Rules for Claiming

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

I. To claim a prompt: Copy and paste the desired prompt(s) (please include date) as a comment here -- (June 1st through 6th) or here -- (June 7th through June 12th) or here -- (June 13th through June 18th) or here -- (June 19th through June 24th) or here -- (June 25th through June 30th). [Ex. June 25th - Devil May Cry, Dante/Gloria: Kinky disguise - “I say we give the kid a twenty minute start. However shall we spend that time?”] Each prompt can be claimed a total of four times (twice for fic and twice for art).

II. You will be asked to write at least 100 words per prompt. There is no max. Let it take you wherever it may!

III. Collaborations are welcome and encouraged.

IV. Please be patient. I will note your request as soon as I am able to.

V. You must post your work on the date your claimed prompt is listed under.

I'll be opening the master lists up for claiming at 10:30 PM London time today (April 6th). Click here to see the relevant time for your area.

Please feel free to interpret the prompt in whatever way seems most interesting to you (wherever the story takes you), as long as you don't completely ignore the elements that the requester submitted. Part of the fun of the challenge, after all, is seeing how people can take the same starting idea and come up with different responses to it.

Comments

[syvia.livejournal.com]

Arrgh!

... Arrrrrrrrrrrgh! [/charlie brown]

*stayed up till 2am last night for no reason*

...

*raspberry*

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

I know, I'm sorry <3, and utterly useless, but I pretty much had ten minutes to post everything promptish and a "I think I caught everything if I screwed up HELP ME!" and then it was work -> gig -> birthday party -> SLEEP, didn't have a chance to get near a computer!

Sorry love :), I'll make it up to you once it's writing time ;)

[syvia.livejournal.com]

*huggles* Not your fault that I'm just a teensy bit obsessed! *tackle-hugs* Don't you dare think that I think that! You've been kicking ass and takng prompts and RL > net life, always.

*grinning* Now you're just getting me excited. I hope I'll be returning the favor.

[volta-arovet.livejournal.com]

I know this question's been asked before, but what's the ruling on claiming your own prompt? I did the classic "suddenly got inspired after submitting a prompt" and want to know what I should do.

(I'd probably wait until the end of the claiming session anyway, just in case 2 others want the prompt, but still)

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

Sadly you can't claim your own prompt!

(Trust me, I know the feeling)

However, if you're suddenly inspired to write your own prompt, there's no ruling against posting it on your own LJ/to other communities :). Just no posting it in springkink!

[karanguni.livejournal.com]

Must wake up on time must wake up on time must wake up on time *sets alarm clock*

Oh, wanted to ask: if I can't be around for a certain posting date, is it still possible to claim and write the thing pre-posting and uh, beg someone to help me put it up or something? *hopeful*

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

Community rules on posting are fairly relaxed - you can get someone else to post it for you on the date, or you can post it a little bit before or after the date. Most prompters are just happy to get fic/fanart ;).

[karanguni.livejournal.com]

THERE IS HOPE AND SALVATION. *grins* Thanks!

[iapetusneume.livejournal.com]

I just want to say, thank you for all of your hard work! (And there is so much more to do!) I'm probably not going to be around when they open up, but maybe that's a good thing. XD;; (Page overload whut?)

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome!

Sorry for the awkward times, it's just a question of trying to get everything done and still having time to go to bed! Lol :D

[iapetusneume.livejournal.com]

Actually, it wasn't a very awkward time at all (5:30 PM). I was just hanging out with a friend.

No worries! A few of the prompts I was considering claiming actually was claimed twice while I was gone, and this is probably a good thing. I don't want to overdo it.

[jlsigman.livejournal.com]

*sets alarm*

I want to make sure I get some of these prompts. ;-) One is at least half written in my head already. ;-)

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

:D, hehe, I might maybe have already started on one of the DMC ones ;). BAD MODERATOR, BAD.

It's so hard seeing the prompt lists and trying to go "Okay, that prompt is awesome but *can I write it on time*?"

[wk-recomend.livejournal.com]

A quick question, old prompts only stick around for one extra round, correct? So, the prompts for this list include the new prompts given and the prompts leftover from Feburary's round, correct?

I just want to make sure that I'm not accidently picking up an old prompt of mine from Oct (because I so cannot remember that far back ^^;; )

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

Don't worry about the October prompts; because everything got a little bit hectic I've not had a chance to strim them out, but I promise there'll be no slapping people across the back of the head for accidentally picking up prompts of their own from October on account of the hecticness. Next round onwards we'll be back to the two rounds and they're out rule because there'll be a proper record to hand again!

[dogmatix-san.livejournal.com]

*g* Thank you!

I think I managed to not overload myself this round (no, twenty is not a 'nice round number', even if it did get me down from twenty-one.) even though I kinda picked up another shiny after I'd already finalized my list. XD; Which means I'll actually be able to post them on time, yay! ^.^;

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

Lol, you're totally welcome!

(And oh man, I know the feeling! I'm trying so hard to resist the "MUST GRAB ALL FORTY THAT INTEREST ME" urge!)

[laryna6.livejournal.com]

Is there a claiming deadline? I'm thinking of waiting a bit to let others get first crack and remove some of the temptation to claim an ungodly amount of prompts.

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

There's no deadline for claiming; some people even run back and claim things after the official deadlines have passed because they got inspired at a later point of the challenge.

And that is such a good idea! I think I might take three or four prompts that I'm immediately inspired for and then come back for further prompts at a later date so I don't end up claiming an inordinate amount.

*hugs*!

[laryna6.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there are some I really should grab now, because good prompts for things like this are so rare. But I'm low on energy and so shall be generous. XD

But there are a couple that if I let others take them and find they have been mishandled will require stabbityness. They could be either very good or very OOC...

