You should have received your assignments by now. For those new people who haven't, please check your spam box just in case. (If you still don't have it, email me and I can send your assignment via LJ mail.) Happy writing!


Rules:

1) Even though you choose three fandoms and as many pairings as you want, you only have to write one story about one pairing.

2) Prompts do not have to be summer themed. However, if they are, be kind to your recipient and write a summer themed fic.

3) All fics must be a minimum of 1000 words. There is no maximum. Please be sure to have your fics betaread prior to posting. (Ficathon mods are not available for betareading purposes, nor are we able to find you a betareader. We will, however, put a post up for betareaders to volunteer in.)

3a) If you want to break it up into two (2) 500 word fics, it will be allowed for this ficathon.

4) You will be asked to list pairings or characters you want. Please be sure to list a reasonable number for your writer, who is allowed to include any other characters he or she wishes to write. (Also: Please, no incest prompts. That's a can of worms your mod still doesn't want to open.)

5) If you sign up and discover you will not be able to complete a fic, please let me know by August 1st so I can find a back up. This also means you will not get the story you requested. It's only fair.

Defaulters will not be allowed to participate in any future oldschoolfic ficathons.

6) If you have any questions, please e-mail me at larah33@gmail.com


Timeline

Sign-ups: June 3rd - 30th
Assignments sent: July 1st
Default deadline: August 1st
Deadline: September 1st
Stories released: September 4th

Title: The Long and Winding Road
Fandom: Veronica Mars
Character(s): Keith Mars
Rating: PG for suggestive content
Word Count: approx. 1900 words
Disclaimer: Not mine; don’t sue. Un-beta'd.
Summary: Set at the end of the second season, before we knew what happened. (And it fits, surprisingly enough.) Making sense of some backstory. Possibly minor spoilers, but not likely. (You wouldn’t be reading this if you didn’t already know what happens.)

( Meanwhile, in another part of town … )

So far, only three people have signed up for the Summer Lovin' ficathon. (And one person claimed a prompt from last summer.) Come on, folks! Sign yourself up and get the word out there! We need more fic!!!

Timeline

Sign-ups: June 3rd - 30th
Assignments sent: July 1st
Default deadline: August 1st
Deadline: September 1st
Stories released: September 4th

Title: The Times Are Winter
Author: azephirin / abi z.
Fandom: ER
Pairing: Carol Hathaway / John Carter
Summary: The times are winter, watch, a world undone....
Rating: PG
Word count: ~590
Spoilers: 3.15, "The Long Way Around"
Disclaimer: Not mine.





( The times are winter, watch, a world undone.... )

Title: Nothing Beside Remains
Author: azephirin / abi z.
Fandom: Angel: The Series
Pairing: Wesley/Illyria
Summary: Nothing beside remains: round the decay / Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, / The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Rating: NC-17
Word count: ~430
Disclaimer: They're not mine, but I'll return them before they're overdue.
Author's note: Written for Porn Battle VIII and originally posted here. Title, cut text, and summary from "Ozymandias of Egypt," by Percy Bysshe Shelley.




( My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair! )

Title: My Favorite Plum
Author: azephirin / abi z.
Fandom: Dark Angel
Pairing: Max/Alec
Summary: I've seen the best, yes, and that is the one for me.
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 525
Spoilers: general series
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Author’s note: Written for katomyte's prompt Max/Alec, domestic. Also for 100_women table prompt "present." Title, cut text, and summary from the song "My Favorite Plum," by Suzanne Vega.




( it will be so sweet, i've been so dry )

This time we're playing it a little differently. This time I'm opening up the ficathon to those fandoms which were previous closed, i.e. Star Trek, Terminator, even though new canon has just been introduced. If you're unsure whether your fandom is elligible, just ask!

Summer Lovin' Ficathon

Timeline

Sign-ups: June 3rd - 30th
Assignments sent: July 1st
Default deadline: August 1st
Deadline: September 1st

Stories released: September 4th

Rules

1) Even though you choose three fandoms and as many pairings as you want, you only have to write one story about one pairing.

2) Prompts do not have to be summer themed. However, if they are, be kind to your recipient and write a summer themed fic.

3) All fics must be a minimum of 1000 words. There is no maximum. Please be sure to have your fics betaread prior to posting. (Ficathon mods are not available for betareading purposes, nor are we able to find you a betareader. We will, however, put a post up for betareaders to volunteer in.)

