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disc_fest2012-05-11 11:30 am
bethbethbeth) wrote in disc_fest2012-05-11 11:30 am
Disc Fest (the 2nd) Prompt Collection Post
Please leave your fic and art prompt(s) in a comment below (note: there are separate prompt posts in the DW Disc Fest community and the LJ Disc Fest community, but you only need to leave your prompt(s) in one place)
*You do not have to be a member of this community to leave a prompt.
*You do not have to be planning to participate as a writer or an artist to leave a prompt.
*Feel free to leave one prompt or multiple prompts.
Your prompts can be general or specific, as you choose. Some examples of different types of prompts are as follows :
Character/Pairing-centric Prompts:
*Sybill Vimes and Havelock Vetinari as children: were they friends?
*Angua and Captain Carrot as an established couple, visiting relatives.
*Granny Weatherwax and a secret.
Place Prompts
*Anything, as long as it's set in Death's domain
*Daily life in Überwald
*Historical Klatch
Plot Prompts
*A visitor from "Roundworld" appears in Ankh-Morpork.
*When members of the Night Watch start disappearing, William de Worde investigates. What does he discover?
*Somebody attempts to take over control of the city from the Patrician…and it starts to look as if [she/he/it/they] might succeed!
Miscellaneous Prompts
*Ice, an elephant, a pair of boots
*Pre-Raphaelite art (any characters)
*A crossover with either Good Omens or Neverwhere.
Reminder, the Disc Fest schedule (discussed in greater detail in the previous post) is as follows:
May 11 - Fic and Art Prompt posts are open
May 25 - Prompt-claiming and sign-ups begin.
June 1 - The prompt-claiming and sign-up period ends
July 20 - All Fic and Art submissions are due (see this post for the Header template)
July 29 - Fest opens!
August 5 - Author/Artist Reveals
Feel free to link this post anywhere you think there might be interest.
*You do not have to be a member of this community to leave a prompt.
*You do not have to be planning to participate as a writer or an artist to leave a prompt.
*Feel free to leave one prompt or multiple prompts.
Your prompts can be general or specific, as you choose. Some examples of different types of prompts are as follows :
Character/Pairing-centric Prompts:
*Sybill Vimes and Havelock Vetinari as children: were they friends?
*Angua and Captain Carrot as an established couple, visiting relatives.
*Granny Weatherwax and a secret.
Place Prompts
*Anything, as long as it's set in Death's domain
*Daily life in Überwald
*Historical Klatch
Plot Prompts
*A visitor from "Roundworld" appears in Ankh-Morpork.
*When members of the Night Watch start disappearing, William de Worde investigates. What does he discover?
*Somebody attempts to take over control of the city from the Patrician…and it starts to look as if [she/he/it/they] might succeed!
Miscellaneous Prompts
*Ice, an elephant, a pair of boots
*Pre-Raphaelite art (any characters)
*A crossover with either Good Omens or Neverwhere.
Reminder, the Disc Fest schedule (discussed in greater detail in the previous post) is as follows:
May 11 - Fic and Art Prompt posts are open
May 25 - Prompt-claiming and sign-ups begin.
June 1 - The prompt-claiming and sign-up period ends
July 20 - All Fic and Art submissions are due (see this post for the Header template)
July 29 - Fest opens!
August 5 - Author/Artist Reveals
Feel free to link this post anywhere you think there might be interest.
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- Neverwhere crossover, down in the Long Dark under Ankh-Morpork, someone has opened a door into London Below, and on the other side, there's been a murder...
- a Day in the Life of the Sunshine Sanctuary for Sick Dragons
- Snowy Slopes wasn't an assassin, just very good at killing people he didn't know for money. Where/how did he learn his trade?
- The very long courtship of Agnes and Mightily Oates
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*makes Mr Burns fingers* :D
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- Adventures of Esk between her book appearances
- A day in the life of the luggage, or any other piece of sapient pearwood
- The librarian's transformation into an orangutang
- The tale of any of the lost expeditions in the library
- Someone spikes dinner at the Unseen University with a love potion. What happens?
- Inter-species lesbian bar in Ankh Morpok. What conversations & romances result?
- Conina's childhood
- The story behind Cohen the Barbarian's famous proverb "never enter an arsekicking contest with a porcupine".
