#yeehawgust day 31

[waywardwizzard]

"Dang, Mal, you've really scraped the bottom of the barrel with this one," Jayne said, looking down at the cage full of Jack Russell Terrier pups. "Although I heard there's some good eatin' on 'em for sure."

"Jayne! That ain't right!" Kaylee scolded, kneeling next to the big cage.

River giggled when one of the puppies licked her finger.

"Can taste freedom. Tastes like cornmeal."

Jayne glared at her, his hand straying to his gun.

"You keep yer mouth shut crazy-"

"Jayne, your mouth's moving. Might want to do somethin' 'bout that," Mal said, glaring at the merc. His eyes were hard and his hand was already on his gun.

Jayne threw Mal one last look before he stomped off, shouldering past Simon. The doctor glared at him before joining his sister at the cage.

"Wash!" Mal yelled to the pilot standing above him on the catwalk. "Set a course for Cassia. The client wants their goods before the week's out."

"And don't the rest of you have something else to do?" Mal added, looking at the group huddled around the crate.

The three kids shook their heads and turned back to playing with the yapping puppies.

Mal shook his head and slowly made his way to his bunk.

Sometimes the bottom of the barrel held all the treasure, Mal thought, gently patting Serenity's hull before he dropped down the ladder. Laughter sounded from the cargo bay and the Captain smiled. Just look at what it brought him.

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Author's note:

Thanks to everyone who liked/reblogged/commented, it means a lot and it really made my month<3 This was fun and I hope to see y'all next Yeehawgust!

#firefly #serenity #space western #yeehawgust #browncoats #firefly fanfiction #browncoats unite #sci fi #malcolm reynolds #simon tam #kaylee frye #hoban washburne #river tam #yeehawgust day 31 #bottom of the barrel #fluff #found family #puppies #browncoat for life

[g0nefischin]

Made a collage of everything I drew for Yeehawgust 2023 :>

and below the cut some of the pieces that I think go well together

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Yeehaw!

#utmv #my utmv art #my art #undertale au #western au #westerntale #yeehawgust #This is the first time i think ive ever completed a prompt list #i cant believe i managed to stay motivated enough to do all 31 days #I really enjoyed doing this and If im not super busy Ill probabaly do it again next year #Thanks to everyone whos been looking through these and leaving comments and tags #yall are extremely nice fhdshfhdsl #Ill still keep working on westerntale outside of the prompts #maybe Ill even get around to making an actual ref sheet for all the characters #anyways thanks everyone! yeehaw'

[thesconesyard]

Yeehaw!! What a ride!! But now we’ve reached the end. (Or have we? 🤔) WtCB is finished, but there may be more stories about our favorite ranch crew at some point…

When the Cactus Blooms

31. Bottom of the Barrel

Time passed and things settled into a calm, regular routine on the ranch. Jaylah became more skilled each day, Keenser’s flocks grew, and Scotty fixed McCoy’s cabin to suit them both better. Everyday the doctor found himself appreciating the other man more. His only regret was that he hadn’t said something sooner.

But as the anniversary of his father’s passing grew closer, McCoy found himself restless. His newfound happiness with someone felt at odds with the build up of his old heartache. He withdrew into himself and grew quieter than normal. Scotty did all he could to draw him back out, and McCoy made an effort. He worried it wasn’t enough and Scotty would grow tired of him.

He remembered Scotty’s own pain, the brother he’d never see again, and for a day or two was almost himself.

The morning of the anniversary of the terrible day, the beginning of the end of his medical career, McCoy slipped out into the pre-sunrise darkness. Scotty was lightly snoring, and McCoy let out a sigh as he had looked down at him.

He made his way to the barn and got his saddle ready while Honey ate. He’d ride away for the day, clear his head and come back himself. He led the horse out the back of the stables into the paddock and over to the gate. He planned to follow along the east pasture fence and then down to the river. He’d cross it and ride as long as he wanted.

McCoy’s thoughts didn’t quite turn down the dark path they had taken for many a year. His surprise was strong at that.

“Monty,” he mumbled to himself.

