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Re: 2016 Nostalgia Challenge!

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah I'm pumped for this! Filling for old prompt posts is hard now because there is starting to be so much so yeah. Definitely. As long as we can get whump in that category too ;)

Re: 2016 Nostalgia Challenge!

[(Anonymous)]

OP... I was thinking categories that are general like crossovers, angst and whump, AUs or smut. But also maybe some DD specific ones like prompts about Matt's childhood, college prompts or prompts about about Ableism and Disability. Plus maybe categories focusing on characters like the villains or the women of the show.

Just to make sure the challenge calls attention to the diversity of prompts here and that everyone can find one they love.

There's also been talk lately of trends coming and going, and even glancing at post #1 today reminded me that there were some prompts early on that attracted a lot of interest but then just got forgotten about as the prompting gained speed and trends changed.

Re: 2016 Nostalgia Challenge!

[(Anonymous)]

I think this can be a good opportunity to bring in other characters too like more writing about Karen and Claire!!!!!! There aren't so many of those nowadays. I kinda get sidetracked bc I love him so much and I just like writing for him (and punishing him) but I read stories about Karen and Claire there just aren't many out there.

Re: 2016 Nostalgia Challenge!

[(Anonymous)]

OP again. Basically, I want a challenge that encourages fills but is also fun for the lurkers and readers to participate in too and encourages them to actively boost prompts they like, comment and cheer the writers on.

I think even the nominating process amd curating the list of final prompts in the challenge could be a fun way to celebrate the massive collection of prompts we've amassed (over 28,000 of them!), many of which are funny, weird, creative or original and are sort of buried waiting to be sifted through for gold and treasure.

When S2 comes, especially, people really won't care about older prompts and so we should try and remind people of them and inspire those of us here now as much as possible before then.

That's my thinking anyway.