[sticky entry] Sticky: Rules and Guidelines

Mar. 17th, 2021 03:39 pm
ranalore: Wei Wuxian and LWJ at a desk in Cloud Recesses library (chenqing_100 pest)
[personal profile] ranalore
Welcome to Chenqing 100! We are a drabble community for 魔道祖师 | Módào Zǔshī, 陈情令 | CQL | The Untamed, and related RPF. It was created because several people on Twitter and DW expressed a wish for such a community and the challenge of writing concise, complete stories that drabbles offer.

You must join the community in order to be able to post to it. Subscribing is not joining, though you are welcome to just subscribe if you only wish to read the works posted to the community.

A new prompt is posted every Friday. The old prompt is closed to fills when the new one is posted. Prompts will be tagged, and fills of old prompts will be allowed during amnesty periods.

I have tried to keep the rules and guidelines few, so as to encourage engagement. Revisions will happen as situations arise, and members are free to contact me either via PM or through email at ranalore at gmail dot com.

Rules and Posting Template )
ranalore: LWJ sitting at a desk in Cloud Recesses library, writing (chenqing_100 lwj)
[personal profile] ranalore
This is the post where you can leave suggestions for future drabble prompts. Prompts should generally be in the form of single words or short phrases, though I will be polling the community to find out interest in multimedia prompts. I will also try to get up a Google spreadsheet with planned prompts for cross-referencing, but for now, don't worry about whether you are suggesting a prompt someone else has already suggested. If you come to this post after the community has been established for a while, you can search the tags to see if a prompt has already been done.

Leave up to ten prompts in a comment to this entry (more than ten and I find I lose track). You may leave as many comments as you like.
ranalore: LWJ sitting at a desk in Cloud Recesses library, writing (chenqing_100 lwj)
[personal profile] ranalore
This week's prompt features no euphemisms whatsoever, and is by Zhang Wencheng, with translation by Howard S. Levy:

A Poem About Writing Brushes and Inkstones

Press down on the hairs,
Letting the writing brush
Point wherever it pleases;
To get the desired color,
You must rub and stir.
Grinding is so hard to achieve,
Because too much water is used.

You have until midnight your time on Friday, April 24, to answer this prompt. Please post your fills of the prompt as separate entries to the community (i.e. not replies to this entry), tagged with the prompt tag. You may post multiple standalone drabbles per entry in addition to drabble sequences and series.

As a reminder, this community has no official presence elsewhere. You are encouraged to share the prompt on social media, if you so desire. It may take me a bit to create the AO3 collection, so please be patient.

Also, I'm going to go ahead and drop a link to the prompt suggestions post here. New suggestions are always, always welcome.
ranalore: Wei Wuxian and LWJ at a desk in Cloud Recesses library (chenqing_100 pest)
[personal profile] ranalore
This week's prompt is by Zhang Ji, translated by Sheena Dizon:

Night Mooring at Maple Bridge

The moon sets and crows caw as frost fills the atmosphere
Under the riverside maple trees, the fisherman’s light disrupts my sleep.
Outside Gusu City is Hanshan Temple,
At midnight, the sound of bells reaches the ferry.

You have until midnight your time on Friday, April 17, to answer this prompt. Please post your fills of the prompt as separate entries to the community (i.e. not replies to this entry), tagged with the prompt tag. You may post multiple standalone drabbles per entry in addition to drabble sequences and series.

As a reminder, this community has no official presence elsewhere. You are encouraged to share the prompt on social media, if you so desire. It may take me a bit to create the AO3 collection, so please be patient.

Also, I'm going to go ahead and drop a link to the prompt suggestions post here. New suggestions are always, always welcome.
ranalore: Wei Wuxian at a desk in the Cloud Recesses library, writing (chenqing_100 wwx)
[personal profile] ranalore
It is National Poetry Month here in the United States. To celebrate, every prompt this month will be a poem. This week's prompt is by Xue Tao, as translated by Jeanne Larsen:

On Beyond-the-Clouds Temple

I have heard of the moss
at Beyond-the-Clouds:

where winds blow high,
where sun is near,
it’s free of the finest dust.

When level cloudbanks splash
their dye
on the Lotus Wall,

it seems to wait for a poet
and for the jewel moon.

You have until midnight your time on Friday, April 10, to answer this prompt. Please post your fills of the prompt as separate entries to the community (i.e. not replies to this entry), tagged with the prompt tag. You may post multiple standalone drabbles per entry in addition to drabble sequences and series.

As a reminder, this community has no official presence elsewhere. You are encouraged to share the prompt on social media, if you so desire. It may take me a bit to create the AO3 collection, so please be patient.

