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Amy ([personal profile] such_heights) wrote2013-04-30 03:44 pm

Trope Fest 3: The Tropening: Prompts Post

Time Loops. Truth Serum. Tentacles. Fandom loves its tropes! But female characters don't always get enough of a look in for the wacky fun of bodyswap and high school AUs, and that's where this fest comes in.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to create a female character-centric fanwork that uses at least one fannish trope.

NEW THIS YEAR: after some consideration I've decided to open this up to gen and het f/m relationships as well as relationships between women, provided that the fanwork focuses on the female character, or is a roughly 50/50 split between characters. E.g., an Elementary fic in which Joan and Sherlock switch bodies, told from both POVs = okay, but fanart showing Sherlock stuck in a time loop while Joan looks on wouldn't qualify. I trust your judgement! We'll see how it goes this year.

Also this new year: this has always been allowed, but this year I would like to actively welcome tumblr-style graphics and gifs. Fanworks don't have to be posted to DW, just linked here.

Timeline:

Now: open for prompts
Friday May 3rd: prompts collated, open for fills

Fanworks do not have to be in response to a specific prompt or one of the tropes listed below, these are just to get you started. The term 'female character' should be understood to include all characters that canonically identify as or present as women or girls some or all of the time.

Adapted from previous years, this is a highlights list of some of the more popular tropes - longer list and links in last year's post

Age Regression
Aliens Made Them Do It
Amnesia
AU -- School/College
AU -- Space
AU -- Supernatural
AU -- Regency/Historical
AU -- Workplace/Office
Bodyswap
Bound Together
Confined Space
Doppelgangers
Everyone Thinks They're Dating
Huddling for Warmth
Hurt/Comfort
Kids
Magic/Superpowers
Marriage of Convenience
Parallel Universe
Possessed
Road Trip
Sex Pollen
Soulbonding
Telepathy
Tentacles
Time Loops
Truth Serum
Undercover (gay/straight/in a relationship/etc)
Wingfic

Prompt formatting: Please submit your prompts in one comment, in the format Fandom, characters/ships, prompt. Please only use commas to divide those categories, ie not in a list of characters.

Examples:

Any fandom, any queer character, undercover straight
Avengers, Pepper and Natasha and Maria, road trip
Community, Annie/Troy/Abed, everyone thinks they're dating
Doctor Who, River/Eleven, bodyswap
Elementary, Joan, wingfic
Elementary, Joan, telepathy
Legend of the Seeker, Cara/Kahlan, they find a baby

prompt away!

eta: I'm now collating prompts, so please don't edit your comments. If you add more prompts I will try and add them to the list but there may be a delay.

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