Fresh joy and love in his heart protected him from the usual harsh feelings. And in that feeling he was confused. A small, sad laugh escaped him. A turning point must have been reached in his life and he hadn’t fully realized it.

The sorrow that usually drug him so far down was a familiar tug in his chest, but not so much to consume him. McCoy knew the grief would never fully leave him, only continue to lessen. Flares of it would come and go.

Through his sadness, his loss, he felt a new completeness. Someone knew. Someone understood the pain of loss. Of course Christine knew, and McCoy did love her, but it wasn’t the same as the love Scotty returned to him.

A new chance had been given to him and McCoy intended to take it.

He looked around, finally coming out of his thoughts. Honey had walked or trotted along as she liked. The sun had risen and McCoy was surprised to not recognize his surroundings. He had ridden far lost in his thoughts.

He turned Honey around and made a decision. A slow smile spread on his face.

McCoy hadn’t aimed for the ranch on his return ride, but had made for town. Scotty had given him so much, the least he could do was return the favor.

Well! Hello doctor!”

“Hi Gaila.”

“In town alone?” the saloon owner asked.

“Yes,” McCoy answered. “I need some help actually. Can we talk in private?.”

“Sure,” Gaila said, and looked him over appraisingly.

McCoy guffawed. “Not that.”

“This way,” Gaila said. She waved a hand at one of her employees to take over the bar and led McCoy to a back room.

“What can I do?” she asked as she sat behind a desk.

“I need to send a letter. But no one can know. No one, Gaila. Lives could be at stake.”

“Discretion is my middle name sweetheart,” Gaila

said with a loose grin. “Where are you sending it?”

“Scotland.”

“Len!”

McCoy looked around as he entered the yard. Scotty was standing with Keenser.

“I was worried!” he said as he came up next to McCoy. “But Christine had an idea of what ye were up to. Why didn’t ye say?”

McCoy hopped down from Honey’s back and embraced the other man.

“I needed that time alone to clear my mind,” he said. “It’s always a hard day. I’m sorry I made you worry and I’m sorry I’ve been in such a bad mood lately.”

“Don’t worry about it love,” Scotty smiled gently. “We all have our ways and reasons.”

“Yes we do,” McCoy agreed, and before Scotty could say anything more, McCoy pulled him closer and kissed him with all the heat he could. “Thank you,” he whispered when he pulled back.

“For- for what?” Scotty asked breathlessly.

“For being you. For making me more me.”

Scotty blushed and it was the most endearing thing McCoy had ever seen. His chest swelled and he pulled Scotty close again, unable to resist.

“Love you,” he got out before their mouths met again.

#yeehawgust #day 31 bottom of the barrel #star trek #leonard mccoy #montgomery scott #it is done #however… #there may be more of this story someday #n the cactus blooms

[baubeautyandthegeek]

The Bottom Of The Barrel - Elle Greenaway/Clara Seger

A/N: Here it is, day 31 of @yeehawgust and we're finishing with some Western AU Criminal Minds.

“That’s it, the actual bottom of the barrel.” Clara murmurs. They’ve been surviving off rainwater from a barrel for a while now and with the drought, they’ve reached the bottom of their supplies. This, of course, means danger. They’ll have to ride into town, risk getting caught to get more. “Well, I could always…” “We.” Clara cuts her off quickly. “We can bring a new barrel back…” “What?” “Trust me…” Clara’s voice is soft. “They still want me back, right? So we fake like I’m coming back, empty their store and run for the hills.” Elle smirks then, agreeing slowly. They’ve never been huge fans of taking this kind of risk but she knows this time it will work. So they try, Clara acts innocent, sad, lonely and when she’s sure they have all the possible food and drinks stolen, she bolts, shooting down the few men who keep up before swinging up into the saddle behind Elle, the two drawing the cart away so quickly they are soon alone. They ride a while longer, out into the wilderness. Free at last.

