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merlinmicrofic · 10 months ago

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Rules & Requirements

The main idea is simple: every 15th of a month, we will share three prompts - single words, dialogue, a setting, something along those lines - and you'll have until the 14th of the following month to write a short fic for one of the prompts! You can, of course, include all three prompts, or write a fill for each prompt, or five different fics for one of the prompts. Go Wild!

Fills have to be submitted by the 14th of the following month (so, say, the prompts go live on January 15th, your fill has to be posted by February 14th) to make it onto the Masterlist.

There are no signups required, just post your fill here or to the AO3 Collection, and tag this blog so that we can reblog it.

As a Microfic counts anything of 500 words or less.

For an additional challenge, make it a drabble (100 words exactly!).

You can write for any ship/character/gen relationship! Depending on how things go, we might start prompting ships as an additional challenge eventually, but even then it'll be optional.

You can post either to tumblr or to AO3. You don't have to use the collection, but you're welcome to! Please add the prompt you're filling to the top of your post and/or your summary on AO3, and tag the blog directly to make sure we see and can reblog it!

If AO3 says your fic is under 500 words, we'll count it. For fills posted to tumblr, we'll use wordcount.com to make sure it doesn't go over (we're not going to refuse your fic if it's 5 words over 500, but please do try to stay in the wordcount constraints, as that's kind of the point!) Drabbles have to be an exact 100 words on either AO3 or worcount.com though!

There are no content restrictions or rules on tagging beyond what AO3 requires of you. If you post to tumblr and your fill is Mature or Explicit, and/or falls under one of AO3's major warnings, please provide tagging on your post, though!

You're welcome to submit prompts! Just send us an ask "prompt submission: [word/dialogue snip/setting/etc]" If we get enough submissions, one of the monthly prompts will come from these.

Prompts can be interpreted liberally; we're not going to tell you your fic doesn't qualify, although please do make sure that it relates somewhat (aka don't just submit any drabble you write please).

Any questions? Please reach out through the ask box, or contact me directly at @queerofthedagger! <3

Mostly, I want this to be a fun little challenge with low stakes! I can't wait to see what people come up with.

The first round of prompts goes live on Monday, January 15th! <3

#bbc merlin #merlin fanfic #merlin fests #merlin micro fic #merlin micro fic challenge

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seasmoon · 9 months ago

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INDEPENDANT / PRIVATE / TSIREYA of the METKAYINA CLAN.

crossover friendly. multi-muse friendly. duplicates friendly. OC friendly. mutuals only. time zone is UTC+10 (like australia). low activity (mostly weekends). all canon characters are primarily based on personal interpretations/portrayal expounding on canon details and worldbuilding/headcanons. primarily canon-divergent. developed by moony; black pasifika 🇵🇼/🇲🇵. 30+. neurodivergent. they/them, AROMANTIC/ASEXUAL.

TAGS,

#vision : tsireya. #vision : metkayina. #vision : awa'atlu. #vision : storytelling. (prompts, writing)

VERSES,

#timeline : tsakarem. #timeline : the tsahik. #timeline : the pirate's life. #timeline : the urban fantasy.

RULES,

* standard etiquette applies: no god-modding, no guilt trips or vague-blogging, no forced shipping. it goes without saying that this blog does not tolerate irl abuse, queerphobia/transphobia, racism/colorism, sexism, fascism/colonialism, or overall bigotry. i STRONGLY discourage "paranoid reading" and bad faith interpretations of the narratives i'm developing. critical thinking skills are important. and y'all don't know me like that. ** multiverse, multiship (extremely selective, non-priority), oc friendly, duplicate friendly, etc.! but this is a highly selective (private) writing blog. very low activity + low maintenance, slow with DMs/chatting. writer has a very busy offline life, besties with the horrors and whatnot. if we're mutuals, i want to write and plot with you! i hard block & soft block liberally, mostly to clear out inactive blogs or content i don’t vibe with anymore. no biggie! non-rp or personal blogs are welcomed to follow this blog, but pls do not reblog any writing or rp threads (with exceptions for answered asks sent by that personal blog). *** conventional shipping is not a priority on this blog. but i do love plotting & developing dynamics between two or more characters that may be platonic, QPR/FWB, unconventional, or an exploration of relationships that go beyond the "Western" ideological framework, etc.. i prefer slow-burn ships and multifaceted plots; exploring and developing our characters' relationships. so mutuals are always welcomed to DM me for plotting! lastly but most importantly, consent and communication needs to happen first. **** this blog focuses on the science fiction genres, so ADULT THEMES will be present (and usually tagged): (anti)colonization, (anti)capitalism, murder, abuse, toxic dynamics, symbolism/allegories/nuance, etc.. READER DISCRETION ADVISED. MINORS DNI. 🔞🔞🔞 ***** call me moony! 32 yrs. black pasifika. they/them. aroace/bi. neurodivergent. my other rp blogs are @tagaloak & @anarkissm !

