The Primeval Ficathon Community

Well, at least we're getting advance notice ::g::

Needed: one pinch hitter to write one or more of the following pairings - Connor Temple/Philip Burton; Captain Becker/Matt Anderson; Christine Johnson/James Lester/ Philip Burton threesome.

Angst, dark, smut all welcome, and side orders of Abby/Connor requested for the first prompt.

If this sounds like your cuppa tea, please comment here with an e-mail address to send the assignment to. Comments are screened, and I'll update this post when I have someone.

Thank you, m'dears.

Got someone, thank you!

Hey guys

We need our first pinch hitter. Pairings requested are: Abby/Connor, Abby/Becker/Connor or Becker/Connor.

If you think that you could write a story with one or more of these pairings of at least 1,000 words by 30 April and would like to volunteer so that no one is left without a story, please leave a comment below. Comments are screened, and I'll update this post when I have someone.

Thank you!

Got someone! Thank you!

Dear all

Just a reminder to everyone that stories are due on April 30th. If you can't deliver on your assignment, please let us know that now so that we can either check with your assigned writer to see if they can switch to writing for your recipient instead or, if that's not possible, arrange for a pinch hitter to write the story. That way your recipient won't be left without a story when the reveal happens on 30 April.

The deadline for dropping out without penalty is 14 April. If you drop out after that date, then you run the risk of not being able to participate in future ficathons we run. However, even if you realise after the 14th that you're not going to deliver, please let us know as soon as possible. The more notice you give, the more time someone else has to step in and write something instead of you, and there's nothing worse for a ficathon than the due date rolling around with no story from you and no advance notice that was going to happen :)

If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at primevalathon at aithine.org.

Thanks for participating and we look forward to seeing your story!

Alyse & Aithine

Dear all

Just a reminder that we can only guarantee a match on one thing. We like to match you on as many things as we can, but that's not always possible given that this is a small fandom, with a wide variety of pairings requested.

As long as there is one prompt that you have been matched on, it does not matter if the other two prompts include things that you didn't offer to write. We're not expecting you to write things that you didn't offer, and we're certainly not expecting you to write things that you said you didn't want to write :)

So please don't panic if there are things that are on there that you either didn't offer or said you wouldn't write. As long as there is one thing on there that you said you would write, that's all we expect. Honest :) We have matched one or two people on gen requests, where both the author offered and the recipient requested, so even if the pairing request is something that you didn't offer, you should match on the characters offered and requested in relation to gen requests.

We did double check before we sent assignments out, but if there is nothing at all that the recipient requested there that you offered, then we've (meaning I've) obviously messed up somewhere. In that case, please do let us know, but otherwise, please try your best with what prompts you were matched on.

Thank you!

You should have received/be receiving right about now your assignments for the Spring 2011 primevalathon. Please let us know as soon as possible if there are any problems with what you've been matched with (everyone should have been matched on something, although in some cases it is gen) or if you haven't received your assignments by tomorrow morning.

And please remember to let us know as soon as possible if you don't think you can deliver a story by 30 April 2011, so that we have as much time as possible to assign a pinch hit.

Thank you, and have fun!

Sign ups are now open. Nothing has changed so again I'm just going to link to the posts I've made previously :) Please make sure that you read it all before you sign up, but don't hesitate to ask questions if there's anything you don't understand. Thank you!

FAQs etc

Guide to the Primevalathon.
Character and Pairing Guide

Points to remember when signing up

Matching is done primarily on the basis of the pairings you've picked. We try and match on as many pairings as possible, to give all authors as wide a range to choose from as possible, but it's not always possible to have more than one match.

Once you've signed up, a copy of your sign up is e-mailed to you. Please check this carefully. You can go back and resubmit your sign up, making any changes you want to, up until the deadline so please make sure not only that you're happy with your selection, but that it's clear for your author and doesn't include contradictory information. Things to look out for on the 'contradictory' front are:

• selecting more than one pairing, but only providing prompts for one pairing. If you select Abby/Connor and Claudia/Nick as your pairings, you could be matched with someone who's offered to write Abby/Connor or Claudia/Nick or both. So if all three of your prompts are about Claudia/Nick falling in luuurve, and you've been matched with someone who has only offered to write Abby/Connor, it's going to be a bit difficult for them :)


• using your prompts to ask for pairings or genres you haven't selected, for example 'I'd like a femslash story' when you've not selected any femslash pairings, or 'I'd love a Nick and Stephen fall in love story' when you haven't selected that pairing.


