war stories ficathon
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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)
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Date: 2013-07-24 12:32 am (UTC)"Raleigh," she says, barely a whisper.
"I don't want you to miss your plane," he says. "I - you should go." There's that familiar wrinkle of skepticism in her forehead, but he leads with the hand on the small of her back, and starts walking with her down the hall. "I keep my promises. We'll talk soon."
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He sends her a small piece of the torn down wall in Anchorage.
He dreams about her.
She writes thank you for your piece of home. He doesn't know what to say after that.
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It's Tuesday morning, and she's heading out of the apartment for a cup of coffee when --
"Hi."
She walks into his arms (everything feels familiar, moving together, breathing together).
"It was too hard," he says, and her breaths come as short, noiseless laughs, "The distance. Being so far from you."
She looks up at him and kisses him. "Then you should stay."
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One morning, she takes him to the shore. The Pacific lapping softly over the tops of their feet.
She moves further out into the tide, stares out across the water, trails her fingertips across the top of a wave.
"Mako?"
She turns then, wading back out towards the sand. Towards him. She takes his hand, her grip firm and sure, and leads him out.
"Come," she whispers. "Let's go home."
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Date: 2013-07-24 04:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-24 08:07 pm (UTC)this is so great i just love them and you and i'm the most upset
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Date: 2013-07-24 10:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-11-02 08:17 am (UTC)