maharetr

Okay, I think it's Done. These are all... Guidelines *Pirates of the Caribbean voice*. If you want to write (or art) A Thing for this pairing/relationship combo, go for it. Feel very free to hit up the mods if you have any questions or want to check something. Good luck! :D


General loves: I've got a lightly rotating list from yuletide that you can check out via the tags. For a challenge like this, where the emphasis is a little more on 'short and sweet', I'm very here for, say, a sex/afterglow scene that showcases the characters, or something else utterly mundane to hang a vignette from (making a meal, sharpening a weapon, making something). I love Actual Drabbles (100 words! I will die on this hill! etc), 5 things (or as-many-or-as-few-as-you-like things) fics, basically you do not have to do a plot here, ever. Unless you want to. Feel free to grab a concept from another fandom/prompt here and apply it to whatever we matched on, too.

Things I love in my sex scenes: laughter and affections; consensual and enthusiastic: power play, pain play, boundary play; worship and adoration.

ART: I flounder still some about what makes a useful art prompt for the Original Works area. I love vibrant colours, digital art, watercolours, um. Things I like to see! Characters being happy and content together, or excited/pleased about [a thing]. I love detailed backgrounds, but ha, that seems like a mean thing when the fic expectations start as low as 300, so don't fret about that.

DNWs: Hmm, Character death (unless it's UnDeadwood or otherwise canonical), excessive violence, characters getting their hopes up and then getting those hopes dashed (basically, if you could describe a character as 'crestfallen' I'm going to be unable to keep reading, unless I know it turns out all okay in the end, or that the character gets to process it properly. Yeah, I don't know why, either. I think it's a weird mutation of an embarrassment squick).

( The last of us )

( Original works )

( His Dark Materials (TV Series) )

( UnDeadwood (Web Series) )

Yuletide was a slightly weird one for me this year. I was delighted with who I matched with, and wrote near-enough ten thousand words worth of scenes in mini-nano in November. I had the vast bulk of the material written, and then I stalled hard, from 1st December onwards, uploaded an incomplete draft, got quite reasonably pinged for it by the mods, and smashed out an actual frame-worked, sense-making fic (including beta and re-edited) in the 72 or so hours before the archive went live. M, I could not have done that without you, and your hand holding, and your betaing. Holy shit.

I...never want to write like that again. I want to be able to keep up my momentum from patchy ideas into finished work (this was totally one of those times where the original ordering of scenes got almost entirely turned on its head, for example. And it still all Worked). That said, I also produced probably the best things I've written to date, sooo. That's not nothing? I itch to go back and do one last editing smooth, but it's Out There now, and I should leave it the hell alone.

Hope is a dangerous hole (will you join me?) (9925 words) by maharetr
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Logan (2017 Movie), Wolverine (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Logan (X-Men), Laura Kinney, Original Female Character(s)
Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Road Trips, Child in Peril, Canon-typical swearing, References to Suicide, Light Canon Divergence, Angst, Although it's Laura so not that much peril, Gabriela taught her very well, minor violence (nowhere near canon-level)
Summary:

They miss the rendezvous.

(In which Logan gets just a little more time)

Things people wrote me!
In Consideration of Being a Thief (6505 words) by failsafe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Princess Bride (1987)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Inigo Montoya/Westley, Buttercup/Westley (Princess Bride)
Characters: Westley (Princess Bride), Inigo Montoya, Buttercup (Princess Bride), Fezzik (Princess Bride)
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, POV Multiple, Complicated Relationships, Background Relationships, Background Buttercup/Westley, Open to Interpretation, Possible Polyamory, possible break up, Found Family
Summary:

The life you plan for yourself may not be the best long-term plan.

Is my main gift, and is in the odd position of not matching my prompt at all (which, tbf, was not required of it), but is an interesting and emotionally honest fic in its own right, exploring the differences between idealised relationships and, say, who people actually are.

and laughter by the campfire (1637 words) by misura
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Lions of Al-Rassan - Guy Gavriel Kay
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Jehane bet Ishak, Rodrigo Belmonte, Ammar ibn Khairan
Additional Tags: Treat, Surprise Pairing, OT4
Summary:

The soldiers, too, were professionals, after all.

Is a glorious treat. It requires a fresh knowledge of a pretty obscure historical fantasy-ish book, and I'm so sad it's probably not going to get the respect it deserves because of that. It's a wonderful, warm piece and I love it so.

I started keeping (rough) track of what books I was reading in December 2009, and based on that count (and acknowledging that there's almost certainly books I've forgotten to record) I've read 54 books this year. Clearly, the way to do 52 books in 52 weeks thing was to stop trying :P

I signed up for mini_nano on LJ this year, and with meghanc holding my hand and poking me and cheerleading me, I wrote 16,119 words in 30 days! That's the most I've written in... well, definitely this year, and definitely the most ever in a recorded time frame. I've got three-ish short stories, and a document with 9905 words in it that probably still has god-know-how-many words left to go. Holy shit.

Because I was saddened to find out about this community about 12 hours after sign ups closed last year, I hearby spread the word: mini_nanowrimo is taking sign ups until 31 October. Like Nanowrimo but surmountable!

Yes, I'm publicly posting word counts. They will make no sense to anyone, I just respond well to the 'people are watching me/I am publicly accountable' method of motivation. :P

Fic: "Placeholder 1 of 5"
(Minimum of 100 words a day)

Previously: 0
Today's total: 525!
Total word count: 525

I fail spectacularly well at actual fic prompt writing, but I've been feeling the lack of writing/ideas recently, so I present a writing meme gakked from ignipes:

Give me a prompt (fandom, pairing or character, random words or scenarios, etc.) and I will write one sentence of fic for the prompt.