Also, I'm going to go ahead and drop a link to the prompt suggestions post here. New suggestions are always, always welcome.
ranalore: LWJ sitting at a desk in Cloud Recesses library, writing (chenqing_100 lwj)
[personal profile] ranalore
Our next prompt celebrates Chunfen (春分), the traditional observance of the Vernal Equinox in China. This is the fourth of the twenty four solar terms of a lunisolar calendar first organized in the Warring States period and later refined during the Han Dynasty. Not just an astronomical term, this period represents balance in the heavens, in nature, and in ourselves. This was the time of planting in agriculture, of eating light meals that were neither too warming nor too cooling, and of leisure activities like kite-flying. It was also believed it was easier to balance an egg vertically more easily during this period, which would bring luck. As with Xiazhi and Dongzhi, Chunfen is closely tied to the concepts of yin and yang, and is a period in which they are believed to be not only in balance, but working together. Neither light nor dark overpower each other during this time of year.

As one of our recurring annual prompts, drabble sequences and drabble series are allowed. These formats are explained in this post, while the standard drabble formats are explained in the community rules.

This is a two-week term to give you more time to make full use of these longer formats, if you so desire. You have until midnight your time on Friday, April 3, to answer this prompt. Please post your fills of the prompt as separate entries to the community (i.e. not replies to this entry), tagged with the prompt tag. You may post multiple standalone drabbles per entry in addition to drabble sequences and series.

As a reminder, this community has no official presence elsewhere. You are encouraged to share the prompt on social media, if you so desire. It may take me a bit to create the AO3 collection, so please be patient.

Also, I'm going to go ahead and drop a link to the prompt suggestions post here. New suggestions are always, always welcome.
ranalore: Wei Wuxian and LWJ at a desk in Cloud Recesses library (chenqing_100 pest)
[personal profile] ranalore
Happy Friday the 13th! This week's prompt is: Nightless City.

You have until midnight your time on Friday, March 20, to answer this prompt. Please post your fills of the prompt as separate entries to the community (i.e. not replies to this entry), tagged with the prompt tag. You may post multiple standalone drabbles per entry in addition to drabble sequences and series.

As a reminder, this community has no official presence elsewhere. You are encouraged to share the prompt on social media, if you so desire. It may take me a bit to create the AO3 collection, so please be patient.

Also, I'm going to go ahead and drop a link to the prompt suggestions post here. New suggestions are always, always welcome.
galadhir: a blue octopus sits in a golden armchair reading a black backed novel (Default)
[personal profile] galadhir
Title: A Meditation Upon the Dawn, by Lan Xichen
Author: Galadhir
Word Count/Drabble Type: 100 words
Character(s)/Ship(s): Lan Xichen/Jin Guangyao (remembered)
Rating/Warnings: None
Summary: Lan Xichen stands at the doorway of his seclusion and muses about the sunrise in Cloud Recesses

~~~~

Where there are no shadows one may attain a kind of snow blindness. Light, in its perfection, robs the eyes of sight, even as the tomb, closing, blots out all hopes, thoughts and dreams.

Early morning. I stand by my half open door and look out at the sunrise. There, at the horizon, night and day are co-mingled in glory. A burst of gold more splendid than any Jin-created tower. A colourless dew-drop coruscates upon the water-weighted pine. I step forward, exaltation kindling in my heart.

And then the clouds return.

In mist too there is a kind of blindness.
ranalore: Wei Wuxian at a desk in the Cloud Recesses library, writing (chenqing_100 wwx)
[personal profile] ranalore
This week's prompt is: Cloud Recesses.

You have until midnight your time on Friday, March 13, to answer this prompt. Please post your fills of the prompt as separate entries to the community (i.e. not replies to this entry), tagged with the prompt tag. You may post multiple standalone drabbles per entry in addition to drabble sequences and series.

As a reminder, this community has no official presence elsewhere. You are encouraged to share the prompt on social media, if you so desire. It may take me a bit to create the AO3 collection, so please be patient.

Also, I'm going to go ahead and drop a link to the prompt suggestions post here. New suggestions are always, always welcome.
xinger: (Default)
[personal profile] xinger
Title: 一种特别的兔子|Special Kind of Rabbit
Author: [personal profile] xinger
Word Count/Drabble Type: 100
Character(s)/Ship(s): Lan Xichen, Wei Wuxian, Lan Wangji
Summary: 蓝曦臣说魏婴改变了他弟弟。|Lan Xichen says Wei Ying changed his brother.

