#Advent calendar prompts

[creativepromptsforwriting]

Twenty-Fourth Day of Gift-Giving

Twenty-Four Touches

Softly getting hold of the other’s hand, afraid to make a mistake

A casual touch on the shoulder to acknowledge them

Foreheads pressed together, a silent way to say “I’m here”

A gentle hand holding the other’s neck while staring into their eyes

Whispering, lips almost touching the ear

A quick brush of hands, almost unnoticeable

Tracing the other’s lips with their finger

An arm sneaking around a waist, holding them close

Pressing their face into the other’s neck, hiding from the world

A hand in the other’s hair, not quite grabbing it

Sighing into the kiss, melting together at last

A swift kiss to the other’s cheek

Brushing away an unruly lock of hair

A firm handshake, professionally at first, but a second to long

Gently kissing the other’s knuckles

A tender hug, just staying together for a while

Hands rubbing together to warm them up

A firm hand grabbing the other’s elbow to guide them

Feeling for the other’s pules with their lips

A quick kiss on the crown of their hair

Sitting on the other’s lap, being hugged from behind

A slow dance, entangled with each other

Cold feet warming each other up under the blanket

A gentle kiss on the forehead, a sweet goodbye

24 Days of Gift-Giving

[dearggntlereader]

Writing prompt advent calender. :☆｡ﾟ. ───

Rules: Starting December 1st I will write one blurb for one prompt each day and you can request a fandom/character/ship from my character list (also specify whether you want a platonic or romantic dynamic) You can also give more context on how you want the prompt to be written but that's up to you!!

Edit: I just got the idea to do a mood board for the request now too, so that you get something before December 1st

All the Prompts that don't have 🎁 behind them are still open

character list

sugar cookie 🎁(Mattheo riddle, grumpy x sunshine)

gingerbread house 🎁 (Remus Lupin, date night)

cold blush

sharing a candy cane

frozen hands 🎁 (Mattheo riddle, academic rivals)

white flocks between curls 🎁 (James Potter, love realization)

rushing to stores

snowball fight

Santa Surprise

Songs that just won't leave your head

Ice rink 🎁 (percy jackson, first kiss)

Snow Angels 🎁 (george weasley)

late gifts

kisses with the excuse of a mistletoe (bf!mattheo riddle)

wrapping paper

warming kisses

huddled close

Christmas market

hot cocoa

Acting like the grinch

driving around, judging/admiring the neighbor's Christmas decor

Christmas caroling

last candle

Confession🎁 (Blaise Zabini, Friends to lovers)

Happy Holidays!!! ❄️🤶🎄🌟(Me literally a day after Halloween)

[witchermonstermayhem]

A Witcher Event for December! Instead of something with monsters let's make a Witchery Yuletide Calendar together with one or several nice surprises every day. Claim a day/prompt (or more than one) and post something for it before your day, tagging @witchermonstermayhem and #yuletidecalendar so that I can find and share it with everybody on the day the calendar door opens.

What can you share? Fics, Poems, Art, Edits, Recipes, Mood boards, whatever you like! It should fit the prompt and the season and must be related to The Witcher somehow.

Do I have to create something new? - No! You can also share an old work of yours or recommend somebody else's work. The only thing that's not allowed is AI created stuff.

How do I claim a prompt? - Please send me a message to let me know which prompt(s) you'd like to share something for until November 24.

Is NSFW allowed? - Yes! Just tag it properly.

Are modern AUs and crossovers allowed? - Yes, definitely!

I missed the deadline to claim a prompt. Can I still participate? - Yes, no problem! Just post before the day of the prompt and tag me so that I can share it. The claiming is just so that I can see which days have not been claimed and can put them up for 'adoption' on the 25th.

Can I combine this event with other events? - Yes! As long as the other event allows it, combine as much as you like. For example there's @fluff-cember, @whumpcember, @hurtcember or maybe you have a bingo card that is not done yet.

Can I combine different days of the event? - No, not really as each entry is for one specific day only. If you want to write a single fic for several prompts, it will work only if the prompts are used in different chapters and in chronological order.

Can I be a completionist? - If you want to share something for every day, that's awesome and then you're definitely a completionist. But it's also great if you share something for just one day.

Is there an Ao3 collection? Yes, it's here: WitcheryYuletideCalendar

(You can already post to it, but it won't be revealed before 1st December)

The overall goal of the event is to have at least one entry for every day that other people can enjoy during Yuletide as their daily does of The Witcher.

If you have questions, please don't hesitate to send an ask!

Please share this post so that many Witcher fans can join the event. Thank you!

