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prompting part XXIII
All new prompts go on Part XXIV
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+However, there will be one when it reaches 7000. Also at 7000, after the freeze a new part will be posted, and all prompting should happen on the new part.
+Multiple fills are encouraged! :) Just because a prompt has already been claimed or written by someone, do not be afraid to offer up a second fill.
+re: hijacking.
Please refrain from hijacking a prompt. Hijacking may be defined as responding to a prompt by taking a portion of it and adding your own ideas about what should be added, changed or eliminated. In addition, commenting with off topic jokes or chatter.
By hijacking, the focus of the prompt can be lost, and inappropriate threads created. By doing this fillers may be discouraged which is something no one wants to experience.
If a prompt leads you to an original idea, please create your own prompt. The chatter or love posts are the proper places to share jokes or talk about prompts that have inspired you.
(prepared by anonymous)
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Put links to your fills here. There are instructions on the actual post. I ask that if the part you wanted isn't up yet, just wait and one of the archivists will get to it, but please, once it is up, please make sure you post your fills there according to the guidelines. DO NOT skip out on doing this because it seems like too much effort.
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WARNINGS/OFFENSIVE WORDING IN PROMPTS
Please consider warning for triggery prompts (and also for fills, because some people read in flat view) and phrasing prompts in a manner that strives to be respectful.
Things which you might want to consider warning for include: Rape/Non-Con, Death, Suicidal Thoughts, Self-Harm, Underage Relationships, among others.
That being said, this is a kink meme. As such, there will be prompts that could offend you in a number of different ways. Not every prompt will have a trigger warning, and not every prompt will rub you the right way. If you have an issue with a specific prompt, feel free to bring it up in a discussion that takes place off the meme. However, flaming will not be tolerated regardless of origin.
You are highly encouraged to scroll right past a prompt that you dislike.
Remember, guys; Be civil, be friendly, but don’t be shy!
LINKS AND AFFILIATES
Delicious Archive - Delicious Prompt Archive
Filled Prompts Post - Page-A-Mod
Part I - Part II - Part III - Part IV - Part V - Part VI - Part VII
Part VIII - Part IX - Part X - Part XI - Part XII - Part XIII - Part XIV
Part XV - Part XVI - Part XVII - Part XVIII - Part XIX - Part XX
Part XXI - Part XXII
Flat View of This Page
Love Post - Rant Post - Chatter Post - Searching Post
Spoiler Free Prompt Post - Spoiler Present Discussion Post
Concrit Post - Story Announcement Post - Orphan Post
New! Off-Meme Sherlock RPF Post
Overflow Post
Prompts from this post can be filled on the Overflow Post
IMPORTANT! Spoilers for aired episodes are now being allowed on this area of the meme, without warning. If you do not want to encounter spoilers, please prompt at our Spoiler-Free Prompt Post.
GENERAL GUIDELINES
+Anon posting is most definitely allowed, but not required.
+All kinds of fills are accepted! Fic, art, vids, cosplay, interpretive dance--whatever. Go wild! :D
+Keep things neat! Read prompts before you post to see if something similar has already been done, and while you are encouraged to prompt as much as you like, try to fill as well.
+Please do not re-post prompts unless the last time they were prompted was on an older part. Simply put: ONE posting of each prompt per part.
+RPF (real person fic, i.e. fic involving the actors themselves) is not supported at this meme.
+Depending on the rate of activity, there may or may not be a prompt freeze when a part reaches 2000 and 4500 comments.
+However, there will be one when it reaches 7000. Also at 7000, after the freeze a new part will be posted, and all prompting should happen on the new part.
+Multiple fills are encouraged! :) Just because a prompt has already been claimed or written by someone, do not be afraid to offer up a second fill.
+re: hijacking.
Please refrain from hijacking a prompt. Hijacking may be defined as responding to a prompt by taking a portion of it and adding your own ideas about what should be added, changed or eliminated. In addition, commenting with off topic jokes or chatter.
By hijacking, the focus of the prompt can be lost, and inappropriate threads created. By doing this fillers may be discouraged which is something no one wants to experience.
If a prompt leads you to an original idea, please create your own prompt. The chatter or love posts are the proper places to share jokes or talk about prompts that have inspired you.
(prepared by anonymous)
THE FILLED PROMPTS POST
Put links to your fills here. There are instructions on the actual post. I ask that if the part you wanted isn't up yet, just wait and one of the archivists will get to it, but please, once it is up, please make sure you post your fills there according to the guidelines. DO NOT skip out on doing this because it seems like too much effort.
Do not be afraid to ask questions about how it works if you are confused! The mods would be happy to explain.
CONTACTING MODS
Your mods for this meme are
snowishness, marill_chan and ellie_hell. If you have any questions, concerns, comments about anything at all on the meme feel free to send a PM or contact us via the Page-A-Mod post.WARNINGS/OFFENSIVE WORDING IN PROMPTS
Please consider warning for triggery prompts (and also for fills, because some people read in flat view) and phrasing prompts in a manner that strives to be respectful.
