I saw this...
...and thought of this:
hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my ragtime gaaaaaaaaaaaal
The 2017-2018 Sekrit Solstice Sci-Fi Fantasy Story Swap
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I learned a lovely, evocative chicken-related term recently. Occasionally chickens (other birds, too, of course) will lay an egg with no yolk. These are colloquially known as "wind eggs." (wind in the sense of air movement, not wind like winding a clock).
You know what? I'm adding that to my prompt.
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Gah! Y'all are really freaking me out! You've tapped into my deepest, darkest fear.
Drop me into a pit of vipers... bury me in a mountain of spiders... but please, for the love of all that's holy and good, don't let a chicken get anywhere near me!!! (Ugh, just typing the word makes me shudder)
Dunno what it is...
ETA: Well, whadaya know. It's not as uncommon as one would think! It actually has a name: alektorophobia...
Drop me into a pit of vipers... bury me in a mountain of spiders... but please, for the love of all that's holy and good, don't let a chicken get anywhere near me!!! (Ugh, just typing the word makes me shudder)
Dunno what it is...
ETA: Well, whadaya know. It's not as uncommon as one would think! It actually has a name: alektorophobia...
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Fuzzy chickens with long floppy ears who lay eggs ..... Aargh we've created the Cadberry Plot bunny
This.
It may wind up being Dealer's Choice when I'm pairing, but so long as you're happy getting either prompt, I can work with it!
+1
ETA: if I start chasing plot chickens, you are all to blame.
Maybe write a Plotting Chickens sub-plot?
I'm just happy I discovered this, and was able to register in time. Either one is good.
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A sad futuristic story about a substitute teacher who gets a job raising chickens on a patch of underground land, with the sub-plot about the chickens rebelling against him?
Or, a subterranian plot chicken sub sob story with a plotting chicken sub-plot.
A substitute teacher teaching a course, to subterranean plot chickens, on plotting submarine courses.
I could live with a chocolate chicken.
A chocolate chicken subscription service paid for by government subsidy set in a substitute teacher's subterranean farm that delivers by submarine in subzero waters with a subplot about a man in a suburb eating a six-inch sub sandwich and musing in sublime ignorance on how reality is subjective and sentient chocolate chickens who are plotting to subvert the order don't really exist.
I'm away for a day or two and this place is overrun with plot chickens. Oh my.
*drags in the bbq*
*drags in the bbq*
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Actually, to get the best flavor out of plot chickens you want to slow cook them on the subconscious back burner. (Unless it's flash fiction, then deep fried is the way to go.)
...why yes, my metaphors for how my writing brain works are cooking-related.
...why yes, my metaphors for how my writing brain works are cooking-related.
I'm away for a day or two and this place is overrun with plot chickens. Oh my.
*drags in the bbq*
i hate you both so much right now
I'll come out of hiding for this. I'm in.
Giving: Most genres of SFF are fine, but I don't really do hard sci-fi or military stuff. A little humor is fine, but I don't really do comedy either. I'm fine with writing sex and/or violence. Anything I write will be queer and postcolonial and feminist. Don't expect much cisness, straightness, whiteness, or maleness in your story.
Receiving: My preferences are same as above.
Prompt: The world ended long ago. Or maybe it's ending right now. Or maybe it's ended many times and people are used to it by now. Either way, the standard tropes of the (post)apocalypse don't apply. This isn't a story about survival, but about continuing, and finding home. Must feature women who love women and magical girls.
Giving: Most genres of SFF are fine, but I don't really do hard sci-fi or military stuff. A little humor is fine, but I don't really do comedy either. I'm fine with writing sex and/or violence. Anything I write will be queer and postcolonial and feminist. Don't expect much cisness, straightness, whiteness, or maleness in your story.
Receiving: My preferences are same as above.
Prompt: The world ended long ago. Or maybe it's ending right now. Or maybe it's ended many times and people are used to it by now. Either way, the standard tropes of the (post)apocalypse don't apply. This isn't a story about survival, but about continuing, and finding home. Must feature women who love women and magical girls.
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*cackles*
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ANOTHER PARTICIPANT!!!!!!!!!!!!
What are we at now? 53?
Welcome to the madness, k.
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I had chicken tikka masalla* for supper tonight. Want some? :innocent smile:
*Jarred sauce. I love Indian food (even if tikka is a British invention) but am not so flush with energy and grocery budget to make my own curries at this time.
I've now had my thoughts and updated my prompt - rather inspired by the Eric Rohmer Comedies and Proverbs series I've just rewatched!
I have prepared my doc for my gift-giving gift, I iz readay for tha day of DAYS to arrive!
Wait, there's preparation involved?? What form does this take? It doesn't involve chicken blood, does it???
The closest I come to preparation is: Open blank document. Stare at it for an indeterminate number of days before tentatively typing "The..."