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A history of the Cold War, told in lolcats & \0/ ([personal profile] sansets) wrote in [community profile] rat_jam2007-03-27 12:01 am
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Let the Promptathon Begin!

To join the battle, all you need to do is pick a prompt from below (any prompt, even if it's your own) and write/vid/manip/icon/draw/whatever the most creative bit of whatever you can create! And remember - PLEASE feel free to vid or icon or manip or do something non-written. We love ALL kinds of creative output equally!

When you've written/painted/made it, paste it into the comments here. Once you've done that, you can post it wherever else you want.

You may enter as many times as you like, so long as each entry is completely separate (not a series of linked pieces). Also, please do not link to old work - this should be something new, produced for the challenge, based on one of the prompts.

THE RULES

1. It must fit in one comment, so the limit is 4,300 characters (there's no minimum limit). It can be part of a longer piece that you may post elsewhere, as long as it's something new and based on one of the prompts, but all we want here is the part that you are most proud of. If you make art, if it's larger than 350 px wide, please use a thumbnail linking directly to the piece (directly to the artwork, not a post or site). The thumbnail can be up to 350 px wide, and 300 px high, and should include as much of the art as possible. If it is a vidlet or something else requiring dowloading, like a fanmix, please post the link to where we can download. Feel free to post a teaser image, but please confine yourself to the artwork preview rules.

2. Important! Please use the subject line of your comment to identify the snippet, like so: Title, prompt, rating (i.e. Fandom, Pairing, prompt word, rating system of your choice). For example, I might write: "Staying Awake, One Tree Hill, Lucas/Nathan, rain, R", or "The Sun Has Gone Down, Crossover, Torchwood/Stargate Atlantis, Jack/John, under fire, for all ages".

3. You have one week – the post will close for new entries next Sunday, April 1, at midnight eastern standard time. PLEASE be certain to check the World Time Clock to verify the deadline time in your area.

4. Don't forget that these prompts are only written as character one/character two for convience, NOT because of any requirement to make it a relationship story! Gen and friend are very welcome here. They can be interpreted in ANY WAY, so just imagine the FUN possiblities. You can take one prompt and write it, draw it, icon it, fanmix it, AND vid it. (Although if you have the time to do all of that in the week that these prompts are open, I might just have to kill myself out of jealousy :o) And you can use the characters in a different way each time. Don't be afraid to think outside the box!

5. Please don't post anything but your creations or feedback/feedback replies (to individual stories) here. If you've got any questions or comments, please leave them on this post right here, NOT on this post that you are currently reading. We'd like to keep this purely for the creative output (and feedback on the creations - readers/voyeurs, please do show the writers/artists much love for their creative offerings).

The prompts are right here
Thanks SO much to [livejournal.com profile] sageness for coding and lending hosting space on her site!


The prompts using only one character were listed first, followed by the prompts for more than one character. ALL crossovers are under both fandoms, so you don't need to worry about looking in multiple places for your crossovers - those listed under Smallville are the same listed under Supernatural, if you are looking for prompts for a Smallville/Supernatural crossover.

Finally! Warning: ALL ratings are acceptable here, from the things that you would show your aged grandmother, all the way up to to the things that would make a sailor blush. Use your own discretion, and please label your stories, art, and other creative output accordingly.

Thank you kindly!

rules stolen from [livejournal.com profile] oxoniensis and her AMAZING porn battle
cedara: (Torchwood:Jack_Harkness)

Re: "Stopwatch" - Torchwood, Jack, loss - G (repost because I fail at html)

[personal profile] cedara 2007-03-28 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow. That is absolutely amazing.

[identity profile] wh1ps-scums.livejournal.com 2007-03-28 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you for the kind words! I didn't think anyone would "get" it.

Re: "Stopwatch" - Torchwood, Jack, loss - G (repost because I fail at html)

[identity profile] sprat.livejournal.com 2007-03-28 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, so cool. I really like this.

Re: Christmas, 1968, due South, Fraser, light, G

[identity profile] sprat.livejournal.com 2007-03-28 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! I'm glad it worked for you. :)

Re: Christmas, 1968, due South, Fraser, light, G

[identity profile] sprat.livejournal.com 2007-03-28 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, wow, thanks so much! That's great to hear. :)

Re: Christmas, 1968, due South, Fraser, light, G

[identity profile] sprat.livejournal.com 2007-03-28 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! I'm so glad you liked. (Though yeah, March might be a little early to start wanting Christmas... *g*)

Re: Christmas, 1968, due South, Fraser, light, G

[identity profile] sprat.livejournal.com 2007-03-28 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
\o/\o/\o/

(Thank you! *g*)

Re: Christmas, 1968, due South, Fraser, light, G

[identity profile] sprat.livejournal.com 2007-03-28 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks so much! :)

If at First (or Second or Third), Sports Night, Dan/Casey, persevere, G

[identity profile] quiesce.livejournal.com 2007-03-28 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Dan said no.

