riverdale promptathon

Given…everything…going on lately, we here at @riverdalepromptathon think this fandom is in need of a pick-me-up. And not just that, but a pick-me-up that puts our focus back on what really matters: the beautiful fanworks that we’ve created, consumed, and shared as a community.

So this time, we’re not coming up with the prompts - you are! In the spirit of celebrating our own takes on these characters we love, we’re asking you to draw inspiration not from Riverdale canon, but from your favorite fics. Here’s how to participate:

PROMPT: Saturday, October 9 - Saturday, October 16

Authors will share a list of their own stories they’re accepting prompts for, using this post template. Maybe it’s all your fics, maybe it’s only a select few - it’s totally up to you.

Readers will send authors prompts about those stories. Was there a missing moment you wish was included in your favorite AU? Have you always wondered what happened after the happily ever after? This is your chance to prompt it!

Authors can also open up their existing works for other writers and artists to play around with. This one’s totally optional - we know not everyone is comfortable opening up a treasured take on their faves. But we wanted a way for fan artists and new writers who don’t have existing works yet to participate! If you’re open to seeing someone else’s take on your story, we hope you’ll throw it out there. (Anyone opening up their fic for others can list “rules” for interested creators to follow - e.g. nothing E-rated, no ship swapping, etc.)

PRODUCE: Sunday, October 17 - Friday, November 12

Everyone works on their fic and their fanart!

POST: Saturday, November 13 - Saturday, November 20

All creative works are shared. While there’s no true hard deadline to post your contributions, we ask that if you’d like your work included in the master post we’ll be pulling together, you post it no later than November 20. Tag @riverdalepromptathon in your post so we can find you!

Questions? Our inbox is always open! 

(image by Decy, @50shades-of-bughead )

I’m participating in the fall @riverdalepromptathon! Check out this post to learn more about what’s going on and how you can participate, too.

Fics I’m accepting prompts for:

Most of my works are WIPs, though if you have prompts for any of these, I’m willing to see what I can do (without giving away the endings):

Of Gloves and Ponytails

Breathing in Your Love

What If…Riverdale

Changes

I am open to taking Bughead prompts if you have an idea that you’d like to see in my style/characterization.

Please don’t send me prompts that include:

No smut or ‘E’ rating (I pretty much stick around the T rating)

No Cheating/breaking up/other love interests (Jughead and Betty don’t have to be together as a couple, but no pairing them up romantically with other characters. I like friendship/pre-romance stories too.)

Fics I’m opening up for others to write/create art/edits about:

I would be absolutely delighted and honored if anyone wants to make fanart/edits of any of my works. Please feel free.

Feel free to dabble in the ‘verse of any of the fics listed above.

If you want to write in ‘Breathing in Your Love’ or ‘Of Gloves and Ponytails’, please don’t go beyond what is already posted.

Please don’t write the following:

Like above, no Cheating/breaking up/other love interests (Jughead and Betty don’t have to be together as a couple, but no pairing them up romantically with other characters. I like friendship/pre-romance stories too.)

Please stay within the spirit of the stories. Don’t change or resolve any major plot points.

Any questions, feel free to DM me.

I’m participating in the fall @riverdalepromptathon! Check out this post to learn more about what’s going on and how you can participate, too.

Fics I’m Accepting prompts for:

I Cry Your Name in the Night (College AU, K/JB)

Things are Different in the Light (College AU, K/JB)

Breathe Easy (Falice)

When Nights Get Dark and Deep (Falice)

One Last Chance Before I Go (Bughead)

I Thought A Lot About Calling You… (Bughead)

Motorin’ (Bughead, JB/Fangs)

‘Twixt Moonlight and Morning (Bughead, SweetVee, JB/Fangs)

A Dollar Dance (Bughead)

Please don’t send me prompts that include:

My only “hard no(s)” are for any type of pregnancy fics, involving kids/parenting, or period sex. (Trust me on this. You will not have fun if I take you on that journey….)

Also, let me know if you want me to keep it under a hard M, otherwise I consider smut fair game for all prompts.

Fics I’m up for others to create art or edits for:

Any of the ones listed above as well as Together, Tomorrow or All Alone, I Go With You

I’m attempting to participate in the fall @riverdalepromptathon! Check out this post to learn more about what’s going on and how you can participate, too.

Fics/Universes I’m accepting prompts (art, playlists, writing, random hot takes) for:

any story, really 

any heinous head canon

any river science you want theorised/explored 

any river!crack or weird theory 

any crack ship you want a plausible way of ending up together 

Any cool art ideas (i do three styles: dark, graphic novel and anime)

Random hot takes 

Send me whatever, i’ll do what i feel at the time :) For reference, I will prioritise the queer, quirky, wild, cracky or smutty. 

Re fics, playlists, art, etc. etc. feel free! Do what you want and have a great time. 

I’m participating in the fall @riverdalepromptathon! Check out this post to learn more about what’s going on and how you can participate, too.

A little hesitant, but I’d like to stretch myself.

