I'm feeling EXCHANGE MOD PROMPT ENVY.

[vulgarweed]

Too early to start thinking about go_exchange? Never! (Mind you, I did keep my Yule tree up til the Spring Equinox this year...)

And I was surfing around, as you do, and I came across the signup post for castielfest, and OH MY STARS AND GARTERS LOOK AT THAT SIGNUP FORM AND THOSE PROMPTS!

Look how detailed they are. The creativity! The specificity! Look how much fun the requesters are having with their tropes and their plot bunnies and their kinks. Look how many options the signups give to writers and artists.

I don't even need the fic, I'm so smitten with the prompts! Whatever these mods are doing so right, I'm totally going to figure it out and steal it!

Comments

[musegaarid.livejournal.com]

Those are beautiful, beautiful prompts! Why are ours so damn vanilla? *flails*

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

INORITE??!?

I'm tempted to declare an outright ban on fluffy, plotless Aziraphale-and-Crowley-have-a-cutesy-Christmas-together fics.

[musegaarid.livejournal.com]

SRSLY.

Though I maintain that my fluffy Aziraphale-and-Crowley-have-a-cutesy-Christmas-together fic wasn't plotless...

There's just something weird about GO fandom lately. I hadn't been to Lower Tadfield in a while, but the last time I went it was all adolescent squeeing and angel AUs. Which, I kinda started (the angel AUs, anyway) but nothing that I saw had the intelligence that I equate with the Book. Where'd all the clever, creative fangirls go?

(No offense to any of your friends who might read this! If they're friends with you, they're automatically clever and creative. ;))

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think there's definitely a lull going on. I really miss most, I guess, the really thinky, meaty stories that engage with history and theology in really cool ways. Where did all those go?

[musegaarid.livejournal.com]

Yes! That's what I meant. History and theology are my passions and why I got pulled into fandom in the first place. (Someday I will manage the GO/Aztec pantheon fic that I've had in mind for a year...) But it is disappointing.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Yes! We should make a pact - you write that GO/Aztec pantheon fic (AMAZING!!) and I'll finish my medieval Silk Road perpetual WIP!

I think a lot of the fandom angelologists (and angeLOLogists) are hanging out in SPN these days...GO crossovers are definitely in vogue right now.

[musegaarid.livejournal.com]

Oh, the Aztecs are fuuuuuuun. Crowley fits right in. *evil grin* And I will make a pact with you! But if you're kind you'll give me about six months because my thesis is due at the end of June and I got diagnosed with mono today. :p

But isn't SPN all angsty? See, this is what happens when I go off and study 17th century angels. I lose my pop culture references.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Oh, I've done some research on the Aztecs, long ago. We'll talk about it sometime. I am so in - but the end of June, don't you mean six weeks instead of six months? Mono sucks, I hope you feel better soon.

SPN is pretty angsty, yeah. It has its moments of humor, though.

[musegaarid.livejournal.com]

Awesome. Yeahno. I'll need six months to write my fic. ;)

BTW - Did you see the prompts for the DeanCastiel exchange? Maybe we need to insist on 3-5 specific prompts? Also maybe up the minimum word count so that people have to put some effort into their contribution? Couple of thoughts...