#clara seger #elle greenaway #criminal minds #criminal minds: beyond borders #clara/elle #elle/clara #western au #yeehawgust #yeehawgust2023 #yeehawgust 2023 #day 31 #bottom of the barrel #it's complete ya'll

[skidar]

Yeehawgust Day 31: Bottom of the Barrel

The original Skytown duo :') Scott Thorn and Sam Bright Storm. I haven't drawn these two much since Skytown was published five years ago. This is them in the mines, bonding over the shared crappy situation and ready to bust themselves free at the first opportunity.

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Thanks so much for hosting this challenge @yeehawgust I've met lots of cool new artists and their own wonderful characters and stories :)

This has been so much fun and I hope it becomes a bigger tradition every year :D

#skidar art #yeehawgust #bottom of the barrel #anthro #mouse #kangaroo rat #skytown #skytown art #scott thorn #sam bright storm

[bigbighouse]

"bottom of the barrel" for yeehawgust day 31! we are the worst at everything but we have a good time

thank you for another amazing yeehawgust! see ya later

#wish i had had time to put more out but a lot of things happened. lol #we ball. now i know i can draw! #yeehawgust #yeehawgust 2023 #far cry 5 #fc5 #cheeseburger fc5 #boomer fc5 #deputy rook #dedicated to my attempted speedrun of the pinko station the other day where i got these two IMMEDIATELY blown up by a flamethrower cultist: #sorry bbys i will be better in the future

[roamingtigress]

Yeehawgust - Day 31 - Bottom of The Barrel Drunk, muddied and a bit beat up. (is it wrong I kinda like him skunklied up?)

#yeehawgust #yeehawgust 2023 #yeehawgust prompt #rdr2 #red dead redemption 2 #dutch van der linde #red dead redemption photography

[lost-technology]

Vash in a Barrel Yeehawgust Day 31 - Bottom of the Barrel [IMG ID: Vash the Stampede in a barrel. A little, highly stylized cartoon image of a man with spiky hair in a somewhat realistically-drawn barrel. The words in Rosewood font above read "Wait! Is that all the time I get?!" / END IMG ID.] Vash has canonically been at the bottom of a barrel - in the Trigun manga during the Little Arcadia arc. (The '98 anime put him in a trash can). He was doing some fancy shooting while hidden to help Meryl and Milly out in saving a family's lush geoplant-land from a greedy real estate developer. And that's all the time you get for Yeehawgust, Vash! Until next time / art challenge!

#trigun #trigun maximum #vash the stampede #vash #yeehawgust #yeehawgust 2023

[studiorat]

Yeehawgust 6 : Wide Open Spaces

Procreate tells me this was about five and a half hours, but I find that quite hard to believe as I started this one more or less around the 7th of the month and have tried to throw even fifteen minutes at it every day since.

This makes the eighth piece I’ve managed out of 31 prompts. 😓 I am not sure how many more I can reasonably hope for with four days left to go. Maybe just one. I haven’t many sketches left to harvest though, so we’ll see. Internet service has been spotty as well due to a local tower going down last Wednesday - the tech laughed at me for saying so, but I suspect the heat fried something in the brains of the tower, given that they can no longer even ‘see’ the tower on their network. First world problems, I know. Remaining process videos for my long-suffering patrons will be delayed though due to abysmal upload speeds.

#yeehawgust #illustration #procreate #yeehawgust 2023 #landscape #wide open spaces

[newvegasdyke]

Yeehawgust Day 31: Bottom of the Barrel. That old and familiar hole in the wall bar that you end up at when the heist goes wrong.

Dried coyote tobacco and a cinnamon candy wrapped in your last dollar. Sticky molasses, old oak soaked with dark whiskey, and lingering smoke on your leather coat.

#Yeehawgust #bottom of the barrel #my imaginary perfumes

[flibussteries]

Yeehawgust day 31 : Bottom of the barrel

It's the same story at every saloon.

#yeehawgust #yeehaugust 2023 #cowboy #western #wild west #fantasy #oc #comics

[waywardwizzard]

☆Writing Masterlist☆

Hi everyone! My blog's tag search thingy hates me and someone asked me if I'd put my writing in one place so I decided to create a Masterlist

Most of these are Firefly fics (as y'all know) but I'll add my original stuff under OG if y'all are ever interested in reading them

(Also, I finally learned how to make hyperlinks, yay!)

