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[4rwrestling]

Looks like we have a title match on our hands

[tavyliasin]

Baldur's Date Open Creative Challenge!

Artists, Writers, Creators of All Kinds!

You are cordially invited to join a creative challenge!

You must be 18 years old or over to join, but there will be 2 categories, one for SFW works and one for NSFW works!

Accepted Submission Types

Please note all works must be your own and not made using any AI, including AI RP bots for writing.

Art

Comics

Valentine's Card

Fiction

Drabble collection (series of short fic, 1-5 paragraphs each)

Poetry

Song lyrics

Full songs/music

Podfic (With agreement from the fic writer)

Cosplay (No Nudes/NSFW/Explicit please)

Other Crafts (Puppets, embroidery, paper figure cut outs - whatever you like!)

For the Rules and More Details, please see below! Credit to Morb for the new event banner!

Welcome to the Baldur's Date Challenge!

Please be aware this event will include spoilers to characters, storylines, and endings, as well as NSFW content. Proceed with care!

The idea is to create something themed around a Date or Valentine Event. It doesn't even have to be romantic or positive, there are lots of ways to take this from Valentine's Cards from characters to slow burn romance to fully brutal heartbreak and violence. The choices are yours!

The Rules

By participating, even in the SFW version, you agree and confirm you are 18 years old or over.

All creators retain full rights to their works, subject only to the conditions of the platforms they share them on (ie, AO3)

Submissions must contain at least one named character from Baldur's Gate 3

Submissions must also be based around a date, valentine-type event, or similar

AUs, non-canon, alternate versions of characters are all WELCOME

You may choose your own prompt, or use the quiz to help you decide!

Poly Romance Welcome

Characters only, no actors or real people, other than using "Reader Insert" with 2nd person writing styles.

All works must be tagged appropriately for any CWs (please ask TavyliaSin for a list if required)

All characters must be 18 or over in the game as well as in the work you create

No characters in romantic relationships are to be related to each other.

Trans and gender-swapped characters are welcomed, unless it is only for the explicit purpose of making a canon homosexual couple into a heterosexual couple (eg, making Aylin a man so that the relationship with Isobel is straight) 

Deadline is 10th Feb to allow for time to check entries

Collections will go live just before midnight on 13th Feb so they are ready to be viewed on Valentine's Day

If you would like to help with the event running, please contact TavyliaSin on Twitter, Discord, or anywhere else you can hunt her down~

Dead Dove and controversial topics, kinks, and characters are allowed but must be properly tagged to give people a choice of what they engage with. This also means there is to be no shaming - Tavylia would like to support all creative works even ones she isn't personally fond of or would avoid.

How Do I Join?

You can either send your submissions directly to the AO3 Collections, or if you don't have AO3 you can wait until 14th Feb and reblog/retweet the posts I'll make for the collections on the day to add your contributions. It's open to EVERYONE who is 18+! Join in, give it a try! Submissions on AO3 close on 10th Feb 2024 (just before midnight GMT/UTC 0) so please try to get things in on time to be on AO3 so we have a few days to accept and check submissions. The collections will go live on 14th February for Valentine's just around midnight UTC0/GMT

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Select "Post to Collection" to add your work! All works will be hidden until the collection releases on 14th.

Are there any Prompts?

Yes! Aside from the general theme there are prompts for art and writing (and anything else) on the following google form. You can roll dice to decide for you as each question has numbered answers and instructions on the dice to use! But you don't have to stick to the result you get - choose what you like. You don't even have to roll dice at all if you don't want to, just take a look at the selection for some ideas and choose what's interesting in it.

You can enter as many pieces as you like, so please use this to have fun and enjoy yourselves~

Baldur's Date - Creative Valentine Compilation!

Welcome to the Baldur's Date Challenge! Please be aware this event will include spoilers to characters, storylines, and endings, as well as

If you have any questions please drop them in comments, or contact me anywhere you can find me~

[littlemagicalstardust]

During AEW Collision... Swerve Strickland's open challenge for the AEW World title was answered by The Conglomeration's Tomohiro Ishii!

