Thursday Pinch Hit ✎ Not Quite Right [DW]
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comment_ficGreetings and welcome to another pinch hit composed and orchestrated by me after midnight. ♫ Hope your week is going well and this latter part of it will be even better. ♡
Today's theme is "not quite right." Something is off. The math isn't mathing. A character knows something is wrong but can't put it into words. Something's on the tip of their tongue, something important that they should know, but... Or perhaps someone has returned from the dead and isn't how they once were in some respect. Maybe someone walks into a room and immediately feels the tension or awkwardness in the air. Or the gang meets someone who is very off-putting, like an especially weird Scooby-Doo suspect they want to run away from really really fast. Y'know. That sort of thing.
Feel free to add specifics to your prompts, like whether you'd prefer a gen fill over something shippy, or if you have a squick or trigger you hope to avoid. Original fiction, fanfiction, and fanfic crossovers are always welcome. ~_^
Just a few rules:
No more than five prompts in a row.
No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
Use the character's full names and the fandom's full name
No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here. Unfortunately, DW doesn’t have a cut tag, so use your best judgment when it comes to spoilers.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the above-mentioned spoiler cut.
Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt
Some examples to get things started...
+ Resident Evil (game/CGI 'verse), Sherry Birkin + Leon S. Kennedy (+ any), (RE9) "Shouldn't much more of the city be crumbling, if not already be completely leveled to dust?" and/or Leon's RCS + PTSD cause him to hallucinate while exploring familiar places
+ any fandom that specifies its timeline(s), any (+/ any), make a time/date/year inconsistency make sense
+ author's choice, any (+/ any), the memories of an unreliable narrator
We are on AO3! If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3, please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2026 collection. See further notes on this option here.
Not feeling any of today’s prompts? You can use LJ’s advanced search options to limit keyword results to only comments in this community. Fret not, DW members; we are working on a way to search through old entries for prompts for you! As of right now, the best way to search for a lonely prompt on DW is to search the community’s archive, which can be found [[HERE]].
While the use of LJ's advanced search and DW’s archive are options, bookmarking the links of prompts you like might work better for searching in the future.
As a friendly reminder about our schedule, Lonely Prompts and sharing completed fills are encouraged on Sundays, while new themes and prompts are posted on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Saturdays are a Free for All day. We'll share our posts on DW and LJ for everyone's convenience. Keep an eye out for notifications!
If you have a Dreamwidth account and would feel more comfortable participating there, please feel free to do so… and spread the word!comment_fic
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Today's theme is "not quite right." Something is off. The math isn't mathing. A character knows something is wrong but can't put it into words. Something's on the tip of their tongue, something important that they should know, but... Or perhaps someone has returned from the dead and isn't how they once were in some respect. Maybe someone walks into a room and immediately feels the tension or awkwardness in the air. Or the gang meets someone who is very off-putting, like an especially weird Scooby-Doo suspect they want to run away from really really fast. Y'know. That sort of thing.
Feel free to add specifics to your prompts, like whether you'd prefer a gen fill over something shippy, or if you have a squick or trigger you hope to avoid. Original fiction, fanfiction, and fanfic crossovers are always welcome. ~_^
Just a few rules:
No more than five prompts in a row.
No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
Use the character's full names and the fandom's full name
No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here. Unfortunately, DW doesn’t have a cut tag, so use your best judgment when it comes to spoilers.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the above-mentioned spoiler cut.
Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt
Some examples to get things started...
+ Resident Evil (game/CGI 'verse), Sherry Birkin + Leon S. Kennedy (+ any), (RE9) "Shouldn't much more of the city be crumbling, if not already be completely leveled to dust?" and/or Leon's RCS + PTSD cause him to hallucinate while exploring familiar places
+ any fandom that specifies its timeline(s), any (+/ any), make a time/date/year inconsistency make sense
+ author's choice, any (+/ any), the memories of an unreliable narrator
We are on AO3! If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3, please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2026 collection. See further notes on this option here.
Not feeling any of today’s prompts? You can use LJ’s advanced search options to limit keyword results to only comments in this community. Fret not, DW members; we are working on a way to search through old entries for prompts for you! As of right now, the best way to search for a lonely prompt on DW is to search the community’s archive, which can be found [[HERE]].
While the use of LJ's advanced search and DW’s archive are options, bookmarking the links of prompts you like might work better for searching in the future.
As a friendly reminder about our schedule, Lonely Prompts and sharing completed fills are encouraged on Sundays, while new themes and prompts are posted on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Saturdays are a Free for All day. We'll share our posts on DW and LJ for everyone's convenience. Keep an eye out for notifications!
If you have a Dreamwidth account and would feel more comfortable participating there, please feel free to do so… and spread the word!
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