Just wanted to take New Year's Eve to announce that since x2009 was such a huge success, we're going to be running the event next year. The time frame will remain the same (sign-ups in September, due date and posting starting in October), and the set-up/rules will be done as well (CCD, X, and TB fics).

Because the modzukamori are aware that there's plenty that can happen throughout the year, we're going to announce the theme tonight, so people have a chance to think on it (or even hammer their fic out ahead of time, if they're feeling ambitious!)

Our theme for 2009 is: Now is the Time.

Have a great year, and we hope to be hearing from you in September!

Thanks to all who participated - here's the list of writers with their IDs. IDs were constellations, and order was done by sign-up. We hope everyone had a good time, and would like to organize a similar activity next year for the real 2009!

Andromedae – mithrigil
Arae - sailorcoruscant
Aurigae - sakon76
Caeli - rekallthegreat
Cassiopeiae – sophiap

Camelopardalis - _akk
Cephei - _leareth
Chamaleontis – aishuu
Corvi - lindensphinx
Crateris – papered

Cygni - daydreamer64
Eridani – meteordust
Gruis – metisket
Horologii – arisstenoh
Leporis – doumeki

Lyncis –hellody
Monocerotis - xtwilightzx
Normae - dayadhvam_triad
Octantis – starstruck272
Ophiuchi – velvetpaws

Pegasi - liyosa
Pictoris - cyrulean
Reticuli – sakanagi
Tauri - aurei_sachi
Telescopii – enderxenocide

Trianguli – shadowpiper
Tucanae – yuismoon
Velorum – tokyoroadkill
Volantis – grey_lily

For those of you not on the prophecie newsletter, you might want to check out this post by ruthk, who has creating an index/rec post for this challenge!

Thanks, ruthk, from the modzukamori.

Hey guys! Again, I wanted to thank all of you for making x2009 such a success -- and don't forget, you can guess the identity of the authors here for a chance to win fic!

You want to know another way you can win things?

The Comment Raffle, that's how!

Here's how it works: Approximately a day after the reveal, I will tally up all the comments people have left on the fics posted to this community, assign people numbers based on how many times they've commented, and use a program to select three winners at random.
So if the fics have 300 comments altogether, and you've left fifteen of those comments, you'll be assigned fifteen (probably consecutive, to make it easier on me) numbers from 1 to 300. If one of those fifteen numbers comes up when I do the drawing, you'll win a prize!

The prizes:
1. Paid Livejournal time;
2. TB/X/CCD fic from one of the mods written to your specifications (though the fandom is subject to negotiation as long as one of the mods knows the canon);
3. A hand-decorated Moleskine journal, something along the lines of this or this.

Prizes are first-come, first-serve -- I'll contact the winners through PM, and the first person to reply to me gets first pick of the prizes, the second one gets second pick, etc.

Anonymous comments are not eligible to win, because we don't have any way of getting in contact with the anons. Sorry!

Obviously, the more comments you leave, the greater your chances of winning something, so get to it! There are a lot of good fics to comment on. (If you don't want to participate in the raffle for whatever reason, leave a comment here -- it'll be screened -- and your comments will be excluded from the total.) If you have any questions about how this is going to work, here's the place to ask them; questions will be unscreened.

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So, there you have it! Those are the 32 fics by 29 authors that we received for the inaugural round of the x2009 challenge! Authors, give yourselves a pat on the back, and let's have a round of applause for all the participants!

But things aren't over yet. In a few days, we will post the REVEAL of which authors wrote which fics (so you can all update your friends-lists!). In the meantime, the mods invite you to GUESS which of the authors went by which of the pen names. You can leave your answers on this post--comments are screened--and after the reveal, the persons who guessed the highest number of authors correctly will receive a short fic on a TB/X/CCD subject of their choice from one of the mods! You need not be an author to participate--readers and lurkers can as well.

Congratulations again, and please, do take the time to read all the fics in the challenge. There's some seriously fabulous work here, for a seriously fabulous fandom that, despite being two decades old, has not gone out of style.

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Title: Lady Sumeragi is Dying
User ID: Volantis
Rating: PG
Characters: Lady Sumeragi.
Warnings: Angst
Summary: Tea ceremony and harsh truths.

( Read more... )

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Title: How Soon in Now?
User ID: Volantis
Rating: R
Characters: S/S
Warnings: Angst.
Summary: ‘Subaru is dying and it feels glorious.’

( Read more... )

Title: Minutes to Midnight
Author: Velorum
Rating: T
Warnings: none
Word count: 597

Summary: It's ten years after the end of the world, and Tokyo feels fine.

