Title: The Pictures of Regent Virini
Author: vjs2259
Fandom: Babylon 5
Genre/Characters: Gen, Londo Mollari
Spoilers/Setting: S5, after The Fall of Centauri Prime
Disclaimer: Not my characters or settings or backgrounds. But they are my words.
Rating: G
Prompt: both quotes

"We live in the dark, we do what we can, the rest is the madness of art."
 -Henry James, The Middle Years
                       
"In war, there are no unwounded soldiers."
- Jose Narosky

The Pictures of Regent Virini

 

Title: Leaves That Were Green
Author: cnidarian
Fandom: SG-1
Genre: Gen, General Hammond, angst, spoilers through Season 7
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Prompt: "In war, there are no unwounded soldiers." - Jose Narosky

Leaves That Were Green

I admit to being a bad moderator here, and I apologize for the long delay between challenges.

For your next challenge, I offer two quotations, ganked from _minxy_, who is awesome. Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to write fic or meta or make art, somehow inspired by either or both of these quotations below.



Quote 1: "We live in the dark, we do what we can, the rest is the madness of art." -Henry James, The Middle Years

Quote 2: "In war, there are no unwounded soldiers." - Jose Narosky



Challenge responses are due by June 30. Have fun!

Title: The Unbearable Unfitness of Being
Author: wendelah1 
Fandom: The X-Files
Genre: Mulder/Scully UST, Season Six, no spoilers
Rating: PG-13, for language
Disclaimer: Still not mine.
Prompt: Chuck Norris
Summary: Mulder thinks that the Consortium has concocted one of its strangest plots against him.

THE UNBEARABLE UNFITNESS OF BEING

Title: Ranger?
Author: vjs2259
Fandom: Babylon 5
Genre: somewhere post Severed Dreams, Season 3
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not my characters or settings or backgrounds, those are JMS and other copyright-owning folks'.  But they are my words.
Prompt: Chuck Norris
Summary: Zack and Garibaldi eat lunch.

Lunch is served here...

No, not a fic -- sorry -- but breaking ostrich news:

Public art project celebrates the ostrich influence

Because I am silly, I'm using Vehemently's suggestion from the prompts post (new suggestions always welcome!), and therefore the new challenge is:

(drum roll, please)

Chuck Norris

Because we're terribly flexible here at Casa de Ostrich, any and all uses of Chuck, from the virtual to the metaphysical will be allowed, although we request that Chuck not be an actual character in your story. (On the other hand, Walker Texas Ranger crossovers? Comedy gold. I'm just saying.)

Deadline is April 5. Enjoy!

Because clearly I am not a master of promptology, I throw myself on the brilliance of this community.

Prompts, people! Please to submit prompts! And then your wonky moderators will select from the suggestions for future challenges!

So, whatever floats your boat: quotes or theories or tv episode titles or animal names or whatever! Let's have prompts! Startle your fellow community-members with your genius!

Sorry about the delay, folks.

The hedgehog challenge was a bit of a flop, but we did get two stories submitted for it:

Cryptozoology by wendelah1, XF

Hh by vjs2259, Bab5

Title: Cryptozoology
Author: wendelah1 
Fandom: The X-Files
Genre: AU, cross-over, humor, MSR, season seven
Rating: Gen
Disclaimer: Still not mine.
Summary: Mulder wants to take Scully to England. Again.

Cryptozoology

Title: Hh
Author: vjs
Fandom: Babylon 5
Rating: G
Spoilers: Season 5
Disclaimer: Standard disclaimer applies; not my characters or settings or backgrounds, those are JMS and other copyright-owning folks'.  But they are my words.

Hedgehogs, explicit and implicit...

The new challenge is up, and it is hedgehogs. And while, yes, my brain thought of 'cute little Brit critters' (note 1) first, there is also: data mining tools, Black & Decker Power Tools, and dino hedgehogs and anti-submarine weapons and pangolins. (Which took me *way* too long to find, considering.) Oh, yeah, and there is Sonic, too.

Note 1: siljamus was kind enough to remind me that Erinaceus europaneous lives in places other than than the British Isles.

This challenge will run until February 14, for obvious reasons.

The challenge is hedgehog. Again: metaphorical, actual, or magical space-traveling hedgehogs that shoot rainbows out their asses. Anything you like!

Have fun! Spread the word! Write fic! Make icons! All that stuff!

Thank you everyone for participating in our first challenge, which if you recall was chickens.

These are the responses that were posted; please make sure to feed the writers!

From the Flint Hills to the Possessed Chicken Farm (This Land Was Made For Me and You), by wishfulaces (SPN, PG, Gen).

Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road, a multi-fandom compilation by hossgal.

The Chicken or the Egg, by wendelah1 (XF, MSR, R).

Not Chicken, by hossgal (SPN, PG, Gen).

Bacon and Eggs, by vjs2259 (Bab5, G).

The Gratitude of Strangers, by dotfic (SPN, G, gen).

Universal Content, by oriolegirl (SGA, PG, gen).

Omelets Are Off the Menu, by cofax7 (SPN, G, gen).

Mystery of the Universe, #463, by denynothing1 (SGA, G, gen).

Title: From the Flint Hills to that Possessed Chicken Farm (This Land was Made for You and Me)
Author: aces
Fandom: Supernatural
Rating: PG or so, for lots of swearing in disbelief
Warnings: not really spoilery; takes place sometime in the middle of the first season
Word count: approx. 1900 words
A/N: Originally this was supposed to be all about the chickens; it kinda evolved into something else.
Summary: Wind farms, cattle farms, demonic chickens. Typical road trip with your brother.

( Read more... )

Why did the chicken cross the road?

( Captain James T Kirk: To boldly go where no chicken has gone before! )

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In case you didn't get enough: The X-Files and Star Trek versions.

Someone want to do a BSG or SG1/SGA version?

A lit SF version?

Title: The Chicken or the Egg
Author: wendelah1
Fandom: The X-Files
Genre: MSR
Rating: R, for the usual reasons
Spoilers: Can you have spoilers for a series that ended in 2002?
Disclaimer: Not mine; any mistakes in scientific reasoning are my own
Written for the January prompt: Chickens, in ostrich_2008

"Mulder. What do you think came first, the chicken, or the egg?" Scully was sitting cross-legged on the sofa, working the Sunday New York Times Crossword puzzle. She was whizzing through it, filling in the blanks at a breath-taking clip, and still had the brain power left to ponder one of philosophy's classic causality dilemmas.  He shook off the haze of lust that close proximity to this woman put him in and put on his thinking cap.

Title: Not Chicken
Author: hossgal
Fandom: Supernatural
Rating/Pairing: Gen, PG
Spoilers: none; set pre-series
Words: 1230
Summary: Adventure aftermaths and regrets.

...this would be the one that's not funny.

***

( 'Dad?' It would have been easy to ignore the monosyllable plea – no harder than ignoring the boy who spoke the word. )

Title: Bacon and Eggs
Fandom: Babylon 5
Rating: G
written for ostrich_2008 , January prompt: chickens

Title: The Gratitude of Strangers
Fandom: Supernatural
Gen, G, 400 words or so
Not mine, still Eric Kripke's.

Written for the January 2008 prompt at ostrich_2008, "chickens."

( Sam glanced at Dean, a frantic look that cried, do something. )