P:TFF - The Claims Post!
Hello Paradox! Time to look for a prompt that inspires you and get to creating! But first, a few important things to remember about the process.
1. Please only make ONE claim at a time. You may make another claim later, but in order to do so, you must contact the mods at moderate.sp@gmail.com to show them that your original claim has been finished.
2. Each prompt may only be claimed once. We will try to cross-out prompts on the post as they get claimed, but as we can't be online 24 hours a day, please check the comments to make sure you aren't claiming something that has already been taken.
3. Please do not claim unless you intend to finish. We understand that things come up that are unexpected and we are willing to work with you on that. However, we don't want people claiming just for the sake of it.
4. FIC REQUIREMENTS: Should be at least 2000 words.
5. FANMIX REQUIREMENTS: Mixes should be 10 or more songs, include cover art and be uploaded to a site that most everyone can access.
6. ART REQUIREMENTS: Art can be hand-drawn or digital. Posts will require a thumbnail, so please create one when you create your art. Wallpapers should be made in the most common sizes, but please keep a .psd or saved copy of your work if a member requests another size.
7. Feel free to take prompts literally or be creative. It's up to you!
Complete posting guidelines and details will be posted at the community soon. All work should completed and ready to post by FRIDAY JULY 22 at MIDNIGHT PDT.
Prompts are sorted by author's username, and below the list, you can copy/paste the form to claim. If you have any questions or comments or you spot any errors in the list, please leave them in the first thread on this post and a mod will get back to you ASAP.
3pirouette
Chilly Kitty
1. FIC: Leonard wonders what Sheldon's been watching/listening to. (Told from Leonard's POV.)
2. FIC: I'd really like to see this from Penny's POV. It would be interesting to see Penny's long-distance interactions with Sheldon in the context of what's happening back in Pasadena without the boys.
My Dearest Moonpie
1. FIC: Sheldon writes letters to his Meemaw cause she doesn't like e-mails. He writes almost journalistic letters about his daily life, but he starts mentioning Penny a lot and he articulates a lot of what puzzles, fascinates, draws him about Penny.
2. ART: Image of Penny sitting on Sheldon's bed reading the letters. Her head is bent over what she is reading or she's rubbing tears away with the heel of her hand.
allthingsholy
& light is only now just breaking
1. ANY: Conversations between Sheldon and Penny's mom. (Anecdotes about Penny's childhood, insights into her past, Sheldon talks about Texas.)
an object at rest
1. FIC: Penny returns the favor, whether intentional or unintentional, and inspires a change in Sheldon.
Stranger Things Have Happened
1. FIC: Marijuana. 'Nuff said? Let's see Sheldon thinking he's being lucid and actually talking nonsense, and Penny (who is much more used to holding her liquor weed), finding him utterly hilarious. Can be while they're still in the crossover or when they're back home and Penny talks him into trying it.
World in Solemn Stillness
1. FIC and/or ART: Every section is told from either Sheldon or Penny's POV. Remix with Sheldon's POV for Penny's section and Penny's POV for Sheldon's sections.
2. MIX: What it says on the tin.
3. FIC: What if Sheldon is the one that leaves Penny in this?
cereal
As the Games Were Starting
1. MIX: A slumber party mix for grown up geeks. Bonus points getting a slow song in for the surprise makeout session between our two heroes. (Additional Details: Bonus bonus point if that song is Roxette.)
2. FIC: Everyone's a girl. (girl!Howard still wants to see naked pillow fights)
Hooray For Our Side
1. MIX: Made up of ONLY songs from movies.
What Happens, Stays
1. ART: Spock and Catwoman making out in the bathroom. (More than kissing if the artist is up for it!)
2. MIX: Frantic make-out/hook-up/relationship themed.
courtney_beth
The Shell Bra Conundrum
1. ART: SHELDON. IN THE SHELL BRA. PLEASE.
2. FIC: More secrets from that night get revealed. Either how he ended up with the shell bra or anything else the writer chooses.
damalur
Chirality
1. FIC: Expand on one scenario (preferably the zombie one).
The Dress Code is Invasion Casual
1. FIC: Set in the Wild West. (Historical realism not necessary.)
The Great Journey of Dr. Cooper and Penny-121
1. FIC: Wherein the world Penny is making up and the world Penny is living in is flipped. (As in, 121 is the real Penny)
I Swallow Glass
1. FIC: Ten years later.
Life, the Universe, and Everything
1. FIC: SET IN SPACE. Fragments of the whole, obviously, since it's quite a long series. (Eveything's better set in space?)
2. MIX: Sheldon and/or Penny's running playlists. (Bonus points if it's two mixes, one for each.)
Maybe I'm a Lion
1. ART: A collage. Messy, dark, a scrapbook depicting survival.
2. FIC: They go to Boulder, after all, and it's via Vegas, and even though they're not in a Stephen King novel, maybe there's a darkness there anyway. Can be played either seriously (Randall Flagg/equivalent) or crackily (evil!Wil Wheaton, guest starring Leslie Winkle as Lloyd Henreid.)