Below the cut is a written list of the prompts:

1 - cold / freezing

2 - (shooting) star

3 - old friend

4 - shelter

5 - hot beverage (coffee, tea, cocoa etc.)

6 - fire (place) / hot

7 - cat

8 - flowers / bouquet

9 - hot spring

10 - tree / forest / Christmas tree

11 - dog / puppy

12 - mistletoe

13 - snow / snowflake(s)

14 - lips / kiss

15 - (Christmas) cookies / baking

16 - moon / moon light / night

17 - snowman

18 - wool / knitting / crocheting

19 - dice / game

20 - unicorn

21 - gloves / mittens

22 - sleigh / sled / sledge / toboggan

23 - present

24 - heart / love

[popfizzles]

Happy October! 🎃👻🕸️

I'm having a mass sale of monster adoptables!

Each day for October, I will post one adopt made with a three-emoji prompt. Each adopt will cost a minimum of 30 USD, and come with an alternate palette version.

You can take a quick look at the prompts here on this list to get an overview of vibes, as well as the color palette used for the character!

This image will update to mark which adoptables have been sold in a quick and easy to read overview.

The prompts will also be listed underneath the readmore along with links to individual posts, and the names of those who purchased them.

[🦴⚡🐊] (Sold to @suddeneclipse)

[🦇🎀🧸] (Sold to @yuribyrd)

[💙🧋🦋] (Sold to @goregear)

[🐌🍔👽] (Sold to @beatnikbohe)

[🫀🐈🥩] (Sold to @sylviesparks)

[👻🌌🎧] (Sold to @official-rugi)

[🎪🎠🎆] (Sold to @stutteryprince-difficulties)

[🦊🩻🧨] (Sold to @dreambones)

[🎃🔥⛓️] (Sold to @catisteard)

[🍬🧠🦠] (Sold to @radpunch)

[🐙🍥💌] (Sold to @justalitlecreacher)

[🌾🧭🎒] (Sold to @wierdautumn)

[🛼🪩🤖] (Sold to @paperhatcollection)

[💎🏛️🔮] (Sold to @occasionallyquinn)

[🐍🏝️🥝] (Sold to @qualiathepurple)

[🥐👨‍🍳🐮] (Sold to @forever-a-goat-kid)

[🐺🍂👗] (Sold to @problemat-c)

[🥀🎵👁️] (Sold to @saccharinecacophany)

[💸🐉🌗] (Sold to @visocewolf)

[🕷️🕯️🎻] (Sold to @allseeingportrait)

[🥬☕💤] (Sold to @wazimoomoo)

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[⚓🦈🌀] (Sold to @n0v4hertz)

[🪽👁️🌈] (Sold to @helloandhi12)

[✨🧵🐿️] (Sold to @qualiathepurple)

[🤡🎯🎉] (Sold to @onelinemanytimes)

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[nucarnievents]

NuCarni Advent Calendar Signups Open!

Signup now until August 26th with your top 3 prompt selections. Matchups will be emailed August 29th to all those that filled out the form. You can check out the full breakdown of the prompts on our Carrd or on our IC Results post.

Fill out our signup form. A confirmation email will be sent to you shortly after.

[leasstories]

Lea’s advent calendar day 10 – First Christmas as a Family

@writerthreads writing prompt for Christmas (2022), prompt 3:

[first Christmas as a family]

Dad!Eddie x Mom!reader

No trigger warning.

WC: ≈1.2K

December 24th, 1989

Eddie and you have been dating since 1985, Eddie’s second senior year and your junior year. You and Eddie have lived the perfect idyll for 4 years now. At first, when you went to California for your studies, Eddie didn’t follow you as he was offered a job at Hawkins’ garage, and he knew that with his resume and past he would never get a job in California. But after 6 months of only seeing you once a month, Eddie couldn’t handle missing you anymore. Yes, you used to call for hours every single day, yes you sent letters to each other. And of course, you came back to Hawkins one weekend a month only to see Eddie, but the distance was too much, and Eddie left everything to join you. When he arrived, you moved out from your dorm and the two of you started renting a one-bedroom apartment.

During your third year of studies, in February 1989, you found out that you were pregnant. Right after you found out, Eddie proposed and promised to never be like his old man. He promised to always be by your side and in your child’s life. Two month before your baby’s birth, Eddie and you rented a two bedroom apartment to have more space as well as a room dedicated to your baby. You gave birth to a beautiful daughter you named Lizzie, after Eddie’s late mom. Your girl was born on November 15th, 1989, and so this will be her first Christmas. She already has her father’s eyes and your “cute” little nose as Eddie likes to call it. Lizzie is definitely a Daddy’s girl.