[lazzchan.livejournal.com]

Mmrgh, so glad I can catch this before I leave for work. :) 6:30am in Tokyo is totally do-able. Thanks for all your hard work!

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

You're totally welcome :). Thank you!

[sjen.livejournal.com]

Uhh, are we supposed to leave different comments for prompts under each specific date range? 'Cause I just put all mine, regardless of date, under just one area. I thought it would be less confusing that way. But if you need me to split them up, please tell me. Thanks!

[harukami]

Not a mod, but I think they get split under different dates so it's easier for the mods to go through and see whether other people got the prompts first for each section and stuff.

[NOT SURE THIS IS HELPFUL THOUGH sorry XD]

[sjen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I noticed that's what everyone else is doing, so I went back and split them up. Thank you. ^___^

[harukami]

No prob! Glad I could help a little!

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

Thank you for answering :). That is pretty much the case; it's a lot easier to open up one page of dates and the edit for that page, and just go through adding things, instead of looking all over for different prompts.

Split everything into 5 lots of 6 this time because last round the three pages quickly reached LJ's word limit and needed splitting up; this way there shouldn't be any need for further splitting.

Thank you again hon :)

[harukami]

Glad to be able to help out a little! And ouch, yeah. *g*

[childofatlantis.livejournal.com]

I'll admit straight up: I'm terribly sore at not getting a couple of prompts I wanted, so I am far from unbiased. But - is there any possibility of expanding the number of fic claims for popular fandoms?

(edit) And I am apparently allowing this to make me unconscionably rude. Thank you for all your work. :)

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

Hee, it's okay, and thank you; I think I'll have a word with animadri about perhaps expanding the claims for all fandoms to three for fic, three for art, seeing as the community has been growing; will see what happens!

[laryna6.livejournal.com]

Yeah... on the one hand, it's sad to not be able to get a prompt. On the other, the limit means more prompts get claimed instead of just a few popular ones.

I think of it as incentive for people to submit additional prompts in the popular fandoms, really. That way, they not only get their submissions up there for grabs, but it ups the odds of people claiming their submissions instead of claiming the things they themselves want to write. The more shiny prompts you submit, the more will be left over for you to claim!

It also means people get more prompts to choose from.

Althouth I personally submit weird prompts because I like writing weird prompts, so yeah.

[childofatlantis.livejournal.com]

On the other, the limit means more prompts get claimed instead of just a few popular ones.

Does it actually work like that? (Honest question.) I know that I tried to claim fic I wanted to write; if I haven't got those ones, I'm not going to go and claim ones that I don't want to write. Especially when they're meant to be kink-oriented - either I can write that kink or I can't, and even if I didn't get a single prompt I wanted and there are sad and lonely prompts left over, I'm not going to be claiming anything I know I can't write.

[laryna6.livejournal.com]

...the art style in your icon looks Finn Family Moomintrollish for some reason. (Translated kids book series.)

Well, a lot of people are only going to want to write so many prompts. Obviously they're going to have to prioritize if there are more they want to write then they have the time for, but if some of their highest ones are claimed that leaves time/spaces open. That's probably the reason for the policy, or that would be my guess.

[n-finitefangirl.livejournal.com]

XD This is totally awesome! Not only did I get all that I wanted, but people have actually snatched up quite a few prompts of my own making! <3 June is gonna be sooooo awesome!

...even if I end up dead by the end of it. ^^;

[kristinmachina.livejournal.com]

I just want to say to anyone who picks one of my prompts:

I love you and I'll be joyfully happy with whatever you write!
This community rocks so hard, and so do the mods!

[laryna6.livejournal.com]

Since the number of claims per prompt's still up in the air, do you have an estimate of when that will be resolved/prompts will start being labeled with claims? Because I'd like to be able to have that to look at when I sit down to start figuring out what I'm claiming. Will there be some sort of announcement when that's resolved?

Thank you!

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

I can assure you there will be an announcement :). At the minute I'm still holding on animadri to get back in contact, but I've set a sort of deadline (admittedly for my own sake 'cause I'm a selfish bint and want to get everything done over the weekend); if I've heard nothing from her by 12pm London time on Friday I'll be upping the prompt limit to 4 per prompt, just temporarily for this round for the moment, and will start booking in all the prompts.

Hope that explains everything <3. I don't want to step on our beloved mod's toes, that's why I'm taking so long, but ultimately I can't keep everyone happy by hanging on forever (even if I try to!), so I'm gonna get this sorted over the weekend come rain or sunshine :).

[laryna6.livejournal.com]

Okay. Thank you! I'm normally quite good at listmaking/organizing, so I'd offer to help out if it weren't for the fact I'm not reliable currently.

...I used to go through and put everything back in alphabetical order in my 300+ book library as a meditation thing. And put some tape on the beat-up ones. If it weren't for the fact I find that boring when it's work I'd say I was born to be a librarian.

[n-finitefangirl.livejournal.com]

O_O FOUR?!

*looks at the specific prompts of her's that people are fighting to claim* ...I'm gonna die a very, VERY happy fangirl if that happens... <3

[laryna6.livejournal.com]

There are now ~225 claims on prompts that I'm interested in reading/seeing. This is going to be a good round.

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

Late posting is absolutely fine :), just as long as you leave a little author's note before your LJ-cut stating it's a late submission!

*hugs*

So, yes, don't worry about it :).

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

I can't remember if I've replied to this already or am being a ditz, but just to make sure; yes, you can post them late :), just leave a little note in the fic header saying that it's late (makes keeping track of claims much easier!)