The 2025 Prompt Nominations Post: "I haven't seen you like this before, not in 800 years."

[brightknightie]

As discussed, we're playing challenge-style, and we'll elect a shared pool of 3-5 prompts (maximum 30 words each). Each story (minimum 500 words) must use at least one elected prompt.

When to nominate: By Friday, March 14, 11:59pm Pacific Time.

Who may nominate: All FK fans! Readers as well as writers are invited to nominate and vote! Nominations are not a commitment to play.

How to prompt:

• Definition: For our game, a prompt is a word, set of words, phrase, sentence, question, stanza, lyric, trope, canon reference, etc. meant to inspire an FK story.
• Success: We'll likely get the most from prompts that can flex across different interpretations, while also being specific enough to spark reactions.
• Limits: Up to 3 nominations per person. 1-30 words. If a quotation, include a citation (not part of the word count). You may re-nominate 1 unused re-run prompt from a previous year among your 3. No vulgarity, incivility, that kind of thing.

How to nominate & elect:

1. Nominate (March 8 - March 14): Reply to this post with up to 3 prompts you'd like in the game. You may post all in one reply, or each in its own reply.
2. Vote (March 15 - March 21): On the to-be-posted poll, number all the prompts from your least to most favorite.
3. Calculate & announce (March 22 - March 23): Any prompt that gets 25% of the 1st-place votes outright wins one of our 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, as far as I can see in the rankings, the final 4-5 would reach more players than the final 3).

Stories come due no later than May 24 on the AO3 and start releasing on May 26.

Questions? Advice? Please share!