[katygorl]

And here is that challenge I mentioned on the previous post! :D More information can be found both in the journal above and that previous post, but basically, this challenge is for you guys to imagine yourself/your persona as if you/they were a character in Spooksverse! This isn't a super formal contest or anything, so the deadline is February 4th! But, for anyone that does enter before the deadline, they will have their entry/persona idea drawn out by me!^^

I hope you guys have fun with your entries, if you choose to enter! ^w^ Even though this more of a self-indulgent, simple and fun thing for me to do to start off the year, it would still mean a lot and be so exciting to see your guy's potential entries, and I hope you have just as much fun if you choose to enter too!~

[theanoninyourinbox]

Draw the Squad Challenge!

Based on a scene in a dream I had, I challenge YOU @turnipstewdios @cryptidclaw aka @clowncryptids (do your essay first lol) and @deer-head-xiris and ALL OF YOU! Draw your squad! And if you don’t want to - don’t! You’ve got things to do! I’m content knowing you saw it and maybe had a giggle!

[basementwiveswritingchallenge]

Basement Wives Writing Challenge

It’s everyone’s new favourite trope: basement wife. We want to see your take on it, from soft!dark to pitch black, come join your fellow sister wives in our commune.

Brought to you by@angrythingstarlight @sweetlyscared @river-soul and @darkficsyouneveraskedfor

What’s a basement wife?

A wife kept in one’s basement to meet all the needs of whoever put them there. They can either be married in spirit or in contract and often, the arrangement is not by choice. (Also, it doesn't have to be basement if you'd rather an attic, we encourage creativity.)

What’s the challenge?

It’s not really a challenge, more having some fun. We have some prompts below and you can use one or more in a single piece, write each as a part of a series, mix and match, and you don’t need to claim any.

We are accepting MCU characters and MCU adjacent characters (meaning actors from the MCU in other roles). As well, we will accept DC characters too!

All you need to do, is tag #basementwife, link this post, and attach the proper warnings to your drabble/fic/whatever. No incest, no underage, no bestiality. Fics will be kept on a collective masterlist on this blog but will be shared also on the respective pages of admins.

Below the cut, you will find a variety of prompts. You DO NOT need to choose one from each, we simply wanted to offer lots of choices to inspire ideas! You also don't need to claim a prompt :) and this is an open challenge so there is no due date!

Prompts:

Scenes:

Married at first sight

First night

Bath time

Punishment

Attempted escape

Apology

Date night

Gift giving

Telling a secret

A special meal

Surprise! You’re pregnant.

Hide and Seek

Dialogue:

“What else could you want but me, sweetie?”

“Forgiveness is easy if you know how to say sorry.”

“Please don’t leave me down here.”

“I have a surprise!”

“You think anyone can hear you down here?”

“I chose you. You’re special.”

“Good girls don’t cry.”

“You had nothing before me. You were nothing.”

“Put this on.”

“You can tell me the truth or I can get it out of you.”

“I got something sweet for you, doll.”

“You think you can be happy without me? Show me then.”

“I’m not asking anymore.”

“Haven’t I been good to you?”

“You look good in white.”

“A whole year, can you believe it?”

“You don’t wanna talk? Fine.”

“What did I say about touching?”

“I wasn’t mad before, sweetheart, but now you’ve gone and done it.”

“Tell me you love me. Tell me!”

“This hurts me more than it hurts you.”

"If you don't want me, why are you so wet?"

“I’m sorry [term of endearment], but you need to learn.”

"You said you wanted company? Why don't you make our guest feel at home?"

"Shh [term of endearment] you're safe now."

“I did it all for you!”

“Don’t give me that look.”

“Beg for me.”

“Now we have all the time in the world to get to know each other.”

“Trust me, it could be worse, darling.”

