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@yoificfridays
Prompt 6: Weather
Prompts are purposefully made as loose and open to interpretation as possible.
The prompt ends in two weeks. Have fun!
reminder for the prompt! it's "due" this friday :D
send links to your fic via message or submission. late entries will still be posted :)
Prompt 6: Weather
Prompts are purposefully made as loose and open to interpretation as possible.
The prompt ends in two weeks. Have fun!
results of prompt timing and duration
prompts will posted every two weeks and be “due” two weeks from when they’re posted (though if you end up doing it later i’ll still reblog them!).
This week’s prompt incoming!
opinions on prompt timing
it’s been a while, mostly due to some personal things.
also, i’ve been trying to figure out the best way to time prompts since one week is definitely not enough. there are a couple options.
-longer time between prompts
-prompts posted every week but they are “due” 2-4 weeks from when they’re posted.
so if you would let me know which system you’d prefer, that would be amazing. and then i can start doing prompts again.
prompt timing/duration
one prompt at a time vs. prompt every week, due later
YOI Fic Friday Week 1 Fics
Week 1 Prompt: Awkward First Meetings
Oops by Defiant-Dreams (baterina_1234) (tumblr: @gia-comeatme )
Scenario: “you were absent in class and asked me for the notes and i accidentally showed you the explicit gay fanart i was looking at instead”
OR:
Awkward First Meeting + viknik sick fic
(can be read as a standalone)
The Genevan Paso Doble by Fullmetal Chords (tumblr: @phoenixrei )
Insurance investigator Victor Nikiforov’s world is turned upside down one night in Geneva, when he comes face to face for the first time with the thief he comes to call “Eros”. Little does he know that their chance encounter will change the course of his life forever.
Career Day by thishasbeencary (tumblr: @yoyoplisetsky)
Viktor Nikiforov accompanies his daughter Maria to her pre-school career day where he meets a girl who claims to want to be a figure skater. And her cute dad. He flirts, he gets a date. It doesn’t actually go that smoothly, though.
anarchy for sale! t-shirts only ten dollars by KatsukiYuurisTrophyHusband (spookyfoot) (tumblr: @katsukiyuuristrophyhusband)
Because the universe is somehow both cruel and indifferent, Yuuri sees Victor again two days later in the lobby of his ballet studio. He’s just finished his advanced pointe workshop. His hair is plastered to his forehead with sweat, he’s painted with a full body flush, and he’s wearing a shirt Phichit custom ordered that says “Tastier Than Katsudon” in screaming neon orange.
“Hi Yuuri!” Victor’s beaming and blocking his only exit. ____________
A falling-in-love story told through questionable t-shirts.
If you wrote a fic for this prompt but it’s not on this list, sent me a message and I’ll add it :)
Week 2 prompt will be posted tomorrow!
another fic for the week 1 prompt from @belovedyuuri
(you can answer prompts whenever you want :) )
God Save Yuuri Katsuki by belovedyuuri (casinthongs)
Let it be known that accepting the babysitting gig is definitely not the best decision in Yuuri's life. At first, at least.
Hi! I wrote a story for the Week 1 prompt (I know it's very late omg but I started writing it when the prompt came out and I only finished it today. Real life.) that you can find here archiveofourown[.]org/works/11126223 (I'm @belovedyuuri on tumblr)
i’m going to re-blog it now :D <3
have you discontinued the viknik bonus prompts? because they were a delight and I wanted to participate. (I also have Ideas for them if you're searching. viknik nipslip anyone?)
the terrible but true answer is that i honestly forgot? whoooooops. i’ll be adding one for this week as well. and yes! suggestions for viknik or other prompts are absolutely encouraged. there might be a new “due date” system in the works, so be on the lookout!
Week 5: Airport
Week five’s prompt is also “airport”. Prompts have been extended to bi-weekly.
Looking forward to seeing what everyone writes, send a message with a link to your story so I can post it here!
