WAFF-a-thon 2012 - Main Thread!
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tiptoe39All could lend a helping hand
We all would be a little closer
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!
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Fandom: Sherlock, Sherlock/John
Date: 2012-03-11 04:06 pm (UTC)holding hands
snuggling in bed
comforting after a nightmare
some h/c of some kind
making out on the sofa without it leading to anything more.
God, I want all of these, but feel free to just pick one. :P
Re: Fandom: Sherlock, Sherlock/John (Hold on to your fillings.)
Date: 2012-03-12 02:37 am (UTC)Yes, John is in a relationship with the world’s only consulting detective and yes—it’s pretty good. Sherlock smiles a lot more than he had before and the sex is phenomenal, and once and a while John even gets a quick peck of affection when he does something Sherlock considers smart at a crime scene (though John secretly believes that it’s just to piss off Anderson and Sally). It’s a rare thing, and that makes it all the better.
But Sherlock isn’t one for public displays of affection. When around other people they act like nothing has changed. Hell, even in private it’s hard to get his flatmate to sit down long enough to eat a piece of toast, let alone curl up with him to watch a film or something domestic. Which despite himself, John wants. Craves.
So he works up to it. First it’s subtle; unnecessary brushes and physical contact. And even though they only last a second or two longer than, normal Sherlock shoots him looks of interest, occasionally a look of annoyance.
But after a week of them Sherlock seems to either acclimatize or decide to ignore them. So John starts changing things up a little more.
First, he starts sitting next to him in the cab instead of leaving the middle seat between them.
The first time he tries it Sherlock stares with wide blue eyes, scanning John in that penetrating way. “What are you doing?”
“Going to a crime scene, aren’t I?” John says, trying to sound as innocent as possible. Sherlock remains tense the entire ride to the art gallery and bolts out as soon as the cab pulls over, leaving John to pay the fare with a sigh.
But he doesn’t relent, and keeps taking the middle seat in the cab.
At one point, as John sits and stares out the windshield while trying to decide how he’s going to write up the latest solved case, he notices a change. Sherlock is no longer pressing himself into the furthest reaches of the cab as if he can leak through the door. He’s… relaxed. Their knees are touching and they bounce against one another when the car goes over a bump.
John can’t help the wide smile that creeps over his face, and when Sherlock asks what he’s so happy about he just shrugs and tells him it’s the thrill of the chase.
He gives Sherlock a good two weeks of quiet, comfortable cab rides before sliding into his end game.
He’s nervous all day leading up to it, shifting his feet when Sherlock is twirling around the body like a macabre ballerina. Sherlock looks suspicious but doesn’t comment, just insults Anderson’s genetic material and tells Lestrade to arrest the gardener.
They get in the cab, John in the middle seat and Sherlock behind the driver, and start a normal, comfortable, silent ride home. Except John can’t help bouncing his knee. Bloody nerves, they’ve always made him fidget.
Sherlock keeps looking at it and pulling that bloody face, the one he does when normal people do normal things that he finds beneath him. He opens his mouth to say something and John takes the opportunity.
He slides his hand into Sherlock’s and twines their fingers together, not looking directly at the detective but noticing from the corner of his eye that his dark-haired flat mate has frozen in place. Sherlock’s hand is cold and smooth, with little random bumps from where he’s burnt himself working on some experiment or other weird thing Sherlock’s played with that he probably shouldn’t. John slowly trails his thumb over the back of Sherlock’s hand.
Sherlock doesn’t move an inch.
John wonders if it was too soon, if this was a mistake, and he’s about to pull his hand away when Sherlock’s fingers tighten around his. John hazards a glance in his flatmate’s direction.
Sherlock is staring out the window, avoiding his gaze, and there’s a slight red tinge high in his cheeks. John grins.
They spend the rest of the ride home hand-in-hand, and when Sherlock doesn’t let go and instead pulls John out to the sidewalk he feels a pleasant, warm sensation in his chest.
Maybe there’s hope for PDA’s after all.
Re: Fandom: Sherlock, Sherlock/John (Hold on to your fillings.)
Date: 2012-03-12 03:59 am (UTC)Re: Fandom: Sherlock, Sherlock/John (Hold on to your fillings.)
Date: 2012-03-12 04:05 am (UTC)Re: Fandom: Sherlock, Sherlock/John (Hold on to your fillings.)
Date: 2012-03-12 06:36 am (UTC)*happy wiggly feelings*
<3 <3
Re: Fandom: Sherlock, Sherlock/John (Hold on to your fillings.)
Date: 2012-03-12 10:49 am (UTC)Also, n'aaaaaaawww, Sherlock is like a baby animal, easily spooked and shies away from new scary things. Glad John knows how to ease him into these things. Because N'AAAAAAAWWW SUPER CUTE.
Re: Fandom: Sherlock, Sherlock/John (Hold on to your fillings.)
Date: 2012-03-12 02:00 pm (UTC)*dopey smile* Thank you so much for this! <3
Re: Fandom: Sherlock, Sherlock/John (Hold on to your fillings.)
Date: 2012-03-12 08:01 pm (UTC)