thisbluespirit | Entries tagged with 500 prompts

So, I have a giant list of 500 Prompts I've been working on for ages. At the moment, I'm being a bit rubbish at fanfic, which is mostly okay, because I'm having fun with the origfic in a way that hasn't been possible in forever. But! I do like to write fic sometimes and at the moment, other approaches aren't working so well, but 500 prompts is always the answer. They don't matter! There are so many, I'll never do them all! But I'll also never run out of options if I do want to do something, and there'll maybe still be someone who wants to read it when I do, the best of all worlds.

I have lots already, but I haven't asked for new ones in ages now, which means I haven't got whole new fandoms, or new friends so I'd love to have at least some for everything and everyone in the mix. (Not that people who've left some before can't leave more.)

The original list is above, if you want to see the current list of prompts, filled and unfilled (or snaffle it for yourself).

I have lifted out all the unclaimed prompts and pasted them below. Pick one + TWO or MORE characters (/ for a pairing, & for platonic) from any fandom I know, or you think I know. I will add it to the list. (You could get a fic within the month or a drabble in 5 years time, no guarantees any way round.) If you pick something I don't know/can't do, I'll just let you know & you can try something else.

The rules of the original meme:

STEP ONE: Match a pairing/two or more characters/crossover characters to a prompt.
STEP TWO: Repeat STEP ONE as many times as you want.
STEP THREE: Wait patiently.
STEP FOUR: READ ALL THE FIC!

( All the many remaining prompts up for grabs under here )

A 500 Prompts fic I started typing up quite a few months ago and finally finished yesterday - for a prompt left by

jjpor many moons ago . Also for

genprompt_bingo,

allbingo &

100ships.

Double or Nothing (1796 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ben Jackson/Polly Wright
Characters: Ben Jackson (Doctor Who), Polly Wright, Second Doctor (Doctor Who)
Additional Tags: 500 prompts, Community: genprompt_bingo, Community: 100ships, Community: allbingo, Alien Planet, Hurt/Comfort, Injury, Doppelganger
Summary: Ben walks straight into trouble - and it looks just like Polly.

I got very bad at actually going through with writing ficlets for anything I was writing/watching just to get me going (and achieve more

100fandoms), and I've vowed to be better, so have a random flash fic for what turns out to be still my fave of the Heyer detectives (out of the ones I've re-read lately):

Wedding of the Year (366 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: No Wind of Blame - Georgette Heyer
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Hugh Dering/Vicky Fanshawe
Characters: Hugh Dering, Vicky Fanshawe
Additional Tags: Ficlet, Community: 100ships, Community: 100fandoms, Post-Canon, Weddings, Fluff, 1930s, Community: allbingo
Summary: Vicky, of course, has the perfect performance planned for the big day.

(I should check my notebook for whatever other random and deeply obscure first-in-the-fandom stuff is lurking in there, really.)

A little fic written for the 500 Prompts Meme - #86 Ring of sunlight - Four & Leela, from

misbegotten.

Also for

genprompt_bingo square "Weather."

Breathing Space (1023 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Fourth Doctor & Leela (Doctor Who)
Characters: Fourth Doctor (Doctor Who), Leela (Doctor Who)
Additional Tags: 500 prompts, Alien Planet, Peace, Community: genprompt_bingo
Summary: Four and Leela take a chance to walk in the woods and rest from danger - at least for a short while.

(I do love Leela.)

I found this little 500 Prompts ficlet sitting in my notebook. I'm not sure why I'd left it there, but anyway I just typed it up:

Lost Luggage (590 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Once Upon a Time (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Henry Mills & Rumplestiltskin | Mr. Gold
Characters: Henry Mills (Once Upon a Time), Rumplestiltskin | Mr. Gold
Additional Tags: Ficlet, 500 prompts, Pre-Canon, Missing Scene, Introspection
Summary: Henry’s having second thoughts about his mission.

For

astrogirl in the 500 Prompts Meme: #491 – A fairytale plot – Henry Mills (although this is one of those prompts that was left scary-no-of-years ago!)

It's been ages since I rewatched S1, so I hope I haven't messed any details up. I don't think so, but...

I'd finished this before going to the doctor's, but it needed another round of editing first. This is a belated birthday fic for

john_amend_all, which I hope will be acceptable!

I was looking back at my Unconventional Courtship tag when I was going to do my usual ficlets, and found a Lucie/Clara summary John had left me once, and it turned into this. (It also hits a few bingo squares and things, but that's incidental.)

Snowbound (2404 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who (Big Finish Audio)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Lucie Miller/Clara Oswald
Characters: Lucie Miller, Clara Oswin Oswald
Additional Tags: 500 prompts, community: 100ships, Only One Bed, Non-Linear Narrative, Fix-It of Sorts, character death for clara splinter death (minor), and mentions of canon character deaths, Community: trope_bingo, Community: genprompt_bingo, Huddling For Warmth, Post-Audio 04.10: To The Death, Post-Episode: s09e11 Heaven Sent, Snow, Regency, Blackpool - Freeform
Summary: Lucie and Clara keep running into each other, but it's only the right time when it's too late.