Week 4 Prompt: Airport
Whatever idea the word “airport” brings to mind, run with it. Passengers on a plane? Canon divergence? Pilots? Anything goes!
Message me the links to your published fics and they’ll be posted here next Friday. If you complete the prompt after Friday, you’re still welcome to send them! The deadlines are a good, not a demand. Have fun!
Week 5: Airport
By popular vote, there will be a format change to YOI Fic Fridays. Prompts are now “active” so to speak for two weeks instead of one. One week was too short of a time period for a lot of people and hopefully the extra time means more people will participate!
Week 4 Prompt: Airport
Whatever idea the word “airport” brings to mind, run with it. Passengers on a plane? Canon divergence? Pilots? Anything goes!
Message me the links to your published fics and they’ll be posted here next Friday. If you complete the prompt after Friday, you’re still welcome to send them! The deadlines are a good, not a demand. Have fun!
Week 3 Fics: Problematic Tropes
As always, feel free to send in fics for a prompt even after the “deadline” has passed. I’ll absolutely post the links :)
a kiss for a dish by this has been cary ( @cary-onmywaywardson)
Yuuri was sick of Viktor continuously leaving dishes in his and Phichit's apartment, and was going to do something about it. For a week, Viktor only got as many kisses as dishes he cleaned, unless he did them all. Also, they're in college, and three of them are strippers.
you can have my everything by spookyfoot ( @katsukiyuuristrophyhusband )
It’s not until they’re lying in bed—sweat cooling on their bodies, Yuuri’s head cradled on Victor’s chest—that Victor realizes all of his meticulously curated props and costumes are lying abandoned all throughout their apartment.
“Yuuri?”
“Mmmm,” Yuuri mumbles into Victor’s chest.
“Did you do that on purpose?” ___________________
3 times Yuuri strips out of self interest and 1 time he strips out of love.
Featuring: high-stakes Monopoly, novelty aprons, aborted role-play, and a lot of banter. It's approximately 80% banter.
Week 4 Prompt will be up within the hour.
YOI Fic Friday Week 3
This Week’s Prompt: Your Fic Is Problematique
I’m sure that most of you have seen the secret ~problematic writers~ tumblr that named a huge number of wonderful authors in this fandom and put them on a “badlist”. If anything, it’s a rec list, check out their fics! There’s a lot of incredible writing on there.
Cyberbullying is not okay. Policing content is not okay. Providing a hit list of people apparently producing “problematic” content according to an arbitrary and often confusing list is not okay. Some fics were apparently blacklisted for depictions of mental illness —which is canon.
We’re all free to consume (or not) whatever content we want. We’re accountable for our own decisions. We can read critically and not cast everything in black and white.
So this week, celebrate ~problematic~ content and ~problematic~ writers. Write Otayuri, write about Welcome to the Madness, write about mental illness, A/B/O, or any of the things on the so-called shitlist, and then anything else you want on top of that. (Bonus points for fitting as many of these into one fic as possible)
Consider it a warm up for the Yuri!!! on Ice Shit Bang and then sign up for that too.
Stay positive, write for yourself, write what you love, for your own enjoyment, and for the freedom to say what you want.
Can’t wait to read all of this week’s fics!
Message a link to this tumblr and i’ll put them in the post for Friday :D
Fics from Week 2: Fandom
NOTE: If you like this prompt (or a prompt from another weeK) and you didn’t have a chance to write for it for whatever reason, you’re always welcome to fill it at any time, message this tumblr a link to the story, and I’ll post it here! This is for fun, and to encourage people to write, so the rules are more guidelines than anything :)
See Week 3′s prompt here
Battle of the Bulge by nagoyadelay
Victor posts a photo of Yuuri on instagram without realizing that it’s somewhat suggestive.