• ticking the same thing under 'want in my story' and 'do not want in my story'. That's just plain confusing :) Also, we give you the option of choosing whether or not you want fanon OCs in your story, and if you do, which particular fanon OCs, so if you tick yes there but then say later on that you don't want fanon OCs in your story (or vice versa), then it's going to be even more confusing for your poor bewildered author.

Don't forget that you can also use the free text box in the end to give your author more information if you think anything's not clear, or even to say nice things to them.

Key Dates for this round

Sign Ups Open: 1 February 2011
Sign Ups Close: 14 February 2011
Assignments Sent Out: by 21 February 2011
Last date for dropping out without penalty: 14 April 2011
Due Date for stories: 30 April 2011

Please make a note of these dates. 'I forgot' is not really a good excuse for not delivering and disappointing your recipient.

Sign Ups

The sign up form can be found here.

Questions? Comments?

Please comment here or feel free to PM us.

We'll be posting sign up posts for betas and pinch hitters at later dates.

Stories have now been posted for every recipient. The updated masterlist can be found here. Thank you to everyone who took part and most importantly to our pinch hitters.

aithine will now compile the list of orphan prompts (i.e. those not used by our authors), which should be posted soon and are free to good homes :)

Next round signups open on 1 Feb 2011, and we hope to see you there :)

alyse is being written for by facing_the_wind	-- [ In Hiding ] (Abby/Connor, PG13)
deinonychus_1 is being written for by woodstock12	-- [ Hours Of the Day ] (Becker/Connor, PG13)
dominique012 is being written for by ssw_loved pinch hit by prehistoriccat	-- [ The Girl in the Green Dress ] (Abby/Connor, PG)
evenstar_estel is being written for by Sherry Holt pinch hit by rodlox	-- [ The Affairs of Gods ] (Abby/Connor, PG13)
facing_the_wind is being written for by torigates	-- [ An Unexpected Visitor ] (Gen, PG13)
heeroluva is being written for by deinonychus_1	-- [ A Very Strange Night :: Part 1 | Part 2 ] (Stephen/Cutter, Connor/Stephen/Cutter, 18)
jooles34 is being written for by lsellersfic/annariel	-- [ Flowers of Probability :: on lj | on dw ] (Connor/Lester, U)
lsellersfic/annariel is being written for by heeroluva	-- [ It Was Worth It ] (Nick/Stephen, Abby/Connor, PG13)
misura is being written for by alyse	-- [ the kindest of kisses (break the hardest of hearts) :: on lj | on dw | on ij ] (Abby/Connor/Stephen, NC-17)
prehistoriccat is being written for by evenstar_estel	-- [ Remember A Day :: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 ] (Abby/Connor, T)
reni7681 is being written for by dominique012	-- [ Must be the flowers ] (Abby/Connor, G)
ssw_loved is being written for by jooles34	-- [ This, Just This ] (Abby/Connor, 15)
torigates is being written for by prehistoriccat	-- [ Cold Coffee ] (Abby/Connor, PG)
woodstock12 is being written for by misura	-- [ Another Day, Another Problem ] (Stephen/Abby, Danny/Connor, G)
Sherry Holt is being written for by reni7681	-- [ Simple Past ] (Abby/Connor, PG13)

Okay, my lovelies, we have a couple of stories still outstanding and we haven't yet heard back from the authors in question. We're going to give it another 24 or so hours before we send out pinch hits, but consider this the official pinch hitter volunteer post.

Two stories, both het, both very similar so we'll consider volunteers to be volunteering for both:

- pairings: one Abby/Connor; one Abby/Connor, Nick/Jenny or Claudia, or Danny/Jenny

- both like angst with a hopeful or happy ending, fluff, happy endings, hurt comfort and romance

- neither wants: character death, fanon or fanon original characters, mpreg, non-con or  rape

Comments are screened. Volunteers please form an orderly line... ::g::

Thanks in advance!

Title: the kindest of kisses (break the hardest of hearts)
Author: alyse
Recipient: misura
Prompt(s): 1st prompt: Abby/Connor/Stephen - please stick these three in an apartment together
Pairing: Abby/Connor/Stephen
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: Primeval and its characters belong to Impossible Pictures. No copyright infringement is intended. This is fanfiction, written solely for love of the show.
Word Count: 6,700
Author's Notes: Written for the primevalathon Autumn 2010 ficathon. Title and quote from 'Hardest of Hearts' by Florence and The Machine. Thanks go to aithine for the beta.

Summary: Connor tastes of toothpaste and tea and toast, of sleepy mornings and brand new days. It's typical that just as she warms into it, her breath mingling with Connor's until she can't tell who is breathing in and who is breathing out, the front door slams open and Stephen's feet pound up the stairs.

