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The 2023 Prompt Nominations Post: "Oh, I thought you might have a few ideas..."

As discussed, we're playing challenge-style, and we'll nominate and elect 3 prompts (maximum 30 words each) to share. Each story (minimum 500 words) must use at least one elected prompt.

About prompts

Definition: For our challenge-style game, a prompt is a word, phrase, sentence, question, stanza, etc. meant to inspire an FK story.
Success: We'll likely get the most from prompts that can flex across different interpretations of FK, while also being specific enough to spark reactions.
Limits: 1-30 words. If a prompt is a quotation, include a citation (not part of the word count). And, of course, please, no vulgarity, incivility, that kind of thing.

Nominations eligibility
Any member of the FKFicFest community on Dreamwidth can share prompts. Anyone can join the community at any time. Nominations are not a commitment to write.

How to nominate & elect

Nominate (March 31 - April 15): Reply to this post with up to 3 prompts you'd like in the game. (You can post all 3 in one reply, or each in its own reply.)
Vote (April 16 - 22): On the to-be-posted poll, number all the prompts from your most to least favorite.
Calculate & announce (April 22 - 23): I'll take care of this part. Any prompt that gets 25% of the 1st-place votes outright wins one of our 3 slots. Then, the prompt with the fewest 1st-place votes is eliminated, redistributing its votes to what was the 2nd-place preference of its voters. Repeat until 3 prompts each have 25%+ of the votes (or only 3 prompts remain). Break ties by comparing 2nd-place votes, or lower, if needed.

Stories come due no later than June 25 on the AO3 and start releasing on June 26.

Questions? Advice? Please share!

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The first week.

"Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love." -Laini Taylor

1969

(Urban) Legend

The Road Not Taken

"Evil is a point of view." -Anne Rice

“When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.” - Frank Herbert

Coin for the ferryman

The dreaming mind

Thank you so much for sharing these prompt nominations!

I'm afraid that, in fairness to everyone, and especially those who have already nominated, I have to point out that we officially have a "1-30 words" range for the prompts (see the post above). I believe that the Herbert quotation clocks in at 53 words. Might you be interested in trimming it a little? If not, you can replace it!

Here are just a few possible trims, in case you would like one of them, or to use as a starting point for a better one:

29 words: “When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders... forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.”

30 words: “When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way... and forget the precipice does not show itself... until it's too late.”

29 words: “When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. ... They put aside all thoughts of obstacles... until it's too late.”

Omit the prompt. I failed to read correctly.

Understood. My apologies. If you find that you'd like to, please do share a replacement nomination!

Hello! I am new here. Over on "Archive of Our Own," greerwatson pointed me to this group. I was a big fan of the show in the 90s and recently got back into it. It's exciting to see the fandom is still active!

Here is a prompt idea: Give any episode a different ending.

Welcome! We're a quiet fandom at this end of history, but we definitely persist. :-)

Thank you for the prompt! If you feel like it, feel free to share up to two more by April 15. (I'm still pondering my own for this round.)

Very glad to see FK persisting through fans :-)

A couple more prompts:

Vampire turns human.

And from my favorite Roman poet, best know for his love poems and sick burns:

"I HATE and I LOVE. Why I do this, you may ask.
I don't know. But I feel it and it is torture." - Catullus (poem 85)

Love this prompt. I was a Latin major in college. :-)

Nice! I also studied Latin in college (Classics major) :-)

"long time passing" - Pete Seeger, "Where Have All the Flowers Gone"

"The rain it raineth on the just" - Charles Bowen

"The most certain way to succeed is to try just one more time" - Benjamin Franklin

A new detective on the force

This experiment went horribly wrong

Another conquest to satisfy his/her craving

unexpectedly wakes up in the trunk of a car

a minor or original character must fill in for a major character

"You are made of the sea and the stars, and one day / you are going to find yourself again."--Finn Butler, "Saltwater"

[Copy/pasted from a reply on the Schedule Post]

That new car smell

Sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel is a wildfire

At the crossroads a decision must be made: advance, retreat, or hold your position

Hey, let's see if I can come up with a couple prompts even if it's been a while since I've done this (it was exchange style, I think, last time). So here are a few selections from some of my favorite poets conveniently and hopefully styled for fic from some of my favorite characters, or creatively from other people's favorite character (and I do so love creativity). I hope you're not up yet!

"Peruse how infinite I am
To no one that You—know—
And sigh for lack of Heaven—but not
The Heaven God bestow—"
Emily Dickinson, The Way I Read a Letter's - this

"For there is no friend like a sister"
Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market

"Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you:
But when the leaves hang trembling,
The wind is passing through."
Christina Rossetti, Who Has Seen the Wind?

"mortals climbing into eachness"
ee cummings, mortals

Edited 2023-04-16 14:45 (UTC)

Hi! Thank you!

We set a maximum of 3 nominations per person, up to 30 words per prompt (not counting the citations). Which of these 4 would you like to nominate...?

Oh ack, I counted the words and forgot the number of prompts. Thank you for the reminder and apologies for the oversight! Though I love ee cummings, he is a tad bit askew unless you're going Curiouser and Curiouser, I feel, so perhaps you could remove that one?

Perfect, thank you!

(My fail: The "3 each" limit is only down in the "How to," while it should also have been up in the "Limits" and intro. I'll do better next year.)

Most

1 "I HATE and I LOVE. Why I do this, you may ask. / I don't know. But I feel it and it is torture."—Catullus, Poe2m 85
2 "Evil is a point of view."—Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
3 unexpectedly wakes up in the trunk of a car
4 a minor or original character must fill in for a major character
5 "The most certain way to succeed is to try just one more time"—Thomas Edison, attributed
6 Coin for the ferryman
7 At the crossroads a decision must be made: advance, retreat, or hold your position
8 "Who has seen the wind? / Neither I nor you: / But when the leaves hang trembling, / The wind is passing through."—Christina Rossetti, "Who Has Seen the Wind?"
9 A new detective on the force

Middle
10 "long time passing"—Pete Seeger, "Where Have All the Flowers Gone"
11 "The rain it raineth on the just"—Charles Bowen, attributed
12 Another conquest to satisfy his/her craving
13 "You are made of the sea and the stars, and one day / you are going to find yourself again."—Finn Butler, "Saltwater"
14 The Road Not Taken
15 Give any episode a different ending.
16 That new car smell
17 "Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love."—Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
18 This experiment went horribly wrong

Least
19 "For there is no friend like a sister"—Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market"
20 (Urban) Legend
21 "Peruse how infinite I am / To no one that You—know— / And sigh for lack of Heaven—but not / The Heaven God bestow—"—Emily Dickinson, "The Way I Read a Letter's - this"
22 Sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel is a wildfire
23 1969
24 The first week.
25 The dreaming mind
26 Vampire turns human.

Hi, Walt!

I'm guessing that this is your ballot, and you want me to count it as part of the voting on the election poll post.

In that case, I am going to copy/paste your post from here over to there, so that I don't forget it when it's time to tally the results.

Thanks!

Actually, would it be okay if instead I asked you to fill out the poll in the usual way?

It crosses my mind that people might not feel super great about seeing the prompts they submitted get low ratings from anyone. With the regular poll, only I see the person-by-person results, so hopefully no one will feel bad about reactions to their prompts.

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