Mini-ficlet prompt meme: help Liz reach tax day without snapping

[edenfalling]

Okay, I am trying to sit down and restart work on my FTH fic, but I seem to have temporarily misplaced my knack for stringing words together in a coherent narrative.

So here I am, breaking my resolution about not doing mini-ficlet prompt memes. *headdesk*

This one really is for mini-ficlets, though! I may run long, of course, but I want these to be finger exercises rather than major projects.

You know the basic drill by now, yes? Pick a square from my Genprompt Bingo card, add one to three characters plus a scenario, and I will write you a ficlet of at least 3 sentences and/or 100 words.

Here is my Genprompt Bingo card. For those who prefer lists to graphics, the open squares are: Light-Hearted, Holiday Cottages, WILD CARD, Suicide, Another Year Older: Birthdays, The Age of Reason, Steadfast, and Takeout.

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Obligatory small print:

1. I reserve the right to veto any fandoms I don't know well enough to write, and ask you to please try again.

2. Crossover prompts are fine! On the vanishingly unlikely chance anyone wants to read a snippet from any of my original worlds and stories, that kind of prompt is also fine.

3. In the Genprompt Bingo challenge, WILD CARD means to grab any prompt from the complete Round 12 prompt list. I reserve the right to veto any such wild card substitutions and ask you to please try again.

4. Genprompt Bingo fills do not have to be gen! (The 'gen' refers to the squares, which do not automatically presuppose shipping.) Just be aware that I'm not great at romance, so if you request shipfic, it will come out fairly low-key and may end up as ambiguous gen anyway.

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Fill List:

1. Kitchen Science: lighthearted, jane and dirk making the most mathematically perfect cake. Written 4/13/18 for longroadstonowhere (175 words) [Tumblr crosspost; AO3 crosspost]

2. Than It Is To Receive: BIRFDAY, Naruto …actually that’s probably a scenario in itself XD. Written 4/13/18 for alexseanchai (425 words) [Tumblr crosspost; AO3 crosspost]

3. All Work and No Play: Holiday Cottages, Naruto (i was thinking of the summer camp au but another setting would be fine also). Written 4/13/18 for silverblade219 (425 words) [Tumblr crosspost; AO3 version]

4. Grandmother Dragon: I would like the prompt "The Age of Reason" with Telemain having to explain something complicated to Kazul. (I reversed this, because reasons. *evil grin*) Written 4/22/18 for wistfulmemory (575 words) [Tumblr crosspost; AO3 crosspost]

5. Equivalent Exchange: Can I have a snippet of "Utiliarian Virtue," please? Pick a prompt and wing it! Written 5/1/18 for cherokee1 (650 words) [Contains discussion of atrocities and war crimes]

Comments

[alexseanchai]

BIRFDAY

Naruto

...actually that's probably a scenario in itself XD

Kitchen Science

[edenfalling]

longroadstonowhere said: lighthearted, jane and dirk making the most mathematically perfect cake

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"Mathematically perfect in what sense?" Jane asked. "A cake all of whose ingredients are measured in perfect numbers? One where all ingredient measurements are factors of one another? One whose proportions exemplify the Golden Ratio? One whose number of ingredients is a perfect number? One shaped like a Platonic solid? Baking is no place for wishy-washy lack of specificity!"

Dirk stalled for a noticeable second, apparently not having expected her to take his joke seriously. (He really should know better by now. The Crocker-Egbert family was all about wrong-footing other people's jokes in service of their own prankster's gambit.) Then he made a valiant counterattack: "Why not all of the above? No point half-assing a challenge when we could make it the next best thing to impossible. Just picture the sweet triumph when we pull our magnificently improbable creation from the oven and present its possibly non-Euclidean glory to our adoring public."

Jane grinned. "You're on," she said, and slapped her spare mixing spoon down into Dirk's reflexive grip. "Now pay attention, grasshopper, and watch the master work."

[silverblade219]

Holiday Cottages, Naruto (i was think of the summer camp au but another setting would be fine also)

[wistfulmemory]

I would like the prompt "The Age of Reason" with Telemain having to explain something complicated to Kazul. Thank you! :)

This is cherokee1

[(Anonymous)]

Are you still playing this? Can I have a snippet of "Utiliarian Virtue? Please?