Situations:

Using a plastic spoon to defend yourself

Getting your bed taken away and earning it back

Smiling for the camera

A sensual massage after a long day

Earning a trip outside the basement

Playing a game of cards with a naughty twist

Having fun with icing

Stroll through the woods

Tournament

The other room (the only place worse than the basement)

Miscellaneous Prompts (kinks, trope, AUS):

Cult AU

Sister Wives

Handmaid’s Tale AU

Mafia AU

Voyeurism kink

Knife kink

Role-playing

Primal kink

Bomb shelter

Apocalypse AU

Cage/Collar

Praise/Punishment

List of rules

Breeding kink

Dark web

1950s Suburbia

Cabin in the Woods

Conditioning/Brainwashing

Serial Killer AU

Bondage

Image Prompts (link)

[darkficsyouneveraskedfor]

XXXmas Writing Event

My lovely @lokislastlove and I wanted to celebrate the season in style and with no strings attached. This is a no pressure, open challenge. That means you don’t need to claim any prompts, you only need to tag us in your fics! and include the tag #xxxmaschallenge. This is a smutty and dark! Fic challenge, so expect the content to match.

There are however some basic guidelines we ask you to follow and we reserve the right not to reblog/include in masterlist anything we feel goes against the spirit of goodwill.

tag/warn any relevant triggers

characters accepted need to be either within the MCU or played by MCU actors

reader inserts and standalone fics/one shots only

no watersports, scat, incest/stepparents/siblings, bestiality, or underage fics

To participate, you must use one of the first lines as they will serve as the primary prompt for these fics. You must combine this first line with at least one other category provided, but not all. Please keep to the theme of festivity, however despite the title, we welcome and encourage any and all cultures and celebrations.

This challenge has a soft deadline of January 31st to allow for late entries and to ease stress associated with this time of year.

See below the cut for options.

First lines

Snow sparkles in an ivory blanket beneath the silver moon, the glittery facsimile of the manufactured season.

The flames of the artificial fireplace licks at the glass, radiating a layer of heat between the bodies gathered for the seasonal soiree.

There's a thumping on the roof but you're much too old to believe in good old Saint Nick.

The dreaded trap of the mistletoe dangles above but you don't dare look at the unwitting partner before you.

Going home for the holidays is never truly a vacation, no more this year as an unwelcomed guest sits across from you at the family table.

It's almost romantic how the ice gleams beneath the skates of lovers, but there's another blade amid the patrons, an edge seeking flesh and blood.

Funny how among the ocean of shoppers, you feel like a prey hunted, a shark swimming somewhere nearby, catching your eye with menace only to disappear once more.

Your teeth chatter as you stare at the snowy mass as it swallows your overturned car, the glare of headlights sweeps over the wreck, your sole promise of refuge.

You flip the page and take pause, basking in the peace of the cozy cottage, sensing a change in the air as the old log walls creak.

The red satin trimmed with white fur makes you blush.

The hotel bustles with the activity of winter vacationers.

You stare down the slope, heart racing as you grip the poles, the way down may be treacherous but less so than the noise of skis racing down behind you.

Your mother didn't mention she invited him/her/them to dinner but it's too late to back out now.

The cabin shakes with the brisk bellow of the winter storm, you couldn’t leave if you wanted to.

The hue of multicolored bulbs blur in your eyes, slowly coming into focus as the horror steadies your vision.

Tropes

Obsessive ex

Age gap

Cyberstalking

Family friend

Best friend’s wife/husband

Snowed in/stranded

Fake dating

Cottagecore

Blackmail

Holiday Party

Catfish

Ugly duckling

Boss AU

Only one bed

Former high school rival/bully

Kinks

Cuckolding

Voyeurism

Somniphilia

Public sex

Spanking

Thigh riding

Cockwarming

Lingerie

Overstimulation/edging

Praise

Name calling

Creampie/cumplay

Free use

Choking/breathplay

Face sitting

Dialogue

“Wait, what are you doing here?”

“I can’t wait to open my present!”

“I’ve been waiting so long for this. Too long.”

“What’s wrong? You don’t like your gift?”

“I only want one thing this year; you.”

“It’s nice here. Far away… from everything. Everyone.”

“No one should be alone for the holidays.”

“You lied to me. I don’t like liars.”

“They say you should be with the one you love.”

“It looks pretty rough out there, maybe you should stay.”

“That doesn’t sound like holiday cheer to me.”

“I’m hurting you? You hurt me first.”

“We were so happy last year, weren’t we?”

“They’re not your family. I am.”

“Why must you make everything so difficult?”