Days of Awesome: A Jewish Characters Ficathon

• Days of Awesome 2012 challenge
• Sign up for Days of Awesome

Okay, guys, I'm trying something a little different this year because I am so discombobulated in the fall that I have not even managed to get in touch with the people who have offered to help. Why do the holidays fall at the start of the semester again?

Since participation has been dropping off, I'm going to try running the challenge as a prompt meme, using the AO3's built-in prompt meme tool, just to mix it up.

Leave prompts from now until Friday September 14 (12AM GMT-5). You have a month to write: assignments are due during Sukkot, on Wednesday October 10 (12AM GMT-5). Works will be revealed as soon as the challenge closes, and authors revealed one week later.

So leave prompts now! And please signal boost. Prompt-a-thons are FUN.

Thanks to the lovely aresenicjade for reminding to do the story reveal! (seriously, you guys, I am too chaotic for this; next year may be there could be a co-mod. *puppy eyes*)

Days of Awesome 2011 had four awesome stories! Or, well. Two awesome stories and two ficlets by me. :D


Double Mitzvah (1199 words) by Arsenic
Fandom: Leverage
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Mikel Dayan, Eliot Spencer
Summary:

Mikel shares a little bit about herself.

Deliberate Choices (1638 words) by tptigger
Fandom: X-Men (Movies), X-Men: First Class (2011)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Erik Lehnsherr, Kitty Pryde
Summary:

In which Erik takes Kitty to Rosh Hashanna services, and realizes that not all the lessons he teaches his students are in the classroom. (AU)

Awake, awake, utter a song (612 words) by jadelennox
Fandom: Hebrew Bible
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Yael/Deborah (Hebrew Bible), Yael/Heber (Hebrew Bible), Yael/Sisera (Hebrew Bible)
Characters: Deborah (Hebrew Bible), Yael (Hebrew Bible)
Summary:

Blessed above women shall be Yael, the wife of Heber the Kenite.
Blessed be she above all women in the tent.

Tigers (448 words) by jadelennox
Fandom: Love and Rockets (Comic), X-Men - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Kitty Pryde, Penny Century, Angel (Love and Rockets), Espectra (Love and Rockets)
Summary:

Penny looked up, her face contorted with anger. "You of all people can't tell me that things always work out okay," she spat, her words dark and jagged.

You have until midnight EST Wednesday night to post a story for Days of Awesome 2011! After than I will reveal the stories but not the authors.

There's only three stories there now, so why don't you try to write a drabble or three? :D

I didn't do a very good round up at the end of the challenge this fall, did I? Really I need to be not running a challenge every year falls at the beginning of the only semester in which I teach. *facepalm*

In any case, you know what's happening now? Purim Gifts! Rules and updates are at purimgifts.

I'm still not sure if I'm going to participate, because last year I defaulted. :-( So you should all participate so that there are tons of awesome stories and I benefit anyway!

No new stories were posted in days of awesome this week. I hope you're just hard at work on a current story (as I am)!

You don't need to write seven stories, or even two, to contribute to the challenge. Even a single drabble is welcome!

Days of Awesome started this week, and there's already two posted stories!

• The Daily Show With Special Guest Nan Flanagan, by Kass
• Three Times Kitty Compromises (And One She Doesn't) by mercredigirl

Administrivia: We are strongly encouraging cross-posts as appropriate with the Eid 2010 Ficathon. Days of Awesome is an open collection, where all stories are visible as soon as they're posted. Eid stories, on the other hand, will be revealed on Eid al-Fitr, which is a 11 September. That means that if the story is crossposted to both collections, it will be hidden until the reveal date for the Eid challenge. (Nice coding, by the way, AO3 developers!)

rydra_wong initiated a Jewish/Muslim character prompt -a-thon:

This is entirely unofficial and ad-hoc. But if you've got a brilliant idea featuring a Jewish character and a Muslim character you'd like to see interacting, please leave it! And if you see a prompt and are inspired to write/vid/make art, run with it!

Signal boosting is fun! Leave prompts, and if you write such a story, and it otherwise fits the rules of the two communities, go ahead and post to Eid ka chand's and Days of awesome's collections.

And remember, our 30 day challenge starts on August 18!