J/D Ficathon

PROMPTS ARE NOW CLOSED.

Instructions on creating fanworks for the 2019 Promptathon are here.

I am delighted to announce this year's event, a Jack/Daniel SG-1 promptathon, which is offered in place of the traditional ficathon.

This post is for commenting with your ideas for prompts for fic. Art can also be made for the resulting fic (or it could be a standalone piece of art). Instructions for claiming prompts will be posted later.

Please comment on this post through June 20 with prompts. Please read this entire post before commenting. One prompt per comment.

Anyone will be able to claim a prompt or prompts as the basis for a fic and/or art. Fic will be a minimum of 500 words. After June 20, instructions will be posted about claiming prompts, and also the posting guidelines for the fic and/or art.
Please DO NOT comment with opinions about the prompts, or make any other comments in this post, except for actual prompts. If you have questions, email me at princessofgeeks at hotmail, send me a DW message, or comment on the post about this promptathon on my own journal, princessofgeeks.

You do not have to commit to writing a fic or art to make a prompt. One DW account can make up to 10 prompts. Anonymous prompts are allowed.

Please put each prompt in a separate comment.


What makes a good prompt? Opinions vary. I hope we will get lots of different types of prompts to suit all writers' preferences. Because of the nature of this type of event, writers may not perfectly execute all elements of the prompt, but writers should look for a prompt they actually can write. Thus, when you claim a prompt, you should not plan to make major deviations from the prompt. If you need to do that, pick a different prompt. Or avoid all that by posting a prompt YOU would like to write, and claiming it later, or get a fandom friend to do so for you. Don't twist a prompt beyond all recognition. If you claim a prompt and find you can't write it, break free from the promptathon and just post the resultant fic on its own wherever you post your fic. Don't refer back to the promptathon in that case.

When posting prompts here as comments, you can post anonymous prompts, or post under your DW identity, or both, but please limit yourself to 10 prompts total.

Suggestions for prompting (mix and match!):

^ Include the rating you would like to see. Friendship-only prompts are great! Smut-only prompts are great! Anything in between is great! However, remember this is a Jack/Daniel event and that should be the focus. Plot suggestions are great! Tropes are great! Genres like "first time" or "angst" are great!

^ Prompts should be fairly short...3-4 sentences at most.

^ Prompts that are a line of poetry or song lyrics, or a brief thematic suggestion, are beloved of some writers.

^ Prompts that suggest a crunchy factual plot line, or literal elements that a fic should include, are also beloved.

^ Prompts that suggest an episode tag to a specific episode, or a specific gapfiller (such as "after Season 8", or filling in the neglected aspects of Daniel's descensions) are wonderful too.

^ Prompts that suggest including specific characters from the show besides Jack and Daniel are fun too.

^ If you would like to prompt our writers and artists to create something related to YOUR OWN posted fic or art, that is fine, but you can't post anonymously if that is your desired prompt. Include a link to the fic or art.

^ Mentioning things you would NOT like to see in the plot, like bloodplay, adultery, or underage sex, is great.

DO NOT:

^ Post prompts that require turning a member of the original team or the Seasons 9-10 team into a villain or an antagonist, or require the bashing of a specific character. (Exceptions: In "Absolute Power," we have a canon AU in which Daniel does some terrible things, and of course any fic about that episode will include Daniel as he is depicted there. In S9 "Ripple Effect," we see a canonical AR team that does some questionable things that would be out of character in the main universe. That's fine.) Prompts with character bashing like this will be deleted by Princess of Geeks, your self-appointed promptathon ruler. I'm specifically thinking of fic that bashes Sam Carter. Do not want. I am the Princess, I am in charge, and that is not something I'm going to preside over. This canon has plenty of tasty yummy villains to incorporate if you need an antagonist or someone to harm your heroes. Deletions of prompts of this type are purely at my discretion, period.

DO NOT:

^ Post prompts suggesting sequels or gapfillers to some other writer's existing fanfic, or remixes of other writers' existing fanfic. That is beyond the scope of this event and your Princess feels that within our community, such writing would at a minimum for courtesy require prior permission from that fan writer. Your ruler is not prepared to bird-dog all that. If you want to host a remix event, please do so. This is not that. (I know that some writers have posted blanket permissions for people to remix their fic; I have done this myself. If you feel extremely strongly about this in regard to your desired prompt, and there is such a blanket permission, email me and we'll discuss it. But I really don't want to get into that.)

PROMPT EXAMPLES: See the first comments.

(Again, please post one prompt per comment. Limit yourself to ten prompts maximum. No comments except prompts on this post.)

You will see that I've posted some prompts to kick us off that also serve as examples. These are also real prompts that can be claimed. If you have questions as you draft your prompt, feel free to email me at princessofgeeks at hotmail before posting it. You can also send me a DW message.

J/D 4 evah.