Things which you might want to consider warning for include: Rape/Non-Con, Death, Suicidal Thoughts, Self-Harm, Underage Relationships, among others.
That being said, this is a kink meme. As such, there will be prompts that could offend you in a number of different ways. Not every prompt will have a trigger warning, and not every prompt will rub you the right way. If you have an issue with a specific prompt, feel free to bring it up in a discussion that takes place off the meme. However, flaming will not be tolerated regardless of origin.
You are highly encouraged to scroll right past a prompt that you dislike.
Remember, guys; Be civil, be friendly, but don’t be shy!
LINKS AND AFFILIATES
Delicious Archive - Delicious Prompt Archive
Filled Prompts Post - Page-A-Mod
Part I - Part II - Part III - Part IV - Part V - Part VI - Part VII
Part VIII - Part IX - Part X - Part XI - Part XII - Part XIII - Part XIV
Part XV - Part XVI - Part XVII - Part XVIII - Part XIX - Part XX
Part XXI - Part XXII
Flat View of This Page
Love Post - Rant Post - Chatter Post - Searching Post
Spoiler Free Prompt Post - Spoiler Present Discussion Post
Concrit Post - Story Announcement Post - Orphan Post
New! Off-Meme Sherlock RPF Post
Overflow Post
FILL: scenes from a book no one wrote -- 5/?
(Anonymous) 2012-01-07 10:13 am (UTC)(link)It was some time before anything made sense again. He relapsed because he was partially human and because he missed magic, because magic was so hard to even touch Aboveground unless, apparently, he was dying or desperate,, but eventually he fell into something like stasis. Nicotine and caffeine balanced out by sleeping as little as he could get away with and eating nothing near enough.
When the vertigo hit, he could feel the Labyrinth reach out to sustain him.
For a period of many months, it was the faintest of magic that held him together, and it was then that he felt as if things might turn out alright, even if his home was destroyed and no one would ever understand him.
+
221B was Sherlock’s second home and it may have been a disaster but it was his and he guarded it. He knew every step, the way it creaked, he knew the way the carpets lay, the ease with which each door opened, he knew it. It was his.
This was how he knew Mycroft was sitting on his sofa waiting for him before he’d opened the door entirely. There was a general wrongness, compared to the way he’d left it, and as he scanned, intuition bloomed into observations: the newspaper articles tacked to the fridge slightly skewed (Mycroft checking on what he was eating, or more like if, perhaps); door from the kitchen to the sitting room closed where Sherlock always left it open; the light from under the door, whereas he’d left the lights in the next room off…
“Dare I guess the reason you deign to grace the doorway of my humble home?” Sherlock asked. He slipped his coat off his shoulders to drape it over the kitchen chair.
“They’ve reached a ceasefire,” Mycroft said.
Sherlock nearly ran into the door in his rush to open it. “What?”
“Father and the King of the Sea have reached a ceasefire. It’s to our advantage, really; the other kingdoms tire of the war and sympathize with father, and so hostilities should soon cease.”
Sherlock felt his mind go still. “Has Mummy woken up then?”
Mycroft was sat at the edge of Sherlock’s sofa, his umbrella resting on the ground between his knees, expression blank as ever. “Not yet,” he said. “But Father says she may yet.”
“Well,” Sherlock said. “That’s good to hear. Now get out of my flat.”
Mycroft did.
Re: FILL: scenes from a book no one wrote -- 5/?
(Anonymous) 2012-01-07 01:06 pm (UTC)(link)Re: FILL: scenes from a book no one wrote -- 5/?
Re: FILL: scenes from a book no one wrote -- 5/?
scenes from a book no one wrote -- 6/?
(Anonymous) 2012-01-09 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)Sherlock had expected the body parts or the violin or the decay or the experiments or, of course, his personality to drive John away within two months tops, and was later glad that he hadn’t said as much to anyone. It was impressive, really, because even Mycroft couldn’t spend two months living with him before resorting to violence.
That might have been why, in the middle of the night, Sherlock was lingering outside John’s bedroom, reaching deep to touch the magic, freer, now, and, in peace, greater, at the core of all things. It was child’s play to cast a ward against nightmares, and besides, having Night Mares charging through the flat all night was getting rather…old.
And besides, if John slept more, he’d probably be able to put up with Sherlock more.
It could have been any number of reasons, really, that Sherlock was there, spinning a spell in the air.
Sherlock remained eminently pleased with himself for having been clever enough to throw the ward up so quickly despite years without using magic until he walked into the kitchen, fully intending to resume his experiments on the time it took a blood stain to set in silk, and saw his father leaning against the refrigerator.
“I had a fair amount of trouble finding you until you were helpful enough to cast a spell. Nightmares, really?”