For your first Christmas as a family, you wanted everything to be perfect, and even if she’s only a month old, you didn’t want to your daughter to be affected by your financial struggles. Eddie currently works at the auto shop in the corner of your street, but as you’re still studying you have no income. Nonetheless, you wanted to split the Christmas bill in two, no matter how much Eddie insisted that he could cover most of it. So, you used all of your spare money to decorate the house and buy your daughter and your fiancé the best gifts ever. You want everything to be perfect for your little bean as you like to call your daughter.

You’re currently cooking Christmas Eve’s dinner while Eddie went to the airport to pick up Wayne.

While the turkey is in the oven, you’re making the cranberry sauce. You’re usually not much of a cook, but as Eddie is even worse than you, you both decided that you would be the one giving it a try, and it didn’t turn out so bad, so far. Once the cranberry sauce was made you started cooking some mashed potatoes and the green beans.

Eddie and Wayne arrived just as the turkey was finished cooking. You put it all on the kitchen counter, pick up your daughter in her crib and go into the hallways to great Wayne.

Eddie comes in first, followed by his uncle. It is the first time ever that “Grandpa Wayne” will meet Lizzie, Eddie already sent pictures and a VHS with videos of her, but Wayne never met her in real life.

“Hi Wayne!” You say while cradling your daughter.

“Wanna hold her Grandpa?” Eddie says with a smile, after kissing his daughter’s forehead. You can see that Wayne has teary eyes when he nods. You delicately hand her to her Grandpa, and Wayne really gently take her into his arms, he starts rocking back and forth all the while examining her small face and features, he smiles at her while addressing to Eddie.

“She looks like you when you were a baby. Has her mom’s nose though” Wayne says fondly.

You all head to the living room, the three of you sit around the table and Eddie is the one holding your daughter while you go to the kitchen to bring the starters. You put the smoked salmon toast on the table and all start to eat. Wayne tells you a lot of anecdotes about Eddie when he was a baby. Eddie gives you Lizzie to hold while he brings the turkey, mashed potatoes, and green beans on the table. You all eat in a cozy atmosphere. Eddie and you share small anecdotes that happened during the pregnancy and Lizzie’s first month. You’re really embarrassed when Eddie tells Wayne how you thought you had peed yourself when your water broke. Thank god Wayne answered. “Son, how do you want her to know what it is when she’s never experienced it?”. Eddie did shut up after that. When Lizzie starts getting a bit fussy, you excuse yourself and go to your bedroom to breastfeed her.

Meanwhile, Eddie excuses himself, take the gifts from your bedroom and put them under the tree.

When he comes back Wayne pats Eddie’s back. “’m proud of you son. You’ve got a lovely fiancé and the cutest daughter on earth. Just don’t mess it all up.” Wayne is stern at the end. Deep down, he knows Eddie isn’t like his old man, but he does feel the need to remind Eddie that he is lucky to have this family.

“I won’t Wayne, I swear on my life. I love them, so much.” Eddie answers. “Can I ask you a question though?”

“Go ahead son.” Wayne answers.

“How did you find out how to raise me?” Eddie asks.

“Son, you and yn are gonna make mistakes, for sure. What’s Important is how hard we try. I probably wasn’t the perfect paternal figure, but I tried my best and look at you now. ‘m really proud of you Eds.” Wayne tells him.

When you come back, Lizzie nuzzled up against you, Eddie says.

“Okay! Presents time!”. He takes the biggest gift and hand it to you. This is from me to our daughter. Eddie tells you.

“Eds… we said we’d share the cost for all of her gifts…” you protest.

“Baby, I really wanted this for her, and it’s a bit for you as well.” Eddie answers.

You give him your daughter and open the gift to see a beautiful baby swing chair.

“Eddie… This is too much...” you say, eyes wet with tears.

“The best one for my amazing daughter.” Eddie says, putting her in the baby swing chair.

Eddie and you give Wayne his gift, a new denim jacket and Wayne gifted the two of you concert tickets to go see Dio in San Jose in October 1990.

You both look at Wayne, shocked by the gift. “This is too much…” you say.

“What about Lizzie?” Eddie says, teary eyed by the thoughtful gift.

“I’ll babysit her, if you’re okay with that.”

You both hug Wayne before exchanging your gifts. Eddie gifted you a new record player and you gifted him new guitar picks as well as a new amp. Eddie gasps.

“Baby… this is too much…” He says, voice choked up with emotion.

“It is what you deserve.” You tell him. He kisses you.

Wayne also gifted a Teddy bear to little Lizzie.

You spend the rest of the night unwrapping the other gifts you bought for your daughter, eating Christmas cookies, and talking amongst yourselves.

