Friday: birth
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bleodswean and today's theme is birth. As we "mark the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter or the "darker half" of the year" (Samhain), today's prompts are related to birth or re-birth. We end the week as a bookend to our first prompt!
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 fandom's full name for ease adding to the Lonely Prompts spreadsheet.
No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the spoiler cut.
If there are possible triggers in your story, please warn for them in the subject line!
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 the ball rolling...
Russian Fairy Tales, BabaYaga, the chicken hut lays an egg
The Originals, Klaus and Hope, Klaus tells Hope a fairy tale about her birth
The Matrix, Neo, rebooting feels a lot like being born
We use AO3 to bookmark filled prompts. If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3 please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2017 collection. See further notes on this new option here.
Not feeling any of today’s prompts? Check out Lonely Prompts Spreadsheet 1 (not very current), Lonely Prompts Spreadsheet 2, or the Calendar Archives, or for more recent prompts, you can use LJ's advanced search options to find prompts to request and/or fill.
While the Lonely Prompts Spreadsheets and LJ's advanced search options are available, bookmarking the links of prompts you like might work better for searching for in the future.
bleodswean and today's theme is birth. As we "mark the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter or the "darker half" of the year" (Samhain), today's prompts are related to birth or re-birth. We end the week as a bookend to our first prompt!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 fandom's full name for ease adding to the Lonely Prompts spreadsheet.
No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the spoiler cut.
If there are possible triggers in your story, please warn for them in the subject line!
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 the ball rolling...
Russian Fairy Tales, BabaYaga, the chicken hut lays an egg
The Originals, Klaus and Hope, Klaus tells Hope a fairy tale about her birth
The Matrix, Neo, rebooting feels a lot like being born
We use AO3 to bookmark filled prompts. If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3 please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2017 collection. See further notes on this new option here.
Not feeling any of today’s prompts? Check out Lonely Prompts Spreadsheet 1 (not very current), Lonely Prompts Spreadsheet 2, or the Calendar Archives, or for more recent prompts, you can use LJ's advanced search options to find prompts to request and/or fill.
While the Lonely Prompts Spreadsheets and LJ's advanced search options are available, bookmarking the links of prompts you like might work better for searching for in the future.
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Fill: PG-13
Date: 2017-11-03 08:26 pm (UTC)Besides, who would listen to it bitch and moan all the way out in the middle of the Romincka Forest anyway?
But, as a hut, some indignities should’ve been beneath it. Like this one, which was, well… literally beneath it and threatening its fragile, boreal sense of calm. An egg. How did this happen? It was A HUT, for crying out loud! How does a hut gestate? And it only possessed chicken legs… It just wasn’t fair. There should be no eggs – NONE. Bring on the termites and mold instead.
The hut creaked in aggravation as it gingerly squatted above the offending offspring-in-waiting. It sighed loudly through its eaves. If one listened intently enough, it might have sounded like ‘fuck my life’. But once again, there was no one around to listen.
Then the egg rolled about.
The house bent lower, trying to see clearly through warped, dirty windows and ragged curtains.
‘Don’t you dare,’ it threatened in a gust of dried leaves and dust.
The egg hopped on the crispy, winter grass. Then it hopped again and the shell cracked.
‘Nonononono….’ The hut experienced a foreign, destabilizing effect that humans might have labelled as “panic”.
The shell cracked once more and a sliver fell away revealing a blinking, confused eye staring right back up into the dirty hut windows. Then, for the love of all that’s unholy and damningly inconvenient, it spoke its first word.
“Mamochka…” it peeped quietly and blinked in an adoring way from its shell.
The hut staggered on its chicken legs and made its floorboards squeal as it sagged despondently. It tried to look skyward, but huts don’t have necks.
‘Fuck my life,’ it wheezed into the night breeze, and below it something giggled.
Re: Fill: PG-13
Date: 2017-11-03 08:56 pm (UTC)You just won. It all. THAT, m'dear, was impressive and fun and all around stellar work. Спасибо!
Re: Fill: PG-13
Date: 2017-11-05 02:26 pm (UTC)RE: Fill: PG-13
Date: 2017-11-04 02:04 am (UTC)Great fill!
Re: Fill: PG-13
Date: 2017-11-05 02:26 pm (UTC)