A thirsty skating fandom collectively loses their shit.
i will go down with this ship! by thishasbeencary
Yuuri and Viktor co-star in the fantasy drama History Makers, a show where their characters Mamoru and Dimitry are shipped by all the fans, which of course leads to the fact that fans also ship Yuuri and Viktor. And write fic about it. Yuuri reads RPF by only one author, therealviknik, and leaves a comment on every single one with his account, katsukiforov. Some fans pick up on the conversations and begin to ship therealviknik with katsukiforov as well.
Phichit ships it all.
set sail from sense, bring all her young by KatsukiYuurisTrophyHusband (spookyfoot)
Though he’s rarely seen them framed by the chunky blue glasses he knows Yuuri wears, Victor would recognize those eyes anywhere. His hand instinctively flies to his pocket and palms his phone where his @viknik Twitter account is still open. Thank god his phone has a passcode.
(It's Yuuri’s birthday).
“Katsuki,” Yakov nods, the one word conveying enough impatience to render the rest of the sentence necessary.
“Our marketing department’s noticed the popularity of two—“ Yakov looks down at the paper in front off him, and frowns, mouth faltering around the unfamiliar words, “role play accounts on The Twitter for the both of you. They’ve advised me that we should,” he looks at the paper again, “ quote ‘catch that social media lighting in in a bottle,’”.
On the official Yakov Feltsman Scale of Exasperation it’s a solid 7.5.
_______________________
Dancer/ Choreographer Yuuri Katsuki and Singer/Songwriter Victor Nikiforov are finally Twitter official. The catch? It's for the "fake" role-play accounts they use to escape the pressure of their official images — and neither of them know that the "fake" celebrity they're talking to is the real deal.
guys, did you know that in 10 days – on 29 may 2017, it will be the 10th anniversary of strikethrough?
let me tell you a thing about your fandom history. back in the good ol days of livejournal, strikethrough/boldthrough were a series of purges done on livejournal blogs and communities done out of a moral panic raised by a right-wing internet watchdog group. in fact, one of the main reasons behind the founding of the organisation for @transformativeworks and the archive of our own is because of this – because fandom needed a space free from censorship.
fandom also left livejournal for this blue hellsite because of strikethrough and now, ten days before the 10 year anniversary of strikethrough, that entire shitlist wank has gone down in yoi fandom.
anyway
i just wanna say i would be totally down to do something on the 29th. to commemorate the 10th anniversary of strikethrough, i suggest we all post a fic to ao3 that day that specifically features at least one of the shitlist criteria.
who’d be interested in celebrating fandom history in this way with me?
given Recent Fandom Events and the fact that I fuckin’ love to complain about fandom stuff that I hate, I just wanted to make a quick post on the matter of making lists of Bad People and Good People and how unutterably stupid that is.
I don’t have a problem being upfront about stuff that I dislike, stuff that I think is bad or stupid, or stuff that I think is frankly extremely fucked-up. I’m picky and petty and the more fic I write for a fandom the more refined and specific my tastes tend to get. but that’s on me. it’s on me to read tags, to take note of warnings, to employ tools like AO3 Saviour, and when I encounter something I dislike to backbutton, gripe about it vaguely, and move the fuck on with my life.
I have a serious anxiety disorder that the NHS refuses to send me to see an actual psychiatrist to get properly categorised, but which I’ve been told has ‘elements of trauma-related stress’. I also have a history of self-destructive and semi-addictive behaviour. I have actual legitimate psychological triggers, by which I don’t mean ‘things that it upsets me to see’ but ‘things that will cause multi-day panic attacks and/or flashbacks and/or bouts of damaging behaviour’. and I am a fucking adult and it is my business to manage these very serious and potentially damaging things for myself. it is part of recovery and being able to function in society. am I always very good at it? fuck no. but it’s my fucking job, nobody else’s.
