Challenges

[shipwreck_light]

Les XX Is Now Concluded

Did you meet your goals, ficcers? If so, you should tell me about how awesome you are so that you can get your beads.

Please also let me know if you have outstanding tickets from the Summer Carniaval. There's stuffed animals at stake!

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New Challenge: Fauvism

Sign up by leaving a comment in this post with your goal—make sure it's a challenge for you! It can be a word count, number of prompts, lists you want to finish, plotpoints you want to reach. Whatever keeps you happy and on your toes.

Sign-ups are open from now until October 7th. You will have until December 20th to complete your goal. Meeting your goal gets you twenty novelty beads, and exceeding your goal by one third or one quarter (whatever's easier to calculate) gets you five more.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask; in the comments, via PM, the Dial-a-Mod post, or the contact info listed there.

> This season, we will be posting snack packs of audio, visual and literary prompts in the lounge on weekends to help everybody through the busy holiday season.

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Special Bonus

October is LGBT History Month. Rainbow and all rainbow-themed colors like Aurora are available as sixth colors and will result in novelty beads. QUILTBAG characters are also one novelty bead per character per story. All novelty beads rewarded for this will be queer-themed

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Halloween

It's coming up. BE READY.

Comments

[finch]

QUILTBAG characters are also one novelty bead per character per story.

Ahahahahaha oh no you don't I'm not falling for that again.

Monolith keeps kicking my ass so I'm going to go with "finish two colors" instead.

[shipwreck_light]

THAT IS A GOOD GOAL.

Ahaha, I just want to throw all of my cute kissing gay couple pics at everyone :D.

[greenling]

...One novelty bead per QUILTBAG character per story. That's gonna get real high real fast. And free weekend prompts with music and pictures? I love the way your brain works. I really, really loved last summer's blues.

FAUVISM:
-Clear out Famous, Blue Opal, Angel Cake, and Sherry
-Prism/Rainbow bichrome because at the end of the day, I guess I don't like my brain
-Three Illustrations

Question: looking through stuff for rainbow-themed colors, I've found Prism, Aurora, Rainbow, and Chromophilia that clearly count. Would Octarine count? How about an appropriately-themed rainbow custom color?

[shipwreck_light]

DAMN RIGHT IT IS

Those are some good goals! YOU CAN DO IT.

Octarine, no. Everything else you listed, yes.

GO FORTH

[rootsofthestories]

My goal is I want to make ten stories happen and at least three of them be in Church And War.

As for novelty beads uhm....I'm honestly not sure I write any honest-to-god straight people anymore. XD This may be a fault but idgaf

[justice_turtle]

*snerks* Eh, who needs straight characters? I'm not sure I've ever written one on this comm, and that includes the RPs. :D There's enough cishet canon in the world already, we gotta redress the balance. ^_^

(Still got the summer RP bookmarked. Planning to get back to Robin and Molly at some point, school's just eating all my spoons right now. :P)

[rootsofthestories]

This is totally accurate. I think I'm in the same boat in regards to who I've written about here.

(:D Okay! That's totally cool by me, do what you wanna do when you can.)

[shipwreck_light]

I know >). That is the point. JOY. MORE CUTE PROMPTS.

YOU CAN DO IT

[justice_turtle]

I had to check, but apparently I didn't have a goal for this past challenge. (I never know anymore. ;P) Goals for this quarter:

* Write a first draft of this goddamned NaNo.
* Survive school (I have to write essays / lab reports / whatnot in all my classes, it counts).

[shipwreck_light]

*FROFIST* YOU CAN DO IT

[novel_machinist]

GOALS:
Finish Dragon Scale Green and use my Novelty Beads!

pft, straight characters... yeah right

[shipwreck_light]

I want everyone to have lots of beads to roll in, yes.

YOU CAN DO IT

[crossfortune]

I failed my goal by one story :( noooooo.


new goal:
5 stories

[shipwreck_light]

But they were awesome stories! Totally should be proud of what you accomplishe there.

YES FIVE NEW YOU STORIES.