"It's not that I don't want to," he explained. "Believe me: I want to."

"Then what's--"

"I've been down this road before and I know where it goes and I can't go through that again, Casey. Not with you."

Casey nodded and watched Dan fidget with the cuff of his sleeve. He tried again. "It'll be different. I'll be different."

"No, you won't." Dan smiled and patted Casey on the knee to take the sting out of his words. Then he got up and left.


***



"All I'm saying is--"

"Stop."

"What?"

"I'm not changing my mind, Casey." Dan signalled Jack for another drink.

"I was talking about basketball."

"You were going to use a longwinded history about the rule changes in basketball as a means to argue that things can change for the better and then turn that into an excuse to ask me out again."

"Maybe," Casey allowed.

"I said no last week. I said no the week before that. I'm saying no tonight. Can we just take it as given that I will continue to say no and skip to the part where you let it be?"

"No."

"Casey."

"I'll drop it for tonight though."

"Thank you."

"I still think reducing the time restriction from ten to eight seconds was a good example."

"It was."


***



"60 seconds live."

Casey cleared his throat and bent his head to speak directly into the mic. "I have an announcement I'd like to make."

Dan's pre-show high was replaced with apprehension. Announcements were never a good thing.

"I want everyone to know that I am pursuing Dan--"

"Oh, God."

"--to a romantic and sexual end."

Dan dropped his forehead to his hand and repeated himself. "Oh, God."

Nothing but silence filled the studio and control room for several long seconds -- a rare event so close to going on air.

"30 seconds live."

"I just wanted everyone to know because I have nothing to hide and I'm not ashamed or embarrassed. And while I think that it'd probably be best for our careers, and therefore your careers, if this didn't go beyond the floor, I wanted to be completely out in the open about this because it's not some dirty little secret."

Casey turned to Dan to flash him his best "aren't you proud of me?" grin. Dan's head stayed down with his eyes focusing intently on the desk in front of him.

"In 3, 2..."

Dan's head shot up and he faced the camera, only his still-red face belied his air of professional calm.

"Good evening, I'm Dan Rydell alongside Casey McCall."


***



A bouquet of flowers lay on the desk.

Dan stepped back out to the newsroom to see if Casey was lurking around a corner watching him, but Dan couldn't see him. He returned to their office, took off his coat and hung it up. He eyed the flowers suspiciously.

With a sigh, he picked up the card and read just enough to confirm it was addressed to him. It was. He grabbed the flowers, walked over to Kim's desk and got down on one knee, holding the bouquet out to her.

"What?"

"Can't a guy get flowers for his favourite secretary?"

"Bite me." She glared at him, then smiled and gladly took the bouquet.

Dan stuck the card in the desk drawer.


***



Casey grabbed a can from the bar fridge as Dan loosened his tie and flopped on the couch.

"Can I come over tonight?"

"Sure," Dan nodded.

"Pizza?"

"Yeah."

"Mock West Coast?"

"Of course."

"Fool around a little bit?"

"No."

"Pepperoni?"

"Yes."


***



Casey called as soon as the noon rundown broke.

"You're sick?"

Dan groaned in response.

"It's pretty slow here at the moment; I've got time to come over. I can pick up soup or something on the way."

"You won't try to take advantage of my weakened state to talk me into anything, will you?"

It was a joke, Casey knew, but his answer was serious and subdued. "I want in for the long haul, Danny. I think we can make a real go of it -- I know we can -- but only if it's what you want too."

"Ok, soup," Dan replied after a pause. "Anything but chicken noodle."


***


...full story here (http://community.livejournal.com/snarchive/113942.html)

Dissolution, Stargate SG-1, Cameron/Teal'c, earth, PG

[identity profile] ana-grrl.livejournal.com 2007-03-28 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
"You smell like Earth," Cam says, his foot nudging at Teal'c's ankle. "How does that make sense?"

Teal'c doesn't look over. His eyes stay closed. "It does not."

Doesn't matter, though – even here, where the ozone is a little too strong, the dirt a little too chalky, Teal'c still smells like home. Like Earth. Cam leans closer, takes a deep breath. Yep. Teal'c smells like hours at the SGC, too much talk and not enough sunshine. Or kicking back in Cam's living room, three of them drinking beer while Teal'c sticks with water.

