Pirate Challenge

Challenge #26 will have a minor extension.

It is open until Tuesday night, so write your stories and send them in!

<3

Hello everyone!
Sorry your mods have been MIA this past month. You know school - it thinks that it is the most important thing. Pshaw. What could be more important than piratefic? ;)

Anyway, here is a short challenge for you.

♥

( CHALLENGE #26 )


If you are interested in participating or if you have any questions, comment here.

If you need a "second opinion" or some editing help before posting, check out our list of Betas!

And if there is any challenge you'd like to see, please submit it to our Prompt Ideas/Requests post.

Title: Crossroads
Author: summerstwilight
Pairing/Characters: Estrella (Elizabeth’s lady’s maid from potc1)/Groves (“Best pirate I’ve ever seen” guy); Beckett.
Word Count: 3239
Rating: PGish
Genre: General/angsty
Summary: Groves must choose: his lover or his career.
Disclaimer: Not mine, never were, never will be.
Spoilers: PotC 1 and 2, but that should be a given.
Warnings: None to speak of.
Notes: Estrella/Groves is a pairing I’ve written a couple of stories about. This one is meant to follow in that general arch, though it can stand alone. All you need to know is that they are engaged at this point. The entire story arch is posted over on my ff.net profile.

( Crossroads )

( CHALLENGE #25 )


If you are interested in participating or if you have any questions, comment here.

If you need a "second opinion" or some editing help before posting, check out our list of Betas!

And if there is any challenge you'd like to see, please submit it to our Prompt Ideas/Requests post.

Challenge 24 is now over. Thanks for participating. Banner and new challenge to come soon (but not really soon b/c I have absolutely no time right now, so please bear with me).

Title: At the End of it All
Author: Kamali_Rune
Characters: Elizabeth, Jack
Pairing:Turrow (Jack/Will) Implied
Word Count:714
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Sort-of Romance
Summary: Jack and Elizabeth both make decisions about relationships at World's End. Both are different but their choice.
Disclaimer: These characters do not belong to me, but are in fact owned by the rich people at Disney.
Spoilers: From the trailer and could happen...maybe.
Warnings: Um...one cuss word and some blood.

Challenge 24 will be extended until Monday, April 2 at whatever time I get around to checking LJ, sometime in the evening. Happy writing.

( CHALLENGE 24 )

Challenge 23 is over for real. New one coming soon.

OK. Due to popular demand (and because I have no good ideas today that aren't dirty), I am extending Challenge 23 until whenever I get home from 300 on Friday night, probably around 2230 EST. So please write something, y'all.

Challenge 23 is over. I guess no one liked it much. Hmmm...Hopefully tomorrow I'll have something more popular. *ponders* Probably a Monday to Friday.

Hey everyone. Hope that you had a good weekend. This next challenge is going to be a full week, Sunday evening to Sunday evening. Hopefully we'll get a few more people involved. The points are as follows right now:

summerstwilight is leading the pack with 27 points.
heatherlayne_n has 14 points.

Remember, you can post as many stories as you want for each prompt, so don't think you can't catch up to these two. Again, the prize is for the first person to reach 100 points and it's a custom-made PotC-themed wallpaper. But, in all honesty, the points don't really matter. I'm just trying to boost participation. That's all. So, please write, even if you don't give a shit about points.

( Challenge 23 and Banners for our heroes )

Challenge 22 ended 47 minutes ago. Thanks to everyone who participated. Just a reminder: PRETTY PLEASE put the challenge number in the subject line. Thanks. Banner, points updates, and a new challenge coming soon (after food and sleep for yours truly)!

Title: Of Oranges and Rum
Author: Summerstwilight
Pairing/Characters: Jack, Gibbs, various and sundry sailors
Word Count: somewhere around 800, I should think.
Rating: G
Genre: General/humor
Summary: There’s an awful lot of rum to be had, and Jack Sparrow wanted it.
Disclaimer: Not my characters, no infringement meant.
Spoilers: Really just for PotC 1. This is an odd backstory story.
Warnings: None
Notes: None.
Special Thanks: I guess to my friends Joey and Donnie, who told a story of oranges and retrieval that was so outlandish as to inspire this one. Also to anyone who read this ^_^

( We're not talking about ordinary oranges here... )

Title: Mate
Author: heatherlayne_n
Characters: Jack, Gibbs, Max, Mary
Word Count: about 1,600
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Gen, slight fluff
Summary: Looking out for a friend
Disclaimer: Nothing you recognize belongs to me. I make no money from this (but wouldn't that be nice?)
Spoilers: None, really.
Warnings: Subtle sexual innuendo.
Notes: Johnny Depp said in the commentary/extra thingies on DMC that the bone in Jack's hair is actually the shinbone of a reindeer. This is my (and Jack's) story of how he got it. Among other things.