[kay_brooke]

I met my goal! I think that's the first time ever!

(It was to finish the colors I had going at the start of the challenge.)

Same goal for Fauvism: finish my current colors (Anise, Asphalt, Blue Opal, Chestnut, White, and I'm gonna toss in Rainbow there as a sixth color).

Also, post one piece a day throughout October.

[shipwreck_light]

Congrats, you awesome person you!

I believe in you. KNOCK IT OUT OF THE PARK.

[bookblather]

I am gonna try to finish all five colors I'm doing right now (Azul, lapis lazuli, dragon scale green, flame, and midnight) plus finish the Great Big Spartacus Mural Of Doom.

And that is quite enough for now, I think.

[shipwreck_light]

YOU CAN DO IT MY LOVE I BELIEVE IN YOU

[shadowsong26]

I met my goals, yay!

This next art movement has nano, so keeping it relatively simple this time...

1. Finish all open colors (Pepsi Cola, Blue Opal, Jade, Tuscan Red)
2. Complete and post at least one saturation.

[shipwreck_light]

Congrats! Looking forward to what you come up with this season~

[starphotographs]

I almost met my goals, but there were two Folly prompts I didn't have time to finish. Sigh.

New goals:
-Fucking finish Folly and I goddamn mean it this time
-Do a sixth rainbow-themed color
-Do at least one sketch or illustration! (Maybe one of each?)
-Use remaining novelty beads
-Finish the 28 Days Later AU storyline

...This post also exposed a huge gaping hole in every single thing I write.

Apparently, characters who have a canon sexual orientation are few and far between in my lot.

Oh yeah, how exactly do the Snack Packs work?

[shipwreck_light]

Apparently, characters who have a canon sexual orientation are few and far between in my lot.

THAT IS OK

YES FOLLY

Snack packs? Grab prompts, use prompts, get graffiti!

[starphotographs]

I was just wondering if they were like, a set where you had to use all three on one piece, or if they were just three prompts.

[shipwreck_light]

Oh!

Either way is peachy. Sorry about that!

[starphotographs]

Ah, cool!

One more question... Do you do them all during the weekend, or do you have all week?

[shipwreck_light]

They're good for the season, but don't let too many of them build up :X.

[balsamandash]

I failed miserably! *facepalm*

Goal:
> Five stories
> At least three stories introducing/heavily featuring characters I haven't written about
> One of which is Sentient Magic or With Only Strangers Watching


TWO QUESTIONS ABOUT BONUS. Because I'm me:
> Do the characters have to be mentioned as QUILTBAG in the story?
> If we're already doing a rainbow-themed color, does it still count?

[shipwreck_light]

FIVE YOU STORIES YES YOU CAN

> Do the characters have to be mentioned as QUILTBAG in the story?
Nope!

> If we're already doing a rainbow-themed color, does it still count?
Yep!

[mortalcity]

I'm still here, I swear!

I'm going to sign up for... fiiiive stories/ficlets? It's not a ton, but I don't want to psych myself out. I'll do more next time if I pull it off.

I will also see what I can do for the bonus challenge. What even are straight characters anyway?

[shipwreck_light]

Sure you can! I believe in you! DELICIOUS YOU FIC.

That other thing, I had one once, but then he did this.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/4589928/chapters/10455747

So, not sure?

[shipwreck_light]

I will finish...

-A Halloween story
-Iceberg
-Yellow/Sword/Consciousness from Transparent

Bonuses: River/Undine/Sylph/Sunrise/Father Sky

[dark_kana]

I thought I signed up for Les XX. But I can't find my reply or my goals. So I guess I must have dreamed it... *sweatdrop*
I wouldn't have made it anyway. Real life is way way way too hectic... :-( I barely find time to write...
I would love to sign up for something again. Hell, I would love to post something again... It's been since January... *hides in a corner*

Okay, so perhaps I should sign up...
But I'm going to take it easy... Finish 2 colors. It should work. I hope...

[shipwreck_light]

You can do it! We believe in you ;D.