war stories ficathon
Jul. 21st, 2013 12:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anythingbutgrey
War Stories: A Comment Ficathon
Welcome to the war stories ficathon. Some quick guidelines:
What can I prompt and how do I do so?
Basically whatever you want, as long as there's a core component of a war story therein. Can be pre-, post-, or intra-war as long as it is, at its core, about the war. I'm pretty general with my concept of fictional conflicts, so if you've got a battle or a zombie apocalypse or a revolution, you're good to go. That means you can take a fandom that has a canonical war (like, say, Harry Potter) or you can take a fandom that doesn't have a war (like, say, New Girl) and plop them into a Hunger Games war AU or a zombie apocalypse. Have fun with it. I'm grim about my war stories but you don't have to be.
Prompts should contain the following format:
Fandom (not optional, can be multi-fandom or crossover) - Characters/Ship (optional) - Timeline (optional) - Prompt (which may be a plot, 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?
Here's a tumblr post (gen image if you have no idea who Mako Mori is in which case go see Pacific Rim ASAP and thank me later)
Promotion link with image:
Other banners:
More incoming
Text link:
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2013-07-22 03:05 am (UTC)You cleave a monster in two and avenge your family; you feel the warmth of spirits ghosting along your forearm; you feel the burden of someone else sharing your memories; the monster is cloven in two; the monster is halved; you are holding the sword; the sword is yours.
The sword is yours, and your throat is hoarse from shouting, but vengeance, vengeance --
You have finally tasted a victory and it is salt and blood and the sea, and the roar of someone else's triumph in your head.
The child has chased the fear back down the alley, out of the street, and off of her home. The child stands and refuses to cow to anything that assumes it is greater than anything she is capable of.
The child becomes a giant; the giant fights; the giant wins.
no subject
Date: 2013-07-22 07:34 pm (UTC)The fullness in your head and Raleigh's voice, Raleigh's presence, dirtying everything like smudging fingerprints on clean glasses, and part of you knows that you will never be able to strip those clean again. (Part of you wonders if you would ever want to.)
But now you are heavy; now you are a soldier; now you can throw your weight against the world and hear the echoes of a landing blow.
(But you were reconstructed, like your city; you rose again; you are not a thing to be permanently defeated, and isn't that strength? And couldn't that be strength?)
I just.....
OKAY, I'm done. I swear.
no subject
Date: 2013-07-23 02:30 pm (UTC)this line really stood out to me: "now you can throw your weight against the world and hear the echoes of a landing blow."
no subject
Date: 2013-09-01 07:20 am (UTC)This is excellent. The strand about weight contrasted with the little child haunted by ghost will stay with me.
no subject
Date: 2013-09-05 03:21 pm (UTC)