Fics I’m accepting prompts for:

kill your darlings

the devil’s daughter

three wise monkeys

develop, stop, fix

the double

it always happens this way

loose lips sink ships (there is bughead, but i’m willing to write other ships within this universe)

feel free to send me other prompts unrelated to these fics (careful, it may turn into a longfic, i’ve got 0.5% self control)

Please don’t send me prompts that include:

i’ll write anything (fluff, angst, smut, crack, you name it)

i’ll angst or smut the shit out of anything

challenge me, please, i need the exercise

i’ll happily write rare-pairs, too. i just won’t post them to the promptathon

i just want to provide content for the entire fandom to enjoy, whatever that may be

a few caveats for smut: no scat/golden showers or fisting

Fics I’m opening up for others to write/create art/edits about:

pick a card, any card

Please don’t write the following:

do anything to your heart’s content; you do you, boo

fuck, marry, kill the whole lot of it

or totally troll me

because i’m interested in everyone’s takes

I’m participating in the fall @riverdalepromptathon! Check out this post to learn more about what’s going on and how you can participate, too.

Fics I’m accepting prompts for:

Tangerine Tangerine Tangerine (previously untitled drabble for week 2 of Promptathon I)

The Witching Hour

Do It For Riverdale

No Harm No Foul (The One With The Five Seasons Total Landscape Inc. Parking Lot)

The Littlest King

Obnoxious Christmas Traditions of the Riverfamilies (not really a fic but … it could be one? 😁 All snippets are game except for the Blossom Panto!)

Please don’t send me prompts that include:

Angst, Betty or Jughead dying/dead, non-con

I’m no good at smut, so the chances of a naughty rating are less that the Riverdale writers remembering Toffee … Apologies.

I’m open to non-bughead-centric prompts but I can guarantee you that they will inevitably turn bugheadwards one way or the other! Oops!

My Archie is usually clueless and prone to act as comedic relief.

If you want to create art/edits for any of my fics/snippets, it will be an honour and a delight! I will love you for ever and ever! No, seriously, here’s everything I’ve ever written! 

If you want to write, the fics in the prompt list are yours (that Blossom Panto snippet excepted). Go mad!

It’ll be greatly appreciated if angst, death and non-con are avoided. 

Riverdale Fall Promptathon: likeromeoandjuliet-love

I’m participating in the fall @riverdalepromptathon! Check out this post to learn more about what’s going on and how you can participate, too.

Fics I’m accepting prompts for:

Cracks of Light/Anything in the 'Like a Folk Song' Universe

Sick of the Chase

Neon Moon

Also anything within the series 'The Multiverse' so anything you'd like to see Marvel related is a go.

And truly if there is any fic of mine you'd really like having something written about, then i'm not opposed to it. You're more than welcome!

Please don’t send me prompts that include:

I trust you guys, so i know barchie will not be a thing. And as for Jabitha, I'm not anti in any way but the way the show wrote them is a no for me. This will be a bughead only promptathon because I'm a lil tired of anything else

I’m participating in the fall @riverdalepromptathon! Thanks so much to @riverdalepromptathon for organising this to pep us up a little. Check out this post to learn more about what’s going on and how you can participate, too.

Fics I’m accepting prompts for:

Any of the stories I submitted for the last promptathon, so that's:

Life Seems Sweetest

By Moonlight

Game Over

Pale Green Things

In the Mist of a Memory

Tangled up in Blue

Pencils

On the Observation of Trifles

Habeus Corpus

'Twill Not Be Long

The Other Side

Pure Gold

Please don’t send me prompts that include:

I don't write about serious physical illness/ injury.

Fics I’m opening up for others to write/create art/edits about:

I'd be so delighted if anyone wanted to make art/ edits for anything I have written.

For writers I'd like to offer up the stories above with the exception of Habeus Corpus.

Please don’t write the following:

Nothing too angsty please. We've been through enough!

I’m participating in the fall @riverdalepromptathon! Check out this post to learn more about what’s going on and how you can participate, too.

Fics I’m accepting prompts for:

a revelation in the light of day

the nighthawks

in case I stand one little chance

i'll be (your) home for christmas

when you're young, you run

Please don’t send me prompts that include:

changing or introducing relationship pairings

baby/kid fic (unless including pre-existing characters in which case I am actually begging you, pls send me junie prompts)

Fics I’m opening up for others to create art/edits about:

art and edits: anything!

writing wise - if you have a universe you would like to dabble in, I am open to it, but I am requesting that you send an ask/message with an ask/general premise first! (I have some plagiarism trauma but I don't want to crush the spirit of anyone with excited intentions.)

I’m so excited for @riverdalepromptathon​!!!  I love thinking about the universes that other people create, so this is a dream prompt theme for me!

