Yoooooo this is @bmouse who used to run this… sorry about that ::checks notes:: 5 year dry spell? anyone wanna do another weekly challenge?
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WEEK 7 PROMPTS MASTERPOST
Are you ready to make someone tap dance for joy? Are little sparkles ready to come out of your tablet pen or your typing fingers?
It's the Make Someone’s Day Week at the tumblzine!
For the past two weeks people have been sending in what prompts they'd like to see come alive(and I basically love all of them) and it is now up to you all to make it happen!
Deadline: November 2nd!
Min word count: 1000 words!
And remember prompt OP's, if your prompt is filled send in a note of appreciation for the person who made it happen and we'll post it on the tumblzine for all to see!
Prompts live in the 'ds9tumblzine week7 prompts' tag though here is a recap of all our prompts below the cut. Pick one and boldly go!
Are you still taking prompts for week 6? Cause Alpha Vision. It's like Eurovision, but for the Alpha Quadrant. Aggressive 0 points from Bajor to Cardassia every year. Unreciprocated buddy-buddy points from Earth to Vulcan. Klingons winning 5 years in a row with opera songs. The Ferengi win occasionally because of their spectacular outfits. A quadrant-wide scandal when both Vic Fontaine and Dukat cover Sinatra's 'My Way' in the same year and score first and last place respectively.
Larsa Niska Returns To The Homeland (pt1)
Genre: Gen
Rating: PG
Summary: So, what happens to the forgotten children of Bajor after the Dominion War?
Author’s Notes: Well this is uncharacteristic for me because there is nary a Bashir or Garak in sight. No romance(yet). past tense, female OC as a POV character and the story itself got super long so here is the first coherent chunk of it, the rest to be published on AO3 as soon as I wrestle it into shape. Hope you enjoy!
After she was released from house arrest Niska Larsa walked slowly to the Cardassian Embassy, keeping her head down against the hard afternoon light. It had been restful, honestly, and though she was still bitter over the lost pay overall she knew it was intended less as a punishment and more as something to mark down on the forms. The constables hadn’t really known what else to do with her.
I've got a prompt! More stories about Odo's time as a solid. Literally any topic so long as he stays as asexual as he was on the show.
Prompt four: Nog at Starfleet Academy. Does he need special accommodations? How does he deal with the culture shift? Does he find the climate of San Francisco pleasant or unreasonable?
Prompt three: Jadzia/Worf exploring the fact that they're two fairly awkward, somewhat socially inept individuals that both hide behind carefully constructed public personae. Worf is an outsider both with Klingons and Starfleet, Jadzia still remembering how alone and awkward she was before she was joined, and when they're together they can drop all of that and just be themselves.
Anyone got any more Week 7 prompts? Whatever you want more of in fandom, now's the time to let it out!
Deadline is Sunday Oct 5
A Kira/Keiko/Miles poly triad would also be really fantastic. Extra love from me if the fic focuses on the Kira/Keiko part!
I'd really really like an exploration of a Nerys/Keiko/Miles poly relationship and how that relates to their parenting of Yoshi and Molly.
Garak and Bashir crash-landing on some out-of-the-way planet while on a mission and being stuck there for a fairly long time( at least a couple of months), giving them a chance to work through their recent prison camp experience and their ‘will they, won’t they’ sexual tension. Bonus points for both of them being super resourceful so instead of a grim survival adventure it turns out more like a tropical vacation :)
(Spoiler for What You Leave Behind) AU in which Garak dies storming the Dominion HQ and Damar survives the final confrontation with Weyoun and the Founder.
Anything involving Kira and Dax's friendship/romance/any sort of positive relationship at all. I really feel as though they got shafted in the main series and would absolutely LOVE to see them interacting more in a way that passes the Bechdel Test. Whoever writes this will make my LIFE.
Prompt two: Bashir, fed up with preventable injuries and diseases, hosts a galactic-style safe sex lecture, compete with diagrams and moving pictures, and doesn't blush or stutter once. Because for all his social ineptitude and evidence to the contrary, Bashir is a skilled and competent doctor who can walk through a war zone without losing his cool or throwing up, and it'd be nice if fandom remembered that from time to time.
Week 7 Challenge
queenix06 submitted to ds9tumblzine:
OK, here’s a weird one. I’ve read plenty of fics that reimagine the characters of DS9 placed in our past or present rather than our future. Even canon played with some of that. I thought about trying my hand at it, and had a prompt, but I’m not sure I have the skill to pull it off. What if DS9 was reimagined in Japan during the Edo period? The long history and culture of the era gives a writer plenty to draw from- romance, political intrigue, war, and of course, samurai sword fighting awesomeness. I think it could work for a DS9 fic. Complete immersion of the characters into the era, plots where they are stranded by time travel, or even a parody in the style of an over-the-top anime are all things I thought of. Anyone wanna take a crack at it?
Prompt one: in a complete reverse of the disappointing trends of the late 1990s, Bashir/O'Brien fic which includes Keiko in the relationship and considers what 24th-century social mores regarding sexuality and marital fidelity would be instead of imposing late-20th century ones onto the characters.
Week 7 Challenge: Write What You Want
So while Week 6 works are still coming in...we thought we should get started on Week 7.
Now that we've challenged ourselves to step outside our boxes a little, don't we deserve a nice reward?
Week 7 will be Write What You Want Week aka. Make Someone's Day Week.
Here's how it works: On anon (or not!) submit a prompt for something you've wanted to see in fandom/fic that hasn't been written yet or that you want more of. (popular posts recently suggested: Garak and O'Brien being forced to work together to help Bashir, more Keiko!, more trans Damar etc.) Here's your chance to throw your secret and not-so-secret wishes into the hat. Prompts will be posted to the comm and your mission for Week 7 is going to be to pick one of the prompts and give whoever posted it an ear to ear grin!
The prompt acceptance period starts...now! (and ends Sun Oct 5)