Let the Promptathon Begin!
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rat_jamTo 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 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!
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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 tosageness for coding and lending hosting space on her site!
Thanks SO much to
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
oxoniensis and her AMAZING porn battle
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SAMPLE!! All the Things I Haven't Done, Gilmore Girls, Dean/Lorelei, silly, PG
Date: 2007-03-27 05:01 am (UTC)Of Childhood Illnesses and Bad Grammar, Rent, Mark and Roger, connect the dots, PG
Date: 2007-03-27 02:36 pm (UTC)"What does it sound like? I have the chicken pox. I never got them as a kid, Cindy had the boys with her, she just called to tell me he was sick, and it explains the itchy red spots on my shoulder."
"Let me get this straight -- you're twenty-three and you have the chicken pox."
"Stop laughing."
"But it's funny!"
"Have I told you today that I hate you?"
"So you say, baby boy, so you say."
"What the hell am I gonna do? Collins won't let me out of bed until I'm... despotted."
"Despotted?"
"Now is NOT the time to make fun of my grammar."
"You could always play connect the dots."
"...I'm hanging up now."
"Have fun!"
"Fuck you."
--
(118 words)
Simple Rules, Rent, Alison, how to be a Grey, G
Date: 2007-03-27 07:06 pm (UTC)To be a Grey, you had to have money, and you have to make sure everybody knows it. There's no point in being the richest family in your neighborhood if you don't lord it over them. You must not be found in the company of anyone poorer than lower upper class. Art is something to be admired in a museum, something to do as a hobby, perhaps, as a child. And anyone who lives in Manhattan isn't actually classy enough to be friends with, even if you must socialize with them at events. "Friends" are people rich enough to come over for Sunday brunch on a regular basis; whether you actually like or trust them doesn't matter.
And never, under any circumstances, are you to fall in love with one of Daddy's employees. Especially not one who's living in one of Daddy's dirty buildings in Alphabet City. And if you married him... well, then, there's no hope for you and it's just as well your name got changed on your wedding day.
It was easy to be a Grey, you just had to follow a few simple rules. But Alison was never that good at following rules.
Christmas, 1968, due South, Fraser, light, G
Date: 2007-03-27 07:21 pm (UTC)"Benton," his grandmother says. He looks up. She's tall and wrinkly, older than anybody he knows. She smiles at him, but he doesn't smile back. He doesn't really know her, after all.
"Can you see?" she asks.
He shakes his head.
She smiles again and leans over to speak with his grandfather.
"Eh?" his grandfather says.
"Benton can't see the stage," his grandmother says again.
"Ah," his grandfather says, and his craggy face breaks into a smile. "Come on then. Up you go." He stoops down and grabs Ben under the arms like Ben weighs nothing, swings him high, higher, until Ben's boots sweep the air above the heads of the crowd and the big electric lights blind him. There's a thump and then he's settled, up on his grandfather's shoulders, his grandfather's square hands warm and solid on his legs, just below the knees. "How's that?" his grandfather says.
Ben blinks. He can see everything from up here: the tree they cut and hung with coloured lights, the other kids, crouched at the front, sucking on half-wrapped peppermint candy. He can see the moving rows of adult heads--dark haired and light haired, some of them with hats on. And over by the rear doors, Ben can see his father, standing still and stooped at the back of the crowd, his hands in his pockets. He sees Ben, lifts a hand. Ben waves back.
Then, suddenly, the room is full of sound. Ben takes a quick breath and looks toward the stage. There are people standing there in robes like nightgowns, all of them singing, all at once. The air shakes inside him. Music vibrates in his bones.
"Watch, now," his grandfather says. "It's starting."
Pray to God He Hears You, Rent, Mark, how to save a life, Mark-Roger in the end, PG
Date: 2007-03-27 07:27 pm (UTC)He'll just say he's not the same
It was the third time Mark had been sitting in the hospital room, ironically, in his eyes, the same room. First Angel, then Mimi, and now Roger. Watching Roger lying there, on the bed, with Collins and himself looking on, Mark bit his lip.
Between the lines of fear and blame
"Listen, guys. I'll be..." Roger tried to finish the sentance, but a cough broke his speech.
Let him know that you know best
"Shut up, Roger. Just shut up for once. Do you actually think we're going to leave you?" Mark stopped before his voice broke.
Try to slip past his defence
Roger shrugged, leaning back in the bed, and closing his eyes. As if taking a cue, Collins shuffled out of the room, leaving Mark sitting on the bed. "Bastard. You're leaving me again."
The things you've told him all along.
"Yup. You're going to have to make it on your own, Cohen."
You stare politely right on through.
"Like hell I am. Roger... I..."
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend.
"I know, Mark." Roger reached out and took Mark's hand. "You're a good friend... brother."
Somewhere along in the bitterness and...
"You too... brother." Mark smiled at Roger, who leaned back, closing his eyes.
I would have stayed up with you all night
Mark just watched for a moment, before he realized. Roger was gone. He'd gone to be with April and Mimi and Angel. It was better for him there.
Had I known how to save a life...
Standing, Mark looked back at the bed. Part of him wished it was himself there, but he realized. Someone had to survive.
Re: Christmas, 1968, due South, Fraser, light, G
Date: 2007-03-27 08:05 pm (UTC)Re: Pray to God He Hears You, Rent, Mark, how to save a life, Mark-Roger in the end, PG
Date: 2007-03-27 10:24 pm (UTC)Second reaction: awesome. Completely awesome.
