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

[brightknightie]

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

1. 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.)
2. Vote (April 16 - 22): On the to-be-posted poll, number all the prompts from your most to least favorite.
3. 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!

Comments

[switchbladeeyes]

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!

[brightknightie]

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.)

Re: Welcome!

[switchbladeeyes]

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)

Re: Welcome!

[waltd]

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

Re: Welcome!

[switchbladeeyes]

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