#feelstide

my last post generated a little bit of interest (as is obvious by your message!) and i’ve seen three or four people say they’d be willing to participate. 

to be honest, it is getting late in the year. we have no prompts put together. i like to give people a few weeks to add prompts to the list. then a few weeks to choose a prompt or two. and then at least a month to write. that makes the schedule kind of cramped. based on the previous two runs, we could likely reveal all of the fics submitted (if we did it again) on Christmas Day. which would give people a little bit of time. i just hate rushing things. 

if we’re going to do this, we need to do it soon. so i really, really need an accurate count of how many people would be willing to write (anyone can submit a prompt) before we put together any list of prompts. 

It is sad, but this has been a tough year for me personally and without any real interest, I couldn’t honestly see trying to run it this year. It is possible that we could revisit the question of interest next fall and see if anyone is willing to give it a go. If so, Feelstide might run again.

So. Is there any interest in another round of Feelstide? Should I begin the set up process or should I allow it to die gracefully and with dignity? 

To be perfectly honest, nonny, you’re the first person who has expressed any interest in Feelstide in more than a year. I really hadn’t given any thought to running it this year because of this. 

Our author gave to us:

Barney’s by msraven

Summary: Written for the Feelstide prompt: There is a coffee shop exactly halfway between campus and Phil's hometown. Phil stops every time he makes the drive because it helps break up the monotony... the cute guy behind the counter is just a bonus.

Five times Phil stops at Barney's and one time he stays.

Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

Our author gave to us:

Santa with a soccer ball by aquinique

Summary: Clint Barton, the enfant terrible of the school soccer team, is in love with Phillip Coulson. Also his hair is electric blue, because nobody told him that purple isn't his color. It all comes down to one problem: what to give Phil for Secret Santa?

Rating: General Audiences

You can say that! And it will be true!

…also it will be true that @shadowen did not write for feelstide this year! I will take this as more proof that her awesome awesomeness transcends all things. Also though she did recently post a time to receive which is Clint/Bucky Christmas meet-the-family fic, and it made me cry while beta-ing, jsyk.

(Also. Heh. I totally want to write a fic about a character’s first time bottoming and call it ‘a time to receive.’ 

Heh. :D)