This was your first Christmas as a family, and it was the best one you’d ever had.

A/N: I’m so sorry, this was supposed to be a drabble and I got CARRIED ON. So yeah guess those of you who like longer works were happy today!

[krbkevents]

KRBK Advent Calendar Signups Now Open!

Signup now until August 26th with your top 3 prompt selections. Matchups will be emailed August 29th to all those that filled out the form. You can check out the full breakdown of the prompts on our Carrd.

Fill out our signup form. A confirmation email will be sent to you shortly after.

[raven-cincaide-words]

Winter, Love and Angst 2024 Advent

Welcome to the exciting Love and Angst Advent calendar for 2024. It consists of 24 days with three different prompts each day focused on Christmas and Winter feeling, Romance tropes and of course a few Settings to help you on the way!

Hopefully these will prompt you to create something as we wait for Christmas and the New Year to arrive. Feel free to use as many or few of these as you’d like. And if you decide to use them, please tag me so I can read and re-blog your creations! 

So without further adieu, pick a day and prompt and let's get creating!  

1. First Snow | Newcomer | Forced Friendliness 

2. Ugly Sweater | Friend of a Friend | Mulled Wine

3. Hats, Gloves or Scarves | Boyfriend/ Girlfriend | Fight 

4. Snowball Fight | Age Gap | Building Bridges

5. Gingerbread House | Campus Crush | Cooking Class

6. Picking a Mistletoe | Secret Relationship | Jealousy

7. Snowed In | Roommates | Hidden Feelings 

8. Candy Cane Tasting | Shop Assistant | Hugs

9. Christmas Market | Online Date | Stood Up 

10. Christmas Shopping | Oblivious Love | Pinning 

11. Build a Snowman | Innocent Love | Next Step  

12. (Secret) Santa | Co-workers | Workplace Romance

13. Hot Chocolate recipe | Best Friends | Little Hints

14. Snowglobe | Different Worlds | Daydreaming  

15. Christmas Cleaning | Enemies to Lovers | Kisses

16. First Christmas | Strangers to More | Little Touches

17. Ice cream in Winter | Pen Pals | Love Letters

18 Ice skating | Athlete | Spontaneous Date

19. Christmas Traditions | Arranged Marriage | Awkward

20. Christmas Tree | Secret Identity | Lost Bet

21. Christmas Decorating | New Relationship | Caring Act     

22. Gift wrapping | Family | Disappointments 

23. Christmas Cooking | Rivals | Support

24. Christmas Excitement | Ex | No Reply

Main| Raven | Beta & Rules |Prompts | Masterlist | Cred & Other|

[jacksgreysays]

I’m feeling nostalgic for the childrens book The Moorchild by Eloise McGraw (changeling pov by a child who didn’t ask to be swapped out with someone else, the kid eventually goes in to faerie to get the kid back and due to the slow time in Faerie the kid is like, two). So… Changeling!verse where the Nara’s agreement with the fae to raise changelings whenever pregnancy ends in a stillbirth was hammered out by someone who didn’t think to expressly keep the fae from taking the living twin and replacing them as well. (Because hey, technically they ARE the produce of a pregnancy that ended in a stillbirth, and the fae are grabby). In other words, Shikako is a changeling who replaced a baby who never drew breath, Shikamaru is a changeling who replaced the boy baby who DID draw breath, and in this verse eventually baby Kino was Un-kidnapped from faerie by Shikamaru (with Shikako joining in with the force of a speeding bullet). There’s nothing in the ancient contract that stops the changelings from independently kidnapping their sibling back! (They checked) I’d be happy with just an exploration of the dynamics pre-Kino rescue as well. Shikako replaced a dead baby, as in line with the clans traditions. Shikamaru replaced a living one, who might still be out there. The Nara are obliged to raise both ‘as their own.’ How does the clan react?

Oooh, dona, you’ve brought yet another interesting facet to changeling!verse OoO

I’m wondering about the naming of characters and if there’s a bit of a… sort of shuffling? Like, obviously the twins are named Shikamaru and Shikako because Shikaku is unimaginative and also the heir should have a Shika name. But… if the “real” Shikamaru is the non-still born baby, does that mean the rescued child that is younger due to time flow weirdness is genetically Kinokawa and would have been named Shikamaru had he not swapped out? Or is that baby genetically Shikamaru and so the twin brother that Shikako grows up with is genetically Kinokawa?

… not that it would affect the plot, per se, but it’s fascinating the think of. Because if the “firstborn” is supposed to be the heir, then rescued child—as the only actually “born” child—would be heir over his seemingly “older siblings.”

