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By Fairest Blood - A Snow White and the Huntsman Comment Ficathon
Welcome to By Fairest Blood, a comment ficathon for SWATH. Some quick guidelines:
What can I prompt and how do I do so?
You can prompt whatever you want that pertains to SWATH. That means pre-canon, post-canon, intra-canon, AUs, RPF — the world is your fanfiction oyster. Want to selectively erase certain aspects of canon from your memory? Go right ahead.
Prompts should contain the following format:
Characters/Ship (optional) - Timeline (optional) - Prompt (which may be a song lyric, quote, etc., but is not optional)
In other words, you can leave a character and/or a ship, and/or a timeline, which are optional, and a prompt, which is not. If you want, you can just leave a set of song lyrics and see what people do with them. If you want, you can just leave a timeline with those lyrics, or a just a character, or all three.
How do I respond?
There are no restrictions in terms of word count, format, tense, point of view, etc. Please title all of your response fics as such in bold at the top of your comment (make sure to close the bold tag!) since LJ took out comment titles because they're dumb:
Title - Character/Ship - Timeline
Presumably, your fics will contain these three things even if they weren't in the prompt. You can also fill prompts that have already been filled. If something speaks to you, as it were, it doesn't matter if there's already fic for it. You can write your own.
How do I promote?
Tumblr post if you want to promote there
Promotion link with image:
Other banners:
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By Fairest Blood - A Snow White and the Huntsman Comment Ficathon
Welcome to By Fairest Blood, a comment ficathon for SWATH. Some quick guidelines:
What can I prompt and how do I do so?
You can prompt whatever you want that pertains to SWATH. That means pre-canon, post-canon, intra-canon, AUs, RPF — the world is your fanfiction oyster. Want to selectively erase certain aspects of canon from your memory? Go right ahead.
Prompts should contain the following format:
Characters/Ship (optional) - Timeline (optional) - Prompt (which may be a song lyric, quote, etc., but is not optional)
In other words, you can leave a character and/or a ship, and/or a timeline, which are optional, and a prompt, which is not. If you want, you can just leave a set of song lyrics and see what people do with them. If you want, you can just leave a timeline with those lyrics, or a just a character, or all three.
How do I respond?
There are no restrictions in terms of word count, format, tense, point of view, etc. Please title all of your response fics as such in bold at the top of your comment (make sure to close the bold tag!) since LJ took out comment titles because they're dumb:
Title - Character/Ship - Timeline
Presumably, your fics will contain these three things even if they weren't in the prompt. You can also fill prompts that have already been filled. If something speaks to you, as it were, it doesn't matter if there's already fic for it. You can write your own.
How do I promote?
Tumblr post if you want to promote there
Promotion link with image:
Other banners:
by me
by
yon_lougawouIf you feel inspired to make a banner of your own, feel free to link to it in the questions/comments thread below and I'll add it up here.
Text link:
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Date: 2012-06-05 06:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-06 01:46 am (UTC)Snow was, and had always been, consumed by the desire to make things better. It drew her to destruction. It always had. Her fighting spirit rose and thrived against the challenge of each fresh hell. The bitter and twisted and wrong compelled her, as if by compassion alone she could redeem it.
The merciless winter of Ravenna's rule made her almost more uneasy than anything else about her long imprisonment; she had longed to stretch out her hand and bring spring to the land. Just so with the winter in Ravenna's eyes. She was so sure that with a touch she could change twisted cold iron to budding green life.
She could not save everyone.
Sometimes she wondered what would have happened if she had not been born to be a ruler, always taught to choose the good of the many. If she had gone to the Queen with her hands empty and her throat bared and told her you will not take my heart, but I will give it to you. If the magic had taken the gift in the spirit she could have offered it, and let her press her lips to her Queen's youthful ones again and again and again.
Sometimes she wondered: where is the line drawn between compassion and love?
Sometimes she almost thought that in an oblique way she had failed. It would have been the most fitting thing to be Ravenna's knight in the battle she fought against herself and the world - to be wedded thus to the very antonym of peace and always know she had something to set herself against. Instead of absolving her, she had killed her.
It had been her duty. And perhaps, despite how much she had wanted to prove otherwise, love only ever led to sorrow after all.
She would do for her kingdom what she could not do for her Queen, but the part of her bound to the unquiet thing that was her shadow, her captor, her queen, would always carry regret.