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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: 2012-06-07 12:11 am (UTC)*
"I cannot get it to sit as yours does, mother," Snow's daughter says, miserably. It as if the entire world has ended, because she cannot get her hair to lay flat.
"It's lovely," Snow says, and then adds, "you should look like yourself."
"I want to cut it all off." Snow's daughter's eyes brim with angry tears and the face she makes at the bent metal she uses as a mirror is heartbreaking.
"If you'd like," Snow says, amiably. "Or we could braid it."
Snow's daughter throws herself on the bed and pulls at her hair, without a response.
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The next day Snow has the mirror removed from her daughter's room.
(Snow tries not to look at her own reflection as the piece of warped metal sinks into the fire at the armorer's hand. She catches a glimpse anyway and sees the fire curling around her form. She thinks of Ravenna and then turns away from it.)
*
When that doesn't work, Snow sends her daughter out to the villages to give charity.
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When that doesn't work, Snow's Huntsman takes their daughter to the farthest reaches to hunt, to breathe and to live.
*
When that works, Snow is grateful and jealous.
*
She stops wishing for a son and embraces the daughter they have as she is. Snow stops dreaming of Ravenna and of her mother and lets their memories rest.
*
Her Huntsman calls her beautiful, even as her hair begins to gray.
Snow says, "That troll was beautiful. The one that almost killed you the first day we met."
Her Huntsman laughs, until he realizes she's not joking. "It was a troll."
"She had kind eyes and she was in pain." Snow shifts past him, up the pathway, her skirt flitting against her legs in the wind.
"She? That thing was a she?"
"I'm sure her mother loved her just the same," Snow says, over her shoulder. She sighs in relief at the feel of truth in that.
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Date: 2012-06-07 10:44 am (UTC)This was everything I wanted and more. The troll! The chain of mothers and daughters! The way Snow's been changed by everything she went through! Her daughter's hair texture! Ahhhhhhh. (Also, though the focus was very much on the women, I adored your huntsman characterisation.) Thanks again!
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Date: 2012-06-07 03:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-10 11:58 pm (UTC)