24 Days of Prompts Take 6: Let's See How This Goes

[jedibuttercup]

I know I said I was going to put this up weeks ago, but between the yearly vacay and other exchanges I was in and family-related RL frustrations, I've been a bit low on energy. But I have time now, and I could use the nudge to get my writerly butt in gear again. So; let's give this a go!

What is the Wishlist?

The Wishlist is a multi-fandom fanfiction fest. It started very small and simple several years ago: the premise was simply to write twenty-four ficlets in response to twenty-four prompts, to be posted in December. Fandom gifts, if you will.

The wishlist_fic community is no longer active, but I participated for several years, and it was a good source of motivation to me to keep writing, so I'm going to collect another 24 prompts this year and see how it goes. :) I can make no promises on exactly when things go up, but I can promise that they will eventually all go up!

(For reference, see my progress on the previous list, stalled for canon review, hopefully all to be finished in November; you'll find the fully completed lists linked there for 2010-2014 as well.)

Rules

• I accept the first 24 prompts I am given, regardless of who you are or if I know you.
  (ALL PROMPTS CLAIMED)



• You give me characters/pairing, a fandom and a prompt. (Please don't skip the prompt part).


• If you don't have an LJ account, you can give your DW/IJ/TtH/AO3/whatever name in an anonymous comment, but do make sure to sign it. If you do not sign with a name I will not use your prompt; I have to have some way to link you the story.


• If I'm not offering the fandom you're requesting, I reserve the right to refuse the prompt.
  
  The current offerings list is: Buffy/Angel-verse (no comics); Stargate SG-1; Firefly/Serenity; Star Trek AOS or TOS; King Arthur: Legend of the Sword; The Marvel Cinematic Universe (Movie-based only); the Fast and the Furious series; Leverage; The Last Ship; Sleepy Hollow (Seasons 1-3); the Riddick-verse; Jurassic Park/World; Pacific Rim; John Wick; and the Mummy-verse (Brendan Fraser version).
  
  ETA: Person of Interest, Transformers movies, Star Wars!
  
  (I do sometimes take other requests, especially for canons on my current viewing list or continuations of other short-stories/fic series on a case-by-case basis; if it doesn't fit the above fandom list, feel free to ask, but I reserve the right to ask you to find another prompt.)


• If I find your prompt in any way offensive, I will disregard it, too. Fair warning.


• Your prompts can be for one fandom only, or a crossover (fusions on a case-by-case basis, and only with fandoms I've written in before) and should be in line with what I usually write. (That's a loose guideline, I know, but basically don't be deliberately ornery, okay?) It can be a quote, an idea, a specific situation, but it really helps to have something to aim for. Throwing Character X/Character Y, 'whatever' at me is going to get you 'whatever'.
  
  (HOWEVER: If your prompt is > 25 words, or if you request an idea that can't reasonably be covered in 500-3000 words? See again: whatever. I'm not a magic story-writing machine, and I have a full time job; the less review/plotting time your idea needs, the quicker I can write it!)


• I answer the prompts in the order I like best and post them starting in Dec 2017. (Sometimes RL events slow me down, particularly the last few years, but I will always get there eventually).

And that's it! Prompt away! (Whichever site you respond on - I'll keep a running total and close the list when it reaches 24).

Comments

[moonbeamsfanfic]

I'm gonna throw in for my usual, a crossover with Dresden Files please. I've been really enjoying Todeswind's stories lately, so I'd love to see a Dresden Files/Stargate crossover (SG-1 and/or SGA) with your choice of character(s). I'd love it if it was from the perspective of any minor characters too, in either fandom.

What I'm hoping for is the Stargate side's Outside POV of Dresden-verse magic. Like are Wizards mistaken as aliens - Ancients, Goa'uld, Nox, Furlings, etc..? Is all the highly visible but non-technologically compatible magic detectable by their advanced sensors? What do they think of the folks on the Paranet; total kooks, but potentially useful for spotting odd occurences that might be hidden Goa'ulds? Or maybe how would someone from Dresden-verse explain their wacky lives to the SGC, if they got recruited or something? (Like idk, for example, maybe Michael's eldest son Daniel Carpenter becomes a soldier and gets interrogated about his family's weird history.) Feel free to set the story anywhere in the timelines of either canon, whatever works for you. No specific plot requests aside from the Outside POV, but extra point if you don't reveal either side's secrets!

Thank you! ♥ (Kudos to you for doing this on your own even without the Wishlist_comm, I look forward to this every year because you always manage to write such amazing stories to come out of all these awesome prompts. Crazy impressive, and so much fun!)

ETA: ... and I just noticed you don't have Dresden Files in your applicable fandoms list anymore! *sad* So, um... alternative! Er, what's something weird and cracky that only you could pull off but would be totally awesome to mix? Oh, I know... how about a Marvel-verse/Jurassic World crossover! Loki meets dinosaurs, and considers them more worthy of respect than humans. Maybe he speaks dino and it turns out they are incredibly sophisticated creatures who are just humouring us? Or he can shapeshift into one and gets mistaken as one of the park's "assets" and drives everyone nuts with his inexplicable behaviour? Or maybe Blue is really his kid or whatever, and the dinos save the world from the Chitauri/Thanos by telling Loki to chill out already so boom, invasion over before it starts because even crazy mind-controlled he loves his bebes. Yeah okay not that one, that's even too cracky for me. *eg* Whatever, I leave it in your ballpark, just gimme Loki and dinos being unexpectedly awesome. Please and thank you! ;)

[jedibuttercup]

The reason I left Dresden Files off is that it's been a long time since I've read it, and that's a lot of reading to do for a few thousand words' worth of story. I'll mark both down as possible plot options, and if I do get around to reading it again before I get that far in the list, we'll see. :)

You're #12/24!

[moonbeamsfanfic]

Funny story: as I was writing my DF/SG prompt I started thinking about scenes I'd read before that fufill the Outside POV perspective, like when Jacob Carter meets Elaine Mallory in Todeswind's story "Shattering Occam's Razor", and then I thought wasn't there another one with Teal'c witnessing magic and getting the wrong idea? So I've spent the last little while trying to find that other fic just so I could read it again and satisfy my craving.

Guess what I found, jedibuttercup? :) Why a certain talented author with a penchant for writing prompts around Christmas time has already written just such a minor-character-centric outside POV with no truth reveal story already! Whaddyaknow, you're so good you fulfilled my prompt 7 years before I asked for it. So honestly, you can put me down as a satisfied customer if you want, I'm quite happy with An Unanticipated Detour as is. Thanks! (Not that I'd say no if you chose to write something else, of course!)

[jedibuttercup]

LOL, I was actually thinking about how I might set your request in the Unanticipated Detour 'verse, so I could borrow the world-building I did for that one. :) Glad you enjoyed it! Teal'c's a great character for that sort of story.