Sapphic September 2018

golden-queen-writes:

In order to celebrate all the wonderful canon and fanon femslash pairings, @the-crownless-queen and I have teamed up to make a list of prompts!

The Rules:

1. Drawing, aesthetic edits and writing (200 word minimum) are all acceptable!

2. For each day, you have the option of doing either prompt or using both in one fic. 

3. All fics must have a sapphic pairing, but I’m sure that’s self-explanatory. 

4. Both writing and drawing are acceptable!

5. Fanfiction only, please.

6. Please tag #SapphicSeptember2018 and #SapphicSeptember within the first five tags.

The Prompts:

  1. First Meeting (gone right or gone wrong) or “You’re an idiot, why do I love you?”
  2. Best Friends to Lovers or Enemies to Lovers
  3. “Come back to bed.” or “Why did you have to leave me all alone?”
  4. Pirate!AU or “Look, I might be evil but even I have standards.”
  5. Soulmate!AU or Autumn
  6. Fanon Pairing or “Everyone keeps telling me you’re the bad guy.”
  7. Witch!AU or Cat
  8. Sunlight or Prank War
  9. Holding Hands or “I can’t imagine what my life would have been like without you.”
  10. OT3 or “Make a wish.”
  11. Spy!AU or Kryptonite
  12. First Time or First Dance
  13. Reincarnation!AU or Immortal!AU
  14. Proposal Gone Wrong or Hot Chocolate
  15. Star-Crossed Lovers or Holding your dead lover’s body
  16. Street Magic!AU or “I think I picked up your coffee by mistake.”
  17. Prom!AU or  “She’s missing, not dead.”
  18. Political!AU or Royalty!AU
  19. Pride or Coming Out
  20. Fake Dating or Fake Married
  21. Your Very First Sapphic OTP or Hurt/Comfort
  22. Moving In Together or Adopting a Child
  23. “Is that mistletoe?” or “Why didn’t you kill me when you had the chance?”
  24. Superhero!AU or Super Villain!AU
  25. Halloween or “We’ll get through this together.”
  26. Demons&Angels!AU or Apocalypse!AU
  27. Blind Date or Prison!AU
  28. Gold or Dreams
  29. “You’ve always felt like home.” or Road Trip
  30. Wedding or Disney!AU

Interesting!

writing-prompt-s:

Prompt Guy has been protecting us from the forbidden prompts for ages… prompts that are too horrible or strange to be shown to the amigos… but those prompts have just escaped from Prompt Guy’s inbox and are out for blood.

The older they are, the more power they possess. It takes two writers, each churning out the most wholesome misinterpretations they can, to bring down a year-old prompt. A two-year-old prompt might take a team of three writers and an editor, where the writers bicker constantly and complain of being underappreciated and the editor seriously needs a drink.

Ten years ago, a foolhardy young man posted a prompt involving sexual cannibalism, mpreg, and ritual sacrifice. It lurks in the shadows, watching its younger brothers and sisters and nonbinary prompt siblings be destroyed. Waiting for the teams of opposing writers to weaken, to give it a final opportunity…

terpsikeraunos:

terpsikeraunos:

do spiders like music??? i was playing an irish folk song on my viola and a wolf spider wandered out and sat near me.

Spiders create music to attract their partners, scientists have revealed. By using leaves to transmit vibrations, the spiders create sounds to serenade females. [source]

………..i accidentally seduced a spider i guess i’m a bard now

naamahdarling:

perorat:

wyomingsmustache:

shinyhappygoth:

pervocracy:

pirozhok-s-kapustoj:

ten-and-donna:

my-fair-ladybug:

my-fair-ladybug:

Something that’s almost never covered in fantasy mediums is common names.

Like we all know fantasy names are unusual, but any name to a foreign culture is considered unusual English names to Indian people are very unusual for example. But naturally, given that it’s an entire culture, there will be some common names, it’d be refreshing to at one point here this exchange.