3a) If you want to break it up into two (2) 500 word fics, it will be allowed for this ficathon.

4) You will be asked to list pairings or characters you want. Please be sure to list a reasonable number for your writer, who is allowed to include any other characters he or she wishes to write. (Also: Please, no incest prompts. That's a can of worms your mod still doesn't want to open.)

5) If you sign up and discover you will not be able to complete a fic, please let me know by August 1st so I can find a back up. This also means you will not get the story you requested. It's only fair.

Defaulters will not be allowed to participate in any future oldschoolfic ficathons.

6) If you have any questions, please e-mail me at larah33@gmail.com

Sign-Up Template

Username:
Email Address: (again, comments will be screened)
Fandoms I Can Write:
Things I Can't Write:
Things l Love to Read:
Pinch Hitter:

Request 1: Fandom, Character(s), Prompt, Things I don't want
Request 2: Same format as #1
Request 3: Same format as #1

(For clarity - a "/" indicates romantic relationship, and an "and" indicates gen pairing.)

Example:

Username: larah33

E-mail: larah33 at gmail dot com
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed, Firefly, Veronica Mars, Gilmore Girls, Sarah Connor Chronicles
Things I Can't Write: Femmeslash, slash, PWP
Things I Love to Read: Strong plot/characters, shmoop, angst with a happy ending
Pinch Hitter: Yes

Request One
Fandom: Veronica Mars
Characters: Veronica/Logan, Veronica and anyone (gen)
Prompt: Surfing
Things I Don't Want: Duncan, Madison, character death

Request Two
Fandom: Buffy
Characters: Ensemble

Prompt: The Scooby Gang lived in California, but we never saw them at the beach. Let's see them at the beach.
Things I Don't Want: Buffy/Angel

Request Three
Fandom: Sarah Connor Chronicles
Characters: Cameron
Prompt: Do androids dream of electric sheep?
Things I Don't Want: Have fun!

This may seem like a silly request, but since I'm relatively new to the world of fic writing (since I don't think it was this organized twenty-five years ago when I was writing The Tomorrow People fic), is there a lexicon or glossary somewhere that can tell me what all the terms mean? Some of them are easy enough to figure out, but some of them completely lose me.

Come play! Minimum word count: 1,000.

Timeline:

Sign-Ups: February 1, 2009 - February 28, 2009
Assignments Sent By: March 8, 2009
Default Deadline: April 1, 2009
Fics Due: May 1, 2009
Fics Released From Queue: Appx. May 15, 2009

Official Fandoms:

Alias
Angel: The Series
Babylon 5
Battlestar Galactica (New)
Bones
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
CSI (all series)
Dark Angel
The Devil Wears Prada (write-in)
Doctor Who/Sarah Jane Adventures/Torchwood
Eureka
Farscape
Firefly
Harry Potter
House
Law & Order (all series)
Lost (write-in)
Marvel Universe
NCIS
The Pretender
Sanctuary
Sarah Connor Chronicles/Terminator
Star Trek (all series)
Star Wars (old & new)
Stargate (SG1 & SGA)
Supernatural
True Blood (write-in)
Veronica Mars
The West Wing
The X-Files

Rules and sign-up example here.

Until I can get my shit act together enough for another ficathon, go check out femme_fic. They're currently holding a fandom poll, which is wide open to suggestions of fandoms not included in the poll. So vote, and then pimp like a pimping thing!

(The stories will be gen, het, or femslash, but not RPF or incest.)

Poll #1331346 Fic Generator
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

How would you prefer we generate more fic in the community?

If we go with prompt posts, how often would you want a new post?

It's time for our lovely mod to get a new userpic...

ndnickerson wrote Bow Down Silent for glasheen25
maidenjedi wrote First Breath After Coma for ladybug218
glasheen25 wrote The Truth for ndnickerson
dragonsinger wrote One Good Christmas for brightknightie
malinaldarose wrote A Time For Families for amilyn
amilyn wrote I Had Seen Birth and Death, But Had Thought They Were Different for telaryn
tegdoh wrote Until Then, We Have to Muddle Through Somehow for kajivar
brightknightie wrote So This Is Home for dragonsinger
ladybug218 wrote Mistletoe Is Deadly (Or At Least Evil) for larah33
not_from_stars wrote The Perfect Gift for storydivagirl
telaryn wrote Holidays Are What You Make of Them for maidenjedi
larah33 wrote The Holiday Episode for malinaldarose
kajivar wrote Traditions for tegdoh
storydivagirl wrote Another Doomed Love Affair for not_from_stars

Due to a wee settings snafu, the comments on your story posts may be screened. I've fixed the community settings and gone through and unscreened the comments that I've found. Sorry for any inconvenience! If there's still any lingering weirdness, comment here and let me know.

