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    Sunday, January 25th, 2009
    5:04 pm
    [firefly124]
    The past two weeks' prompts: inheritance and parent(s)
    X-post of last week's prompt, posted by [info]philomytha:

    Continuing with the reproduction theme, this week's prompt is inheritance. Lots of ways to use that, whether biologically (what does Gregor think he inherits from his father?), legally (Miles and his radioactive farmland? Iselle and the throne of Chalion?) or any other way that strikes your imagination.

    And this week's:

    Continuing on the theme of reproduction and family, this week's prompt is parent(s). Could be impending parenthood, decisions about parenthood, struggles with one's parents, and any definition of parent that fits. For example, I think Cordelia says that by some Betan interpretations, Miles could be considered Mark's parent, something I imagine would horrify them both. Or what are the repercussions if Fawn and Dag have a child together? What are the dynamics of the Lakewalker triad with their offspring? What does Iselle's heir think of his/her parents? Or what challenges does a single parent face in Chalion?

    Fics of all lengths are welcome, as is art of any kind. And if this prompt doesn't grab you, past prompts are always available for potential inspiration as well.

    And if you'd like to volunteer to be part of the prompt-posting rotation, please do! The more who volunteer, the less often each person's turn will come up.
    Sunday, January 11th, 2009
    3:01 pm
    [firefly124]
    This week's prompt: birth
    As [info]philomytha pointed out over on LJ, LMB often deals with reproductive themes. Given that it's the beginning of the year, often represented as an infant, this seems like a good time to play with those themes a bit.

    This week's prompt, then, is birth. Could be literal birth, could be more metaphorical. Fic of all lengths and art are welcome. And, if this doesn't spark your muse, past prompts are always available for potential inspiration as well.

    Also, so far there's just [info]philomytha volunteering to help rotate the prompt postings. Anybody else care to help out? The more who volunteer, the less often your turn will come up. :-)
    Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
    11:03 pm
    [firefly124]
    So, where shall we go in 2009?
    Obviously, I've amply demonstrated my complete inability to post weekly prompts. But I'd hate to give up quite yet, so I'm soliciting your opinions on what direction to take the comm in next year. Polls seem to get people talking more than broad questions, if only so everyone can complain about the inadequacy of the options they had to choose from, so let's start with a poll:

    Poll #2931
    Open to: All, results viewable to: All

    Are you interested in having this community continue?

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    Yes
    4 (100.0%)

    No
    0 (0.0%)

    If yes, what do you think would be the best/most interesting way to do the challenges?

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    Weekly, but with a rotation of people issuing the challenges
    2 (50.0%)

    Monthly challenges with a broader focus
    0 (0.0%)

    Monthly calls for prompts that anyone can then write/draw that month
    0 (0.0%)

    Challenges that are specific to one of the LMB fandoms
    0 (0.0%)

    Challenges that focus on specific characters
    0 (0.0%)

    Stick with challenges that could apply to any of the LMB fandoms
    2 (50.0%)

    Some other thing I'll explain in comments
    1 (25.0%)

    What do you think about the current flexibility on length for fics?

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    I like not being fenced in to a certain word count or range.
    3 (75.0%)

    I'd be more likely to participate if I knew only 100-word drabbles were expected.
    0 (0.0%)

    Some other thing I'll explain in comments.
    1 (25.0%)

    What do you think about having old prompts always available to use?

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    I like it.
    3 (75.0%)

    I'd be more likely to participate if I had a firm deadline.
    0 (0.0%)

    Some other thing I'll explain in comments.
    1 (25.0%)

    What did you think about this comm going on hiatus during the LMB Ficathon?

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    Good idea. Don't want to spread people too thin.
    2 (66.7%)

    Bad idea. The comm really lost momentum around then.
    0 (0.0%)

    Bad idea. Having prompts for short things helps me get unblocked.
    0 (0.0%)

    Some other thing I'll explain in comments.
    1 (33.3%)



    Any other thoughts, comments, or suggestions? I'm all ears.

    Also, happy new year!
    Sunday, October 26th, 2008
    11:59 am
    [firefly124]
    This week's challenge, should you choose to accept it: stress
    Miles is always under stress, whether he's being the Admiral or the Auditor. Gregor's always under stress. Cazaril's life appears to be the definition of stress, as does Dag and Fawn's. So, in honor of these poor characters and all they go through, this week's prompt is stress. Could be them under stress, cracking from stress, or seeking stress relief.

    Past prompts are, as always, available for inspiration as well, either on their own or in combination with the current one. Fics of all lengths and art of all types are welcome!

    Happy creating!
    Sunday, October 19th, 2008
    9:45 am
    [firefly124]
    Last week's LJ post and this week's prompt
    I apologize for my sporadic flakiness. Clearly, this semester is eating holes in my brain and I need a portable prosthetic memory like Simon's!

