Weekly prompt #4: Wildcard. Alternate Universe

This week’s prompt is a little different; it’s a wildcard! You can contribute anything and everything, so long as it is from an alternate universe. Crossovers included!

To fill a prompt: write, paint, create graphics—whatever you are most inspired to do, then post your work and tag it #sassyprompts.

To submit a prompt: send us a message here, or submit here.

redriverrunning:

This one’s done for the Redemption prompt on Sastiel Week (http://sastielweek.tumblr.com/).

The idea behind this one comes from how I think Castiel would view his and Sam’s relationship following the opening of Purgatory. Castiel breaks the wall in Sam’s mind for his own aims, knowing all of the potential consequences, and nonetheless it’s Sam who reaches out to him and brings him back to himself when everyone else has given up. I think the deep divide between those two actions - what Castiel has done to Sam, and what Sam has done for him - would weigh heavily in Castiel’s mind. That’s the impetus for this picture.

jjarpad:

Title: Broken Promise
Author:  drstupidface 
Pairing: Sam/Castiel
Rating: PG (for feeels)
Warnings: It’ll hit you right in the feels and it won’t be good. Just sad stuff
Disclaimer: I am not the owner of Sassy or Supernatural (unfortunately.)

Description: The Sassy week writing prompt of this week was an irreversible curse so I sort of took it and ran with it in a way that wasn’t so much a curse but a disease. I hope that doesn’t break any rules. Sam and Castiel are already engaged and they have a bad trip to the doctor’s.

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jackhawksmoor:

I stayed up all night. I couldn’t stop writing it…

Title: Uncommonly Kind

Author: JackHawksmoor

Pairing: Sam/Castiel

Rating: PG

Warnings: Angst, Crazy!Cas, H/C

Disclaimer: I own nothing.

Description: This week’s prompt is an irreversible curse. So I’ve given Sam and Cas one. And since lately Cas is unstable at the best of times, this means Sam has his hands full.

Link here:

http://archiveofourown.org/works/414611

or

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Anonymous ASKED

I’m only basing participation on past involvement in other challenges, especially because Sassy fandom is such a comparatively small one next to the other main pairings. We had an incredibly positive response with Sassy Week back in February, and an equally enthusiastic one with the Blind Exchange. I’m only confused because everyone seemed excited by the prospect of weekly prompts and small challenges, and yet hardly anyone is actually participating. But if that’s the way it is then that’s just the way it is; we’ll keep doing weekly prompts, but we’ll forget about the small challenges and just focus on the big projects.

And unfortunately, there was just not enough participation for the Background Challenge to follow through. We were hoping for at least ten entries, but set the absolute minimum at five for fairness’ sake. And we only received three. So the blog will remain background-less for now. 

—Jack

Weekly prompt #3: An irreversible curse.

To fill a prompt: write, paint, create graphics—whatever you are most inspired to do, then post your work and tag it #sassyprompts.

To submit a prompt: send us a message here, or submit here.

sorakachan:

I think that making it weekly may be a bit overwhelming. Some people just don’t have time during the week to make a full piece, or if they make a piece it’s not as good as they’d prefer, so why bother? Perhaps make longer events or have longer build-up time like with the others. That and more reminders are good.

I initially suggested monthly or bimonthly prompts, but weekly prompts were what everyone seemed the most keen on (and by seemed, I mean everyone who responded mentioned weekly prompts specifically).

And there isn’t a deadline on these prompts. Anyone can fill a prompt at any time—I’m still planning on making a gifset for prompt number one myself.

Of course larger projects will still have sign up times and deadlines announced a few weeks in advance, but I didn’t think that would be necessary for small challenges like this. They’re supposed to be more casual for both your sakes and mine, anyway.

—Jack

(Source: sastielweek)

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jackhawksmoor ASKED

There are rules posted on/with each project post. For example, the call for prompts post and each of the prompt posts there have been so far detail exactly what is accepted and how to participate. We only reblog works that are related to SW projects and challenges because there are already several fuckyeah-style blogs out there that archive Sastiel works, and the purpose for this blog in particular is to host challenges and show off the results. 

There’s also the tag directory, which is linked in our sidebar that shows you all of the previous works from various different challenges and projects. 

This blog was created initially just to host Sastiel Week, but it has evolved into a community project that I suppose is more like the sort of thing you would find on livejournal than here on Tumblr. But that’s the whole point. There isn’t anything else like this here.

—Jack

I’ve been debating making this post for quite some time now, but with the Background Challenge only a few hours away from ending without anything even close to as many entires as I was hoping for, let alone enough to even go through with the voting process, I find myself at an impasse.

There is only one person actively running this blog, and that’s me. So I need to know if there is something I need to be doing differently to keep people engaged and creating content. There was a lot of positive response to the weekly prompts, but so far each prompt has gotten little more than a handful of fills—this week only two. The Background Challenge, even after a whole week’s extension is going to end with nothing to show for it.  

So I need your help. Do I need to do more advertisement? Double or even triple up on reminder posts? Or is it just not worth keeping this blog going between Sassy Weeks and exchanges at all?

This blog is here for you—the Sassy shippers here on Tumblr. And I’m trying to do my best to create a place for us to interact and create new works and have fun. But it won’t work without your help, without your involvement, without your ideas. 

—Jack