( Mate )

Title: One Step Closer
Author: heatherlayne_n
Pairing/Characters: Navy dorks, Jack, Elizabeth, Tia Dalma, Norrington
Word Count: approx. 1,800
Rating: PG to PG-13 depending on how you look at it, I suppose
Genre: Gen
Summary: Jack remembers Singapore
Disclaimer: Nothing you recognize belongs to me. I'm not making money off of this.
Spoilers: Through DMC
Warnings: Terrible mistreatment of typing in dialect. I tried.
Notes: Any and all historical/geographical information was gotten from either Wikipedia or my own brain, so don't trust the supposed facts much further than you could throw the Interceptor, savvy?


( One Step Closer )

OK, here's a weeklong challenge for y'all, plus the banner for 21:

( CHALLENGE 22 and Banner for 21 )

Happy writing!

Challenge 21 is over. Thanks to summerstwilight for To The Point; 12 points to you.

New challenge and participation banner coming soon.

Title: To the Point
Author: summerstwilight
Characters/Pairings: Tia, Jack, Will, smatterings of other pirates
Word Count: 976
Rating: PG, I suppose
Genre: General/Drama
Summary: Even if their story isn’t true, it’s to the point.
Disclaimer: None of the characters in this story are mine, they all belong to Disney. No infringement meant.
Spoilers: Just generally for PotC 1 and 2
Warnings: None.
Notes: Apologies for my inability to type in accent (a la Tia Dalma)

( “To )

Hi, everyone. Until we get the prize list squared away, here's what I would like to do with the challenges I post and prizes:

1.) If you participate in the challenge and write a story, you get 10 points. You may submit as many stories as you would like as long as they are in accordance with the requirements and are in before the deadline. At the end of the challenge, I will make a post of where people stand, points-wise.

2.) I will offer bonus points TBD in each challenge for various things within the story, e.g., include: a sandbar, a doll, and a handshake; or for 50-cent words.

3.) First person to reach 100 points will receive a custom PotC wallpaper made by yours truly, featuring anyone you like (and I'm not above making naughty manips, either ;)).

4.) Everyone who submits will get a participation banner.

5.) Other than that, all rules apply.

Now, without further ado (adieu?), here is (a weekend speed challenge, as requested):

( CHALLENGE 21 )

Happy writing!

-tenacitydrader@aol.com

Hey everyone. Here are the banners for 16, 17, 19, and 20:

( 16, 17, 19, & 20 )

Hey everyone. As elvensorceress works hard to figure out the prize system to be implemented soon, I have been making banners. Now, I'm just making participation banners, rather than 1st, 2nd, and 3rd because, well, one thing at a time. Anyway, here are banners for challenges 10, 13, 14, and 15 (sorry they're so late). elvensorceress has one to post for 11. Coming soon.

( 10, 13, 14, and 15 )

Hi everyone! I'm tenacitydrader and I've recently been asked by elvensorceress to help out with this comm. I am excited about it and am now going through the process of archiving all the old challenges to see what has been done and posting an index in the user info. Before I post the next challenge, I would like to know what you guys think about this community and the direction you'd like to see it go in. There are 104 members, 87 of which watch the community, so I'm really hoping for some feedback.

