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LO, for many moons you have gone unchallenged! In vain you have wandered these internets, sighing despondently, wondering if there would ever come an opportunity to produce fanworks worthy of your MIGHTY SKILL!! But hark, what is this on the horizon? What rises, sun-dappled, gleaming with either the morning dew or the sweet, hopeful tears of all those who would partake of your glorious fanworks? I see it! It is no mirage! It is the:



Verily, even so.

Having culled your challenge ideas into a neat list (thanks prompters!) and given it a ponder, I'd like to do this first (and most of the others as well, in time).

Starts: NOW
Ends: the 19th of October
What we want: fanfic, fanart, or anything else your little heart yearns to produce, provided it is either set in or in some other way heavily features a historical time period (which implies Earth, but you know, make a compelling argument for Ancient Gallifrey fic based on the Rassilonate vampire wars or something and I'll totally come with).

For a show about time-travel, we just don't have enough costume kink and use of historically accurate dodgy sex toys. Have you SEEN what the Imperial Court of Meiji Japan got up to? If you haven't, they made some perhaps overly informative woodcuts to share. If you have, why didn't you write a fic about it? They didn't make those embarrassingly graphic woodcuts for their own amusement, you know. Well. Maybe they did. Anyway.

Canon gives us PLENTY of scope here--for example, if you haven't listened to the Five Thomas Brewster audio, there's another UNIT-style period in which Five gets trapped in Victorian London and poses as a gentleman scientist and has to grown a beard in order to be taken Super Srsly by the other scientists. Don't we know what happens when the Doctor is stranded on Earth for more than ten minutes? Where's THAT fic?

You can of course always write Master Interferes with X Event, because hell, King's Demons shows us this is like, His Weekend Plan. Multiple fills of all shapes and sizes treasured! Or just romps--think of the sheer joy that is Seasons of Fear!

Also, think outside the box on this one, too. This is the perfect opportunity for:

* documentation fic/art (fic/art that uses fic-writer created documents: letters, listserv, legal, academic, etc.),
* Doctor/Master parodies of famous historical poetry, novels, paintings (!! - DO WANT) and so on,
* historical piratical adventures,
* fic/art that uses our awesome historical and historian companions (Evelyn forevaaaaaa (also Jamie says hi--well, we think, his accent was REALLY thick, it was difficult to tell)),
* fic PARTLY set in a historcial period,
* fic ABOUT history as such (Lookin' at you, Omega. I see you there, shakin' that pomo interrogation of stable historical meaning--daaaaayamn.),

and other creative means of meeting the prompt. We may be doing elements of the above suggestions as challenges in their own right at some point, but for the moment, perhaps consider them in this capacity?

A jolly chronoliday to you all!
X (aha that is like a pun...) (also do you know that now that I have a Masters you could LITERALLY CALL ME THAT? I don't think you should, that'd be really pretetious, I am just THRILLLLLLLLED it is a *possibility*. Thrilled to my nerdy, nerdy core. Sometimes one wonders if this is how this sort of thing starts. #themasterhasanunemployablehumanitiespostgraddegreetooinmymiiiiiiiind)

Of late I've received two very interesting Challenge ideas from comm members, and so I thought I'd open up a broader discussion. Anyone have anything they'd like to see/do as a Challenge? Things other comms are doing that you liked, fresh meat, a thing we've already done that you'd like to see again? Do not be shy! The worst you can do is suggest the Crispy!Master-Covered-in-Puddingathon, and even then I'll just pass over it in polite, respectful silence.

50 cent? Anyone? *cricket chirp*

Erin: Hey, I forgot b_e's two-year birthday on February 27th--verily, on that day in 2008, we were founded. Should we do something celebratory to mark it? Any suggestions?

Blackletter: Birthday prompt! Doctor and/or Master celebrating birthdays. Fretting about being too old/too young. Or lying about their age and trying to pretend that birthdays haven't happened for the last 300 years. Or them having special "landmark" birthdays (whatever those are for Time Lords--turning 500? 1000?)



How about it, team?