#psa : dni.#avatar rp #atwow rp #mass effect rp

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nuclearspring · 7 months ago

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𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐕𝐄𝐆𝐀𝐒 ( 𝐎𝐑 ) 𝐇𝐎𝐖 𝐈 𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐍𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐎 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐏 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐘𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐌𝐁. INDEPENDENT FALLOUT BASED MULTI FEATURING CANONS AND OCS FROM NEW VEGAS, FALLOUT TV, AND FALLOUT 1. 21+ & MUTUALS ONLY. PLEASE READ RULES BEFORE INTERACTING.

by scout (27, any pronouns).

note: my fallout tv verse is adjusted to mesh better with new vegas canon. more information on that here. (link leads to fallout tv spoilers; proceed with caution).

roster includes (primaries bolded; the rest are secondary): albert cole, alejandro "cash" castillo (vegas & ncr based oc), arcade gannon, benny, betty zhao (vegas based oc), boone, cooper howard, courier six (sasha dubrovhsky, alias boris medvedev), lucy maclean, maximus, ulysses, & veronica santangelo.

you can find more thorough descriptions of characters here, including links to bios.

to interact: if we're mutuals, shoot me a meme, send me an ask, or dm me! provided i'm following you, i am open to interaction or plotting whenever, and will respond when i can.

rules:

001. i'm generally comfortable with most subject matter covered in fallout canon (within reason - there are some things handled by fallout that i personally think were handled very poorly, and i am certainly highly critical of the media, which does include grievances with new vegas, and there will sometimes be criticism of it on this blog), but i won't write incest, rape / csa, etc, and will block those who do / who fetishize anything of the sort.

no racism, antisemitism, zionism, (and if you think those latter two are the same thing, dni) etc will be tolerated. terfs dni. the usual. i won't interact with muses from harry potter, peaky blinders, attack on titan, or detroit: become human / other david cage games. i may not follow multis back if they have content on them that i worry my mutuals might not be comfortable with as well, and tend to be quite wary given past experiences. i will also sometimes block or softblock if i see interactions with people or characters i'm not entirely comfortable with for whatever reason. indie is a little weird and, as previously mentioned, i've had some strange experiences. i encourage controlling your own space in the indie world. for that reason, i'll never take a block personally. also on that note, if we're mutuals and you see me interacting with someone who has, for lack of a better phrase, done some harmful shit, feel free to send me a dm and let me know.

while i'm not personally comfortable disclosing my ethnicity online - it is something that i've been taught to hide when possible - except to people i know and trust and talk to, i will disclose that i do look to new vegas as something to process and explore certain aspects of my identity and family history. i do have intergenerational trauma and that is another reason i may use the block button quite liberally/be either slow to follow back or not follow back at all in some cases as i have seen a lot of interpretations of canon (as well as numerous aspects of canon itself) that i don't feel okay with at all. i expect that people do their research when writing cultures and situations they're not familiar with, and try to meet that expectation myself.

002. minors dni. i'm an adult, and i only want to write with adults.

003. i'm fine with shipping but i like to build rapport between characters first and figure out where they stand. rivalry, friendship, etc are also plots i value - my focus won't entirely be on shipping.

004. best way to start interacting if we're mutuals is just to shoot me a meme or a dm - i guarantee that if i follow you, i'd like to write.

005. if i don't follow back, it's likely because i'm unsure of your rules (aka certain things aren't touched on and i'm not sure where you stand), or if i can't see us interacting. nothing personal.

006. i usually don't write nsfw on tumblr! if i do, it will not be the main focus of the thread. don't mind if others write it, nor do i mind prompts that allude to it, but if i'm writing it i'd prefer it not be the whole story, if that makes sense, and i'd also prefer only to write it with people that i've known for a while.

007. themes present on this blog will sometimes be heavy - canon is heavy. content warnings for colonialism, violence, militarism, fascism, allusions to genocide, allusions to slavery, assimilation, indoctrination, intergenerational trauma, and post traumatic stress disorder. i will tag things whenever possible. if there is anything you need tagged in particular that i miss, or if i ever make a mistake, feel free to reach out and let me know so i can course correct.

#pinned.#dni.

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kiuda · 2 years ago

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Happy bday!!!! Ur genuinely one of the nicest people here!! I will never get over telling u that!! Everytime u announce one of ur special group projects or your asks round I wait impatiently for mine bc I love them so much!! Talking to u is always so comforting and liberating (if we're spilling tea as well 😌😌)

And I cannot NOT mention how All round talented u are!! Your creativity is out of this world! Your Writing is fantastic!!! Your lore takes are always spot on!! And Your art???? Hello???? gorgeous!!! that coloring? the softness of your pieces? Stunning!!