- Sometimes Nanny Ogg's sex education involves demonstrations or even a little hands-on experience
- "Lady Ramkin's bosom rose and fell like an empire." Which empire? And is it related to them Ramkin family's famous military endeavours?
- Any scene from canon retold from the perspective of a book in the library
- A recipe (or two!) from Nanny Ogg's cookbook
- philosophical observations by Ly Tin Wheedle
- Scenes from Detritus' war on drugs
- Angua/any female character, climbing naked through someone's window is an unorthodox way to start a relationship, but it seems to have worked
- Susan/Miss Tick, gels from the Quirm School for Young Ladies stick together
- a reunion at the Quirm School for Young Ladies
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- Tiffany/Preston, visiting Preston at the Lady Sybil Free Hospital and getting to see the city sans Feegles
- Art: Lu-Tze sweeping in the background of some major world event
- Om; Gods are shaped by human belief. So what happens when your humans, instead of having their belief center on your power and justice and smiting abilities, start really believing you love them and watch over them?
- The story of the dwarf and troll who set up together in whatever-street (mentioned in Snuff)
- Mightily Praiseworthy Are Ye Who Exalteth Om Oats did not expect the answer for his wishing for some divine confirmation to show up in the shape of a one-eyed tortoise with a penchant for cynical remarks about the world. (Post Carpe Jugulum)
- Sally/Maladicta, liaising
- Moist von Lipwig meets the Amazing Maurice.
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More later, probably.
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An illustrated family tree for any character
A picture of any character's bedroom
What any character sees when they look in the mirror, as compared with what they really look like
A romance conducted by clacks and/or semaphore
Location prompts:
Speed-dating in Ankh Morpok
Any canonical event, as witnessed from Cori Celesti
Drinks menu in 2 or 3 different Ankh Morpok bars (maybe including the opera house)
If the walls of the Assassins Guild could talk...
Offices of The Times before or after a major event
Plot prompts:
Another minority group joins the watch. What's the group, who is the character, & what happens?
The Night Watch isn't the first time a Discworld character travels through time. Who went where, and what happened?
Five times Granny Weatherwax wins a gamble with Death (and one time she doesn't?)
Heir to the crown of Lancre is born
Character prompts:
An exchange of letters between Sybil and one (or more) of her school friends
Vetinari's first kiss, and his first murder
Esk and Lady Roberta Meserole have tea together
Esk, what the magic of space & time looks like
William de Worde interviews Granny Weatherwax
Esk encounters the sweeper (or vice versa)
Pairing prompts:
Vimes/Vetinari, a fine romance (song at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2dLaXTdnMg&feature=youtube_gdata)
Vimes/Vetinari, retirement
Vimes/Vetinari, they never talk about it
Rosie Palm/Nanny Ogg, birds of a feather
Rosie Palm/Granny Weatherwax, just because she never married doesn't mean she never [ahem] loved
Rosie Palm/Esk, "and when I say the earth moved..."
Esk/Lady Roberta Meserole, just like magic
Esk/Lady Roberta Meserole, aging gracefully but not exactly retiring
And a few resubmitted from my prompts last year (if that's acceptable).
Pairing prompts:
Adora Belle/Esk, magic is sexier when it's done by women
Rosie Palm/Sandra Battye, "you wouldn't believe what Sandra can do with a mushroom"
Rosie Palm, she's been part of more than one revolution
Rosie Palm/Lady Roberta Meserole, the thrill of politics
Plot prompts:
A Republican Bee colony moves into the gardens of [a Discworld character of your choice]. What happens, and what (if any) thoughts about politics / human nature does it provoke?
How the Seamstresses Guild was formed
Location prompts:
Surviving for a day in The Shades
A (heavily biased?) history of Ankh Morpok
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- Petulia and the sausage trick
- Susan and Death's household -- how do they pass major holidays after Hogswatch?
- Annagramma -- being her own witch
- Tiffany -- the first time she stands up to Roland
- Cheery Littlebottom volunteers at the Sunshine Sanctuary for Sick Dragons.
- Doctor Who crossover: Amy Pond meets the anthropomorphic personification of Time and they talk about parents.
