WAFF-a-thon 2012 - Main Thread!
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All 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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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.
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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!
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Date: 2012-03-13 05:22 pm (UTC)Dishes clank in the sink. Harvey looks over blankly, like he hasn't heard him over the clatter.
Mike knows better. "The real reason you don't want it is because you don't want me to pay attention to anything but you."
"That's stupid," Harvey says, and clatters the dishes louder over Mike's attempted response. Mike has to fling soapy water in his face to get him to stop.
"It's true," Mike goes on. "You like being the center of my world. You don't want to share me with anyone."
Harvey snorts. "I would be the center of your world no matter how many filthy animals you brought in here."
"They're not filthy, and--"
A splash of soapy water in the face. Turnabout is fair play. Mike sputters.
"Not in my apartment, Ross. That's final."
"It's our apartment now, and--"
"Final."
There is a box on Harvey's desk. No, not a box. A basket. And inside the basket something is moving.
Out he blasts into the cubicle farm. "Ross. In my office. Now."
Mike rises and follows with the obedience of a puppy. Why the hell should Harvey need another pet?
When he returns to his office, the thing in the basket is still moving beneath its blanket. "What is this."
"That's Ronald," Mike says.
A pink snout appears all of a sudden. Harvey literally jumps back. "What-- what--"
"I just told you. It's Ronald." Mike reaches into the basket and draws out the little ball of spines and fluff, which immediately hides its face and turns into a quivering paperweight. As Harvey watches in some fascination, the snout appears again, along with two beady eyes, and stares at him for a half-second before returning to paperweight mode.
"Is that a hedgehog?" Harvey asks. His voice sounds way more tentative than he intended.
"Yup. You said not in your apartment, so your office will have to do." Mike runs his hand down along Ronald's spines fondly. "Although I have to warn you, keeping a hedgehog is actually illegal in the five boroughs of New York City. So we should probably keep him in a drawer. Which is fine, they like dark places, as long as he has a chance to exercise--"
Harvey's face has gone slack. "What about your drawers?"
In response, Mike pushes the ball of prickles up toward Harvey's face. "You want to have this cute little thing assaulted by those rabid wolves Louis calls his associates? He'd never survive out in that cold, dark world." He nods encouragingly. "Besides, he likes you."
"He doesn't--" But the little beady eyes are out again, and this time tiny claws are starting to unfurl, until Ronald is stretched out on all fours, regarding Harvey with patient curiosity.
"See?" Mike nearly giggles aloud. "You're both equally prickly. He senses a kindred spirit."
Jessica is walking by. Her gaze shifts sharply, and Harvey whirls around to put his frame between the incriminating hedgehog and the door. "Put that thing away before someone notices." He seizes Mike's hands and pushes them down. Ronald attempts to walk onto his forearm. Harvey freezes.
Mike saves him, plucks Ronald off, and deposits him back in his basket. He looks at Harvey pleadingly.
Harvey grumbles. "Fine. In the drawer. But he can't stay here."
"Then I guess we'll have to take him home." Mike tucks Ronald's basket into the drawer. Ronald persists in staring up at Harvey. He is kind of cute. Kind of. "And, hey, Harvey?"
Harvey shifts his gaze from one pair of curious eyes to another. "Hm?"
Mike grins. "You're still the center of my world."
Harvey grumbles, but he bends down to steal a kiss -- hidden, like the hedgehog, from public view, and that makes it all the sweeter. "I better damn well be," he murmurs against Mike's mouth. Mike holds back whatever comment is brimming on his lips now, and that's triumph enough. Harvey will take the small victories where he can get them.
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Date: 2012-03-13 05:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-03-13 05:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-03-13 08:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-03-13 05:30 pm (UTC)and...Harvey and Mike have a little Martin Freeman...omg <33 XD
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Date: 2012-03-13 05:37 pm (UTC)and now i want harvey specter having to room with sherlock holmes. :D
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Date: 2012-03-13 05:42 pm (UTC)