“So I was talking to Vicnae and-”

“Wait which Vicnae? You can’t just say Vicnae. There are ten Vicnae’s in my village alone.”

This has 100 notes yesterday and 300 this morning what the fuck happened.

People understand the truly important things.

DSA (a German fantasy P&P RPG) actually has the name Alrik, which is hugely popular in the universe. Everyone is Alrik.

This is also a great excuse to use “X the Y” or “X of Y” type names without being pretentious. Calling someone “Thognor The Stout” goes from pomposity to practicality if he lives down the road from Thognor The Small.

Not-as-big-as-Medium-Sized-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock Jock.

~~*~surnames~*~~

my family is from a town in Ireland where everyone has the last name Ryan.  literally like everyone.  so they differentiated families by calling them by their professions, right?

anyway we’re the Horse Thief Ryans

I want to hear that story.

Honestly reblogging for Horse Thief Ryans

I’m trying to fill out this questionaire and-

Do other people actually know how many years they’ve been writing fiction? Actually? Really?

I straight-up can’t imagine that.

I literally decided I was going to write a novel when I was seven. And then I wrote a self-insert series of short stories where I was the captain of a travelling hot air balloon with an annoying crew who never stopped bickering with each other and had a sentient bumblebee mascot. Does that count as when I started writing? Like… I’m not counting the story I wrote for first grade, because that was an in-class assignment, but… what counts?

Where is the cutoff? Is it when you first decided you would be a writer and wrote something for it? Is it your first project that you tried to get published? The first time you developed your own personal style? The first time you wrote something good? The first time you remember writing anything, period, that was an original work of fiction?

This isn’t meant mockingly or anything; I actually don’t understand how normal humans work, but it’d be cool if people could talk about when they ‘first started writing’ and why they consider that point to be when they first started but not any of the other points.

palenoface:

writing-prompt-s:

A dating service where matching is based on people’s search history exists. You’re a serial killer. You go on a date with a writer.

I’m actually the writer, so if there is any serial killer out there ready to take me out…

On a date or literally, I don’t care, just take me out already.

Any serial killers among my followers?

pasiphile:

degenezijde:

Am updating my reading assignment for the kiddies, and was planning to do a thing on Science-Fiction, where they can pick between Ender’s Game, Ready Player One (already a hit the previous years) and H2G2. Turns out Ender’s Game is not available in Dutch anywhere (H2G2 is also rare but abundant in libraries).

So, what science fiction do you know that would fly well with the kiddos? I’ll see if it’s available in Dutch or not. Doesn’t have to be Quality (see: RPO and Ender up there), but I like something I can ask questions about.

Clarification: the kiddos are in the 16-18 range, roughly.

Isaac Asimov’s robot stories, particularly “Feminine Intuition” (makes fun of the concept of ‘feminine intuition’), “The Bicentennial Man,” and the one with Susan Calvin and the guy running for governor. He has books with collections of the stories; whichever one has 2+ of these is good. He also has detective books about a human-robot team, where the robot’s kinda like Spock, but I don’t think those are as discussion-inspiring. The short stories raise ethical questions and questions about the future relevant to today’s development in robotics and AI. Read when I was 16-18. Good stuff.

The House of the Scorpion and The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm are very good books; the former has Ethics stuff, the latter has a foreign culture. But they might be a wee bit young for 16-18.

Redshirts is an interesting concept with meh writing. Consider if desperate.

Tentative recommendation of The Calcutta Chromosome – haven’t read it; heard good things.

Brave New World is definitely discussion-inspiring, but also a horrible dystopia, and I’m not sure kids like it.

A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a classic, albeit a bit dense. For some reason I got through Brave New World more easily. It’s popular with the nerdier sort of kid, though. My source for this information is that I am a nerdier sort of kid.

Finally, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet is another book that I haven’t read but have heard good things about, so if it seems alright, maybe check it out and see if it’s discussion-inducing or good or fun.