Kam Week will take place from September 7th to September 13th! If you need extra time, submissions will be accepted up to months after the week ends, so long as it was intended for this week!
Tag @kamweek2023, @when-wax-wings-melt, and @did-i-say-you-could-get-up (aka @/honey-the-dinosaur-ate-our kid) and also tag your post with #kamweek2023
These creations can include any medium, including art, writing, moodboards, playlists, aesthetics, animatics, gifsets, edits, anything else you can imagine! We can't wait to see the creativity and excitement all the participants will pour into this week!
Feel free to post the prompts out of order as well! Whatever works best for you!
Send in asks if you have questions, clarifications, or just need to share your process!
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Kam Week Prompts:
1. First Date
This is a good day for beginnings. Perhaps they're asking each other out instead of actually being on the date. A blind date set up by friends, dating apps. Matchmaking, or meet-cute, or childhood rivals finally trying something new. Restaurants, movies, walks on the beach, arcade something unconventional; this can be sweet or end in disaster!
2. College/Roommates
Whether they've known each other for a long time or just met, whether they're grudging friends or full-on enemies, this is a fabulous pining day! Platonic besties/haters, only one bed, staring at each other in classes-- moodboard the hell out of their shared room and see the difference between their aesthetics! Make them clash in uncomfortable ways and then find the parts that make them work!
3. Exes/Breakup
This is a day for jagged edges and cracked picture frames. A big, explosive fight or a quiet day that ends with what they've seen coming for months, years spent apart, pressure from family, something needed or something wrong. right person wrong time, wrong person wrong everything. Make it dramatic, make it broken, make it red, make it the end or the beginning. This is also a day for second chances.
4. Cowboy
This is a day for fun! Plop them into a Wild West movie as actors, or onto a horse and into your father's barn because somehow you know it ain't the ale he's got a hankering for. They're kids playing pretend and then they grow up and it's not pretend anymore. They're taxed physically and mentally, they're water in each other's desert, this is the worst possible person to be stuck with in the dry heat and dust.
5. Soulmates
There are SO many possibilities for this one. Look up prompts and check them out! Sharing pain, feeling when the other lies, sensory deprivation (colorblind, no music, etc) until they meet, numbers count down until they meet, red/blue string, sharing skies or handwriting, tattoos, matching superpowers, drawings will show up on skin, and so much more! Remember, this doesn't have to be strictly romantic-- mix things up!
6. Artist/Musician
Also included in this prompt is "poet". Keefe is a painter, always having ink or paint splattered on his clothes and hands, colors smeared on his cheek and caught under his fingernails. Tam is a musician and a poet, scribbling lyrics that he will sing with his guitar, or flute, or whatever. They're in a band together, or one is a famous singer that the other styles or writes for, Keefe finds Tam's poetry journal, one teaches piano to the other, anything!
7. Free Day
This is a wonderful day to incorporate your culture and see how that breaks the norms! Make them mermaids and pirates, childhood friends or royalty or vampires. Use nonverbal/sensory overload, death and resurrection, gods or superheroes, mythology or old age, enemies or villains, anything you want.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/2
Fandom: Keeper of the Lost Cities Series - Shannon Messenger
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Keefe Sencen/Tam Song, Marella Redek/Linh Song
Characters: Tam Song, Keefe Sencen, Linh Song, Marella Redek, Other Character Tags to Be Added
Additional Tags: Pirates, Pirate AU, so this turned out pretty long, Oops, Kam Week 2020, Kam Week, idk what to tag this?, it's not angst but not really fluff either, Awkward Flirting, there's that, One Word Prompts, Two Shot, because apparently that's a thing, Alternate Universe, Enemies to Lovers, idk why but that's my favorite trope, Day 3: Pirates
Summary:
“What am I going to do with you,” Tam grumbled. “You keep turning up and bothering us—god, Linh has a crush on your co-captain now—you do realize that we only got half the loot this time?”
Keefe tossed his hair out of his eyes, squinting at the other man—teen, really. They all were much too young to be running their own ships, but here they were.
“Wow, only half?” Keefe craned his neck to catch sight of a chest of gold. “Huh. You guys really do get a lot compared to the other pirate crews.”
Or, Tam and Linh are pirates, and Keefe and Marella are supposed to capture them. Key word? Supposed.
@kam-week-2020
Okay so I was drafting this and I happened to look at my word count and I freaked out because what ↓
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Keeper of the Lost Cities Series - Shannon Messenger
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Keefe Sencen/Tam Song
Characters: Keefe Sencen, Tam Song
Additional Tags: Drabble, One Word Prompts, Fluff, ish?, No Plot/Plotless, (i swear these keep getting shorter), Kam Week 2020, Kam Week, Day 5: Rain/Tears, sfkadf how to tag, my titles -_- are also getting worse, oh well
Summary:
Keefe is not happy about Tam’s habit of going outside in the rain.
@kam-week-2020 Part 1 of day 5, for the “rain” half of the prompt.