Fics I’m accepting prompts for:

Any of my completed fics

A Perpetual Estrangement

Heavenly Creatures

The Lady of the Manor

The Sleeping Prince

Any of my assorted short works are also free game

Please don’t send me prompts that include:

Resolving any major plot beats

Here are the fics I’m opening up for others to write about:

Heavenly Creatures

The Lady of the Manor

for you/not me

Please don’t write the following:

Resolving any major plot beats

Speculation or prediction of future plots of an ongoing fic [staying within the timeframe of what has been written, unless the fic is complete]

angst/ break-ups/ tension in the relationships, etc

Of course, I would be thrilled to see fanart or edits for any of my fics!

I’m participating in the fall @riverdalepromptathon! Check out this post to learn more about what’s going on and how you can participate, too.

Fics I’m accepting prompts for:

Any of them, but especially the WIPs! Maybe I will be inspired. 

Please don’t send me prompts that include:

Send whatever you want. If I don’t want to write it, I won’t. There is nothing I find so upsetting that I will do more than raise my eyebrows in silent judgment at your ask. 

Fics I’m opening up for others to write/create art/edits about:

Anything you find inspiring! I love getting art and edits. Whatever I have put into the world is no longer entirely in my control anyway. 

Please don’t write the following:

If you write something and I don’t like it, I will click the back button and silently nope away. 

The tropes I very much do not like are bad boy/good girl, teacher/student, accidental pregnancy, and A/B/O. I’d hope it’s actually impossible to project most of those into my fics in the first place? YMMV, though. 

I’m participating in the fall @riverdalepromptathon! Check out this post to learn more about what’s going on and how you can participate, too.

Fics I’m accepting prompts for:

dendrochronology

Betty Cooper, Girl Reporter

young adult friction

make it new 

lark, city, girl 

old friends 

the comic miniverse

Time Has Told Me 

night moves (…maybe, I’m still debating! But try me)

direct connection (I added this after the fact!)

Please don’t send me prompts that include:

Honestly, try me. If I don’t want to write about it I just won’t

That said: don’t write the fic for me in the prompt, that’s never fun

Fics I’m opening up for others to write about:

Betty Cooper, Girl Reporter

young adult friction

dendrochronology

in a pinch of salt 

the comic miniverse 

to your health

Fics I’m opening up for others to create art or edits about:

Um, all of them, I love when people make art on top of art! 

Please don’t write the following:

Try to maintain the spirit of the original piece?

No non-con

Don’t alter fic characters’ relationship statuses

In the truly immortal words of heavy: please don’t kill anyone

I’m participating in the fall @riverdalepromptathon! Check out this post to learn more about what’s going on and how you can participate, too. Thanks for setting this lovely event up @riverdalepromptathon!

Fics I’m accepting prompts for:

For the Crown

Leo & Grace

I’m Sorry For the Things I Said When I Was Hungry

Please don’t send me prompts that include:

Anything E rated

Any prompt that resolves open plot points

Fics I’m opening up for others to create art/edits about:

I’m open for art/edits about all my fics! (Which is all of the above plus Written in Blood)

Because all but one of my fics is…unresolved, I am asking that you send me an ask or dm about what you would like to write about in case it creeps into or undoes major future plot points.

I’m participating in the fall @riverdalepromptathon! Check out this post to learn more about what’s going on and how you can participate, too.

Fics I’m accepting prompts for:

book of love series (aka: road to me, sight of the sun, house of dreams, epilogue)

sweater weather series (aka: red ribbon winner and green ribbon winner)

among the wildflowers

viva americana

ordinary magic

post blue

apizza

speak

quo vadis

any universe from you and i

Please don’t send me prompts that include:

for the book of love series or viva americana, please no prompts that go past house of dreams or the ending in place for viva americana, respectively.

Fics I’m opening up for others to write/create art/edits about:

You are beyond welcome to create any art/edits etc. for anything I've written!

For writers, please feel free to dabble in the following, if you'd like:

sweater weather series

post blue

ordinary magic

road to me

vita

among the wildflowers

Please don’t write and/or adhere to the following:

Please maintain the general spirit of the story should you wish to expand any of the above.

Please stay within the timeframe of what has been written with the exceptions of post blue and vita.

Unless it is already in the story, please don't break any of the couples up. Please don't kill anyone.

Thanks for your message!

This is a valid criticism. This second iteration of the promptathon is indeed different from the first, in hopes of encouraging readers and writers of fic to revisit already extant stories.

This is a little limiting—spring’s promptathon saw some participation from individuals who made fanart or edits. But revisiting old edits and building edits on top of those…what does that even mean? It’s not a thing. (Although—that sounds interesting. Anyone want to try it?) 

But as with spring’s contributions, we’ll be reblogging all completed author templates (just be sure to tag them, so we can find them!) This is a pretty small blog, but I can almost guarantee that you will receive prompts. 

This probably isn’t the last promptathon. Future promptathons will return to the earlier format: weekly prompts, open to fic, art, edits, etc. 

Also, because I think it should always be pointed out: this is not the only Riverdale-adjacent fanwork event! @riverdale-events is always planning something, and there are also character- and ship-specific events organized throughout the year.