*Write a 300 word love scene for them: I chose Darren x Jeanie*
Jeanie wasn’t quite sure how to handle her situation. There was a warm feeling in her chest that blossomed like the red flowers outside their not quite house.
She fiddled in the kitchen eating candied ginger. She tamed her hair as best she could given the humidity and debated joining Darren down at the water. But he liked the quiet of their private beach where he nursed a beer for hours while he fished.
Darren Treacy fished. He let his hair get shaggy, his goatee shaggier. He played cricket with Aussie ex-pats. He relaxed and swam and gave enough money to the resort owners who offered to sell it to him and Jeanie.
Jeanie let out a deep breath that blew a stray hair from her forehead. She waited half a year for the shoe to drop, but no one came for them except Mary. She had never seen Darren smile so genuinely. Or his eyes turned that shade of ocean. Mary and the girls were just a few cottages down.
His ears must have burned because suddenly Dazz filled the doorway. He was singing, which was new. He carried a basket in one hand and hid his other behind his back.
“Tell me what you would do, if her hair were red and her eyes were..” Jeanie blinked expectedly at her boyfriend who had to think. He gave up with a grin.
Darren set the basket by the stone oven in the corner, and humming he took Jeanie with his free hand and spun her in towards him then back out. “I took her hand and gave her a twirl,” he went back to singing.
Jeanie’s stomach churned. She giggled in spite of it and let Darren dip her playfully. He produced the most beautiful blue purple orchids.
Upright again, Jeanie held them to her nose. “I know how much ye love t’at van Gogh painting. I reckon they’re the same color as the night sky.” He told her with a kiss on the neck. Then clung to her hips.
“I’m pregnant.” The words burst from her like a busted dam.
Darren rocked back on his heels, “Ye taking the piss?”
Jeanie shook her red curls. She searched his face for any emotion. In a rush of arms and feet off the floor, legs around a thin waist, Darren hurried them to the bed where he laid her down gently. His long body is awkward while it bent to kiss her deeply. Then he lifted the tee shirt she wore to kiss her stomach gently.
She giggled and held Darren’s head to her. “I’ve got a family again,“ was all he could whisper.
[I.D. A GIF in the shape of a domino mask shaped cut out, with moving footage of the Hargreeves siblings inside. By @circumstellarsEnd ID]
Season 3: 3MA!
Full details will be given later, but to help you get your gleeful scheming off to a good start, here the basics:
The event will take place in July - circa 9th-31st but the exact dates to be confirmed closer to the time!
3MA will have an optional season 3 theme. We will do our best to accommodate keeping the build up spoiler free for those avoiding spoilers! [Read the spoiler policy here]
Based on the feedback we received on previous rounds, we have decided to keep the gen requirement for 3MA. Most respondents to our survey found that keeping the event gen allowed them to read and enjoy more fics than if shipping had been included, and a few authors said they enjoyed challenging themselves to write non-ship fics. [If you want to know more about what a genfic is, check out the tvTropes page]
3MA will be keeping the wordcount cap set at 10,000 words maximum that was implemented for shocktober, with the addition of a caveat: only one fic submitted per author may be under 500 words. You can still submit up to two fics, which can be up to 10,000 words each, and you are allowed to update fics during the event providing the 10,000 cap is not exceeded prior to the un-masking. After the authors are revealed, you are free to make your fic as long as you please! However, only one of your two fics may be under 500 words. We have made this change based on feedback from Shocktober due to the difficulty of guessing authors of drabbles, but also that being able to write a drabble was what allowed some authors to participate. We hope this is a good compromise!
We will once again be taking community prompt submissions, and you can submit your prompt [here]. Prompt submissions will close late June/early July, date TBC. You can view prompts that have been submitted [here] (although the list will be updated periodically). You can also view the prompts submitted for Gen June and Shocktober [here]and[here] for even more inspiration.Once again, the prompt list is optional and is intended as inspiration for the authors. You do not have to write a fic based on a prompt if you don’t want to.
We look forward to seeing you all at the next masquerade!
Oh god, I think I’m going to do this. I already have my theme and cast. But writing something else while still trying to write an ongoing series is like really really hard! And one-offs? How do you guys do this?