A/N: 'Hatsumode' is the first shrine visit of the New Year. There are a lot of 'hatsu-' (first) things, such as 'hatsuhinode' (the first sunrise of the new year) and 'hatsuyume' (the first dream of the new year). Meiji Jingu is a large shrine in Harajuku near Omotesando. Also, 'wards' are what the districts in Tokyo are called. They can also be the shields put up to protect the areas where the Dragons of Earth and Dragons of Heaven were fighting over the seals. Yay, double meanings!

( That's great, it starts with an earthquake... )

Title: Granted.
User ID: Tucanae
Rating: R.
Characters/Pairing: Seishirou/Subaru. Hokuto mentioned but not present.
Warnings: Implicit sex scene, suggested violence and murder.
Summary: Oblivion is kind to him, for he not a dreamseer.

( Read more... )

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Title: Sumerian
User ID: "Trianguli"
Rating: PG-13
Characters/Pairing: Subaru: (implied seixsub, if you squint hard enough from 20 yards away)
Warnings: Blood, comparatively mild apocolypiptic themes, Subaru as the ever-present vessel of irony, and Bruce Willis.
Summary:
"I can't," Subaru replies sullenly. "I have to wait for the world to end."

( We're all mad here. )

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Title: if a little dreaming is dangerous
Author: Telescopii
Pairing: Kakyou/Hokuto
Rating: PG
Words: 608
Summary: The best love affairs are those we never had.
Notes: The title is a quote from Marcel Proust: “If a little dreaming is dangerous, then the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all of the time.”

( if a little dreaming is dangerous )

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Title: at the edge of the end of the world
User ID: Tauri
Rating: M
Characters/Pairing: Seishirou and his mother
Warnings: Some mentions of violence and sexual implications. And. Uh. Pedophelia and incest. XD
Summary: This is how the sakurazukamori love.

( Touch me, she tells him, and he does, for the first time. )

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Title: Shattered Glass
User ID: Reticuli
Rating: G
Characters/pairings: Kotori/Kamui
Warnings: None
Summary: Kotori had more than her fair share of regrets about 1999.

( Shattered Glass )

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Title: Lost and Found
User ID Pictoris
Rating: PG
Characters/Pairing: Subaru, Seishirou, Hokuto
Warnings: None
Summary: The Sumeragi twin's first apartment was still inhabited when they moved in.

( Read more... )

Title: Disintegration of a man
User ID: Pegasi
Rating: PG-13 (soft)
Characters/Pairing: Seishirou/Subaru, one-sided Kamui/Subaru, Hokuto
Warnings: one sentence of violence, vague allusions to sexual acts
Summary: Some things never change. Aspects of it do, however.

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Title: Almost Nobody

User ID: Ophiuchi
Rating: PG-13

Characters/Pairing: Aoki Yuka, Segawa Keiichi 

Summary: She’s a cheerful but slightly troubled junior high school student. He’s her ridiculously genki social studies teacher. Together, they fight crime! fall off Tokyo Tower!


( Ten years ago.... )

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Title: Companion
User ID: Octantis
Rating: G
Characters/Pairing: Kusanagi, hints of Kusanagi/Nekoi
Warnings: Potential spoilers up to where CLAMP went on hiatus.
Summary: For the sake changing of the earth, he was destined to become one of the ones to destroy it and was thus fated to face against the one he loved.


( Companion -v.: to accompany. )

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Title: dead men and the dawning
User ID: Normae
Rating: PG
Characters/Pairing: Tokyo Tower & a few X characters (Yuzuriha, Keiichi, Fuuma). Gen.
Warnings: None, really.
Summary: This is the nexus of all connections; it stands high with a singularly disinterested stare across the mutating city, for the scent of spilled blood has long since dissipated into the wind.
Notes: Title is from Pablo Neruda’s "The Word." X belongs to CLAMP.

( there are no more bones to be seen— )

Title: Reminiscence
User ID: Monocerotis
Rating: G
Characters/Pairing: The little girl from Vol 14, Chapter 4, Fuuma.
Warnings: None.
Summary: Chihiro was young enough then that much of the devastation was blurred memories for her, but she remembered Ebisu best.

( Nakano Chihiro pulled her long hair into a tail at the nape of her neck, and smiled at the reflection in the mirror )

Title: All in a Day's Work
User ID: Monocerotis
Rating: G
Characters/Pairing: Kamui, Sorata, Yuzuriha, with Fuuma and Satsuki appearing… sort of.
Warnings: Cracky. Don't ask me why everyone's still acting like teenagers :D
Summary: “Getting bullied by little fourteen-year-olds? Poor little Kamui.”

( When I get back, I'm going to wring Nokoru-san's neck, Kamui muttered darkly )