… and then NOW I’m thinking about the stillborn other!Shikako. Like… what DO the fae do with those stillborn babies? What if they revive that other!Shikako? So then that means there’s a set of “human twins” in the fae world and a set of “changeling twins” in the human world? And what do call other!Shikako? In which Shikaku and Yoshino end up with four children, lololol (I should probably stop before I end up in Invincible Kimmy Schmidt “Olson quadruplets, octuplets” bit territory)

I think the clan reaction is ultimately tertiary to 1) Shikaku’s reaction and then, based on (1) 2) Yoshino’s reaction. And I should say, actually, 1) is Shikaku and Kasuga and Sembei’s reactions since they’re the ones who were with Shikaku when they placed the shrouded bundle into the hollow of that old, gnarled tree

Because… do the fae put TWO babies in that hollow? Does Shikaku, confused, rush home to find an empty crib which held the breathing baby boy? Do Kasuga and Sembei figure out what’s going on? Does the history have a precedent for this situation, this loophole taking which strains the agreement between the Nara clan and the fae? Or is it just the one baby in the hollow and no one notices that the baby boy in the crib is different (babies are weird squashed things anyway, who could tell the difference? Or IS there a difference, a series of differences, little details which don’t mean much but do feel… uncanny?)

And, depending on how Shikaku, Kasuga, and Sembei react—what they can dig from the clan’s lore, what they can sense in the shadows, what the Honored Sika Tribe can advise—do they even tell Yoshino? How can they? The exchange was meant to prevent her heartbreak, would she understand as someone new to the clan? Would she blame them? Resent them? (Would she still love these children, even if they are not hers by blood?) ((The answer is yes, of course she would love them, they are her children regardless of blood. The answer is yes, even for the somewhat silly scenario in which she has two sets of twins of differing ages))

I would like to think that Shikaku would tell Yoshino, because their marriage is built on trust and love… but this wouldn’t be the first time I have them keep secrets from each other (ie Yoshino in Stars Also Dream, hiding her Jedi past) Although I’m pretty sure this is a more egregious secret than Yoshino’s secret Jedi past…

Anyways, if Yoshino doesn’t know that “Shikamaru” got switched then the clan also doesn’t know. Both Yoshino and the clan probably know that “Shikako” is a changeling, but the “Shikamaru” switcheroo is probably a secret until the rescue mission happens. And—I’m not even joking now—it would be FASCINATING if there was an other!Shikako. Because the clan could be like, ah fuck, there’s TWO of them. Before realizing that “Shikamaru” is just quieter about his rebellions, so actually, ah fuck, there’s FOUR OF THEM. And I don’t know HOW human children are raised in the fae world, but I imagine they’re kinda feral or at the very least have extremely different priorities/morals from the changeling children raised in a militaristic society.

So other!Shikamaru—whether or not he is genetically Shikamaru or Kinokawa—would be named Kinokawa. But what is other!Shikako named? VagabondDawn did post an absolutely fantastic fic recently shadow of the future (at least we have each other) which included, honestly, one of the greatest Nara names: Inei (ie shadow and shadow) which I think would be very applicable here… OR, is Yoshino equally as efficient-yet-unimaginative as Shikaku when it comes to names (which, I mean, she might be considering she agreed to Deer Boy and Deer Girl and then named her third child her maiden name) and so the boy is Kino and the girl is Kawa? (lol)

The clan truly is just like… the idea that some of them are “we don’t like these clan heirs, we want a different one that doesn’t argue with us” and then they get two feral/fae-raised children so they immediately about face and go “actually, we love the clan heirs that have dragged us kicking and screaming into progress and success, we will keep those ones.” And Shikaku and Yoshino are just like, lol, we’re keeping all of them.

In terms of plot, I feel like the way to actually do this would be to reframe the god interactions as fae interactions so, for example:

—

They got the idea from Orochimaru.

“Probably not the best way to start,” Shikamaru says with a grimace. He, at least, has the decency to act contrite in front Ibiki.

Shikako, disregarding the fact that they are on the wrong side of a T&I interrogation, just rolls her eyes. “We didn’t get the idea from Orochimaru. Technically the Sandaime was the one who opened the portal, and it’s not like he has a monopoly on fuinjutsu or fae studies. If anything, he stole the seal from the Yondaime, and the Yondaime probably built his seal based on Uzumaki mythology. Although, since the fae predate the Elemental Nations as we know it, and we have definitive proof that the Gelel Empire used a form of fuinjutsu, it could be argued that—”

Thankfully, Shikamaru kicks his sister’s ankle to head off the rant. She kicks him back.