(I should also thank

persiflage_1 for doing a beta for me, but I wound up altering it quite a lot after that, so must also note that all subsequent errors are entirely my own fault!)

... to the very excellent

astrogirl! May you have a lovely day! ♥

I suddenly recalled that I had written a 500 prompts drabble for you that I wasn't sure when and where to post because it was far too silly to be a thing. Clearly, a perfect birthday gift, right? (I'm sorry! The damn thing had to be done at some point.)

( The Vacuum of Time )

Ooh, look, finally managed to finish typing this up and editing it. For

genprompt_bingo and for

persiflage_1 in the 500 prompts meme:

Night's Last Word (2244 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Thirteenth Doctor & Clara Oswin Oswald
Characters: Thirteenth Doctor, Thirteenth Doctor's Fam (Doctor Who), Echo Clara Oswin Oswald
Additional Tags: 500 prompts, Blood and Injury, death rating just for inevitable clara splinter death, Multi-Era, Angst
Summary: They met in the driving rain on a Welsh hillside in the dark hour before dawn.

memories you bury or live by (1221 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Eleventh Doctor & Clara Oswin Oswald
Characters: Clara Oswin Oswald, Eleventh Doctor, The Doctor's TARDIS
Additional Tags: 500 prompts, Community: genprompt_bingo, Loss, Time Travel, mentions of a possible death, Season/Series 07, Light Angst
Summary: Everyone loves a mystery, right?

Another 500 prompts fic, for

a_phoenixdragon (woo, only about 8 years after the fact?? :lol:). Also for

genprompt_bingo square "Angst" (even if the angst ended up lighter than I originally envisaged).

A 500 Prompts fic for

jaxomsride2, for prompt #495: The tattered, the torn - Vila Restal. Also written for

hc_bingo square "Shipwrecked" and

genprompt_bingo square "The north wind doth blow."

the tattered, the torn (1001 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Blake's 7
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Vila Restal
Additional Tags: Shipwrecks, Post-Gauda Prime, Survivor Guilt, Community: hc_bingo, Community: genprompt_bingo, 500 prompts
Summary: Vila is washed up on a distant shore.

The other Whumptober fic I wrote (over 3 weeks ago!) needed much less editing than I thought, so here it is. \o/

Brief Candles (1058 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Daisy Dalrymple - Carola Dunn
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Daisy Dalrymple/Alec Fletcher
Characters: Daisy Dalrymple, Alec Fletcher
Additional Tags: Blood, Blood Loss, Murder, Hurt/Comfort, Whumptober 2020, Community: 100fandoms, Community: hc_bingo, 500 prompts, 1920s
Summary: "You couldn't have lost this much blood. You'd be dead..."

Also for

hc_bingo square "Blood loss",

100fandoms prompt #20 (discover) and for

delacourtings in the 500 Prompts meme: #186 nothing could bleed that much - Alec/Daisy.

First Whumptober fic, for Day 1 "Waking Up Restrained." Also for

jjpor in the 500 Prompts meme and for

100fandoms prompt #27 (fear).

tear your world to shreds (1507 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Seventh Doctor & Ace McShane
Characters: Seventh Doctor, Ace McShane
Additional Tags: Injury, Chains, Evil From the Dawn of Time(TM), Whumptober, 500 prompts, Community: 100fandoms, Aftermath, Waking up Restrained, Trust Issues
Summary: The nightmare is banished, the genie safely back in the bottle – except it never really is.

Fic! Not for Whumptober, though, as I found this in my drafts from a couple of weeks ago, and it needed far less editing than I had thought. It fills a few prompts for different tables, but was first and foremost written for Meneleth in the 500 prompts meme, from the prompt: "In the still of the night - Twelfth Doctor & Brother Cadfael."

in the still of the night (1330 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005), Cadfael Chronicles - Ellis Peters
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Twelfth Doctor, Brother Cadfael
Additional Tags: Crossover, Injury, Post-Episode: s09e12 Hell Bent, community: 51pluscrossoverfandoms, Community: 100fandoms, Community: hc_bingo, Community: allbingo, 500 prompts
Summary: The Doctor finds balm for his wounds in an unexpected place.

Hail, fellow travellers, and well met. My Dreamwidth is mostly for fic, recs, icons, vids and fannish nonsense & fic/vids/icons etc. generally remain open. I'm terribly obscure and multi-fannish, but generally happy to make new friends with shared fandom interests.