I will never grow tired of telling u how amazing u are bc u Are Amazing!! love ya <3 so glad I met u <<33 hope u have an amazing bday!!!

Alex ;___; <333

Thank you so much <3333

I am so so so happy you all like the group projects/ask things, because making them is so much fun!! I love seeing how creative everyone is and how they interpret whatever the prompt is :D

#thank you <33333 i'm crying btw #ask #alex tag #birthday ask

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96thdayofrage · 6 years ago

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Conservatives and liberals alike have feasted on King's hunger for a world beyond race, a world where color will be neither the final sign of human identity nor the basis for enjoying advantage or suffering liability. To be sure, King's life and work pointed to such a day when his dream might be fulfilled. But he was too sophisticated a racial realist, even as he dreamed in edifying technicolor in our nation's capital, to surrender a sobering skepticism about how soon that day might arrive. His religious faith worked against such naiveté since it held that evil can be conquered only by acknowledging its existence. King never trusted the world to harness the means to make itself into the utopia of which even his brilliant dream was a faint premonition. The problem with many of King's conservative interpreters is not simply that they have not been honest about how they have consciously or unintentionally hindered the realization of King's dream, but more brutally, that in the face of such hindrances, they have demanded that we act as if the dream has become real and has altered the racial landscape. As an ideal, the color-blind motif spurs us to develop a nation where race will make no difference. As a presumed achievement, color-blindness reinforces the very racial misery it is meant to replace. Unfortunately, conservatives have not often possessed King's discerning faith or his ability to distinguish ideals from the historical conditions that make their realization possible. Most important, many conservatives lack the sense of poetic license that filled King's rhetoric. Instead they flatten his spiritual vision beneath the dead weight of uninspired literalism.

For example, William Bradford Reynolds, who served as assistant attorney general for civil rights at the Department of Justice under Reagan for eight years, attacked affirmative action as a cruel departure from King's uplifting vision of color-blindness. Reynolds contended that "the initial affirmative action message of racial unification — so eloquently delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in his famous 'I Have a Dream' speech — was effectively drowned out by the all too persistent drumbeat of racial polarization that accompanied the affirmative action preferences of the 1970s into the 1980s." Reynolds continued, writing that what had "started as a journey to reach the idea of color blindness" had been sidetracked by infighting among competing racial or ethnic groups. While excesses and mistakes of the sort that Reynolds outlined surely occur, they do not express the fundamental aims of affirmative action: the correction of past and present discrimination and the granting of equal opportunity to historically excluded minorities. Minorities who possessed merit in the past were unjustly treated. Merit, then, wasn't the crucial criterion that determined their participation or exclusion; race or gender was decisive. To pretend otherwise, and to discount race or gender now in combating patterns of racial or gender exclusion, violates common sense and impedes the sort of justice for which King fought. King argued that it "is impossible to create a formula for the future which does not take into account that our society has been doing something special against the Negro for hundreds of years." King went on to question how the Negro "could be absorbed into the mainstream of American life if we do not do something special forhim now, in order to balance the equation and equip him now to compete on a just and equal basis."

In this light, it makes sense to conceive of merit as a dependent good. It functions according to its immediate environment of comparison. What is meritorious in one context — say, an ability to play violin in a high school symphony or to recite Shakespeare in a theater company — is irrelevant in the next — for instance, a soccer match, where neither skill is particularly useful. Besides, even in the same sort of environment, say a university setting, the same skills may be unequally prized at different schools. For instance, one university may need to fill a first-chair violin slot, where another is overrun with them. At another school, soccer is the sport of choice, offering scholarships to skilled players, while other schools don't field soccer teams. The problem with having used race so long as the sole criterion for participation in schools or jobs is that race wiped out any consideration of merit. Not to take that historical feature into account is not only to deny history, but to corrupt the potential for achieving justice. In fact, race became a kind of merit itself; put another way, if race functioned as a demerit, corrective justice dictates that for a time it serve as a merit. It was King who wrote that "the nation must not only radically readjust its attitude toward the Negro in the compelling present, but must incorporate in its planning some compensatory consideration for the handicaps he has inherited from the past."

