Angle of Incidents (part three)

( 'Not a war zone, not a desert, no weird-ass science fiction crap.' )

EDIT-ADD: Links to part one, part two, part three.

Angle of Incidents (part two)

( 'This is *so cool*,' someone said. )

EDIT-ADD: Links to part one, part two, part three.

It's a thing!

Angle of Incidents (in three parts)

Fandom: Stargate.
Spoilers: None. (extremely AU; primarily original characters, although you'll recognize some).
Sex: No.
Language: Military folks swear some.
Kinks: Point-of-view.
Prompts: None, although the water balloons wouldn't have been out of place.
Length: 10k words (trisected).

What kind of thing is it? I'd hate to have to say it's a story. Perhaps it's an extended vignette. Perhaps it's "porn without plot", except without the porn. Except there *is* plot, or at least stuff happens at the end; so maybe it's a story with a rhinoceros on the beginning that I ought to trim off but haven't.

I have other ideas of what it might be, but I'll hold off on posting them until I see yours. Feedback very welcome. This has not been beta'd, and I bet you can tell. (Zarf sez, "Everything I know about the Air Force, I learned from fandom." Which is better than "...from TV," but still scary, right?)

I'll say this, though: I had a whole lot of fun writing it.

I'm dividing it into three posts, not because it's terribly long, but because the tone shifts quite a bit, and I think it needs the spacing-out.

( 'Toynbee idea in Kubrick movie Stardisc resurrect dead on Planet Atlantis!' )

EDIT-ADD: Links to part one, part two, part three.

Upon request, and because this year people were apparently more interested in watching the election than avoiding it, I'm extending the ostrich_2008 challenge.

Today is 5 November; please get your stories (or other offerings) posted no later than midnight on 5 December.

(Yay, this means I can write the story I was thinking about!)

Bare hours before US voting starts (what? I'm *not looking* at the Dixville Notch exit polls), here is my story. It was a wild idea 48 hours ago. I have no idea if it's a story now.

This is not based on one of the community prompts; rather, a prompt of my own which I might reveal tomorrow. Or not. No sex, no violence, but possible mortal peril.

---

( Ghost Story )

Title: Chuck vs. The Unresolved Sexual Tension
Author: dotfic
Fandom: Chuck
Rating: PG, het, Sarah/Chuck ust, season one
w/c: 1,400

a/n: Written for ostrich_2008. Prompts: dinosaurs, water balloons. Many thanks to writingpathways for the beta.

( So, it was supposed to be a date, the kind of date a couple who's been seeing each other for a while would have. A stay-in, watch movies and cuddle-on-the-couch date, and that was just fine with Chuck, except the thought was a little terrifying. )

Hey, Ostriches, this is just a reminder that the time for responding to this challenge runs out tomorrow night!

Don't forget to post your stories!

Operational Necessity


Fandom: The Sandbaggers

Summary: It’s a story about spies, in a fandom so small you’ve probably never heard of it. Alas. I swear the source is worth your while — it’s clever and intense and morally ambiguous and available on DVD.

Karen Milner, Neil Burnside, Jeff Ross, and Willie Caine, with minimal spoilers for the second season. About 3,500 words. Written because I wanted more Karen (and, okay, I was in bed with a head cold and my wireless kept cutting out). amaliedageek betaed it for me, when she wasn't telling me to go back to bed and take some more NyQuil.

There’s some sex, though it’s not particularly explicit; there’s some violence; and everyone involved lies for a living.




There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it. --Denis Diderot

( Read more... )

Title: Party
Author: vjs2259
Fandom: Babylon 5
Genre/Characters: John/Delenn, Garibaldi, ODC (Other Drazi Character)
Spoilers/Setting: S4, Epiphanies
Disclaimer: Not my characters or settings or backgrounds. But they are my words.
Rating: G (PG if you're sensitive)

Prompts: All of 'em. Dinosaurs, water balloons, Diderot, and Clement.

PARTY!

We're back!
Hello happy Ostriches! I bet you're just having so much fun following the election that you have no interest in anything else! ::coughs:: But for those of you who are finding the election stressful or overwhelming or just want to think about something (anything) else for a while, here's your chance!

The Election Season ostrich_2008 Challenge is now open for business.