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Art of the opera house ballerinas and/or Christine, in a style inspired by (or parodying) Degas
Art of Ridcully's office in a style inspired by (or parodying) Matisse
Art of the river Ankh in a style inspired by (or parodying) Van Gogh's Starry Night Over the Rhone
Art of any sketches / plans drawn by Leonard de Quirm
Art of any sketches / plans drawn by Bloody Stupid Johnson
A portrait of Vetinari
Iconograph image(s) of Vimes and family
Iconograph image(s) of any of the speeding cart drivers or other traffic captured by the traffic cameras in The Third Elephant
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Leonard de Quirm painted a picture known as the Mona Ogg, whose teeth follow you around the room. So which of the Ogg clan posed for it? How did the Ogg in question meet Leonard, given that he's been under house arrest for some time?
A day in the life of whoever is running Sto Helit for the absent Duchess Susan.
The adventures and tribulations of Clancy, daughter of War.
All libraries are connected through L-Space...so any character from a canon with a library could accidentally wander through L-Space into Unseen University's library. Of
course, having the same accident twice would be somewhat more difficult.
Why DID Lu-Tze have to ensure that a Pash of the Theocracy of Muntab choked to death on a fishbone?
Eskarina Smith is able to appear at any time at will. This suggests that she may have run into other people from universes where time travel exists. Write about one of these adventures.
A story with Granny Weatherwax involving a jar of peaches, a skull and a candle stub.
What's
Leonard de Quirm painted a picture known as the Mona Ogg, whose teeth follow you around the room. So which of the Ogg clan posed for it? How did the Ogg in question meet Leonard, given that he's been under house arrest for some time?
A day in the life of whoever is running Sto Helit for the absent Duchess Susan.
The adventures and tribulations of Clancy, daughter of War.
All libraries are connected through L-Space...so any character from a canon with a library could accidentally wander through L-Space into Unseen University's library. Of
course, having the same accident twice would be somewhat more difficult.
Why DID Lu-Tze have to ensure that a Pash of the Theocracy of Muntab choked to death on a fishbone?
Eskarina Smith is able to appear at any time at will. This suggests that she may have run into other people from universes where time travel exists. Write about one of these adventures.
A story with Granny Weatherwax involving a jar of peaches, a skull and a candle stub.
What's <a href+"http://wiki.lspace.org/wiki/Herrena_the_Henna-Haired_Harridan">Herrena the Henna-Haired Harridan</a> doing these days?
ART or VID: Someone's fortune, as told with <a href="http://wiki.lspace.org/wiki/Caroc_Cards">Caroc Cards</a>.
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Polly/Maladict(a) not on the list of abominations to Nuggan
A day in the life of a barrista at a coffee shop in Ankh.
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Prompt: Susan was an experienced nanny. She knew all about children. Then she met Tiffany Aching.
Prompt: The Librarian takes a holiday. Witches may be involved. Or perhaps the Nac mac Feegle.
Prompt: Drumknott and Willikins have a few drinks and discuss their employers ... most discreetly, of course!
Prompt: Little Susan has a special time with her Grandad ... emphasis on special.
Prompt: Polly Perks and Maledicta, the second time around: neutral ground - "please swallow your pride"
Prompt: The Death of Rats and Greebo have An Adventure: it's a city of wonders, and it's an ill turn that does no one good.
Prompt: Dorfl celebrates Hogswatch with a few guests of his own choosing
Prompt: Susan and Angua - family
Prompt: After her family moves to the Chalk, Twyla Gaiter has a singular encounter.
Prompt: Sybil wants a holiday at the seaside. Who comes along, and does anyone actually dip a toe into the water?
Prompt: Sybil and Sam and a quiet evening, pre-young Sam
Prompt: Maledicta and Polly Perks: I can see forever
Prompt: A celebration of the ordinary with the City Watch. The moon should be involved.
Prompt: Tiffany Aching and something long forgotten
Prompt: A tall story - Nobby Nobbs ran away to sea as a boy!
Prompt: Nanny Ogg gives a cooking lesson to a pupil of your choice
Prompt: An Auditor encounters one or more of the Lancre Witches and undergoes a transformation.
Prompt: A couple of the Nac Mac Feegle enroll in the army and are assigned to Polly's unit.