Another conservative writer, Richard Bernstein, eloquently suggests that King and the civil rights movement would be opposed to contemporary multiculturalism and affirmative action, its social complement. Bernstein contends that the "obsession with the themes of cultural domination and expression justifies one of the most important departures from the principal and essential goal of the civil rights movement: equality of opportunity." He argues that multiculturalism, by contrast, "insists on equality of results." He maintains that King's "dream of a day when my four little children will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character" crystallizes in "one sentence the essential ideal of liberalism." Multiculturalism, however, reaches a directly opposite conclusion: "'Judge me by the color of my skin for therein lies my identity and my place in the world.'" And repentant conservative Michael Lind writes that King "publicly opposed racial preferences." But King's words contradict Bernstein and Lind. King said that whenever the "issue of compensatory or preferential treatment for Negroes is raised," many of our friends "recoil in horror." As King stated, the "Negro should be granted equality, they agree; but he should ask nothing more." King goes on to write that the "relevant question" is not what blacks want, but how "can we make freedom real and substantial for our colored citizens? What just course will ensure the greatest speed and completeness? And how do we combat opposition and overcome obstacles arising from the defaults of the past?" King advocated a strong multicultural approach that Bernstein claims he would have rejected. Further, King seems to have sided squarely with at least some version of multicultural emphasis on substantive, not just procedural, justice. As he wrote, the "Negro today is not struggling for some abstract, vague rights, but for concrete and prompt improvement in his way of life." King rejected the simplistic and ill-advised distinction between equality of opportunity and equality of results. "The struggle for rights is, at bottom, a struggle for opportunities," King wrote. But he warned that "with equal opportunity must come the practical, realistic aid which will equip [the Negro] to seize it."

Even black conservatives have attempted to wedge between King and affirmative action in the name of color-blindness. Shelby Steele wins the symbolic sweepstakes hands down. His book, Content of Our Character, lifts King's phrase as both the title and the basis of his argument for color-blindness and for his vigorous attack on affirmative action. And Boston University economist Glenn Loury quotes King's content of character phrase too, pointing out that today King's dream is "cited mainly by conservatives." Loury writes that the "deep irony here is that, while in the liberal mind a vigorous defense of the color-blind ideal is regarded as an attack on blacks, it is becoming increasingly clear that weaning ourselves from dependence on affirmative action is the only way to secure lasting civic equality for the descendants of slaves."

Perhaps the most controversial, and bitterly contested, appropriation of King's vital legacy by a black conservative is that of California businessman, and University of California regent, Ward Connerly. Connerly has gained national attention for his successful efforts to end affirmative action in California with the infamous Proposition 209. More recently, besides his antiaffirmative action forays into Washington State and Florida, Connerly officially opened his National Campaign Against Affirmative Action on the King holiday in 1997. He defended this symbolic gesture of identification with King's legacy by declaring that his actions were consistent with the martyr's goals, though to King's traditional admirers it smelled more like treachery. Connerly insisted that his group did "no disrespect to [King] by acknowledging what he wanted this nation to become, and we're going to fight to get the nation back on the journey that Dr. King laid out." Connerly contends that preferential treatment of minorities in college admissions and in the workplace undermines King's dream of a color-blind society and repudiates everything he stood for. Proposition 209 is certainly Connerly's crowning achievement to date, a piece of legislation that Connerly views as the natural extension of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In fact, as printed on the ballot, Proposition 209 pilfered language directly from the 1964 bill, holding that "the state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education or public contracting."

Never mind that when those words were written, racial presumptions and practices were radically different. One major presumption was that the 1964 bill was marshaled to combat the forces of white supremacy that pervaded Southern government and civil society in de jure segregation, and in Northern states where de facto segregation reigned. Hence, the practice of whites' excluding blacks was outlawed. Blacks received newly granted citizenship rights that were framed in the universal terms that allowed them to be applied to blacks in the first place. In short, blacks should have already been included, and would have been, except for the racial distortion of the Constitution's original intent of freedom for "all men." The irony is that in order to protect the legal and civil rights of black citizens — after all, no such protection was needed, or granted, for white citizens, save in the Constitution and Bill of Rights — such protection had to be cast in language that suggested universal application. But everyone associated with the struggle for black rights understood three facts about such universality. One, universality was not a given, since it had to be fought for. Two, it was not self-evident, since it had to be argued for. And three, universality was not inalienable, since it had to be reaffirmed time and again. In other words, there were at least a few competing versions of the universal floating around. The trick was to incorporate one version of universalism, black rights, into the legal arc of another version of universalism, white privilege, while preserving the necessary illusion of neutrality on which such rights theoretically depended. Hence a philosophical principle — what the philosopher Hegel might call a "concrete universal" — was transformed into a political strategy, allowing both whites and blacks to preserve their specific stake in a universal value: democracy. To miss this process — that is, to mistake politics for philosophical principles, or, in turn, to disregard their symbiotic relationship in shaping American democracy — is to distort fatally the improvisational, ramshackle, halt-and-leap fashion by which American politics achieves its conflicting goals.

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