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The reason I’m right is because Lucy said spare room and wardrobe and no one could figure out what the heck she was talking about. Like sure, most beings in Narnia don’t really have clothes, but you’re telling me no one has a spare room? Like maybe, but they have castles and dams and caves with rooms, and even in a culture without spare rooms and wardrobes, the words spare and room and highly understandable.

The Event

The Inklings Christmas Challenge invites writers to create a science fiction or fantasy story within the Christian worldview set at Christmastime. The story can involve the Christmas we know or a Christmas-like celebration within another world, but must evoke the season in some way.

The Guidelines

Since the holiday season is a busy time of year, this challenge is meant to be low-stress and very casual. The only guidelines are as follows:

Writers can create a story in any science fiction or fantasy genre of their choice. You may use the Inklings Challenge genres as inspiration, or choose a completely different subgenre. Stories can be standalone, or can be set in the world of other works by the author.

There is no maximum or minimum word count, but to avoid putting pressure on writers in an already busy holiday season, writers are encouraged to try for very short stories.

No sign-up is required. Writers who finish a story for the Christmas Challenge should simply tag @inklings-challenge within the body of the post and tag it as #inklingschallenge, and it will be reblogged to the main Inklings Challenge blog.

Completed stories can be posted on a tumblr blog any time before the deadline of January 6th, 2025. If you don’t finish by the deadline, you are welcome to share whatever you’ve completed by January 6th. You can also post the completed story after the deadline has passed. However, because of the seasonal nature of the challenge, any stories posted after February 2nd, 2025 will not be shared on the main challenge blog.

The Theme

Each year's Christmas Challenge comes with a completely optional theme. This year's theme is the very broad concept of Tradition.

Christmas is a time filled with lots of traditions, and our stories can reflect that. You can incorporate current Christmas traditions in your stories, highlight the Christmas traditions of a future or alternate world, build a story in the tradition of other Christmas stories. You can even create a story meant to be a new Christmas tradition (if you're sick of all Christmas fantasy stories being retellings of A Christmas Carol). Interpret the prompt however you like (or ignore it, because it's an optional prompt).

Any questions, comments, or concerns can be directed to the @inklings-challenge​ blog, and I will do my best to address them.

thousands of years apart, ships are burning

Sunny the Sunflower Turtle by Alice Statham

I’ve seen them almost every year, for almost twenty years.

It’s been a long twenty years.

Heartbreak. Betrayal. Death. And yet the flowers keep on blooming.

Depression. Anxiety. Fury. And yet every spring, they rise.

Wars and rumors of wars. Wildfires and floods. Earthquakes and plagues. I’m broken, the world is shattered, and some days I fear healing won’t come in my lifetime.

And yet the flowers still bloom.

The world has beauty even though it’s shattered. Even as broken as I am, I’m still blessed to bear witness to that beauty. The future’s so uncertain, no one can know what tomorrow will bring, but there is one thing I know: little white wildflowers will blossom in the churchyard every spring.

site for when you can only remember part of a word/its definition 

site that gives you words that rhyme with a word

I was tagged by the lovely @talesofsorrowandofruin!

This game exposes my odd range of tastes, but here are 10 of my comfort films, in no particular order:

The Man from U.N.C.L.E (2015)

Tangled

Any Pixie Hollow/Tinkerbell movie

Top Gun: Maverick

Northangar Abbey

Pride & Prejudice (1995)

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses

La La Land

Anne of Green Gables

Anne of Green Gables: the Sequel

Anne of Green Gables: the Continuing Story

Pride and Prejudice

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Avatar

Avatar: The Way of Water

Persuasion (1995)

David Copperfield (1999)

this said films so I ignored miniseries' or I'd've had Pride and Prejudice on the list instanter. hence why the one I refer to is the 2005 one, and I don't have Mansfield Park on my list either

How to Train Your Dragon

How to Train Your Dragon 2

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Miss Congeniality

Star Wars: The Phantom Menace

Ella Enchanted

Guardians of the Galaxy

Cars 2

And the Pevensies were all like: "No yeah we'll just send this little shit right here, he can provoke anyone into doing anything, trust us"