Ibiki sighs. “When I said start at the beginning, I don’t need you to get into ancient history. Try again.”

Minimally chastised, the Nara twins begin again:

During Orochimaru’s invasion of the Konoha Chuunin Exams, the Sandaime does not summon the Shinigami. He opens a portal to the fae world, in hopes that the chaotic, magical, anti-chakra energies of the fae world will disrupt the his student’s techniques—either by thwarting the summons of his dead teachers, or by weakening the barrier enough for reinforcements to come through.

In many ways, the Sandaime was a foolish man. In this particular way, his foolishness costs him his life.

The fae energies do not weaken his student at all. Or, at least, not before it weakens and, ultimately, kills the Sandaime. Then, goal achieved, Orochimaru simply uses the portal as an escape route.

For most, it would be perilous. For those originally created in the fae world, for those changelings who are exchanged with human children, it is merely going home.

So, no, they did not get the idea from Orochimaru… not really.

— And then I would go into something like… releasing Gelel sort of gives them the hint that the “human Shikamaru” is still alive and in the fae world. Changeling!Shikamaru doesn’t really want to pursue it, because he feels weird ways about things and if Changeling!Shikamaru is in fact canon!Shikamaru, then he doesn’t really do any internal self-reflection until he’s absolutely pushed to it by someone else and also motivated by protecting his loved ones (either his sister or his teammates)… Changeling!Shikako is fascinated by the idea, but ultimately has SO MUCH on her plate that she can’t really prioritize a dangerous excursion into the fae world (even though she does, from time to time, tweak the original seal array just because it COULD be MORE EFFICIENT if it was LIKE THIS instead)

Then fighting Jashin is some kind of corrupted archfey or something and Shikako getting yoinked out of Land of Hot Springs by the Sika Tribe actually brings her into the fae world, so actually changeling!Shikamaru’s original quest is to rescue Shikako (since time flows differently, what is, like, a day to her is a few weeks to him) meanwhile Shikako meets “human Shikamaru” (aka, Kinokawa. And MAYBE “revived human Shikako” aka… Inei? Kawa? Mystery child) and she can’t possibly LEAVE them, so when Shikamaru (and, let’s face it, a good chunk of Konoha Twelve) come to “rescue” Shikako, they also rescue the new/old Nara sibling(s).

Anyway, the Nara clan will just have to accept that their options for next clan head are all WEIRD AS HELL and REFUSE TO LISTEN TO THE ELDERS :D

[rowan-post]

r p a d v e n t c a l e n d a r

Here's a prompt, challenge or encouragement for every day this December. I'm one day late because this is a busy time of year, so take all these with a grain of salt. You can queue some of them, and ignore others. They're designed to be done one each day, but you can pick and choose what suits you.

Write a winter holiday starter!

Find a winter themed meme and reblog it.

Muse headcanon prompt - what, if anything, do they celebrate? And how do they feel about it?

Change your blog theme to fit the season. If that feels overwhelming, just change your avatar picture.

Go through your mutuals and write up an ask that details everything you like about them, be it anonymously or not.

Write an open holiday starter that anyone can join and open the proverbial doors.

Make an effort to send out a few memes to your mutuals and followers, extra points if it’s holiday themed.

Muse headcanon prompt - what do they wear to the holiday office party?

Write holiday letters or postcards from the POV of your muse to another muse and post them on your blog. 

Write a starter where winter is the enemy - be it because of a violent blizzard or a terrible winter witch.

Muse headcanon prompt - if they went on a holiday vacation for the season, where would they go?

Clean up your muse bios and make them ready for the new year.

Find or make some winter themed moodboards and post them to your blog. 

Write a winter poem to the RPC and post it. Tag it with #RPCpoem, so we can all see them!

Take a break. We’re mid-december and things are getting stressful for a lot of us. Leave tumblr for a bit and carve out some time for IRL recovery today, even if it’s just 10 minutes by yourself in the bathroom.

Find a winter fairy tale and write a starter OR a headcanon based on that (from https://fairytalez.com/ for example). Doesn’t have to be fairy tale themed, just take some inspiration.

Make a pinterest board of your muse and their holiday celebration during winter. If they don’t celebrate, show us what they’re doing instead.

How would a winter holiday with your muse sound like? Make a playlist.

Search the open starter tag (or any RP tag you follow) and take the plunge. If there’s an open starter you like where the blog is open for newcomers, reply to it. If you find a blog you like, follow them. 

Send someone in the RPC a gift. For example: Write a little drabble, just one paragraph, of what your muse would give their muse. Or see if you can tip their blog, if you’ve got the finances to. Or just send them that picture or pin that made you think of them, even if you don’t dare to.