Re: Christmas, 1968, due South, Fraser, light, G
Date: 2007-03-27 10:28 pm (UTC)Vee
Re: Christmas, 1968, due South, Fraser, light, G
Date: 2007-03-27 10:49 pm (UTC)Also, now I want Christmas. This is probably a bad thing. Oh well.
Nightwing Entangled, DC Comics, Ivy/anyone, sex pollen, PG
Date: 2007-03-28 12:30 am (UTC)Larger colour version : here (http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w223/leyna55/poison-ivycolour.jpg)
Pencil sketch: here (http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w223/leyna55/PoisonIvylarge.jpg)
Re: Christmas, 1968, due South, Fraser, light, G
Date: 2007-03-28 01:24 am (UTC)Re: Nightwing Entangled, DC Comics, Ivy/anyone, sex pollen, PG
Date: 2007-03-28 02:02 am (UTC)Re: Nightwing Entangled, DC Comics, Ivy/anyone, sex pollen, PG
Date: 2007-03-28 02:25 am (UTC)Re: Nightwing Entangled, DC Comics, Ivy/anyone, sex pollen, PG
Date: 2007-03-28 02:26 am (UTC)Re: Christmas, 1968, due South, Fraser, light, G
Date: 2007-03-28 03:20 am (UTC)(Sorry. I'm tired, and all my good adjectives seem to have wandered off somewhere. You get the idea, right?)
no subject
Date: 2007-03-28 04:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-28 05:11 am (UTC)Re: Nightwing Entangled, DC Comics, Ivy/anyone, sex pollen, PG
Date: 2007-03-28 12:31 pm (UTC)Lesson Learnt, Sports Night, Dan/Dana, look but don't touch, G
Date: 2007-03-28 03:26 pm (UTC)The lesson was a simple one: don't confuse friendship and the occasional playful flirting with romance and don't risk a sure thing on what ifs. That she and Casey had salvaged their friendship and returned to where they'd been before didn't mean that she'd be so lucky a second time.
She could look -- it was her job to keep an eye on everything, afterall. Her job to watch the way the camera framed Dan's face; her job to make sure wardrobe and makeup had him looking his best; her job to notice the grin that lit up his face every time he or Casey had a particularly clever turn of phrase. Well, that last one might be pushing it and the "just part of the job" excuse fell apart when she realized that even off air and out of the studio she noticed when he walked into the room, that she tracked him with her eyes, that whenever he smiled, she found herself smiling too.
She allowed herself the what ifs -- gazing out her office window lost in thought, stealing glances across the bar when she knew Natalie was too distracted (or too drunk) to notice, in bed as she drifted to sleep -- but that was all she would allow. Anything more would mean risking what she had, and that was a lesson she'd already learnt.
A Sure Thing, Sports Night, Dan/Casey, inevitable, R
Date: 2007-03-28 05:30 pm (UTC)Casey twisted underneath Dan, grinding up to meet him and rambling about how long he'd wanted this, wanted Dan. He shuddered when Dan took him in his mouth and gasped his name in a way Dan had never heard before but had spent many nights imagining. Dan took his time tasting Casey, revelling in the moment he'd long been anticipating.
Dan woke and found himself alone, Casey having skipped out in the night to slip back into his role as loving father and husband. At the office, he found "casual touch" Casey and they went to work with no mention of the night before. This, too, Dan had known was inevitable.
Re: Lesson Learnt, Sports Night, Dan/Dana, look but don't touch, G
Date: 2007-03-28 05:31 pm (UTC)It's gorgerifious.
Yes, I just made up a word. It's THAT good. :D
...yeah, coherency is so not happening. Love.
Re: A Sure Thing, Sports Night, Dan/Casey, inevitable, R
Date: 2007-03-28 05:33 pm (UTC)That's so... sad-yet-perfect. It's just... well, inevitable, and god I'm a writer and I can't come up with words.
That might just be today, though. *looks at reviews from weeks past* No, no, it's me.
Honest Living, Rent, Squeegeeman, honest living, PG
Date: 2007-03-28 05:59 pm (UTC)It was honest work, washing windows. Sure, it didn't pay well (he had a shitload in savings anyway) and it wasn't exactly what you'd call a job with any "upward potential" (he really didn't care about that anyway), but it was honest. None of the meandering around the point so you don't have to outright tell someone they're probably going to die. No suggesting procedures that people didn't reallyneed, "just to be safe" - just to get their money, more like. No more competing for the "top spot" when he just wanted to help people.
So he was on the street, in his old (but clean, not that anyone noticed) clothes, with his bucket and squeegee, on Christmas Eve, trying to get people who thought they were better than him to acknowledge him, and let him work. Usually they just drove past. Sometimes they nearly ran him over. He should've been frustrated. He should have been annoyed.
Instead he just smiled at the next car. "Honest living, man!"
Re: Lesson Learnt, Sports Night, Dan/Dana, look but don't touch, G
Date: 2007-03-28 06:09 pm (UTC)2. You made me feel bad for Dana. How did you do that?
Yay!
Re: A Sure Thing, Sports Night, Dan/Casey, inevitable, R
Date: 2007-03-28 06:12 pm (UTC)Also, I think that one might have been one of my prompts. Yay!