Crackuary

February 2020 SWG challenge Crackuary banner

This month's challenge prompts originated from the premise: "This idea is completely unworkable, but I bet I can make it work." With that philosophy in mind (if so dignified a word can be used here), we offer you a bingo card with the most bizarre, silly, and crackiest prompts we could conjure.

Crackuary challenge bingo card - see Challenge Prompt section for text-only prompts

For text-only prompts, see the Challenge Prompts section below.

In order to participate, you can choose any prompt or prompts from the card above and create a fanwork using the prompt(s). There are no numbers drawn for this challenge.

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Prompts

Choose your prompt from the collection below.

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If you need assistance at any time, including devising prompt combinations that fill rows or other bingo patterns, please email the SWG moderators at moderator@silmarillionwritersguild.org.

B1: rap songs or battles gone horribly wrong (or right! Finrod learned it somewhere!)
B2: Elves in space
B3: sex pollen
B4: wingfic
B5: characters at the club
I1: in a modern school or workplace
I2: "Is there a reason you're naked in my bed?"
I3: unexpected roadtrip
I4: excessively Tolkienesque
I5: the Dome of Varda is real
N1: 13 going on 30
N2: rebirth and reembodiment taken to their logical extremes
FREE SPACE
N4: Choose a historical period. Rewrite your favorite canon scene there.
N5: characters in a video game
G1: self-insert
G2: body swap
G3: time loop
G4: crack pairing
G5: Silmarillion slam book
O1: characters are animals
O2: character breaks free of the fictional world
O3: include a musical number
O4: choose a whack detail from The Book of Lost Tales to become canon
O5: absurdly magical

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Aurora: What Cold, Clear Air May Show by Lferion

Having traveled North and up a mountain in Aman, Fingon builds himself a house, and works on putting himself back together. A drabble sequence. Follows Aurora: Seeking the Northern Sky.

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Adventures in Arda and Aman by Lferion

Ficlets of Valinor, Beleriand, Ennor, and Middle Earth through the Ages.

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In the Light of the Trees and After by Lferion

Ficlets, drabbles, and other small pieces set primarily in early Valinor.

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Reflection, Refraction, Release by Lferion

A view from two sides of a mirror, and what happens when those trapped are freed.

A Drabble sequence: 1,2,2,1.

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Intimate Adventures in Arda and Aman by Lferion

Ficlets of an intimate nature set in various places and times, generally with minimal angst.

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Superheroes by Lferion

Fulfilling a promise, Fingon and Celegorm discover they are remembered as Superheroes by the circus children.

A King Fingon's Menagerie quintuple drabble/ficlet.

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A New Day in Valinor by Lferion

Non-angsty ficlets set in Valinor (and one or two in Middle Earth), many featuring Feanor.

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Eagle's eye by SkyEventide

Manwe and Mandos watch the Nirnaeth. They break the fourth wall.

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Pages from the Archives of Cîr Imladris by Lferion

Elrond took his library with him to Valinor. In that archive are many things, and the librarians and archivists of Cîr Imladris (New Rivendell) are kept delightfully busy.

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MINE IS BETTER by bluehair

After a few busy days, I read a discord discussion and had to write this utter crack.

But yes, whose is better, between Fëanor and Fingolfin?

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Second Childhood by HannaGoldworthy

Because Feanor could not make anything easy on anyone, and that included his own second life.

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Shield-House by Lferion

The House of Shields is more than a bar. A double drabble.

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Casting Omens, Reading Cards by Lferion

Maglor read the cards too well

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Modern solutions by Lyra

Fingon's rescue of Maedhros, Red Bull commercial style. I apologise for everything.

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None might restrain him by Lyra

One fine morning, Fëanor wakes up in Fingolfin's body. It goes exactly as well as you'd expect. Not actually featuring Fingolfin.

Implied (canon) character death.

 

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Reposal by Lferion

Nerdanel, on seeing Feanor where she had given up imagining him to ever again be

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Pollen and Honey by Lferion

Nerdanel contemplates names for her new-born twins.

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Wings by Lferion

You offered me water once

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Sky-Sailors by Lferion

Elves took to sailing sky as readily as they did sea

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Regency Drama by Lferion

Boodle’s Gentleman's Club was not normally a place of drama and excitement.

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Conversation Overheard in an Avallonë Cafe by Lferion

Laurësirya had been in that competition performance. She'd been in the battle as well.

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Light Defiant by Lferion

"See us!" shouted the lamps, the candles.

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Other Physics by Lferion

One could fall up forever, did not the ground hold fast.

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Irmo's Children by Lferion

They had come here as in a dream, to the far North of the world.

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Slippage by Lferion

Fingon, recently Returned, an old head on young shoulders, is not having an easy time.

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