My fic:
thisbluespirit on AO3
vvj5 at A Teaspoon and An Open Mind (the Doctor Who archive)

Current & Past Prompt tables etc: AllBingo Colour Fest Bingo May 2025 | allbingo Gothic Bingo April 2023| allbingo Valentine's Card Feb 2023 | 100 Ships table | 100fandomicons masterpost | 51pluscrossoverfandoms table | genprompt_bingo (Round 24) | 100_women Prompt Table | 100fandoms table | Hurt/Comfort Bingo Card (Legacy) | apocabingo card | Historical for

who_allsorts | 100 Element Prompts | Shakespeare Plays Watched.

Also the 500 Prompts Meme. runaway_tales/

rainbowfic Masterpost here.

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A 500 Prompts ficlet I managed to type up the other day.

Title: Castles in the Sky
Author:

thisbluespirit
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 785
Characters/Pairings: Roj Blake, Kerr Avon, Vila Restal, Zen
Notes/Warnings: None.
Summary: Blake has his castles in the sky, but they all fall down sooner or later.

For

aralias in the 500 Prompts Meme: 276 – castles in the sky – Roj Blake (Blake’s 7)

Castles in the Sky at AO3.

Written for

dbskyler in the 500 Prompts Meme and for

100fandoms prompt #17 "wreck".

False Alarm (1135 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005), Star Trek: Voyager
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Eleventh Doctor, Kathryn Janeway
Additional Tags: Crossover, Humor, 500 prompts, Community: 100fandoms
Summary: “There was a big yellow button. Who can resist a big yellow button?”

Title: Unclassifiable Cast-offs
Author:

thisbluespirit
Rating: G
Word Count: 833
Characters/Pairings: Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Liz Shaw, Sergeant Benton.
Notes/Warnings: Superhero AU of Spearhead in Space.
Summary: UNIT needs a new scientific adviser, but she’s proving hard to win round to the idea of superheroes and villains.

For

liadt in the 500 Prompts Meme: #296: Unclassifiable castoffs, misfits, marginal cases – Brigadier (DW).

Also here at AO3 | ( Unclassifiable Cast-offs )

Another 500 Prompts ficlet, also for

100fandoms prompt #29 "mask."

Painted Smiles (829 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Blake's 7
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Servalan (Blake's 7)
Additional Tags: 500 prompts, community: 100fandoms, Ficlet, 5 Times, Villains
Summary: Five times Servalan smiled and someone died.

I wrote this in rough some time last year and typed it out about three weeks ago and finally decided that I should get onto editing it and actually posting it. A novel concept, but I thought I'd give it a whirl...

Title: Made for Each Other
Author:

thisbluespirit
Rating: PG
Word Count: 936 words.
Characters/Pairings: Adam Adamant & Georgina Jones
Notes/Warnings: None.
Summary: Adam and Georgie are tied up in the villains’ lair – a mistake so many villains seem to make…

For

jaxomsride in the 500 Prompts Meme: #319 - All this time we were waiting for each other - Adam Adamant & Georgina Jones. Also for

100fandoms prompt #90 "perfection."

Also here at AO3 | ( Made for Each Other )

... I did mean it about looking for new 500 prompts for the list, especially from new people, but old people welcome too. I've been terrible at memes lately, which makes me sad, and have to ration out exchanges carefully, but I still want to write for people - it's one of the few things I can do to pay back or pass on all the kindnesses I've received here and elsewhere, so I value it a lot despite my current failiness with it.

It doesn't require much thought, because the prompts already exist, so merely attach a pairing/characters to any currently unclaimed prompt on the list here. Sometime maybe a fic(let) of some kind results!

(A little bit more explanation if wanted in the other post.) Not that anyone should feel obliged, either, of course. (Unwanted random fic is fun for no one.) I promise I won't make another post about it again until at least next year, or if I manage to write an amazing amount of prompts before the end of this year. (vv unlikely)

So, since I seem to be really rubbish about writing memes lately (I only managed two of the one I did last time and one of those was late, which is just dismal, and I'm sorry about that; the prompts were great, I'm just being weird about writing lately) I thought it best to concentrate on my ongoing 500 Prompts, because the list just exists as a shiny thing and not a source of stress like unfilled meme prompts, but still allows me to right random things for people, which is a lot of the point of fandom, really.

ANYWAY, this way to the 500 Prompts Meme! Then browse the prompts and attach a ship (of any kind) or TWO or more characters* to an unclaimed prompt.

Any fandom I know is fair game (you can check my tags or my interests for starters), plus any

isurrendered things. Crossover characters and pairings are also fine. If you come up with anything I don't know or can't do, I'll just say so. Leave one prompt or a bunch! It's all good.

I have plenty already, but if I'm not doing memes much, then I do want the newer people round to have a chance to leave prompts so I can write something for them too and as many fandoms as possible, including newer ones as well as the old. (People who have left some before are welcome to leave some more, too, though!)