Back when it first started, people posted a lot of great work, and seemed very fired up about the community and the challenges. But as I go through the archives, I see that people have started to taper off. I understand that a lot of you are in school and life gets in the way, but my goal as your new co-mod is to try and re-vitalize the community and get people involved once again. So, I want to hear from you. For example:

Did anyone (besides me)/is anyone doing challenge 12?
What do you want to see on this comm in general?
Are long challenges better or short ones?
Is there anyone out there?

tenacitydrader@aol.com

Title: Haunted Past
Author: tenacitydrader
Characters: Pretty much everyone
Pairings: Tia Dalma/Davy Jones, Tia Dalma/Barbossa, Tia Dalma/Beckett
Word count: 37,529
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Speculation for III
Summary: The best summary is in the requirements for the challenge. This fic has a lot of backstory on Tia Dalma, Barbossa, Davy Jones, and Beckett that is used as a context for what happens after DMC.
Disclaimer: All characters and settings herein are property of Disney and Bruckheimer productions. I do not profit from this in the form of monetary or other compensation.
Spoilers: Because this is set after Dead Man’s Chest, there are massive DMC SPOILERS!!!
Warnings: This fic wraps up the trilogy, so there is character death herein (also in accordance with requirement group “B”).
Notes: I did all of requirement group “A” and most of “B.” I stuck to canon fairly well, except I did take some creative license by making this other fic I wrote a while ago part of canon backstory. You don’t have to go and read it, but you should know what it’s about. In a nutshell: between movies, Norrington, near death, washes up on Tia Dalma’s beach and she saves his life, lets him crash at her place, plus through supernatural means, she shows him what marriage to Elizabeth would have been like (not so good).
Special thanks: I’d like to thank my indefatiguable beta, linaerys

Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four

Title: Her Game
Author: heatherlayne_n
Pairing/Characters: Jack/Elizabeth...?
Word Count: approx. 1,440
Rating: mild PG-13
Genre: Gen, angst-ish
Summary: Challenge #20 = Jack needs rescuing
Disclaimer: Not mine, not for profit.
Spoilers: For DMC, barely. I don't know when this would take place. Perhaps after AWE, though since I haven't seen anything about that movie, there are no spoilers for it here.
Warnings: Messy eating
Notes: I started this before work today, and finished it later at night. Sorry it wasn't in in time for the actual deadline of Challenge 20.


( Dripping, oozing, gushing. Sticky-sweet fingers tinged with sea salt. Sugary juice covering the creases in her knuckles. Lick them clean as he lay her down in the sand, his tongue between her fingers, across her palm as he.... )

Title: Return to Me
By: St. Minority
Rating: PG-13
Characters/Pairings: Barbossa, Jack, Elizabeth, Will, Gibbs, Tia Dalma
Word Count: Around 1,714
Warnings: little bit of gore I guess, and a m/m -kiss kind of
Disclaimer: I don't own POTC - all belongs to Elliott, Rossio, Bruckheimer, Disney...I make no profit.
Summary: Dead men tell no tales, but they can be restored.
Spoilers: Not really, unless you don't want to read about the way I see World's End.
A/N: I worked on this all day, and I'm glad I was able to get it done. :D This is my sort of interpretation of what World's End would be like and was inspired in part by the dead army from Lord of the Rings and a lyric about "phantom ships lost at sea" from a BBMak song (woo! Anyone remember them?).

( They had arrived )

Title: Bittersweet Freedom
By: St. Minority
Rating: PG-13/R
Characters/Pairings: Jack/Will, Gibbs, brief mention of Bootstrap
Word Count: Around 3,577
Warnings: M/M, nudity, brief language, depression....
Disclaimer: I don't own POTC - all belongs to Elliott, Rossio, Bruckheimer, Disney...I make no profit.
Summary: Some hurts run too deep.
A/N: This is based off of justawench's astounding "Longing" series manips found here, here, and here. The "misery" got to me and weaved the pictures together in a sort of dismal way. :D
This also plays heavily on the fact that Will's lost everything (in my mind), so it's set after DMC.
Cut text from a Blue October song.

( Into the ocean, end it all )

( CHALLENGE #20 )


If you are interested in participating or if you have any questions, comment here or email us at elvensorceress@livejournal.com or virr_varr@hotmail.com

If you need a "second opinion" or some editing help before posting, check out our list of Betas!

And if there is any challenge you'd like to see, please submit it to our Prompt Ideas/Requests post.

Title: One Sip for the Sea
Author: Kamali_Rune
Characters: Will, Cotton, Cotton's Parrot, Elizabeth
Word Count:637
Rating: G
Genre: Angst
Summary: Will broods as the crew travel to the World's End. A mute and his bird force him to think things over.
Disclaimer: These characters do not belong to me, but are in fact owned by the rich people at Disney.
Spoilers: Not Really. Could happen in PotC III.
Warnings: None
Notes: The name of the ship means hope in Greek.

