THANKS, GIN. AND BUCKY. AND TUMBLR. AND GIN.

[dira]

So on Sunday I got tagged in a Tumblr post which turned out to consist of some tumblr fans seemingly reinventing the idea of flashfic comms (hey, let's do this 'write one story a week for a year' challenge! gosh I wish I could do this with a group of people and compare our stories! but we would have to organize them all in some central location!) and I responded teasingly that they could put it on Dreamwidth! Perhaps in the form of a kink meme, with a post for each week's prompt, responses to appear in the comments!

...Yeah, so then I had some gin and no one physically stopped me and now there's a thing?

mcuflashmeme is a mashup of the old school flashfic community familiar around these parts and the kinkmeme/anonmeme structure which seems to be the liveliest form of fannish activity on Dreamwidth these days. Come and play, if you're interested! The comment size limit theoretically constrains stories to about 2,000 words but people are posting links to tumblr/AO3 as the fancy strikes them, so do what you want. (Even following the prompt seems to be optional, LOOKING AT YOU, 50% OF RESPONDENTS SO FAR, but w/e, more fic! more art! more stuff!)

Anyway, current challenge runs through Friday, so if you want to write a story titled "A New Beginning" (YOU KNOW, LIKE THE PROMPT SAYS)(KIDS THESE DAYS) come on over to mcuflashmeme!

Comments

[pollitt]

I saw you post about this, I'm excited to participate and (hopefully) getting the muses going.

[dira]

Yayyyy! I'm so excited to see people come and play! :D

[cesperanza]

Ahahah. *wipes eyes* AHAHAHAHA. OMG. PUT ME IN THE OLD FANS HOME RIGHT FUCKING NOW. *dies*

[dira]

KIDS THESE DAYS, SERIOUSLY. :D

[princessofgeeks]

Oh, fandom. Never change.

Have fun! Good on you for creating traffic on DW! Hurray!

[dira]

Honestly, nothing new under the sun. :D

[petslife]

Hoooooly shit I feel old now. Oh my god. Remember when these used to happen on EMAIL?

That's awesome! I am thinking of fic, now, which is fantastic and maybe I'll even get something written for this! You're the best.

[dira]

Ahahaha oh man, I totally missed the era of flashfic on mailing lists! I came in just as ds_flashfic was getting started up on LJ, and it was such a great way to get started and get to know people! I don't know if a flashmeme will be anything like as helpful to people, but I think we've already got two people posting their first piece of fic, so! Off to a good start! :D

Come onnnn, write something! You know you want tooooo!!

[sholio]

Oooh! *follows*

I also like how the setup is just that little bit different from the other kinds of prompt/fic comms that are out there right now. It's interesting how the prompt-a-week flashfic comms seem to have given over almost entirely to kinkmemes and similar custom-fic-for-someone's-prompt comms; I only know of one old-style comm with the "new prompt each week, post your fic as a post to the comm" system that's still active, and that's fan_flashworks. In fact, this is making me think it might be cool to have a similar one (to yours) for Star Wars! :D You have a catchy name for it too; I'd love to see flashmeme comms catch on as the kinkmeme and bingo ones have done over the last few years.

ETA: Actually, the more I think about this, the more I really want to make one for Star Wars, starting this Friday. You don't have any objections, I hope?

[dira]

Oh man, please do a Star Wars one! I had to talk myself out of starting a Star Wars one as well as an MCU one, so I'm delighted to see someone else pick up that idea!

[riverlight]

I would like to join the community, & it says I have to talk to you!

[dira]

You don't need to join--all the stories go in the comments to prompt posts, so I'm the only one with posting access. :)

[riverlight]

Ah, that's convenient!