Moonpie and Meemaw
1. FIC: Haiku it. (Because I want a five syllable velociraptor.)
Your Endgame Must Be Suicide
1. FIC and/or ART: Who's ring was on her finger?
elffriend26
Observations on the Uncommon Beach Nerd
1. ART: Penny and Sheldon on the beach. (Artist's choice of specific scene.)
2. ART: The characters all on the beach together.
The Venn Diagram Principle
1. ART: Penny tickling Sheldon as described in Chapter 3.
What Everyone Else Thought
1. FIC: More POVs of other characters observing and reacting to Sheldon and Penny being a couple. Could be the characters already in the original story or other ones e.g. recurring characters: eg Wil Wheaton, Stuart; one shot characters: e.g. Sheldon's sister; or people we've never met: e.g. Penny's mom, a cashier at the local supermarket.
evening_shadow
Exposed
1. FIC: Sheldon's the one with the tattoo instead of Penny. If this leads to them getting tattoos, yay! (Not matching tattoos or initials or names or anything twee; something meaningful.)
fujiidom
Bittersweet and Strange
1. MIX: Sheldon and Penny using Disney songs. Or Pixar.
The Excision Theorem
1. ART: Sheldon putting the hairtie in Penny's hair.
2. MIX: It's the End of the World themed.
No Thanks to Waffles and Cast Iron
1. ART: There aren't enough pics of Sheldon and Penny kissing. Would love to see them kissing passionately from this story or Penny straddling him on the couch while they're still clothed to keep it PG.
That's Amore
1. FIC: The one where they're actually outlaws on the run.
2. ANY: Whatever you want. There just needs to be more of this.
Under Your Tweeds, You Sweat Like a Teenager
1. FIC: The aftermath.
galfridian
And The Words, They're Everything And Nothing
1. FIC: Penny in Nebraska, debating whether or not to come home; debating where home is these days. (Potential inspiration: Vienna Teng's "The Tower". Lyrics and music.)
2. ART: Their New Year's Eve kiss depicted in art.
Each Minute Bursts in the Burning Room
1. FIC: Penny's story, from the past to the future, including why she shows up in the future.
2. ANY: Whatever you want. There just needs to be more of this.
The Ted Mosby Connection
1. FIC: The missing Sheldon/Penny connection, perhaps in NYC at Christmas? With a little nudging from Lily and Marshall? (The more details with the HIMYM characters, the better!)
2. FIC: Sheldon, Penny, and the gang are at Ted or Barney's wedding. (Gotta include some Barney/Robin, either directly or indirectly.)
gemsile123
The Penny Perception (The Six Senses of Penny)
1. FIC: A remix based on the five elements (earth, air, fire, water, spirit).
gertie_flirty
The Marital Observation
1. FIC: The wedding gets called off due to a spontaneous zombie outbreak instead of the appearance of Kenny. This, Sheldon's prepared for. (Raj and Howard almost get eaten while fleeing the church during an argument about whether crosses are effective against zombies or only vampires. Penny proves that crosses are effective, namely by crushing a few undead skulls with one.)
Not So Cold After All
1. ART: White Christmas
Well, Well
1. FIC: The end interviews from the interviewers POV.
gilove2dance
The Boxer Theory
1. MIX: There have got to be enough songs about underwear or similar clothing out there to make this into a fanmix.
ishie
Captain Jack Made It Look So Easy
1. FIC: Same timeline, from Sheldon's POV.
2. ART: Penny taking care of the hand-in-the-jar.
Eat Your Heart Out, Wolfgang Pauli
1. ART: Sheldon starts to feel a little better once he's dressed in his own clothes.
Five Times Leonard Wondered What the Hell Was Going On
1. ART: Any of those little drabbles would make a great comic strip.
2. FIC: Would like to see Sheldon or Penny's point of view of these moments or maybe other moments when they only just escaped being caught by Leonard. (The format of the story could be just like the original.)
Warm Gulf Wind
1. ANY: Sheldon's note.
2. FIC: Sheldon is going peacefully on with his usual routine while Penny is going through events in the original story. But lots of details shows he thinks of her and wonders what will happen next.