( A Ration of Rum )

( CHALLENGE #19 )


If you are interested in participating or if you have any questions, comment here or email us at elvensorceress@livejournal.com or virr_varr@hotmail.com

If you need a "second opinion" or some editing help before posting, check out our list of Betas!

And if there is any challenge you'd like to see, please submit it to our Prompt Ideas/Requests post.

Hi everyone,

Sorry this place has been so dead for a while. Since I wasn't getting submissions, I figured no one was interested anymore. But I've been getting quite a few requests and I'm more than happy to start things up again.

First things first, I have a few changes in mind regarding awards which you will see with the newest challenge. Basically, I am doing away with the 1st-2nd-3rd system in favor of participation awards. I think this is the best for everyone because you are all so talented and amazing, and hopefully, it will encourage more participation from those who don't like to compete. Award banners will be emailed, so be sure to let me know your email address.

Second, as often as I can, I'm going to issue 1 to 3 day long speed challenges. Now, I will need your help with this, but if you miss a challenge or don't finish in time, feel free to submit your fic as soon as you complete it. At the end of the month (or sooner if there are enough) I will post all the fics from the missed challenges. That way you may take on any challenge you want on your time schedule. But you MUST post somewhere in your header (or preferably the subject line) which challenge you wrote for. Does that sound all right?

Also, so everyone knows which challenge(s) are active, I will make a post that will appear at the top of the community's page. It will also have links to all the previous challenges, so that you may find old ones to complete.

One more change, so there are no more time zone translation headaches...challenges will close at midnight on the day listed. This means you have every minute of the day of the deadline to complete your fic.

And if anyone is working on challenge #12 (as found here) or is interested in completing challenge #12 let me know because the deadline is still set for the end of this month.

I look forward to new stories from all of you!
love,
~Jenwyn

( CHALLENGE #18 )


If you are interested in participating or if you have any questions, comment here or email us at elvensorceress@livejournal.com or virr_varr@hotmail.com

If you need a "second opinion" or some editing help before posting, check out our list of Betas!

And if there is any challenge you'd like to see, please submit it to our Prompt Ideas/Requests post.

Title: Caged
Author: Penny-Elizabeth
Characters: Barbossa, Elizabeth
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Credit to Knightly, Rush and Co.
Word Count: 1033
Genre: Missing Chapter
Summary: between the Pearl leaving Port Royal and the dinner in Barbossa's cabin
Notes: Another splodge of story written off the cuff while in the library. I'm trying to get back into the darker parts of their relationship- using their past and present to build up a strong testimony and what about them is similar, albiet in slightly different terms. or seomthing. I don't know- I can't think, I'm hungry and I've run out of time!

( The nightmare of a prison. )

Title: One of Those Days
Author: classics_lover
Pairing/Characters: The Navyboys! Implied Gillington. Implied Norribeth.
Word Count: A little over 1,000.
Rating: G - Pg, for implied themes.
Genre: Snark, Angst
Summary: CotBP. The Navyboys' thoughts on the previous action, set just prior to finding Elizabeth and Jack on the island.
Disclaimer: The characters depicted herein do not belong to me no matter how much I might wish they did.
Spoilers: If you've not seen Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl you might get a surprise (but I think I'd get more of one^^)
Warnings: Implied themes only.
Notes: I don't use a beta, so any mistakes in this are mine and mine alone. :-)
Special Thanks: To sampaguita_blue who gave me the snark!bunny.

*-*-*

( Naval Snark Abounds )

CHALLENGE #17 has ended. Authors may go ahead and post their fics wherever they want.

Please vote here ranking the two stories in first, or second place.

Voting will be open until I post awards. ;) But please try to get votes in soon!
(No Anonymous voting)

<3
~Jenwyn

( CHALLENGE #17 )


If you are interested in participating or if you have any questions, comment here or email us at elvensorceress@livejournal.com or virr_varr@hotmail.com

If you need a "second opinion" or some editing help before posting, check out our list of Betas!

And if there is any challenge you'd like to see, please submit it to our Prompt Ideas/Requests post.