For a moment, Sherlock saw his father as any number of strangers foolish enough to wish others away must have – not like an owl, as his chosen form was, but as some sleeker bird of prey, the sort of falcon that could rend flesh from bone with the same ease as it breathed.
“It wasn’t for me,” he said.
“Oh, are you living with someone, then?”
“I’m surprised Mycroft didn’t tell you,” Sherlock said.
“Hmm,” said his father.
(Dressed in a warcloak, a new one, likely meant he’d had time to have one made for the sake of ceremony, looking good during negotiations, eyepaint heavier than it used to be, bright blue under his eyebrows, under his lower lid – to mask exhaustion, still pulling long hours, he’d never been one to abstain from wards or potions to sleep, why pulling long hours? Not enough data regarding political situations Underground; couldn’t be dire or Mycroft would have said something, at least dropped by; last stages of negotiations? The treaty-making couldn’t be that bad, the King of the Sea’s armies had to be decimated--)
“I’ve been doing my best to try and wake your mother,” he said—
(Oh.)
“But the Labyrinth won’t let her go. My best guess is that until it recognizes that all of…of us are back, it won’t acknowledge that the war is over.”
“You want me to come back.”
“Yes, obviously. But more than that, I need you to convince your brother to come back.”
“He won’t?”
“No. And I would suppose you can guess why.”
“He thinks you want to put him on the throne while the political climate favors a transition to a somewhat younger monarch.”
scenes from a book no one wrote -- 7/?
(Anonymous) 2012-01-09 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)Sherlock considered sitting down. His back ached from work, but then again, he was as tall as his father like this, and why waste that sort of psychological advantage? “I guess the next question is obvious,” he said as distastefully as he could.
“Would you at least consider it?”
“Answer this honestly: can you see me ruling over a kingdom largely inhabited by a species identified mainly by its complete lack of any sort of higher level intelligence, a species that invented the sport of chicken throwing? Can you honestly see that?”
“Sherlock, according to the latest census, goblins only just make up half the population. Stay up to date, really.”
God, he sounded like Mycroft. “Yes, but I’d be the Goblin King, Father, can you honestly see me as the Goblin King?”
“Goodness knows you have the requisite flair for the dramatic. You’re letting vanity stand in the way, really?”
“Oh, it’s not vanity, it’s dignity.”
His father did not visibly flinch in rage, but the magic around him did. “Very well then,” he said, with a voice that made the air go colder. “Please do drop by to attend to your mother at your earliest convenience.”
Right, there was that, wasn’t there? A shame John wasn’t there to be all ‘bit not good, Sherlock’ or ‘remember the woman he loves has been asleep for the past, what is it now, six years, Sherlock.’ “I will,” he said.
“Why don’t I leave something for the woman, then?”
“I beg your pardon?” Sherlock said.
His father opened a hand into the air and there, suddenly, was a peach. Sherlock bit back a groan.
“It’s obvious enough. You’ve cast a nightmare ward for someone, and voluntarily, I assume. Oh, and it’s actually clean here. How could you keep a place clean without someone dogging you? Is that what’s keeping you here?”
“Don’t be daft, Father.” God, was everyone going to assume that he and John were together? “You know what? Leave the peach. See what happens. It’ll just rot there, because that’s not it. You’re so enormously wrong that it’s almost funny.” He’d just tell John he’d poisoned it and was testing the effects on the rate of decay, John would never touch it, one up over Father. Brilliant.
“Don’t mind if I do,” he said.
And then he was gone.
Sherlock had never understood the appeal of the dramatic disappearance. One ought at least have the dignity to stalk through a door, let the cloak flare, and then slam the door before vanishing. Much more intimidating.
+
Sherlock fell asleep on the couch sometime around five in the morning.
He woke up when he heard a very loud thunk in the kitchen.
He pondered the possible consequences of staying where he was. He could get in another hour or two of pure sloth easily, but then again, something might have fallen over.
He got up.
John was sprawled across the kitchen floor in his pajamas, half-eaten peach in one hand.
“Shit,” Sherlock said, rather calmly for the circumstances.
He crouched down and took the peach from John’s hand. He sat against the counter rather carefully – wouldn’t do to be sore when he woke – and, sighing, ate it as quickly as possible.
Re: scenes from a book no one wrote -- 7/?
Another gorgeous piece. <3333 Can't wait to see how John reacts!
*keeps tab open, refreshing determinedly*
Re: scenes from a book no one wrote -- 7/?
Re: scenes from a book no one wrote -- 7/?
(Anonymous) 2012-01-12 02:32 pm (UTC)(link)Re: scenes from a book no one wrote -- 7/?
I can't wait to see John's reaction to the Labyrinth and the world Sherlock is coming from. Lol not to mention his family. This will be fun!
Re: scenes from a book no one wrote -- 7/?