? Or maybe Cecil could come over to his and – no, too forward. Stop over thinking this. Coffee. Or maybe a beer? Maybe he should just say 'a drink' and see how Cecil played it. Sure, that'd work.

It had been coffee, though, in the end – of course, you couldn't just go out with some stranger you had barely met for a beer. It had been a short coffee, and despite his best efforts, Earl hadn't managed to get that distant fascination out of Cecil's eyes this time around. It hadn't gone badly, though – well, unless you counted at the end, when they were leaving, when he'd told Cecil he'd enjoyed himself – not exactly a lie – and Cecil had smiled casually and said that it was always nice to meet a listener.

It could have been worse. He could have said 'fan'.