Posting starts at midnight tonight! So I hope you're all ready ::g::

When posting your story to the community - and you can post to any one of the comms, which are primevalathon on DW, primevalathon on IJ and primevalathon on LJ - please remember to include the following information:

Title:
Author:
Recipient:
Prompt(s): <--important so we can figure out which ones are left for the orphan prompts ::g::
Pairing(s), if any:
Rating:
Summary:
Warnings:
Disclaimer:

Thank you!

If you're posting directly to the community, please use cut tags.

Thanks! :)

Assignments are all out, so be sure and check your spam folders if you haven't received an email.

And thanks, everybody, for the helpful responses to my request yesterday!

I'm having a few technical difficulties with getting assignments out--they'll be sent by tomorrow.

To that end, if you're willing to write or receive additional characters and/or pairings besides the ones you put in your sign up, would you drop me a note in the comments, pretty please? I've got a couple of assignments that're making it tricky to find someone to match with.

Thanks! :)

Just a reminder that sign ups for the next round of the primevalathon fic exchange are open, and close on 14 August, five days from now. Stories are due on 31 October.

More information here:

livejournal :: dreamwidth :: insanejournal

Sign ups are now open. Nothing has changed since the last time we ran it, so rather than repeat all the stuff I usually post, I'm just going to link to the posts I've made previously :) Please make sure that you read it all before you sign up. Thank you!

FAQs etc

Guide to the Primevalathon.
Character and Pairing Guide

Points to remember when signing up

Matching is done primarily on the basis of the pairings you've picked. We try and match on as many pairings as possible, to give all authors as wide a range to choose from as possible, but it's not always possible to have more than one match.

Once you've signed up, a copy of your sign up is e-mailed to you. Please check this carefully. You can go back and resubmit your sign up, making any changes you want to, up until the deadline so please make sure not only that you're happy with your selection, but that it's clear for your author and doesn't include contradictory information. Things to look out for on the 'contradictory' front are:

• selecting more than one pairing, but only providing prompts for one pairing. If you select Abby/Connor and Claudia/Nick as your pairings, you could be matched with someone who's offered to write Abby/Connor or Claudia/Nick or both. So if all three of your prompts are about Claudia/Nick falling in luuurve, and you've been matched with someone who has only offered to write Abby/Connor, it's going to be a bit difficult for them :)


• using your prompts to ask for pairings or genres you haven't selected, for example 'I'd like a femslash story' when you've not selected any femslash pairings, or 'I'd love a Nick and Stephen fall in love story' when you haven't selected that pairing.


• ticking the same thing under 'want in my story' and 'do not want in my story'. That's just plain confusing :) Also, we give you the option of choosing whether or not you want fanon OCs in your story, and if you do, which particular fanon OCs, so if you tick yes there but then say later on that you don't want fanon OCs in your story (or vice versa), then it's going to be even more confusing for your poor bewildered author.

Don't forget that you can also use the free text box in the end to give your author more information if you think anything's not clear, or even to say nice things to them.

Key Dates for this round

Sign Ups Open: 1 August 2010
Sign Ups Close: 14 August 2010
Assignments Sent Out: by 21 August 2010
Last date for dropping out without penalty: 14 October 2010
Due Date for stories: 31 October 2010

Please make a note of these dates. 'I forgot' is not really a good excuse for not delivering and disappointing your recipient.

Sign Ups

The sign up form can be found here.

Questions? Comments?

Please comment here or feel free to PM us through livejournal's messaging system.

We'll be posting sign up posts for betas and pinch hitters at later dates.

We would normally open up the sign ups for the next ficathon in mid-August, with a view to assigning stories by the beginning of September and due on 31st October, i.e. giving you 8 weeks to write something. It's what we've been doing for the rounds so far. However, for some reason I got it into my head that actually I should be thinking about opening sign ups up next month before I realised that I would be a month too early ::g::

With that in mind, would people like a bit longer than 8 weeks to deliver their stories, or do they feel that 8 weeks is about right, given that we set the minimum at only 1,000 words?
Time for a poll, me thinks.

