silveradept | Snowflake Challenge 2024 #10: Five Things (Plus One)

Challenge #10 was decided by poll, and the results of the poll are to make a different list than the first one.

Challenge #10

Five Things! The five things are totally up to you.

I think of this in more of the "Five Things" story category, which is often titled things like "Five Times Steve Rogers sang from the Little Red Songbook." Sometimes it ends up being a 5+1, so it ends up being "Five Times Steve Rogers sang from the Little Red Songbook, and One Time He Contributed To It."

There's a Dreamwidth community that works on the principle of Five Things on different topics each week, so if you're looking for possible prompts to answer the question with, or something that you can do to put more content for people to see, then check out

thefridayfive. And if you've got good lists of five, you can contribute to the lists for others to work with as well. (They could probably use it. The community has ten plus years of questions lists to work through.)

There's another community around that could probably use help and people giving prompts or filling prompts, and that's

kittens_and_spitefic, where the whole idea is someone posting about how much they don't want to see certain kinds of content, and describing in detail what it is they "hate" so much about those kinds of fic, so that you know exactly what kind of content to give them in response that they can gnash their teeth about how someone has given them a thing that's super-aggravating to them. (Of course, it's someone actually describing what they would like to see the very most, and some people really like spite-driven ficcing.)

Since we're in the middle of the prompting phase, there's also the low-low requirement of three sentences (give or take) present in

threesentenceficathon, which you can leave prompts for or leave fills for. It's a very popular community and there's an entire swarm of prompts and fills going on. It's already on the second prompt post, because there's a comment limit that happens where you start having to input catpchas, and then eventually a full comment limit. So there's already a full prompt post to go through, and then a second prompt post opened.

Have we mentioned that

snowflake_challenge has a solstice counterpart in

sunshine_challenge? The prompting system is different, usually several prompts on a similar theme, like flowers, gemstones, or other collections of objects, and what those collections might bring to mind, wither in things that have already been done, or things that someone would like to do or will create for the situation themselves.

And, if you're interested in doing some thank-you works for specific people because they've contributed monies to organizations fighting for human rights, access to reproductive freedoms, the continued existence of queer people, blunting the prevalence of incarceration, or other such social causes, then

fandomtrumpshate will be opening up for creator sign-ups not that soon after

snowflake_challenge closes for the year.

I believe that qualifies as five at this point. (For the plus one, it cycles around in January, and it has a prompting session in July, but I really like the concept of

poetry_fiction and hope more people join in on it every year.)