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WAFF-a-thon 2012 - Main Thread!
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To the Promised Land
WAFFathon 2012 Official Thread
Welcome, everyone, to the fourth official WAFFathon, making the Internet a little happier. The premise behind the WAFFathon is simple: Fandom is great, but let's face it, it can get pretty dark around here at times. Not to mention that it rains absolute CRAP on the characters we most love. So to make their not-quite-canon lives a little better, and to increase the per-capita volume of Warm and Fuzzy Feelings (WAFF for short) on these here intertubes, the WAFFathon has arrived!
This year I'm upping the ante by putting my money where my WAFF is... see more behind the cut!
How to Play:
1) Comment with a fandom, a pairing, and a prompt. Your prompt can be specific, general, vague, cryptic, silly, goofy, OOC, AU, sexy, anything you like, so long as it brings a little sunshine in the end.
2) Find a prompt you like and make something fluffy and feel-goody out of it. Fanfic, fanart, manips, icons, vids, fanmixes, motis and macros, and anything else creative are all welcome. Adult content is also welcome, but remember that the goal is to be WAFFy!
3) Post it (or a link to it) in the comments.
4) Watch people's lives light up!
The Rules:
1) Provide lots of encouragement to the creators. Feedback. Compliment. Hug. Friend. Mem. It's good karma.
2) This meme will be very lightly policed, but policed it will be. So behave. No trashing of others, fandoms, ships, chars, stories, or the meme writ large will be tolerated. Friendly concrit or suggestions are fine, but keep in mind that we are trying to make people happy, not insecure. As your Moddess Goddess(TM), I reserve the right to do what I feel I need to do. Which I hope will be nothing, but which you are hereby forewarned can change depending on my very mercurial mood. So... like I said. Behave.
3) I have no end date in sight for this meme, but I suggest keeping it a weeklong activity.
4) You are more than welcome to crosspost your creative works wherever you like. It should go without saying that taking someone else's work and passing it off as your own elsewhere is unacceptable by any definition. I refer folks to
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stop_plagiarism as a good place to follow up on any problems that might occur.Make the world even happier!
A couple of extra things you can do if you want to make everyone happier:
1) Readers/viewers: If you find an author/creative person you like, go back through their other works and comment on them, or rec their works on your journal. Creative people love feedback and it's especially gratifying when you get feedback on something you thought was lost to time and when someone likes your work enough to recommend it to his or her friends.
2) Creators: be sure to thank readers for their time and energy spent on your work. Friend them if they've friended you or recced you. One of the great things about fan-creative communities is the proximity you can have to the people you admire and respect. We don't get to have conversations with Joss and Kripke and the rest, but we can talk to each other and that's even cooler.
3) Pimp this meme to any friends or communities you think would be interested. You can find banners and code at the Banner Thread. Hotlink your little hearts out!
4) If you're feeling really encouraged, please consider making the world a better place on behalf of the fandom community.
CLICK!
DONATE!
ASPCA * Random Acts * International Committee of the Red Cross * America's Second Harvest * Humane Society International * UNICEF * American Cancer Society * Oxfam * Amnesty International
THIS YEAR I WILL BE DONATING $1 FOR EVERY COMMENT THE WAFF-A-THON RECEIVES, BE IT A PROMPT, A FILL, OR FEEDBACK, UP TO A $500 MAXIMUM!
I will split the money evenly among Random Acts, the ASPCA, and the Red Cross. Make me too poor to attend DragonCon this year :) (Please note that your comment has to be a genuinely happifying comment in order to count toward the total!)(I know we're all poor in fandom, but we're actually very rich!)
5) Tell someone you love today how much you care for and appreciate them, and remember: Happiness is a completely renewable energy source!
THANKS TO...
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perdiccas and oxoniensis for hosting similar memes in the past that I've participated in. You guys set up the model for me to build on....
triedunture, hils, wickedvirtue, sinnerforhire, ibonekoen, kijikun, peppervl, peroxidepest17, takadainmate, heard_the_owl, darth_firefly, melalucci, mithrel, jaune_chat, noshinori, bballgirl3022, gwendolynd, wolfrider89, ratherastory, princess_aleera, nicole_sill, and aerilex for cheering for the idea and volunteering to leave prompts, fill prompts, and/or pimp....YOU! for reading and writing!
Fill! 4/4 - Danny
The vibrating thing turns out to be a kitten, a puffy grey fur and a voice like a lawnmower. He pets it for a moment, wondering where it came from, before he thinks to investigate the warmth at his back.
Steve looks almost innocent when he sleeps and the pale sheets look good against his tanned skin.
"Oh, god," Danny says.
Steve opens his eyes and smiles. "Hey, Danno." His voice is all deep and sleep-rough and Danny's really not sure about the dreaming thing anymore, because this is the stuff of dreams, not real life.
"Steven," he says, because he may be dreaming, but he's still him, "why am I in your bed? No, scratch that, why am I in your bed with a cat?"
"You got in late last night. The cat's from Grace." Steve yawns and stretches and Danny's really, really hoping this is a dream, because if this is real, it just might kill him.
"From Grace? Grace gave you a cat?" he asks as the cat in question scrambles over him to purr in Steve's face.
Steve smiles and scratches behind the kitten's ears. "Yeah. She wanted to give me something to make me smile while you were gone."
"While I was--Aww, Steven, did you miss me?" Danny means it as a tease, as part of their normal banter, but he's in Steve's bed and it comes out a bit softer and more, well, intimate than Danny had intended.
And when Steve smiles at him, all sleep-slow and gentle and hair sticking every which way on the pillow, Danny feels his heart do something weird in his chest.
"Steve--"
"So I was thinking," Steve says and Danny bites back the automatic response. Steve scoops the kitten up and deposits it on the floor and somehow gets closer in the process. This is really not good for Danny's health. "Rachel said something, and Grace with the kitten, and then you showed up here and--"
"Is this going somewhere anytime soon?" Danny asks, because he has to do something normal or risk doing something stupid. "Because you sound a lot like you're just throwing words together and hoping they make sense."
Steve scowls at him. "You--oh, screw this."
And then Danny's positive he's dreaming, because Steve doesn't kiss him in real life, doesn't run his hands over Danny's shoulders and down his back, doesn't pull back just far enough to mutter, "God, I missed you," before diving right back in.
It's got to be a dream and Danny likes dreams, because in dreams, he can kiss back, can thread his fingers through Steve's hair, can feel the solid press of Steve's chest against his own.
He can feel something soft wriggle in under his chin and start to purr.
Danny pulls back, because kittens did not feature in any of his dreams, as far as he knew, and Steve's lying there, hair mussed and smiling and, "This isn't a dream."
Steve snorts. "Not unless we've figured out how to have shared dreams, no."
"Then," Danny takes a moment, for once, to think things through. "Then the cat has to go. Off the bed, out of the room, something. Because what I am going to do to you I cannot do in the presence of small, fuzzy animals."
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OH MY GOD.
OH MY GOD, THE SCHMOOOOOOP. FUZZY KITTEN SCHMOOP!!!
YOU WIN AT EVERYTHING. FOREVER.
♥ ♥ ♥
Re: Fill! 4/4 - Danny
I'M SO GLAD YOU LIKED IT, BB. <3<3<3
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