I make no promises about when/if anything will be filled and whether it will be a drabble or ficlet or full-length fic, but equally nobody's obliged to read the result, especially if I take 3 years. I always enjoy looking at all the prompts, though, even when I fail at writing, so I am grateful. (Thank you. <3)

(I was going to say I said last year I was going to concentrate on these and then failed, BUT in fact I checked, and I wrote and posted 10 and have 2 more very short ones I need to type up, so actually, I can do it, even if I may need to have a very long lifespan if I want to do all of them at the rate I'm going. Plus, I think I have a new method of selecting them that might help, plus there's

100fandoms...)

* I have learned I find one character prompts harder and while I'm working on that with the ones I have, I would prefer most new ones to be for 2+ characters.

So, I found this scribbled somewhere in my notebook, for one of the 500 prompts. I think I must have written it last year some time.

Title: Taking a Beating
Author:

thisbluespirit
Rating: PG
Word Count: 443
Characters/Pairings: Sam Black/Kenny Phillips
Notes/Warnings: None.
Summary: “Usually this kind of thing only happens when I’m standing in front of Lynda, or someone’s come to kill Colin again…”

For

paranoidangel in the 500 Prompts Meme: 231 – rough hands – Sam/Kenny (PG).

( Taking a Beating )

I sid yesterday that I had finished two stories recently, and this is the second - a 500 Prompts fic for

allegoriesinmediasres.

blue is the colour (1858 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Shadow of the Tower, 15th Century CE RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Elizabeth of York Queen of England/Henry VII of England, Margaret Beaufort & Elizabeth of York Queen of England, Margaret Beaufort & Elizabeth of York Queen of England & Henry VII of England
Characters: Elizabeth of York Queen of England, Margaret Beaufort, Henry VII of England
Additional Tags: 500 prompts, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Arranged Marriage, Trust Issues
Summary:

Elizabeth of York in shades of blue across the years.

I said there'd be another of

aralias's Deva prompts soon, and this is it. (I was sure that this prompt was in relation to some random pairing conversation we were having about Deva/Cally, but I don't know now if that is true, but it's what I wrote, anyway, and why.)

receiver of voices inaudible (1455 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Blake's 7
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Cally/Deva (Blake's 7)
Characters: Cally (Blake's 7), Deva (Blake's 7), Roj Blake
Additional Tags: 500 prompts, Telepathy, Implied/Referenced Character Death
Summary: Deva’s started hearing things. He can’t say he’s surprised.

Also for

hc_bingo square "touch starved."

500 prompts fic! This one is for

liadt. I nearly wrote it for

fandom_stocking two years ago, but wasn't very happy with it, but it turns out that was as well, since it fits in nicely with the Doctor's backstory from S10 and works much better now (well, better than the original scribbled version).

ETA: I've got this down as being for Liadt on my written list but for sevanatwonights on the online list. Whoops? This is for whoever requested it! And definitely for Liadt anyway.

in the woods they found my bones (1498 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Twelfth Doctor, Amelia Rumford
Additional Tags: 500 prompts, Archaeology, Minor Character(s), Serial: s100 The Stones of Blood, Episode: s10e01 The Pilot, 1970s
Summary: The Doctor is hunting something nasty in the woods – but so is someone else, someone he’s met once before…

Another 500 Prompts ficlet! (Hey,

aralias, remember when you gave me a load of Deva prompts? You might be about to regret it. ;-p)*

False Gold (677 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Blake's 7
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Deva (Blake's 7), Vila Restal
Additional Tags: Post-Gauda Prime, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Ficlet, 500 prompts
Summary: Some people say that, actually, money doesn’t exist. Some days that seems to be all too true.

* I was very proud of myself for not having written any Deva fic, despite all the Silver-fic I'd committed. aralias is evil, and I'm slow...

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Entries tagged with 500 prompts

500 Prompts reprise

Fic (DW) + Heyer ficlet

Fic: Breathing Space (DW)

Ficlet: Lost Luggage (OUaT)

Fic: Snowbound (DW)

Happy Birthday...

Fic: Night's Last Word

Fic: memories you bury or live by (DW)

Fic: the tattered, the torn (B7)

Fic: Brief Candles (Daisy Dalrymple)

Fic: tear your world to shreds (DW)

Fic: in the still of the night

Welcome post

Ficlet: Castles in the Sky (B7)

Fic: False Alarm (DW/Star Trek: Voyager)

Ficlet: Unclassifiable Cast-offs

Ficlet: Painted Smiles (B7)

Ficlet: Made For Each Other (Adam Adamant Lives!)

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500 Prompts (it's the meme of a lifetime)

Ficlet: Taking a Beating (Press Gang)

Fic: blue is the colour

Fic: receiver of voices inaudible (Blake's 7)

Fic: in the woods they found my bones (dw)

Ficlet: False Gold (B7)