I remember when the first conversations about establishing the AO3 happened on LJ. it was in the wake of a lot of upsets about censorship and control of fan-created content, and one of the most basic principles of the Archive was always going to be that it would accept basically everything. fandom is a space where you gotta do you. did you know there was a lot of wank back in ~08/09 about using warnings on fic, because some people considered any kind of warning a spoiler? that’s why ‘choose not to warn’ is an option on AO3. the idea that fandom has to be this neatly crimped and controlled space where everyone toes a particular political line, so it fits some person or other’s concept of ‘safeness’, is incredibly new. transformative fandom- that is to say, fic-writing and fanart-creating fandom- is a place to explore ideas and desires, and given that it has always been female-dominated it has been treated as suspect and freakish and dangerous from the very beginning. but I don’t think we’ve ever engaged so much in doing that to ourselves as is apparently now par for the course on tumblr.
I was not, thank god, on either the ‘good’ or ‘bad’ lists on That Blog, although given that I wrote a 100k fic in which both main characters kill someone on screen, one of them pretends to be a Nazi and the other pretends to be loyal to Imperial Japan, and plot elements include discovering the true extent of the Holocaust, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and Soviet war crimes, I’m sure I’m on someone’s shitlist for Daring To Write About Such Things. maybe just to round off my problematicness I should add that I think Yuri/Otabek is adorable, that I think both Victor and Yuuri live with mental illness and it’s the subject of my current WIP, and that the only reason I’m not all up on genderswapped femslash is that nobody ever seems to write any characters as butches. am I bad and wrong enough yet? am I going to be stoned anon-harassed to death with all the other naughty women thinking about sex on the internet? because let’s be real here, the only reason anyone makes these unfounded lists of Bad Tumblr Users is for harassment, however much they deny it.
actual safe spaces are by necessity small, closed, and tightly moderated. I’ve participated in some and they are immensely valuable. but you cannot possibly take the principles of a dedicated, purposeful space and try to impose them on a huge, sprawling social morass like fandom. society doesn’t work that way. humans don’t work that way. and it would be bad if they did. it is part and parcel of growing the fuck up and learning to live in society that you have to deal with people who have opinions you find weird, stupid, or deeply objectionable.
I think it’s a reasonable expectation that content creators like fic writers and fanartists tag/label their content appropriately, which includes stating a choice not to warn. and it’s reasonable as a content consumer to say ‘I hate x’ or ‘y is legitimately upsetting to me’ and to avoid content that involves x and/or y. but setting yourself up as the fandom morality police and calling people ‘shit’ for creating and enjoying stuff you don’t want to create or enjoy is fucked-up and idiotic.
hmm that wasn’t such a quick post. oh well.
YOI Fic Friday Week 3
This Week's Prompt: Your Fic Is Problematique
I’m sure that most of you have seen the secret ~problematic writers~ tumblr that named a huge number of wonderful authors in this fandom and put them on a “badlist”. If anything, it’s a rec list, check out their fics! There’s a lot of incredible writing on there.
Cyberbullying is not okay. Policing content is not okay. Providing a hit list of people apparently producing “problematic” content according to an arbitrary and often confusing list is not okay. Some fics were apparently blacklisted for depictions of mental illness —which is canon.
We’re all free to consume (or not) whatever content we want. We’re accountable for our own decisions. We can read critically and not cast everything in black and white.
So this week, celebrate ~problematic~ content and ~problematic~ writers. Write Otayuri, write about Welcome to the Madness, write about mental illness, A/B/O, or any of the things on the so-called shitlist, and then anything else you want on top of that. (Bonus points for fitting as many of these into one fic as possible)
Consider it a warm up for the Yuri!!! on Ice Shit Bang and then sign up for that too.
Stay positive, write for yourself, write what you love, for your own enjoyment, and for the freedom to say what you want.
YOI Fic Friday Week 2
This week’s prompt is: fandom
(Fake RPF??? Fic authors whose readers ship them with each other? Outsider POV of canon? The characters as fandom nerds??? THE POSSIBILITIES!!! )
VikNik Bonus Prompt : VikNik Aesthetic Fic.