3. MIX: Soundtrack to the story. Must include "Almost" by Sarah Harmer.
jazzfic
Carpe Diem, Seize the Day (But Not the Cat That Ran Away)
1. FIC: With Penny as a single parent.
2. ANY: Sheldon and Penny = Ace Ventura, Pet Detective. (Saving the world one animal at a time.)
Divisible
1. FIC: More bits of this in other years, alternate timelines, past lives, whatever you can come up with.
The Two-Legged Freak
1. FIC: AU. She's an entomologist; he screams even louder when he's finally dressed and walks into the living room only to find her doing horrible things with the spider and chloroform and a textbook, because really, the only thing she should be doing with the textbook is flattening the damn thing.
juniperlane
Breathing Time Machine (Take You All For a Ride)
1. FIC and/or MIX: Penny and Sheldon are currently together and when the flashforward happens, they flash forward to the two of them broken up for reasons they don't know. How does it affect their relationship? Do they still have the same sense of "self-fulfilling prophecy"? Can they change the future? (Additional Details: I didn't watch Flash Forward beyond the pilot, but I don't think any knowledge of the show is necessary to run with the plot. Side pairings of Raj/Howard, Raj/Bernadette, Penny/Raj always welcome.)
The Costume Coincidence
1. ART: Sheldon and Penny in costume.
Half-Awake in a Fake Empire
1. ART: Sheldon as a doll.
2. FIC: MORE PLEASE. Either how Sheldon ended up being a doll. Or more of what happens after. Or Sheldon and Penny during the Epitaph timeline. JUST MORE PLEASE.
3. MIX: Grim and desperate-themed.
ladyhouston
And Dreams Aren't What They Used to Be
1. FIC: A companion piece about Penny and her father.
The Locked Door Complication
1. ART: Sheldon as Ford Prefect and Penny as Arthur Dent.
maramyanet
A Purely Academic Driven Proposal
1. FIC: Sheldon's first time having sex awakens his latent Hulk side and he terrorizes the neighborhood. (Bonus points if Amy remains cool, calm and collected and keeps taking notes.)
muir_wolf
Banging On Your Door
1. FIC: Eventually, there comes a time when the kiss is right. It's pure perfection, for a minute. And then the sirens start wailing outside. (Of course Sheldon and Penny kissing doesn't cause the end of the world. It just seems awfully coincidental.)
The Convergence Conclusion
1. ANY: Sheldon and Penny become the kind of couple that wears matching clothes who may or may not wear fanny packs. (Leonard, Howard and Raj stage an intervention.)
My Missing Puzzle Piece
1. MIX: Whatever a HS Penny would listen to (whether set several years ago or more recently, it's an AU, so whatever works). I just think of her making a mix to introduce Sheldon to current music. (Except Taylor Swift. No Taylor Swift.)
This Is All We Got Now
1. MIX: We could be heroes, just for one day.
This Is Where It Gets Complicated
1. ART: Anything. (Preferably with the Who!verse and Community!verse casts involved, too.)
You Don't Have to Be Constrained
1. FIC: Just more of this verse that I love would be awesome.
notalwaysweak
The Awards Night Attraction
1. FIC: Same plot, except someone is killing people off! Sheldon and Penny must catch the killer before they or their intrepid friends are killed off! Also they must hook up. (Character death(s) entirely up to writer, though angst is discouraged. Also, effective police would clearly be boring.)
Green
1. FIC: Swapsies. Penny's the one covered in paint. Do with that what you will.
2. FIC: Wherein Sheldon suddenly realizes, mid-scrub, exactly what Penny means by "dirty".
3. ART: Sheldon covered in green paint, Penny in the process of cleaning it off.
phil_urich
On Fishing and Girlfriend's Fathers
1. ART: Sheldon. Waders. Fishing rod. Hat with fishing flies attached.
renisanz
Yellow
1. ART: Something centering on the flower symbolism.
sinstralpride
The Hex Code Compendium
1. FIC and/or ART: After three weeks living in the mall after the zombie attack, the jacket is battered and scratched, but still looks amazing on him.
To Be Your Valentine
1. MIX: It's a love letter and the thesis of a breakup. Penny moves on.
slybrunette
Dead Like Us
1. MIX and/or ART: Anything.
Rockabye (Everything's Gonna Be All Right)
1. MIX: Mary Cooper never sang him to sleep. Penny is no mother. (Additional details: Sheldon's POV.)
2. FIC: Switch to Sheldon's POV.
You Are a Runner and I Am My Father's Son
1. MIX: How Penny kept on running & how Sheldon stayed with her every step. (Sheldon/Career, Penny/Life; whatever that is in music)
2. FIC: NOW WITH 100% MORE TIME TRAVELING.
weasleytook
At the Fork in the Road
1. ART: Visual retelling of the story.
The Hardest Part is Finding the Name
1. FIC: Hitting the same/similar plot points, except they start out together and break up along the way. (and maybe get back together or stay apart, idc).
2. MIX: Immortal Penny needs a suitably kickass soundtrack.
3. MIX and/or ART: Badass, superheroic, crime-fighter themed.
Over the Sea of Sunken Eyes
1. ART: Young!Penny hunting with her dad!
2. FIC: What happens after the fic ends. Does Penny make the shot or not?
3. MIX: Music to hunt zombies and fall in love to.
The Steep-Sided Gorge Excursion
1. MIX: Sheldon & Penny's Road Trip Mix. (Must include The Proclaimers, as used in the fic.)
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