Something about the way he smells makes Cam think of walking through the 'gate – successful missions and welcomes and stepping onto to familiar ramps, smiling at familiar personnel.

– and maybe if Sam and Jackson were here, they'd also –

He shakes the thought out of his head, and shifts again, getting even closer. Not quite touching.

In the morning, the Alpha Site will again be buzzing with activity, full of people with things to do, places to be, questions to ask, contingency plans to make. New shelters will need to be put up, new duties to be allocated. Cam will speak with person after person – generals, majors, civilians, doctors, engineers – taking orders, or giving them. So many faces, but half of the ones he still expects to see will be missing, lost.

He'll be surrounded by familiar gear and rations. Surrounded by other humans, other refugees, each with their losses, their own histories, their own memories of Earth.

But none of it – them – will smell like home. Not quite. Not the way they should.

Re: Lesson Learnt, Sports Night, Dan/Dana, look but don't touch, G

[identity profile] quiesce.livejournal.com 2007-03-29 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
I keep saying Danana out loud trying to figure out if it should be DAN-a-na or da-NAY-na, hee!

I'm not a huge Dan/Dana fan myself, but I like mixing things up and this was a fun prompt. Glad you enjoyed!

Re: Lesson Learnt, Sports Night, Dan/Dana, look but don't touch, G

[identity profile] quiesce.livejournal.com 2007-03-29 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
:-D
Thank you!
sage: Still of Natasha Romanova from Iron Man 2 (atlantis)

Re: Dissolution, Stargate SG-1, Cameron/Teal'c, earth, PG

[personal profile] sage 2007-03-29 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
oh, ow. And lovely! And ow, so heartachey! ♥

Re: Dissolution, Stargate SG-1, Cameron/Teal'c, earth, PG

[identity profile] ana-grrl.livejournal.com 2007-03-29 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you! I'm glad you liked it!

Icon, Heroes, Hiro/Ando, friendship, G

[identity profile] thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com 2007-03-29 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
Image

Icon free for the grabbing.

If the online translator is to be believed, the Japanese text, says "friendship". (If someone out there knows Japanese and it doesn't PLEASE let me know.)

Icon, Heroes, Mohinder, searching, G

[identity profile] thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com 2007-03-29 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
Image

Icon free for the grabbing.

Icon, Heroes, Hiro, timely, G

[identity profile] thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com 2007-03-29 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
Image

Icon free for the grabbing.

Re: "Stopwatch" - Torchwood, Jack, loss - G (repost because I fail at html)

[identity profile] shara50.livejournal.com 2007-03-29 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
Wow!

On Guard, due South, Diefenbaker, undercover, G

[identity profile] cerriddwen.livejournal.com 2007-03-29 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
When They came to him in August, 1979 and told him he could continue serving his country after death, former prime minister Diefenbaker's first thought was "What?", almost immediately followed by "sure, I mean, why the hell not. I'll catch up with st. Peter later." Never let it be said that he wasn't capable of pulling it together in a hurry.

He bounced around time and space doing odd jobs for a couple of years--returning to his own lifetime to teach a young boy named Pierre to pirouette, showing a fresh faced Joe Shuster where to get the best comic books-- little jobs like that. Until one day, when They who recruited him returned and said "well" and "we've got a job for you" and "there's a Mountie, he will prove to be interesting", and he said "well" right back and then because he hadn't fallen off the cart yesterday, "what's the catch?"

Finally, out of the heavily pregnant silence that had fallen in the spiritual no man's land, They said, almost hesitantly for a supernatural phenomenon, "you'll have to go undercover as a wolf", a pause, "a deaf wolf." John Diefenbaker did the mental equivalent of taking a step back, pondered for a minute, then: "I haven't made it this far pussy-footing around; sign me up." And he tripped and fell down the rabbit hole, into a bear trap.

Re: Christmas, 1968, due South, Fraser, light, G

[identity profile] sprat.livejournal.com 2007-03-29 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
I like that adjective, actually! And I thank you for it, too. *g*
sage: Still of Natasha Romanova from Iron Man 2 (happiness by tx_tart)

Re: On Guard, due South, Diefenbaker, undercover, G

[personal profile] sage 2007-03-29 07:03 am (UTC)(link)
omg, that's brilliant! ♥
catwalksalone: happy grey cat surrounded by flowers (hiro yay)

Re: Icon, Heroes, Hiro, timely, G

[personal profile] catwalksalone 2007-03-29 07:27 am (UTC)(link)
Eee! Hiro! I love this and I'm grabbing it because it was my prompt in the first place.

Yay! Thank you.

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