30 Days for 30 Years of ER - Week Three
[QUE]ER Extravaganza - Pride Month Challenge
General Rules: All fic must have a queer ship or queer themes. Feel free to interpret each prompt as you wish. Post all challenge completions to the tumblr community and/or discord server, and the AO3 collection if completing the prompt fill with fic (or art/meta if you wish). Please tag all fic, art or meta work with relevant content warnings, spoilers, triggers or squicks. No minimums, continued WIPs and multi-chapter fills are also welcome.
full rules on AO3
See week three's fic and fandom prompts broken down below the cut:
15th June: Free Choice
16th June: "Shut Up and Drive"
A getaway? Or just a chance to get away? / Maybe Kerry (or whoever!) is selling her car, or looking to buy -- mock up an ad!
17th June: Bi Pride
A bi Pride themed fic or meta
18th June: Internal Affairs
Hospital procedures, internalised feelings or something else? Write a fic or meta
19th June: Jukebox Pick
A song-inspired fic / What's on Doc Magoo's Jukebox? What are your faves' favourite picks?
20th June: Unhappy Endings
Either flip the script or turn the frown upside down -- what is the realistic take on how canon ties up the queer plotlines? Fic or meta
21st June: "I've got you!"
An ultimate display of allyship! Fic or meta
Hello friends! It's my birthday on my local timeline, and as such, I would like to propose the following for anyone who may wish to join me in celebration:
Zero-Comment Challenge!
Pick an ao3 tag — maybe one of your favorite blorbos, or that especially tasty kink, or a classic trope you love
Sort by comments and go to the pages at the end of the list
Pick a fic with zero comments
Read it and leave a comment!*
*(a nice one, obviously)
That's it! For bonus points, do a few! If you find a fic you really like, share it so more people can check it out!
Reblog this to spread the word, if you want, but don't tell them I sent you — just be an agent of joy for someone today. 😊
picking fics that fell through the crack - day 2: jily
Today I'm going to search for fics in one of HP's most popular ships - Jily.
Here is the link for ~3000 jily fics that have no comments.
Ngl it was a pain sorting through them (especially as the 'comments:00' I typed in the Filter kept disappearing? Sidenote: i need to learn more filter techniques) BUT I've come up with my personal favourites :
Microfics:-
glowing sound by riveriesque - SAPPHIC JILY
when dawn would break by AllThoseDarlings - cute glance into Lily and James' Animagus form
Of Brooms and Bicycles - Drabble by @ohmygodshesinsane - cute fic about James and bicycles. Also check out fossilised and A dangerous game
Kettle by casualauthor18 - mind the tags, this one is SAD
I will be reblogging with additions of longer fics soon ^^
I remember you used to do a thing where you go to a fandom on AO3 and sort by zero hits or kudos or something? Or was I imagining this?
Oh yeah -- the Zero Comment Challenge, to draw attention to stories that had no comments and encourage people to comment on them. Those I filtered by comment count (you have to use 00 in that field or it still turns up stories with comments) and then sorted by...either hits or kudos, I think kudos, on the assumption that the longer you go getting kudos/hits but no comments the more dispirited you'd feel. But also generally those search results were like 20-50 stories total, so it's not like sorting really mattered overmuch.
It got to be a bit tiring to do regular posts for it, but I do think it's a nice thing to do, to go into a fandom you love, find the stories with no comments, and drop a nice message to let the writer know they're appreciated. A bunch of old ones are under my Zero Comment Challenge tag.
Doing the Zero Comment Challenge and I found something good!!
Shh by Penknife (Jily with a bit of Jilypad in the end, 3.8k words, rated E, AO3 registered users only)
Summary: Under the Invisibility Cloak, Lily and James can do whatever they want without his friends seeing. Lily isn't sure she ought to like that quite so much.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski
Characters: Derek Hale, Stiles Stilinski, Sheriff Stilinski, Melissa McCall, Scott McCall
Additional Tags: Fluff
Summary:
"what's with all the attitude? it doesn't scare me. it only makes me..."
"Hot? yes i know."
For the Zero Comment Challenge, I found this lovely little fic that everyone should take a peek at. An easy 780 words, and the humour and characterization are great with a side of sweetness.
Shelved by ProseApothecary
What really got me was:
Two angels drag Crowley, bound and gagged, to Aziraphale’s feet.
Gabriel hands over a vial of holy water and cheerily claps him on the back. “Hit him with your best shot.”
Aziraphale wishes it was Crowley in his place. Crowley would think of something. Crowley always thinks of something.
Crowley looks at him, and it doesn’t look pleading, or hopeful. It looks like an apology, or a reassurance. Like he’s already lost faith.
Aziraphale thinks, desperately.
“I can make it a dunk tank, if you’d prefer,” Gabriel offers.
I’ve been considering doing another zero comment challenge (where you seek out, read, and comment on fics with zero comments) for Beemoov fanfics on AO3. Last time I did it I found some wonderful stories that I’d somehow missed before so it was a really positive experience.
I’d like to encourage others in the fandom to do the same, particularly as there are fics in many different languages and they all deserve to share in the love