    We had one post on our LJ comm last week:

    Title: Justice
    Author: [info]philomytha
    Word Count: 250
    Rating: G, Gen
    Prompt: mothers
    Summary: Harra decides to act

    This week's prompt is laughter. Go anywhere you like with it, from something funny and fluffy to someone laughing because otherwise they'll scream.

    Fics of all length and art of any type is welcome, and past prompts are always available if you're looking for further inspiration.
    Sunday, September 28th, 2008
    10:51 am
    [firefly124]
    This week's prompt: sports
    Aaand I missed last week entirely. Sorry!

    This week's prompt is sports. We know there's cross-ball, at least, in the Vorkosiverse, and surely the Chalionese, Ibrans, Lakewalkers, and Farmers have sports of some kind as well. What are those sports like, and do our favorite characters love them, hate them, watch them, or play them?

    Fics of all length and art of any type is welcome, and past prompts are always available if you're looking for further inspiration.
    Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
    6:50 am
    [firefly124]
    Last week's post from LJ and this week's prompt
    We had one response on LJ to last week's prompt of "study."

    Title: Growing Up
    Author: [info]glishara
    Word Count: 1550
    Rating: PG, Gen
    Summary: Nikolai doesn't always fit in at Vorkosigan House

    This week's challenge is "honor." Fics of all lengths as well as art are welcome. And if this prompt doesn't do it for you, past prompts are always available for inspiration as well.
    Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
    7:22 am
    [firefly124]
    This week's prompt: study
    This week's challenge is also my excuse for forgetting that I was to get things going again this past Sunday*: study. Could be Miles and/or Ivan studying at the Academy, Umegat studying the ways and teachings of the Bastard, or Fawn studying a problem. Or, of course, any other take you might have on "study" as a prompt.

    Fic of all lengths as well as art are welcome. And if this prompt doesn't inspire you, past prompts are always up for use as well.

    *Looking at the hiatus announcement post, I see that I'd said prompts would resume on 8/24. At some point, in my head, that turned into the Sunday after Labor Day. Oops. Guess I'm a bit later than I'd thought!
    Sunday, June 29th, 2008
    1:43 pm
    [firefly124]
    Taking a break
    Thanks to philomytha for the theme we've been using the past few weeks and for Untrammelled Judgement, a missing scene from Mirror Dance for the argument prompt.

    This comm is going to take a hiatus for the next few weeks, so you can all turn your energies to the manymany wonderful prompts for the bujold_fic ficathon. You can still submit prompts there today, and [info]sahiya will have a table organizing them tomorrow.

    Weekly prompts here will return on Sunday, August 24. Have fun, and happy creating!
    Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
    9:28 am
    [firefly124]
    This week's prompt: confession
    This week's prompt is confession. Lots of room for the awkward and angsty there! I'm just reading Passage, and I see there's a certain young patroller who's been sentenced to go confess to some enormous stupidity, for just one example of a "missing scene" that would fit this prompt.

    As always, fics of any length are welcome, as are art and icons. And if you don't find this prompt inspirational, past prompts are always available as well.

    Also, if you have any prompt ideas for this summer's ficathon, head on over and post them on the LJ bujold_fic comm!

    Current Mood: chipper
    Sunday, June 15th, 2008
    2:03 pm
    [firefly124]
    This week's prompt: negotiation
    This week's talking prompt is negotiation. As always, fics of any length are welcome, as are art and icons. And if you don't find this prompt inspirational, past prompts are always available as well.
    Sunday, June 8th, 2008
    11:50 am
    [firefly124]
    This week's prompt: argument
    Thanks to [info]philomytha for the suggestion to do a "talking" theme. And the first of the prompts for that theme is "argument." You can have characters arguing, trying to stave off an argument, reflecting on an argument that already happened, whatever takes your fancy.

    As always, fics of all length are welcome, as are art and icons. And if you don't find this prompt inspirational, past prompts are always available as well.
    Monday, June 2nd, 2008
    11:00 pm
    [firefly124]
    Some Betan saying about a day and a dollar?
    Sorry for being late!

    I didn't think up a theme for June, and nobody suggested any, so for this week, at any rate, I tried a bit of bibliomancy: opened up the dictionary and went for the first word I saw. Thus, this week's prompt is "orthopter."

    Yeah, that's what I said. WTF is an orthopter? Fortunately, the dictionary comes with these handy definitions: one of an order of insects including cockroaches, grasshoppers, and locusts. So, erm, presumably also butter bugs? LOL

    As always, fics of all length are welcome, as are art and icons. And if you don't find vomit bugs this prompt inspirational, past prompts are always available as well.
    Sunday, May 25th, 2008
    12:46 pm
    [firefly124]
    This week's prompt: remembering the fallen
    It's Memorial Day here in the US, and thus this week's prompt is "remembering the fallen."