Poll #5280 Duration of ficathon period
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

How long a writing period would you prefer for the next round of the primevalathon

In conclusion:

Is anyone else melting in this weather? ::melts::

aithine is being written for by parsons	-- [ Way To Go | Part One | Part Two ] (Nick/Stephen, NR)
alyse is being written for by beren_writes	-- [ There's a First Time for Everything ] (Abby/Connor, NC-17)
beren_writes is being written for by alyse	-- [ Connor Temple, Sex God | Part One | Part Two ] (Abby/Connor, Connor/Stephen, Abby/Connor/Stephen, NC-17)
burntace_skins is being written for by tseecka	-- [ ] ()
canadian_jay is being written for by temaris	-- [ Mirror Fall ] (Connor/Ryan, 18)
caroxxjane is being written for by aithine	-- [ When the world is mud-luscious ] (Nick/Stephen, PG)
cheapxdate is being written for by chibi_kaz	-- [ Veritas Vos Liberabit ] (Abby/Connor, PG)
chibi_kaz is being written for by rodlox	-- [ Lines | Part One | Part Two ] (Gen, M)
curia_regis is being written for by not_from_stars	-- [ Four Times James Lester Didn't Hook Up With Abby Maitland ] (Abby/Lester, PG)
dominique012 is being written for by pink_flame_87	-- [ No Place Like Home ] (Abby/Connor, PG)
kalliopeia is being written for by dominique012	-- [ Tall tales and Fever ] (Abby/Connor, G)
limpycsiwombat is being written for by kalliopeia	-- [ This Imperfect Life ] (Gen, PG)
not_from_stars is being written for by woodstock12	-- [ Waiting Is The Hard Part ] (Abby/Stephen, PG13)
oystergrrl is being written for by vivien529	-- [ I Need Your Words ] (Abby/Connor, PG)
parsons is being written for by curia_regis	-- [ the future is a foreign country (they do things differently here) ] (Stephen/Ryan, R)
pink_flame_87 is being written for by prehistoriccat	-- [ Out of the Shade ] (Abby/Connor, PG)
prehistoriccat is being written for by cheapxdate [pinch hit by curia_regis]	-- [ Peaches and Love ] (Abby/Connor, G)
rodlox is being written for by canadian_jay	-- [ One Side of the Anomaly ] (No pairings listed, PG)
temaris is being written for by limpycsiwombat	-- [ Open Your Eyes ] (implied Abby/Connor, implied Claudia/Nick, PG13)
torigates is being written for by oystergrrl	-- [ Questions ] (Abby/Connor, PG)
tseecka is being written for by burntace_skins	-- [ ] ()
vivien529 is being written for by torigates	-- [ build a wall of books between us ] (Abby/Connor, R)
woodstock12 is being written for by caroxxjane	-- [ Keeping Things Interesting ] (Gen, PG)

We're still waiting on the last four stories coming in, and I've chased the authors who are still outstanding and aimed my best school mistress frown in their general direction, but I wanted to let people know that we will be seeking pinch hitters for any stories that aren't posted by tomorrow night, so watch this space. No one will be left without a story. If you've ever been involved in previous ficathons we've run, you know we're rather tenacious about that ::g::

Also, I wanted to remind people that we will be posting orphan prompts after everyone has a story, i.e. the prompts that weren't used by the assigned author to write the story. They will be available to be used by anyone who is inspired, whether they signed up to this round of the ficathon or not. If you, as an author, haven't clearly indicated on your story which prompt you've used, we'll probably just include all three of your recipient's prompts on the list, so if you would prefer that not happen - or even if you'd like to make our lives a little easier ::g:: - please consider editing your story post to make which prompt you used clear to somewhat frazzled moderators (in other words, you might need to spell it out for us because we're occasionally a little slow on the uptake).

Thank you!

Once all stories are in, I'll be posting the masterlist to all three journalling sites (i.e. dreamwidth and insanejournal as well as livejournal). So watch those spaces as well :)

Reminder: Stories are due a week from today. Proceed to panic ::g::

If there's any doubt that you'll be able to post your story, you need to let us know that now. if you don't give us any warning and don't deliver on the day then unless you have a good reason for it you will be banned from participating next time. We're not unreasonable people, honest ::g:: but we won't be the only people you let down.

Also, if you're one of the wonderful souls who are prepared to step up to the plate if someone defaults, then please volunteer here giving some details of what you will (or won't) write and a way of contacting you. Comments are screened to maintain that air of mystery!

Thank you in advance!

If you would like to offer your services as a volunteer beta reader (and we've already had our first request ::g::), please comment here with the following information:

- name
- means of contacting you and sending you the story (i.e. e-mail address)
- what you're willing to beta
- anything you're not willing to beta (characters, genres, pairings, any topics you're not comfortable with)
- optionally, you can also give some indication of where you think your strengths and weaknesses are (for example, you're really good with spelling, punctuation and grammar but couldn't spot a plot hole if it was gaping in front of you ::g::)