Muse headcanon prompt - this is usually a time for family, found or otherwise, which is either a good or a terrible time. How does it look for your muse and what is their relationship to their family like? 

Mistletoe time. Make a starter call for some winter kisses, see if anyone takes the bait. 

It’s time for another break! This time, try shutting down the internet and your computer a little earlier before bedtime. 

Muse headcanon prompt - if your muse could wish for just one thing this season, what would they wish for?

[creativepromptsforwriting]

Sixteenth Day of Gift-Giving

Sixteen Sinful Sentences

"Oh, is that how you like it?"

"You are such a tease!"

"No touching right now. That comes later."

"Think you can handle that?"

"You're so very tempting..."

"How do you like that?"

"I don't think you've had enough already."

"Someone should punish you for that."

"You can be a bit rougher if you want."

"I want you to be louder, my love."

"Please, mark me."

"Tell me exactly what you want."

"I want to make you mine."

"Yes, please keep doing that."

"The night's definitely not over yet."

"I believe I could make you do it."

24 Days of Gift-Giving

[alidravana]

Another Call of Duty snippets, this one for Ghosts for Day 4: Mistletoe. Enjoy a short pre-Ghosts scene featuring Keejax and a hint of GhostHusbands!

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“I honestly don’t know why we bother with this,” Keegan muttered under his breath as the ladder wobbled slightly under his weight.  He reached out carefully and tied another piece of mistletoe to the top of the door frame that led into where the Ghosts were bunking for the week.    

“What? Don’t want Ajax kissing you?” Kick teased, as he hung up a string of lights along the top of the cabinets.

Keegan jumped at the sound of Kick’s voice, wincing as the ladder made a foreboding creak in response; he had forgotten that he wasn’t the only one who had been roped into decorating.  Elias had pulled them both aside earlier that morning and told them that while he and Rorke were reporting into Command, that they better make the place ‘festive’ before they got back.  

Taking a look over at his decorating partner as his cheeks warmed at Kick’s comment, Keegan was distracted slightly as he thought about what to say in response.  He had no idea where the younger Ghost had rustled up a strand of lights, but they actually had lit up when he plugged them in, so a win.  Maybe.

Kick knew about Keegan’s crush on Ajax, but little did he know that they had already started dating, a couple of months ago.  They were keeping in on the down low, not wanting to disrupt the team.  Although, as Keegan thought of all the private kisses he had been getting lately, he wouldn’t mind a more public one either.

“Nah,” Keegan replied, shaking his head as he climbed down from the ladder, glad to get off the rickety old thing, “I just don’t want to catch Elias and Rorke under there.”

[rainbowfic]

You can:

use either or both prompts as given

use either or both lists for prompts

use the name of either or both lists as a prompts

complete as many or few days as you want

write, draw, craft, or anything else!

There's no deadline and this is just for fun. I'll reblog this with links to the lists if you want to explore.

What's RainbowFic? We're a community of original fic writers on Dreamwidth using prompt lists named after colors (for a very VERY loose definition of color). Our lists range include song lyrics, quotes from books and tv, themed words, contrasts, and a whole lot more (we have over 400!)

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Day 1: Royal Purple #11 Further beyond / Iceberg #12 Snowman

Day 2: Lilac #25 Freesia / Opera Mauve #20 Curtain call

Day 3: Lavender's Blue #2 Mermaid / Periwinkle #14 Enamel heart pendant from a garage sale

Day 4: Caramel #8 Gummies / Vert #16 As the lord/lady asks

Day 5: Midnight #6 Furtive / Psychedelic Purple #15 I know I'll never be the same

Day 6: Lotus #19 Truthfulness / Ignition Yellow #10 There are some nights I wait for someone to save us

Day 7: Green Go #21 Rideshare / Gold #12 The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it

Day 8: City Street #4 Highway / Greenstick Fracture #9 I got the velocity and now all I need is the mass

Day 9: Paprika #8 We've got something kinda funny going on / Harvard Crimson #14 Library

Day 10: Danish Red #2 The Snow Queen / Amaranth #5 Stars

Day 11: Pull Me Over Red #1 Parking ticket / Daffodil #5 Flowers

Day 12: Fluorescent Pink #19 It doesn't matter who they are, I won't forgive anyone who tries to stand out more than me / Parrot Green #13 Call

Day 13: Crane White #18 Tell your daughters do not walk the streets alone tonight / Spirits of Saturn #15 Overgrowth

Day 14: Cherry #12 Grapes / Skylight #4 Smoking on the fire escape

Day 15: Calcite #4 Soft/Hard / Burgundy #2 Varietal

Day 16: Yellow Submarine #17 The long and winding road that leads to your door will never disappear / White Opal #2 Dream