~~~

drabble )
ranalore: LWJ sitting at a desk in Cloud Recesses library, writing (chenqing_100 lwj)
[personal profile] ranalore
This week's prompt is: Spring Festival, or the Lunar New Year, which begins on the 17th. This is one of our recurring prompts, and will run for three weeks, in order to cover the entirety of the festival. The coming year is the Year of the Fire Horse (Bing Wu), representing charismatic energy, decisive action, breakthroughs, and travel on the one hand, but also impulsivity, burning bridges, and scorched earth on the other. It's believed that the element and nature of the incoming animal changes the energy of life completely, for good or ill, and it's more beneficial if you're ready to meet it with a clean slate. To prepare for the coming year, homes are thoroughly cleansed, and the festival is celebrated with red decorations, elaborate meals, visits to family, and fireworks. You can take inspiration from any aspect of the festival or the element, nature, or myths associated with the Fire Horse.

As one of our recurring annual prompts, drabble sequences and drabble series are allowed. These formats are explained in this post, while the standard drabble formats are explained in the community rules.

You have until midnight your time on Friday, March 6, to answer this prompt. Note that this is a three-week period rather than the usual one week. Please post your fills of the prompt as separate entries to the community (i.e. not replies to this entry), tagged with the prompt tag. You may post multiple standalone drabbles per entry in addition to drabble sequences and series.

As a reminder, this community has no official presence elsewhere. You are encouraged to share the prompt on social media, if you so desire. It may take me a bit to create the AO3 collection, so please be patient.

Also, I'm going to go ahead and drop a link to the prompt suggestions post here. New suggestions are always, always welcome.
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[personal profile] xinger
Title: 雪白的围巾|Snow White Scarf
Author: [personal profile] xinger
Word Count/Drabble Type: 100
Character(s)/Ship(s): Wei Wuxian, Jiang Cheng, Nie Huaisang
Summary: 雪开始下了,魏无羡开始抱怨。|When the snow starts to fall, Wei Wuxian starts to complain.

~~~

drabble )
ranalore: Wei Wuxian and LWJ at a desk in Cloud Recesses library (chenqing_100 pest)
[personal profile] ranalore
This week's prompt is: invention.

You have until midnight your time on Friday, February 13, to answer this prompt. Please post your fills of the prompt as separate entries to the community (i.e. not replies to this entry), tagged with the prompt tag. You may post multiple standalone drabbles per entry in addition to drabble sequences and series.

As a reminder, this community has no official presence elsewhere. You are encouraged to share the prompt on social media, if you so desire. It may take me a bit to create the AO3 collection, so please be patient.

Also, I'm going to go ahead and drop a link to the prompt suggestions post here. New suggestions are always, always welcome.
ranalore: Wei Wuxian at a desk in the Cloud Recesses library, writing (chenqing_100 wwx)
[personal profile] ranalore
This week's prompt is the painting Snowscape by Ma Yuan. You can take inspiration from the entire painting or any detail, from the title, or even from the concept of painting itself.

You have until midnight your time on Friday, February 6, to answer this prompt. Please post your fills of the prompt as separate entries to the community (i.e. not replies to this entry), tagged with the prompt tag. You may post multiple standalone drabbles per entry in addition to drabble sequences and series.

As a reminder, this community has no official presence elsewhere. You are encouraged to share the prompt on social media, if you so desire. It may take me a bit to create the AO3 collection, so please be patient.

Also, I'm going to go ahead and drop a link to the prompt suggestions post here. New suggestions are always, always welcome.
hhimring: Estel, inscription by D. Salo (Default)
[personal profile] hhimring
Title: The weight of a beating heart
Author: Himring
Word Count/Drabble Type: 100
Character(s): Madam Lan, Lan Wangji
Rating/Warnings: Teens (blood, angst; reference to giving birth and allusion to dubious consent)
Author's Notes: I was inspired by lines from Ocean Vuong's poem Headfirst, although I did not use the lines that were last week's prompt.

~~~~
Read more... )
ranalore: LWJ sitting at a desk in Cloud Recesses library, writing (chenqing_100 lwj)
[personal profile] ranalore
Though extra-canonical, MXTX has stated that January 23rd is Lan Wangji's birthday. Hence, this week's prompt is: Lan Wangji.

Also, for those interested, [community profile] threesentenceficathon is now up and running again for this year. If you write a fill over there that fits the definition of a drabble format as linked below, please do post or link it here in the community. I have created a tag for use on such posts.

This week's prompt is one of our recurring annual prompts, which means that drabble sequences and drabble series are allowed, since these prompts have multiple or more complex concepts associated with them that warrant exploration in these longer formats. These formats are explained in this post, while the standard drabble formats are explained in the community rules.

You have until midnight your time on Friday, January 30, to answer this prompt. Please post your fills of the prompt as separate entries to the community (i.e. not replies to this entry), tagged with the prompt tag. You may post multiple standalone drabbles per entry in addition to drabble sequences and series.

