Wahoo! It's (almost) Minoade May! If you know me, you know that I go crazy over prompt fills - they help my poor little writing-blocked brain focus and create. Since we're coming up on the M month of the year, I've provided 31 prompts to help celebrate one of my favorite pairings, and certainly the most pivotal one to my journey as a member of the Xenoblade fandom. I've had so much fun with them over the past two years. Will you join me?
The Prompts
I'm a writer by principal satisfaction, but I've chosen prompts with the aim of suiting both written and visual mediums. They are as follows:
Fantasy AU
Meeting/Bonding
Crafting/Hobbies
Favorite Items
Friends/Social
Monster AU
Attraction/Banter
Idiosyncrasies
Scars/Crystal
Weapons/Battle
Mythra Space
Modern AU
Plays/History
Food/Home
Support/Fear
Feelings Denial
Elements/Motifs
Artists AU
Hidden Talents
Pet Names
Whump Space
Hair/Armor
Legacy/Children
Fusion AU
Meta Gimmicks
Camp/Sleep
Protectiveness
Inside Jokes
Future/Aging
Roleswap AU
Free Space!
The Guidelines
Both platonic and romantic dynamics are accepted and encouraged!
You can reference or include Addam's wife, or you can ignore her! Up to you :)
Please avoid significant age gaps / grooming for the comfort of all participants.
Adult content (sexual/violent/traumatic) is fine, but do tag/warn appropriately.
Background ships/dynamics are great - just make sure minoade are the focus.
Some Notes
"Meta Gimmicks" refers to anything about gameplay (originally it was "Gameplay Gimmicks") that brushes up against the fourth wall; ex. characters' flexible knowledge of their damage/stats, skill/weapon names, calls back or forward in ~ludonarrative~ elements.
"Monster AU" includes the subgenre of "Minoth with extra features" such as horns or equine legs; in other words, the "monster" component need not exist in a wholly alternate universe evocative of halloween horror, but instead can build onto the inherent horror elements of Minoth's status as a Blade and Flesh Eater. Too, mermaid/centaur/vampire can give you some inspiration, here.
For "Fusion AU" the intent is for entries to feature a proper fandom fusion - say, Star Trek in specific, rather than space odyssey at large. A Zelda fusion would perhaps contain some elements of Fantasy, but should be adequately differentiated. Including characters from either fandom in the fusion is fair game - whatever helps you paint the setting.
I didn't include a space for death/bereavement, but that can of course fit within several of the other prompts related to such abstract endpoints of life. Please, feel free to embellish and improvise just about as much as you wish.
Sharing Work
I will not be creating a separate Tumblr for this event; however, I post sparingly enough on my main Tumblr, here @dukeofdumbass, that I intend to simply reblog entries here. On Twitter, I will be sharing the event announcement on my variously-pruned main Twitter @dukeofdumbass and retweeting entries on my former bot (I cleared my crontab before it was cool ;) @floraminoade. To keep things consistent, the event tag will be MinoadeMay, in CamelCase, on both Twitter and Tumblr. Please @ mention either/any of my accounts to make your participation clear. If the need becomes apparent, I will make an Ao3 collection as well, and of course I will be commenting on and otherwise supporting all fics written for the event.
Hanging Out
The elephant in the room: if I'm not on Twitter/Tumblr, where am I? I hang out and post daily self-improvement doodles in my minoade ship server, linked here: https://discord.gg/mbFWVsp7ad. I will be adding a channel for collation of MinoadeMay entries - I didn't necessarily understand the complaints about the discordification of the internet until I happened into doing it myself... I recently started my first career position, finally, so I'm taking the solution that works for me!
Any Questions?
Please DM me on Twitter/Tumblr (again, @dukeofdumbass) if you have any questions, or on Discord RoseOfATHeNs#8608. I don't have the wherewithal to reply to timeline tweets, and I'd prefer asks that I can reply to and tag rather than replies/reblogs with questions on this post. Any feedback is much appreciated, and updates will be made to this info post as needed.
I commed Zara for this STUNNING minoade, and while the art absolutely stands on its own in astounding me with how exceptionally well they grokked my favorite guys...of course I wrote fic. More bang for my buck, more gently T-rated introspection (1.5K worth, to be precise) for you. If you'd like, you can read it on Ao3 here.
