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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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If 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.
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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 07:11 pm (UTC)She was beautiful, and he was the brother; it was comfortable, in an icy sort of way, and they fit into the story neatly, like they’d been crafted for it.
She was beautiful, and he was the brother, but he was the sword, too, and her fingers curled around him, his power adding to hers until it hummed beneath her skin. She wondered if he could hear it, the song of her power, wondered if it was something to be shared (she knew it wasn’t, knew it was something for her and her alone, and she reveled in that, the idea that kingdoms could rest in her palm).
“You are the fairest of them all,” he murmured against her throat like he’d been taught, and she could feel it, could feel his heart hammering away beneath his ribs, and her fingers danced across it, nails scraping the skin. Mine, she thought as a thin line of blood dotted his pale skin, mine.
“Do you ever miss it, sister?” he asked afterwards, “our home?”
A beat, while she thought of it, the cold that left marks, the drops of blood against the snow, the feeling of being helpless. A beat, while she straightened the crown. “Never,” she answered.
“Are you glad you have me?” he asked like a needy child, his eyes locked on hers.
And she thought of a childhood spent huddled under furs and making up stories where they were always the victors, of the heartbeat that had been hers for as long as she could remember. “Of course, dear brother,” she answered, “you’re my sword.”
She was beautiful, and he was the brother, and in this story, she would always be the victor.
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Date: 2012-06-05 07:49 pm (UTC)crying about it leah this is PERFECT
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Date: 2012-06-05 09:13 pm (UTC)Notes: because it's the title of everything for this film
Also, set before she eats the apple.
"I don't see how it could be me that breaks the spell," she whispers to him in the dim light of campfire coals. "Avenge my father, yes. Take back my kingdom, yes. But destiny? Blessings from the Spirit of the Forest?"
He sits a careful distance from her and keeps his arms tight across his chest. "Muir must see some promise in you with those eyes of his. Heart, spirit, purity."
Shaking her head, she looks off into the night. "What do I know of purity? Since I was ten, I have seen only violence, terror, and cruelty. I know nothing of true statesmanship or peace or justice; my lessons stopped at dancing and embroidery. I haven't—" Her voice hitches. "I haven't read anything but children's stories."
He sees her shaking and reaches over, wraps his big hand around her skinny wrist. She looks up at him, trusting now instead of guarded. "And how do those stories end, princess?"
She takes a slow breath and twists her hand in his grip so that she grasps his forearm. Her fingers don't come even halfway around. Smile flickering across her face, he catches the white flash of her teeth. "The princess saves her kingdom and marries the man she loves."
Carefully withdrawing his hand, he doesn't let his gaze slip to where William sleeps. "When the time is right, you'll know what you have to do. Purity of heart need have nothing to do with innocence."
"Is that what you see?" she asks. "I don't—don't really care what Muir sees. I'd rather know what you see."
When he blinks, he sees her muddy and exhausted in the forest, holding his knife against him without the slightest idea how to wield it, and every intention of doing so if he tries to hurt her. He feels the sharp bar of her forearm when he shows her how to use a larger opponent's size against them. He sees her running like a bloody deer once that sodden skirt is out of her way.
"I think you're a fighter," he says. Which is his undoing. He falls hardest for a girl with a blade.
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