Day 17: Tigers Eye #8 Eerie empty spaces / Moonlight #1 Liminal

Day 18: Baby Blue #4 Sling / Red Dress #5 You need to find a new solution, adaptation or retribution

Day 19: Gunmetal #14 Crossbow / English Violet #3 Since I cannot prove a lover, to entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain

Day 20: Heirloom Silver #2 Heirloom / Brown #5 Brown bagging

Day 21: Coomassie Blue #1 Repressor / Folly #14 Relax, I saw it on TV

Day 22: Fuzzy Wuzzy #3 Hugs /Alien Green #6 This is where you pucker up and kiss my ass

Day 23: Fawn #4 Cat / Grand Ink #20 With a mug of hot tea and some Vicodin in my bloodstream, I look up from my book to watch the bugs outside the windows

Day 24: Royal Blue #2 Queen / Spirit Purple #19 Screw the binary gender system

[hgwellsmykabering]

Bering and Wells Advent Calendar

Never Get Involved With Your Flatmate, a collaborative writing event: everyone writes one chapter of a loosely connected getting together AU!

Today is the day, soon the first part by @lavendelhummel will be up! Are you already curious about what's behind the crate number 1?

Some other days haven't been claimed yet:

#7 Never borrow Helena's clothes has been claimed!

#9 Don't let her convince you to go to the swimming pool / gym with you has been claimed!

#10 Never lend her money again...

#11 ...or your car

#15 Don’t share a room/bed with Helena

#18 Never fall in love with your flatmate

#19 Don't let her see you in your pyjamas

#20 Never give her a gift or accept a gift from her

#21 Never listen in to Helena when she's on the phone

#22 Never go to the Christmas market with Helena

#24 Never kiss her on the lips (in collaboration with day 23!)

In addition to the ones above, there is also the option for you to write your own idea :)

Sign up in a reblog or an ask if you want to join the merriment!

Fics will be posted to the Ao3 collection & on tumblr with the hashtag #BeringWellsAdvent23

[nucarnievents]

NuCarni Advent Interest Check Open

Don't slip on the ice in your rush to fill out our interest check! You can now submit your prompt suggestions for the advent calendar until July 31st. Don't wait too long or your suggestion might not make it on the list!

Interest Check Form

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[leasstories]

Lea’s Advent Calendar day 15 – My dork

@writerthreads writing prompt for Christmas (2022), prompt 20:

[Being caught standing under the mistletoe]

Eddie x gn!reader

No trigger warning.

WC: ≈ 0.4K

December 24th, 1985

You’re invited at Eddie’s trailer to spend Christmas Eve with him and his uncle. You and Eddie started dating at the beginning of the school year and you’ve been attached to the hip ever since. You practically live at Eddie’s trailer and Wayne treats you like his own. You’re currently at your parent’s looking for the perfect outfit, while the cookies are in the oven. You try on several outfits and settle on a red one, you then brush and style your hair. You go downstairs, put the cookies on the table. While the cookies are cooling, you wrap Eddie and Wayne’s gifts. You bought new pins for Eddie’s denim jacket as well as a bracelet with bot your initials engraved in it, and you bought a new mug for Wayne.

A few minutes later, you can hear Eddie’s music blasting from his van’s speakers in your driveway, that’s your cue to take your cookies and put your shoes on. You just got the time to zip your second boot when Eddie rings on your doorbell, you open the door with the sweetest smile ever and kiss him softly on the lips.

“Hi” you say, smiling into the kiss.

“Hey” Eddie answers smiling as well. “Ready?” He asks.

“Almost” you say, taking your coat from the coat hanger and putting it on.

Eddie zips your coat for you before kissing you again. You take the container with your cookies inside and go to Eddie’s van.

Eddie starts the van and drives to his trailer. The drive his spent in a comfortable silence, Eddie holding your hand with his right one.

Eddie parks in front of his trailer and open your car door for you, giving you, his hand. Eddie seems in a particularly romantic mood today.

You take the container and Eddie, and you climb the steps of his trailer. You don’t see it, but you stop right under a mistletoe. You don’t have the time to comprehend anything when Eddie kisses you breathless. You smile into the kiss and raise your head to see the mistletoe.

“Caught you under the mistletoe!” Eddie tells you, proud of himself.

“You’re such a dork” you say chucking.

“But I’m your dork” Eddie tells you.

“My dork” you confirm. “Thank you, Eddie,” you say, wrapping your arms around his neck.

“I knew it’d make you happy Sweetheart” Eddie tells you gently.