Casual 'drabble/ficlet/links/art in the comments below' challenge! Show your com love as it enters its terrible two/use this as a cheap excuse to create stuff and love on it!

HEAR YE: the Audio Challenge's deadline is extended. Have your stuff in by the END of February! Please.

A big chunk of break stretches out before many of you, and I want to take advantage of it like it's Tess Durbeyfield and, by a tragic trick of fate, we share an ancestral surname. So let the audio challenge begin! From now until the first of February, let us produce Doctor/Master fic/art that makes use of scenarios, places, characters, inspiration, canon, characterization, conceits, whatever from the BFA universe.


* Check out this helpful audio resource.

* You can go freestyle, as suggested above, or let yourself be guided by the prompts offered below.

* If one (or more than one) of the suggestions below strikes a cord, you can claim and fulfill it, making someone a very happy prompter. That's not to say that more than one person can't fill the same prompt--I welcome that!--I'd just like to give people some idea of what's getting written, so that they can consider filling one of the prompts still in need of attention.

* Feel free to suggest more prompts in the comments! I'll add them to the Prompts List.


ALL FIC AND ART MUST BE DOCTOR/MASTER RELATED IN *SOME* WAY.

( Prompts )

June Challenge: Three/Delgado!Master
Due first Sunday of July!


Given that we're still in the land of Confusing Old Skool, his month brings with it yet another breakdown/shippers manifesto for your convenience!

Fewer people have seen these episodes, so the summaries are more comprehensive. Am I hoping you'll be intrigued and go watch them yourself? No. No I wrote all this for my personal amusement. ...Go watch the damn episodes already. ;p

Plus since this runs long, I can just pillage it for the ship_manifesto. Multitasking! Woot!

If you have other highlights/observations re: the pairing, please do tell in comments!

Three Era: Terror of the Autons • The Mind of Evil • The Claws of Axos • Colony in Space • The Dæmons • The Sea Devils • The Time Monster • Frontier in Space

Discussion Time, Anon Meme Update, Shipper's Manifesto and New Monthly Challenge* in ONE!

*Due to how I am a lazy slacker who only got this up today, the due date for this one is June 5 rather than June 1 as it would normally be.

May Challenge: Five/Ainley!Master

This will be our first forray into classic Who for a challenge. I'm aware that not everyone's watched all of that, but as we have either the uploaded  relevant files or links to  all the episodes on the page you'll find referenced in the Links section, I feel reasonably confident that everyone has access to Five/Ainley!Master goodness.

But Old Skool can be a little intimidating, so here's a breakdown/shippers manifesto for your convenience!

If you have other highlights/observations re: the pairing, please do tell in comments!

Five Era: Castrovalva • Time-Flight • The King's Demons • The Five Doctors • Planet of Fire • Caves of Androzani*

*Just for a second, and it's all in Five's head, but god, is he ever the nexus of the emotional arc in that one

When will my Mamet Untouchables subject line joke die? Never. Probably about two challenges from now when I stop finding it funny.


EDIT: Pfft, how did no one catch the typo in the subject line? Were y'all just too polite to mention how I can't spell teh purty wurdz?




List of Entries for Academy Relationship Challenge:

Fanfic:

I Promise by [Unknown site tag]ssauei_ssui
Fourteen by x_los 
Dancing Lesson by gritsinmisery 
Untitled by evil_lawyer 
Heart Heard of, Ghost Guessed by x_los 
A WIP from iyoku 

Fanart:

Character Designs by gothic_hamlet 



And for this month:

Jacobi!Master* or Professor Yana/Doctor of your choice
April 30

Those of you who don't fancy prompts, go nuts! Those of you who want a little more direction, try something from the list below:


Retrograde Motion
Rain
Fiction
Cassandra Effect
Illumination
Sweet
Monster
Ante-Bellum


*Not including Shalka!Master though: We'll have a specifically Shalka challenge soon, but I kind of want to pimp it first and gauge everyone's familiarity with it, and then when we're all on board produce a proper slew of fic. Cool?