As a reminder, this community has no official presence elsewhere. You are encouraged to share the prompt on social media, if you so desire. It may take me a bit to create the AO3 collection, so please be patient.

Also, I'm going to go ahead and drop a link to the prompt suggestions post here. New suggestions are always, always welcome.
ranalore: Wei Wuxian and LWJ at a desk in Cloud Recesses library (chenqing_100 pest)
[personal profile] ranalore
This week's prompt is a line from "Headfirst" by Ocean Vuong: "the body is a blade that sharpens/by cutting."

You have until midnight your time on Friday, January 23, to answer this prompt. Please post your fills of the prompt as separate entries to the community (i.e. not replies to this entry), tagged with the prompt tag. You may post multiple standalone drabbles per entry in addition to drabble sequences and series.

As a reminder, this community has no official presence elsewhere. You are encouraged to share the prompt on social media, if you so desire. It may take me a bit to create the AO3 collection, so please be patient.

Also, I'm going to go ahead and drop a link to the prompt suggestions post here. New suggestions are always, always welcome.
xinger: (Default)
[personal profile] xinger
Title: 冬天的湖泊|Winter Lakes
Author: [personal profile] xinger
Word Count/Drabble Type: 200
Character(s)/Ship(s): Wen Qing, Lan Zhan
Rating/Warnings: G
Summary: 蓝湛以前不知道魏婴会滑冰。(现代AU)|Lan Zhan didn't know Wei Ying could ice skate. (Modern AU)

~~~~

double drabble )
ranalore: Wei Wuxian at a desk in the Cloud Recesses library, writing (chenqing_100 wwx)
[personal profile] ranalore
This week's prompt is: winter.

You have until midnight your time on Friday, January 16, to answer this prompt. Please post your fills of the prompt as separate entries to the community (i.e. not replies to this entry), tagged with the prompt tag. You may post multiple standalone drabbles per entry in addition to drabble sequences and series.

As a reminder, this community has no official presence elsewhere. You are encouraged to share the prompt on social media, if you so desire. It may take me a bit to create the AO3 collection, so please be patient.

Also, I'm going to go ahead and drop a link to the prompt suggestions post here. New suggestions are always, always welcome.
xinger: (Default)
[personal profile] xinger
Title: 新的信号|New Signal
Author: [personal profile] xinger
Word Count/Drabble Type: 300
Character(s)/Ship(s): Wei Wuxian
Rating/Warnings: G
Summary: 魏无羡没有蓝氏的信号烟花,好像蓝氏小辈也没有。大梵山上是一个问题。| Wei Wuxian doesn't have any Lan clan signal flares. Apparently the Lan juniors don't either. On Dafan Mountain, it's a problem.

~~~~

triple drabble )
ranalore: Wei Wuxian and LWJ at a desk in Cloud Recesses library (chenqing_100 pest)
[personal profile] ranalore
This week's prompt is: fireworks.

You have until midnight your time on Friday, January 9, to answer this prompt. Please post your fills of the prompt as separate entries to the community (i.e. not replies to this entry), tagged with the prompt tag. You may post multiple standalone drabbles per entry in addition to drabble sequences and series.

As a reminder, this community has no official presence elsewhere. You are encouraged to share the prompt on social media, if you so desire. It may take me a bit to create the AO3 collection, so please be patient.

Also, I'm going to go ahead and drop a link to the prompt suggestions post here. New suggestions are always, always welcome.
ranalore: Wei Wuxian at a desk in the Cloud Recesses library, writing (chenqing_100 wwx)
[personal profile] ranalore
Today is both Halloween and Wei Wuxian's (extra-canonical) birthday! This week thus has two prompts: Wei Wuxian-centric or ghosts, demons, elementals, and monsters.

This is one of our recurring annual prompts, which means that drabble sequences and drabble series are allowed, since these prompts have multiple or more complex concepts associated with them that warrant exploration in these longer formats. These formats are explained in this post, while the standard drabble formats are explained in the community rules.

I have a doctor's appointment next week, so I'm making this a two-week prompt. You have until midnight your time on Friday, November 8, to answer this prompt. Please post your fills of the prompt as separate entries to the community (i.e. not replies to this entry), tagged with the prompt tag. You may post multiple standalone drabbles per entry in addition to drabble sequences and series.

As a reminder, this community has no official presence elsewhere. You are encouraged to share the prompt on social media, if you so desire. It may take me a bit to create the AO3 collection, so please be patient.

Also, I'm going to go ahead and drop a link to the prompt suggestions post here. New suggestions are always, always welcome.

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