#sfapm22

HOW DOES IT WORK?

Every week, starting from 25/4/22 until 23/5/22 (the finale anniversary), we’ll post a group of prompts in the following format, which will be inspired by a specific theme featuring in Stellar Firma. Here’s an example:

WEEK 1: WHAT WAS 

     Pre-Canon — Clones / Home and Schooldays / Earth

So! What does this mean? Well, we’re looking at several prompts surrounding the theme ‘what was’. To help with this very broad theme, we’ve included several starting points: the slightly less-broad ‘pre-canon’, and then three specific prompts branching from that.

Well, what could I create from this? I could make a work (fic, art, audio cut, etc. The medium is your choice!) focusing on the fall of Earth, I could make something about Trexel and Bathin’s relationship at school! More widely (focusing on the ‘pre-canon’ prompt), I could create a work looking at Hartro’s fight to become Line Manager. Zooming even further out, I could even examine the nature of impermanence and capitalism when looked at through the lens of Stellar Firma using a 5k essay.

Or I could doodle some clones.

It’s up to you!

There isn’t even a requirement to make this work during Week 1! You could wait until the anniversary itself to post this work, or create Week 5 works in Week 2. If it’s in some way related to Stellar Firma and these prompts, it’s great.

WHAT ARE THE PROMPTS?

WEEK 1: WHAT WAS (25/4/22)

   Pre-Canon — Clones / Home and Schooldays / Earth 

WEEK 2: WHAT'S GIVEN (2/5/22)

   Season 1 — Allies and Enemies / Planet Design / Stellar Firma Inc. 

WEEK 3: WHAT'S TAKEN (9/5/22)

   Season 2 — Clients and Complainers / Sales and Expediting / The Vents 

WEEK 4: WHAT'S WANTED (16/5/22)

   Season 3 — Resistance and the Board / Management Consultation / David's Place 

WEEK 5: WHAT'S CHOSEN (23/5/22)

   Post-Canon — Humanity / The Escape Pod / Galactonium

HOW DOES POSTING WORK?

There is an AO3 collection! If you upload your work(s) to AO3, you can add it to the collection and one of our delightful mods will approve the work to be included. Please include the tag SFAPM22 in your AO3 tags!

We have an official Tumblr! Surprise, you’re looking at it! If you tag your work with SFAPM22 and/or give @stellarfirmafanevents a mention when posting to Tumblr, we’ll reblog it to the Stellar Firma Fan Events account. 

At the end of the challenge (allowing a few days for late entries), we’ll be posting a link to the AO3 collection on Twitter, and tagging the official Rusty Quill account so that they know exactly how much this podcast means to us. If you don’t want your works to be seen by the cast and crew of Rusty Quill, please tag it with ‘Do Not Archive’, and they will know to avoid them.

WHAT’S THE POLICY ON NSFW/NSFA?

Given this is an open event without signing up, where people are free to interpret the provided prompts as they see fit, NSFW and NSFA content is allowed and welcome. 

The mods do not have the capacity, nor the desire, to check everyone's age, but we ask all participants below the age of 18 to only create SFW works (and stick to AO3's Terms of Use regarding consumption) and urge all participants above the age of 18 to ensure their works are reasonably marked as such: tag all posts appropriately on all platforms, rate them as E (Explicit) on AO3, and share links to your works only in the NSFW and NSFA categories of the event’s Discord server. If we discover that a NSFW or NSFA contribution was created by a minor, we will be removing it from the official AO3 collection. Repeated concerns can lead to the individual minor being excluded from the official server, and potentially from future events.

WHAT’S THE POLICY ON FANDOM PURITY/WANK?

In the words of Rusty Quill itself, ‘all headcanons are valid’. You can create whatever ship, smut, etc you want, so long as all NSFW and NSFA content is kept to adults. Fandom wank has no place in this event — or any organised by this team of mods — and while we will not be performing background checks, any harassment and/or bullying of participants will not be tolerated. 

We will give you as many warnings as we believe necessary, but should this kind of behaviour continue after such warnings (amount depending on severity of behaviour), you will be excluded from the mod team’s events for the next two years (including this one). Obviously, we can’t stop you from creating and posting works inspired by the public prompts list, but we will not include your works in the official AO3 collection, exclude you from the Discord server, and not reblog your works to this Tumblr blog.

If you wish to understand why you have been excluded from the event, or why you have been given a warning, we will be happy to discuss it with you, but please note that harassment of mods is likewise untolerated.

IS THERE A DISCORD?

We have an official Discord server! That’s right! It is not currently open, but we’ll be publishing the link a few weeks before prompts start. Primarily, this server should be a place for brainstorming your ideas for this event, as well as cheerleading others on. 

Don’t worry! You do not have to be participating in this event as a creator or in any other capacity than as a consumer to be on the server. Therefore, if you originally join with the intentions of creating something, and then realise you have no inspiration… that’s absolutely fine! You could beta another participant’s work, you could even just hype others up from the sidelines. So long as you’re nice, you’re allowed to be there. Participation in this event is as much about celebrating and bringing together fans, as it is about celebrating the end of our podcast.

Here’s to what’s next, and to all the lucky bastards with the coordinates to Galactonium…

Graphic by @ulyssesthescribe​. Please click for higher quality!

[ID: Two copies of a black and white tarot card. The main image is fanart of Hartro Piltz, a black woman with short curly hair dyed lighter at the ends. She is wearing elaborate earrings, a fitted jacket over a high collared shirt, long gloves, parti-color leggings, and fancy high heeled boots. An ID badge is clipped to her jacket lapel and she is holding a paper gun in her hand. She is sitting in an office chair surrounded by potted ferns and saw blades.

[ID: Two copies of a black and white tarot card. The main image is fanart of Trexel Geistman, a human with light skin, a messy haircut and mustache, and a suit with an extravagant cut and collar. He is holding a fish above his head and a push broom in his opposite hand. He is standing with one foot on his desk, crushing some papers, and his other foot on an office chair that is about to tip over. There is a tube with a light on top in the background, and a digital screen on the wall with “T. Geistman” written underneath it.