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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

Frozen, due South, Victoria, 'Fire', G.

[identity profile] kill-claudio.livejournal.com 2007-03-29 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Ben was dead. Ben was dead. No matter how often she repeated it, it still didn’t feel real. But she had seen him fall to the station platform, blood draining from his body. She had felt the bullet rip through him, the force pushing him into her arms. She had seen the love and desperation in his eyes fade as she opened her arms and let go. Fade through shock into silence, the strange snowy wasteland inside him that she has glimpsed before now.

She has tried, so many times, to take that snowfield, to own it. But although her outward appearance has become a finely crafted mask of ice, her heart still burns, still threatens to melt the façade.

When Victoria was ten years old she set fire to the house. It wasn’t on purpose. She had found her mother’s matches dropped beneath the kitchen table, their smell intriguingly chemical and alien. A sharp movement of her hand produced heat and light like a tiny miracle. She let it burn as close to her fingers as she could before she put it out. Lit another. Taking the wastepaper basket outside and lighting it produced another miracle, the metamorphosis of bits of trash into a dancing display. When the sparks, blown in the high wind, caught the porch, the flames fanned to scorching, her first thought was how dangerously beautiful it was. By the time the fire crew arrived the whole house was ablaze. She remembers standing in the flickering orange light, filled with wonder that her whole world could be so very fragile.

She had thought that what she wanted was to own Ben, to take back what was rightfully hers. But perhaps what she really craved was to watch the slow deterioration of their relationship that would have come with time and isolation. Ben could never have lived with the guilt and the shame. She could never have lived up to his expectations.

Perhaps what she really wanted was to melt the ice, burn it away, consumed and destroyed by fire. The proof she was seeking all those years ago, that nothing can make you happy forever, and forever is a long, long time.

Re: Frozen, due South, Victoria, 'Fire', G.

[identity profile] vsee.livejournal.com 2007-03-30 02:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Chilling and fascinating look at Victoria. I hadn't really ever considered the shooting from her perspective before, and your description of the moment he pushes forward in her arms as he's struck, then Victoria pushing him away just stunned me. I just never even thought of that before. Wow.

Re: Frozen, due South, Victoria, 'Fire', G.

[identity profile] kill-claudio.livejournal.com 2007-03-30 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
It only occurred to me last week as I was watching VS again that, as far as we know, Victoria never finds out what happened to Fraser. Which would be pretty painful. I'm really glad you liked it.

Re: Frozen, due South, Victoria, 'Fire', G.

[identity profile] buzzylittleb.livejournal.com 2007-03-30 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
What a beautiful, creepy Victoria.

Re: Frozen, due South, Victoria, 'Fire', G.

[identity profile] kill-claudio.livejournal.com 2007-03-30 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Every time I write Victoria it comes out creepy. I think I was traumatised by VS.

OMG your icon! Llamas FTW!

Re: Frozen, due South, Victoria, 'Fire', G.

[identity profile] viciouscats.livejournal.com 2007-04-08 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
This is truly beautiful.

Re: Frozen, due South, Victoria, 'Fire', G.

[identity profile] kill-claudio.livejournal.com 2007-06-12 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
Aw, thank you!