Mini-Ficlet Prompt Meme: a meme to distract me from a different meme

[edenfalling]

I hate my life and all my current writing projects (including the prompt fill I am still working on from the last mini-ficlet prompt meme I opened, ARGH, that thing is made of kudzu and frustration but I am GOING TO BEAT IT eventually), and I just want to do some tiny finger exercises to hopefully clear out the cobwebs in my brain so I can focus again.

Here is a link to my Genprompt Bingo card.

For those who prefer lists to graphics, the open squares are: Exploration, Missing Persons, Biography / Autobiography, Virtual Reality, Plays and Scripts, Violence, Anticipation, Rich and Poor, Warning Signs, Cherished, Far Over the Misty Mountains Cold, Winter, WILD CARD, Honey, Cowardly, Mentors, Angst, Energy Beings, The Tower, Another Year Older: Birthdays, Monsoon, Kids / Babies, Something Useful, Heat, Explorer

If you would like to claim any of the open squares, please choose a prompt from the card, add one to three characters plus a scenario or mood, and I will write you a ficlet of at least 100 words.

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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 off chance that anyone wants to read a snippet from any of my original worlds and stories, ofic prompts are also fine.

3. In this challenge, WILD CARD means to grab any prompt from the complete round 15 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. Porn is unlikely, though you can always ask.

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Fill List

1. A Matter of Record: Biography/Autobiography, Aravis! For musesfool, 275 words. [Tumblr crosspost]

2. Which Constrains Them To Alter: warning signs, NejiHina (or Hinata+Neji), something about them partnering up for political upheaval of the hopeful kind? For runespoor7, 550 words. [Tumblr crosspost]

3. Many Happy Returns of the Day: Another Year Older: Birthdays - Someone among the Iron Fist and/or Defenders characters having their next birthday after making their new friend(s) in the show. For sholio, 450 words. [Tumblr crosspost]

4. Interrogating the Text from the Wrong Perspective: Plays and Scripts, with Cimorene and Mendanbar watching a play that was written in their honor. For wistfulmemory, 125 words. [Tumblr crosspost]

5. Aim High: Mentors - Vorkosigan - Alys, Ekaterin, Laisa. Or Gregor and the next generation. For joyeuce01, 250 words. [Tumblr crosspost]

Comments

[musesfool]

Biography/Autobiography, Aravis!

[Fic] "A Matter of Record"

[edenfalling]

Note: the Ladies Eena and Anaprisma make small appearances in The Courting Dance, where the former is the junior Narnian ambassador to Archenland (and unofficial spymaster for matters relating to Calormen), while the latter has a vaguely defined position in the Narnian court that seems to be half librarian and half intelligence agent.

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"We need an official court historian," Aravis announced one winter evening, halfway through Cor's first official state visit to Armouth as king rather than crown prince.

Her husband turned from his absent contemplation of the streets and squares of the port city, dimly visible through the thick, uneven glass of the Lady Mayor's townhouse windows, and raised his eyebrows in a wordless request for elaboration.

Aravis set down the gold circlet she'd been inspecting for dents and obliged. "The Great Book of Archenland is all well and good, but it chronicles the whole land rather than any specific person's deeds. Additionally, it's as much a compendium of legal cases as a history in the strict sense, and the textual style is dull as ditchwater, to borrow a northern phrase. If we wish to ensure that our country remembers us for who we are, we need a more personal, intimate record."

"A fair point," Cor agreed. "But do we wish that?"

"When the other options are sycophantic flattery or whatever balance point history reaches between scurrilous rumors and melodramatic ballads, yes."

Cor winced. "Also a fair point. Although it raises the question of whom to hire for the position. There are precious few people I would trust to write an unbiased account when politics are involved."

"As to that, the Lady Eena has mentioned that our mutual acquaintance the Lady Anaprisma, currently assigned to the Cair Paravel archives, might be interested in a long-term posting in Archenland so as to escape Port Paravel's summer humidity," Aravis said. "And no one could plausibly insinuate that a Cat would deign to produce a falsely flattering portrait of anyone."

Re: [Fic] "A Matter of Record"

[musesfool]

♥ ♥ ♥

Re: [Fic] "A Matter of Record"

[edenfalling]

Thank you! :)

[sholio]

Another Year Older: Birthdays - Someone among the Iron Fist and/or Defenders characters having their next birthday after making their new friend(s) in the show.

(I can give you specific characters if you'd rather, but I figured I'd leave it open-ended so as not to box you in!)

[edenfalling]

Done! Many Happy Returns of the Day (450 words)

[wistfulmemory]

I would love to see Plays and Scripts with Cimorene and Mendanbar watching a play that was written in their honor.

[edenfalling]

Done! Interrogating the Text from the Wrong Perspective (125 words)

[wistfulmemory]

Thank you! It was delightful! :)

[edenfalling]

:D

[joyeuce01]

Mentors - Vorkosigan - Alys, Ekaterin, Laisa. Or Gregor and the next generation

[edenfalling]

Done! Aim High (250 words)