    Any suggestions for June's theme and/or prompts? It seems like the one-word prompts were more useful to people, so I'm probably going to lean in that direction.

    You know the drill: fics of all length are welcome, as are art and icons. And if you don't find this prompt inspirational, past prompts are always available as well.

    Current Mood: cheerful
    Sunday, May 18th, 2008
    12:52 pm
    [firefly124]
    This week's prompt: POV switch
    The challenge for this week is to take any scene in the Vorkosigan, Chalion, or Sharing Knife books and write it from another character's POV. Could be a character who is in the scene or another character being told about it, whatever strikes your fancy. The key is to figure out how it all looks through somebody else's eyes.

    You know the drill: fics of all length are welcome, as are art and icons, though I imagine this prompt doesn't lend itself much there. And if you don't find this prompt inspirational, past prompts are always available as well.
    Sunday, May 11th, 2008
    9:14 am
    [firefly124]
    This week's prompt: mothers
    Wow, I completely flaked last week. I am so sorry! I guess I'll blame it on the end of the semester. (Hey, it's a convenient excuse. :)

    Aaaaanyway, that's also my excuse for taking the easy way out this week and making the prompt mothers. Because it's Mother's Day here in the U.S. - and Happy Mother's Day to any of you who fit that description! - and there are some seriously formidable mothers in the various Bujold 'verses: Cordelia, Alys, Ekaterin, Ista. Hmm. TSK-verse mothers haven't left quite as big an impression on me, but I know they're there. So this challenge is to write something focused on any of them.

    You know the drill: fics of all length are welcome, as are art and icons. And if you don't find this prompt inspirational, past prompts are always available for inspiration as well.
    Sunday, April 27th, 2008
    7:15 pm
    [firefly124]
    This week's prompt from Nikos Kazantzakis
    Another one courtesy of Quoteopia:

    Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
    - Nikos Kazantzakis


    Fics of all length are welcome, as are art and icons. And if you don't find this prompt inspirational, past prompts are always available for inspiration as well.

    Happy creating!
    Sunday, April 20th, 2008
    11:06 am
    [firefly124]
    This week's prompt, from Arthur Miller
    This one is courtesy of Quoteopia:

    He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
    - Arthur Miller


    Fics of all length are welcome, as are art and icons. And if you don't find this prompt inspirational, past prompts are always available for inspiration as well.

    Happy creating!
    Sunday, April 13th, 2008
    8:52 am
    [firefly124]
    Last week's LJ posts and this week's prompt
    We had one fic posted to our LJ comm and one prompt-inspired fic posted to the Bujold_fic comm on LJ this week:

    Title: Snowbound Boy
    Author: [info]quietann
    Rating/Warnings: PG, read between the lines
    Characters: Gregor (Vorkosigan saga)
    Prompt: snowstorm

    Title: Bothari
    Author: [info]digiella
    Character: Miles Vorkosigan
    Rating: None
    Prompt: hearts

    This week's prompt is a poem suggested by [info]wombathouse:

    For A Woman Who Doubted the Power of Love

    Didn't I say the sun would cross the sky
    Like a burning stone
    And, like a burnt stone, fall in the evening
    To light the pathway
    Of the huge red stone of the moon rising
    For our eyes only?
    Didn't I say the moon would fade and leave us
    Pale as our faces
    Here at the end of night as we lie together
    Under the drifting snow?
    Didn't I say all snow would turn to water,
    Each drop a flower,
    That the sun would rise as molten as always
    In time with birdsong
    By the light of our moving arms in the morning?
    My love, listen and learn
    Once more how I did all this by the power
    Of your heart and my heart.
    How could the sky and these falling star-lit leaves
    Catch fire without us?

    --David Wagoner


    Fics of all length are welcome, as are art and icons. And if you don't find this prompt inspirational, past prompts are always available for inspiration as well.

    Happy creating!
    Sunday, April 6th, 2008
    11:01 am
    [firefly124]
    This week's prompt: a quote from T.S. Eliot
    Some great suggestions came in last week for May, but there's still April to go! April's theme is going to be quote-prompts, and this week's, found via Quoteopia, seemed like a good one to start with.

    April is the cruellest month, breeding
    Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
    Memory out of desire, stirring
    Dull roots with spring rain.
    Winter kept us warm, covering
    Earth in a forgetful snow, feeding
    A little life with dried tubers.
    - TSEliot


    Granted, none of the LMB 'verses are likely to have a month actually called "April," but I think (hope!) there's potential for inspiration in there.

    Fics of all length are welcome, as are art and icons. And if you don't find this prompt inspirational, past prompts are always available for inspiration as well.

    Happy creating!
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