The Rules
As before, the rules are as follows:
-- Any fandom or no fandom at all.
-- Art, fiction, stories, even meta if that floats your boat.
-- Any length work is acceptable.
-- No incest, no kiddie porn.
-- Warn for sex and violence, please use cut-tags. Ratings are encouraged but not required.
-- NO POLITICS.
-- If you have questions about anything, feel free to drop a note in reply to this post, or send me email at cofax 7 at livejournal.com.


The Prompts
Your prompts are as follows:

-- Dinosaurs (metaphorical, virtual, or actual)

and/or

-- Water balloons

and/or

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it. --Denis Diderot.

and/or

The universe is antagonist enough. -- Hal Clement.



The Deadline
Post any time you like, up to and including Election Day, which here in the USofA is Tuesday, November 4. The polls challenge will be open until midnight Pacific time (GMT -8hours) on November 4.

Ready? Set? Go bury your head in the sand!

Title: The Pictures of Regent Virini
Author: vjs2259
Fandom: Babylon 5
Genre/Characters: Gen, Londo Mollari
Spoilers/Setting: S5, after The Fall of Centauri Prime
Disclaimer: Not my characters or settings or backgrounds. But they are my words.
Rating: G
Prompt: both quotes

"We live in the dark, we do what we can, the rest is the madness of art."
 -Henry James, The Middle Years
                       
"In war, there are no unwounded soldiers."
- Jose Narosky

The Pictures of Regent Virini

 

Title: Leaves That Were Green
Author: cnidarian
Fandom: SG-1
Genre: Gen, General Hammond, angst, spoilers through Season 7
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Prompt: "In war, there are no unwounded soldiers." - Jose Narosky

Leaves That Were Green

I admit to being a bad moderator here, and I apologize for the long delay between challenges.

For your next challenge, I offer two quotations, ganked from _minxy_, who is awesome. Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to write fic or meta or make art, somehow inspired by either or both of these quotations below.



Quote 1: "We live in the dark, we do what we can, the rest is the madness of art." -Henry James, The Middle Years

Quote 2: "In war, there are no unwounded soldiers." - Jose Narosky



Challenge responses are due by June 30. Have fun!

Title: The Unbearable Unfitness of Being
Author: wendelah1 
Fandom: The X-Files
Genre: Mulder/Scully UST, Season Six, no spoilers
Rating: PG-13, for language
Disclaimer: Still not mine.
Prompt: Chuck Norris
Summary: Mulder thinks that the Consortium has concocted one of its strangest plots against him.

THE UNBEARABLE UNFITNESS OF BEING

Title: Ranger?
Author: vjs2259
Fandom: Babylon 5
Genre: somewhere post Severed Dreams, Season 3
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not my characters or settings or backgrounds, those are JMS and other copyright-owning folks'.  But they are my words.
Prompt: Chuck Norris
Summary: Zack and Garibaldi eat lunch.

Lunch is served here...

No, not a fic -- sorry -- but breaking ostrich news:

Public art project celebrates the ostrich influence

Because I am silly, I'm using Vehemently's suggestion from the prompts post (new suggestions always welcome!), and therefore the new challenge is:

(drum roll, please)

Chuck Norris

Because we're terribly flexible here at Casa de Ostrich, any and all uses of Chuck, from the virtual to the metaphysical will be allowed, although we request that Chuck not be an actual character in your story. (On the other hand, Walker Texas Ranger crossovers? Comedy gold. I'm just saying.)

Deadline is April 5. Enjoy!

Because clearly I am not a master of promptology, I throw myself on the brilliance of this community.

Prompts, people! Please to submit prompts! And then your wonky moderators will select from the suggestions for future challenges!

So, whatever floats your boat: quotes or theories or tv episode titles or animal names or whatever! Let's have prompts! Startle your fellow community-members with your genius!

Sorry about the delay, folks.

The hedgehog challenge was a bit of a flop, but we did get two stories submitted for it:

Cryptozoology by wendelah1, XF

Hh by vjs2259, Bab5

Title: Cryptozoology
Author: wendelah1 
Fandom: The X-Files
Genre: AU, cross-over, humor, MSR, season seven
Rating: Gen
Disclaimer: Still not mine.
Summary: Mulder wants to take Scully to England. Again.

Cryptozoology