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amalnahurriyeh posting in philedom Apr. 26th, 2011 01:24 am)Welcome to the X-Files creative challenge for 3W4DW! This is a place to write, draw, or otherwise produce SOMETHING AWESOME in celebration of the X-Files, and all of the awesome characters and scenarios we love so much.
What sort of works are eligible?
Any X-Files or crossover X-Files fanwork can be posted here.
How Should Prompts Be Formatted?
There should be only one prompt per comment.
An X-Files only prompt should include characters/pairings and prompt. Use a slash for a romantic/sexual pairing, and & or the word "and" for a friendship pairing, like this:
A crossover prompt should contain character names and fandom along with prompt, like this:
Those are some crap prompts, Amal.
Bite me. So leave some of your own.
Do prompts need to be claimed? Can prompts only be used once? Can I write for my own prompt?
No, no, and yes, in order.
How do I fill a post?
Post your fill as a reply to the original prompt. If it won't fit in a comment, link to your journal.
How should fills be formatted?
Please put the title, prompt, and rating in the subject line. If you want to warn or provide content notes, please do so in the first line of the post. Images that are NSFW should be posted in full elsewhere and should have a SFW thumbnail on the challenge page.
Is there a deadline?
The challenge will open on April 26th, and run through May 15th for thethree_weeks_for_dw festival. You may start filling prompts as soon as they are posted, and may continue posting prompts until May 13th. Because this is a 3W4DW challenge, please keep all posted fanworks on DW-only for 21 days after posting, although it is perfectly fine to post links elsewhere.
I heard a rumor there would be prizes.
Participants in the challenge can earn points for Philedom Olympics 2011, for leaving prompts, making fanworks, and leaving comments.
I have another question!
Ask me in the question thread!
What sort of works are eligible?
Any X-Files or crossover X-Files fanwork can be posted here.
How Should Prompts Be Formatted?
There should be only one prompt per comment.
An X-Files only prompt should include characters/pairings and prompt. Use a slash for a romantic/sexual pairing, and & or the word "and" for a friendship pairing, like this:
Monica Reyes, Ouija boards
Fox Mulder/Alex Krycek, leather
Dana Scully and John Doggett, watching NASCAR
A crossover prompt should contain character names and fandom along with prompt, like this:
X-Files/Fringe, Dana Scully and Walter Bishop, Mad Scientists Union
X-Files/Doctor Who, Fox Mulder/Tenth Doctor, tall drink of water
Those are some crap prompts, Amal.
Bite me. So leave some of your own.
Do prompts need to be claimed? Can prompts only be used once? Can I write for my own prompt?
No, no, and yes, in order.
How do I fill a post?
Post your fill as a reply to the original prompt. If it won't fit in a comment, link to your journal.
How should fills be formatted?
Please put the title, prompt, and rating in the subject line. If you want to warn or provide content notes, please do so in the first line of the post. Images that are NSFW should be posted in full elsewhere and should have a SFW thumbnail on the challenge page.
Is there a deadline?
The challenge will open on April 26th, and run through May 15th for the
three_weeks_for_dw festival. You may start filling prompts as soon as they are posted, and may continue posting prompts until May 13th. Because this is a 3W4DW challenge, please keep all posted fanworks on DW-only for 21 days after posting, although it is perfectly fine to post links elsewhere.I heard a rumor there would be prizes.
Participants in the challenge can earn points for Philedom Olympics 2011, for leaving prompts, making fanworks, and leaving comments.
I have another question!
Ask me in the question thread!
From:
Truth
Marita, there is no truth. Word Count: 300
There is no truth, no greater cause, no happy ending; there is only staying alive, of trying to survive what is to come.
As a girl, when she imagined how her life would turn out, Marita never imagined this. Even in her worst nightmares, she could never have conceived of a world where men sold their integrity, their freedom, their very souls so cheaply.
No matter what Fox Mulder thinks, there will be no stopping the invasion, no saving humanity. And frankly, Marita doesn't think humanity really deserves to be saved.
Maybe wiping the slate clean is the best way.
Or maybe not, but she can't really find the will to care anymore. Maybe that’s the real truth: the willingness to push and try your hardest, only to discover that no matter what you've done, your best efforts aren't enough.
She wonders if it wouldn't have been better to never have been cured, to have stayed in a comatose state as the world fell apart around her.
If she has learned one thing over the years, it's that life is hard and has no absolutes. Mulder's ever-precious truth is a worthless lie to another man. Truth is not a finite thing so much as an outlook to be twisted to suit any current set of circumstances.
These days lies fall as easily from her lips and leaves from an autumn tree and sometimes they’re just as pretty. Marita wonders if she'd recognize the truth if she spoke the words, if the truth even matters any more. If survival does.
Still, she does what she's told, watches, remembers, hides what she knows. Some day the truths she hidden away like so much pirate treasure will save her. Or kill her.
On days like today, the second option is the happier one.
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Re: Truth
That's a fabulous line. And I love the voice you've given Marita here--the sort of desolate conclusion she's reached at the end of all her suffering. It's interesting to watch all the conclusions that people reach after being yanked around by the Consortium--it's really only Mulder and Scully who think it's still worth fighting in the end.
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Re: Truth