Title: Another Doomed Loved Affair
Author: Tommygirl/storydivagirl
Rating: PG-13 for language
Fandom & Pairing: Kindred the Embraced, Cash/Sasha
Written For: not_from_stars who wanted Cash/Sasha and happy ending.
A/N: I really hope this works for Mylia, who I love and adore. It was fun to play in this world. Hopefully, I lost the angst long enough to bring about the happy ending. Feedback adored.

( onto the story... )

Title: Traditions
Fandom: Star Trek: TOS
Characters: Uhura, Bones, Sulu, Chekov
Word Count: 1039
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters, I'm just playing in Gene Roddenberry's universe.
Summary: How do you celebrate Christmas in space?
Author's Note: For tegdoh with the prompts of "grandchildren" and "snow."

( We could at least have shore leave on a planet with snow for Christmas. )

Title: The Holiday Episode
Author: larah33
Rating: G
Fandom: Firefly
Characters: All
Word Count: 2, 886
Written For: malinaldarose
Prompt: Christmas. In. Spaaaaaaaace!
Author's Notes/Summary: Much thanks to ohownovel for her amazing beta skills. Any remaining mistakes are my own. Set before the events in Serenity.

( Away on a spaceship… )

Title: Holidays Are What You Make of Them
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Author: telaryn
Characters: Dawn, Willow
Timeline: Season 7 - Late in Season
Word Count: 1618
Prompt: "Milkshake, magic, starlight"
Summary: With the end of the world around the corner, Dawn makes time for the things that are most important.
Author's Note: For maidenjedi who wanted Tara, Dawn and Willow. Her milkshake prompt coupled with your like of angst kind of ran away with the story, but I like to think the magic and Tara are still present.

( Buffy’s gonna be pissed. )

Title: The Perfect Gift
Fandom: Joan of Arcadia
Author: not_from_stars
Recipient: storydivagirl
Word Count: 1,128
Summary: Adam wants to create the perfect gift and seeks out advice from friends and family
Rating: PG
Author's Note: Thanks to ladybug218 fot the beta.


( The Perfect Gift )

Title:mistletoe is deadly (or at least evil)
Author: ladybug218
Fandom: Veronica Mars
Characters: Veronica Mars, Dick Casablancas, Logan Echolls
Pairing: Veronica/Logan, implied Veronica/Logan/Dick
Written For: larah33
Prompt: Mistletoe
Rating: PG-13 for implied sexual situations
Author's Notes: Sorry this is so late! I had a hard time getting words on the screen. Anyway, many thanks to timjr, nofate301 and not_from_stars who helped me with the video game and comic book references in this fic. Thanks to absolutesnark for helping me with canon details. And extra special love to not_from_stars for the beta! Any remaining mistakes are mine alone.

( You wouldn't think a little plant could be evil )

Title: Until Then, We Have to Muddle Through Somehow
Author: tegdoh
Recipient: kajivar
Fandom: Star Trek (TOS)
Request: Uhura wants to celebrate the holidays, even in deep space.
Rating: G
Disclaimer/Author Notes: My first ever Trek fic, maybe not as Christmass-y as I had planned, but I hope you enjoy. Takes place in the aftermath of the attack by the Nomad probe.

( Read more... )

Title: I Had Seen Birth and Death, But Had Thought They Were Different
Fandom: Beauty and the Beast
Author: amilyn
Characters: Vincent, most of the Tunnels
Word Count: 1850
Summary: Vincent's first Winterfest after Catherine's death, and Jacob's first Winterfest.
Rating: G
Author's Note: Thanks to mtgat for the beta.
Request: Characters: Vincent/Catherine. Prompt: The perfect gift. Things I Don't Want: Sex. Things I Love to Read: Darkfic, angst, kink, schmoop...run 'em through the emotional wringer and I'm happy!

( Story Here )

Title: A Time For Families
Fandom: Forever Knight
Author: malinaldarose
Characters: Natalie, Janette, Nick
Word Count: Approximately 2,340
For: amilyn and oldschoolficHoliday Fic Exchange 2008
Prompt: Family

( A Time For Families )