Firefly fic requests are [open]

Now, onward with the links ->

Whumpril 2024

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4

Febuwhump 2024

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 | Day 8 | Day 9 | Day 10 | Day 11 | Day 12 | Day 13 | Day 14 | Day 15 | Day 16 | Day 17 | Day 18 | Day 19 | Day 20 | Day 21 | Day 22 | Day 23 | Day 24 | Day 25 | Day 26 | Day 27 | Day 28 | Day 29

Yeehawgust 2023 (I'll add these slowly but surely because I have to manually scroll back to last year August-)

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 | Day 8 | Day 9 | Day 10 | Day 11 | Day 12 | Day 13 | Day 14 | Day 15 | Day 16 | Day 17 | Day 18 | Day 19 | Day 20 | Day 21 | Day 22 | Day 23 | Day 24 | Day 25 | Day 26 | Day 27 | Day 28 | Day 29 | Day 30 | Day 31

Misc fics

Luck (Halloween 2023) (with added Discworld sprinkles!)

What we lost (Christmas 2023)

OG

Chaotic pirates series

Part 1

#way speaks #way writes #writeblr #writing #fics #fanfiction #firefly #og writing #chaotic pirates #yeehawgust #febuwhump #whump #angst #fluff #(not a lot but some??) #hurt/comfort

[g0nefischin]

Yeehawgust 2023

Day 5 - Stampede

Where's that smell?

#my art #my utmv art #undertale au #utmv #westerntale #western au #yeehawgust #moved down to sketches otherwise i dont think I would be able to do all 31 days #Hopefully I fit the prompt?? since I only did two horses ":> #horses are hard to draw

[softlyapocalytpic]

Alright!!!! Here's my full entry for the first day of @yeehawgust 2023

Just some silly shenanigans!

Rose of Sharon Cassidy. Something about that name lit the neurons in her brain on fire. So much of it was dead, misfires and roundabouts, but she could taste that name. Tasted like fire and spice. Smelled like alcohol, broken dreams, and then... leather. Definitely leather, right? Half Pint grabbed her arm and jerked her to the side, down an alley and out of the watchful eyes of the Silver Rush guards, "Do you even know what you agreed to do?" Their glare was ever-piercing, but it was the kinda look that said that she was doing something and dumb and selfish again. Sank to a low they were hoping she was too stupid to have gone to on purpose. Sunshine shrugged, "They wanna talk to some bitch about a business proposal or somethin', right?" They cooled down a little (but only a little), "You're walking that trader into a trap." Trader . Felt like... heat on her cheeks and a bruise that she loved the sting of- a feeling that felt like deja vu but all wrong (again and again) fuck why couldn't she remember a little faster. Sounded like... a shattered glass of whiskey. Like the squeal of boots on linoleum and- Click . "Oh shit, whiskey bitch? Rosie? They're gonna whack Rosie?" Rosie! How could she forget that spitfire? They'd had the best night together!

#fallout new vegas #courier sunshine #courier half pint #craig boone #veronica santangelo #arcade gannon #rose of sharon cassidy #ED-E #yeehawgust 2023 #gathering the posse

[adventuresofjasperboone]

Yeehawgust Day 31: Bottom of the Barrel

#yeehawgust #the adventures of jasper boone #filler post #queer cowboys #trans comic #not sure what they could be looking at the bottom of a barrel that would get the reactions but lol #Idk why I'm thinking it's a puppy that they decide to adopt ha #special thanks to my partner who gave me this idea when I said I didn't know what to do #but didn't want to do something sad on the last day of yeehawgust <3

[memelibrarian10]

“Shouldn’t we be worried the undead priest will come back?”

“Not when his head is in a barrel headed down river.”

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Yeehawgust Day 31: Bottom of the Barrel

Maybe the priest was only the beginning……

That’s all folks! Can’t wait to see what next year has in store!

Some things I learned

1) perspective is hard

2) color is a fun tool

3) maybe I too, can create art

#yeehawgust #yeehawgust 2023 #the librarian creates art #original art #oc tag #these ocs will return #i have so many plans for them so be on the lookout for an introduction post