Title: What Lies Beneath
By: Robes_of_Earth and St. Minority
Characters: Bootstrap and Davy Jones
Rating: PG
Warnings: none
Disclaimer: We do not own the characters or the franchise; all belong to Disney, Rossio, Elliott, etc.
Word Count: 1,108
Genre: drama/angsty
Summary: A different curse lies at the bottom of the sea.
A/N: This takes place a little while after the mutiny. The first half is told in Bootstrap's POV, the rest is in Davy's.
And just want to say major thanks to robes_of_earth for being my wonderful writing pal for this! We did it!!! ;D

( The Crushing, Black Oblivion )

CHALLENGE #16 has ended. Authors may go ahead and post their fics wherever they want.

<3
~Jenwyn

Hi everyone,

Challenge #16 is going to be extended until next Sunday. It will now end October 15th.

Since it is a partner challenge, you may use this post to find someone to write with.

Let me know if you can't find a partner!
♥

There were no submissions for Challenge #16.

Is anyone still interested in completing it, or should I end it?

<3

Partners anyone?

( CHALLENGE #16 )


If you are interested in participating or if you have any questions, comment here or email us at elvensorceress@livejournal.com or virr_varr@hotmail.com

If you need a "second opinion" or some editing help before posting, check out our list of Betas!

And if there is any challenge you'd like to see, please submit it to our Prompt Ideas/Requests post.


:)

Title: Anywhere the Wind Blows
Author: tears_of_nienna
Pairing/Characters: Will, Jack, Elizabeth, and just about every combination thereof.
Word Count: 194
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Angst
Summary: You're jealous of what's yours; you envy what you'll never have.
Disclaimer: I don't own PotC or any of the characters thereof, and I'm making no money from this.
Spoilers: DMC

( Doesn't matter... )

Title: Retrieving
Author: vintage__cherry
Pairing/Characters: James Norrington / Jack Sparrow mild.
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Drabble
Summary: Jack steals something James takes it back.
Disclaimer: don't own them I only borrow once and a while.
Spoilers: DMC ?
Warnings: non
Special Thanks: To the mods for putting extra time!

( Retrieving )

Title: A Lover Scorned
By: St. Minority
Pairings: Jack/Barbossa, Jack/? ;)
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: hints/mention of sex, m/m
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters or the franchise, merely the situations I put them in and such. All belong to Disney, Bruckheimer, etc.
Word Count: 344
Genre: drama/angsty maybe? not sure.
Summary: Hell hath no fury like a lover scorned.
A/N: Takes place before the mutiny, told in Barbossa's POV, and I'm really happy that I was actually able to write something for the challenge! This fic pretty much set around the notion of "If I can't have you, no one can" saying. :D

( Good Riddance )

CHALLENGE #15 has ended. Authors may go ahead and post their fics wherever they want.

Please vote here ranking the three stories in first, second or third place.

Voting will be open until I post awards. ;) But please try to get votes in soon!
(No Anonymous voting)

<3
~Jenwyn

Challenge 15 will be extended to 4:59PM EST on October 3rd
(that is 18 hours from now)

♥

Hello everyone,

Since the September challenge is out of the way, I was hoping to start things up again with some shorter, speedier challenges.

Now, please don't kill yourself and try and do every single one if you don't have much time. I will issue a "go back and complete a past challenge" every ten challenges or so in case you miss one that you'd like to try.

Good luck and here be...

( CHALLENGE #15 )


If you are interested in participating or if you have any questions, comment here or email us at elvensorceress@livejournal.com or virr_varr@hotmail.com

If you need a "second opinion" or some editing help before posting, check out our list of Betas!

And if there is any challenge you'd like to see, please submit it to our Prompt Ideas/Requests post.


:)

Title: Haunted Past
Author: tenacitydrader
Characters: Pretty much everyone
Pairings: Tia Dalma/Davy Jones, Tia Dalma/Barbossa, Tia Dalma/Beckett
Word count: 37K
Rating: PG-13; everything really bad is implied (R if you’re picky)
Genre: Speculative?

Summary: The best summary is in the requirements for the challenge, honestly. This fic has a lot of backstory on Tia Dalma, Barbossa, Davy Jones, and Beckett that is used as a context for what happens after DMC. Anything else I could summarize would sort of be a spoiler…

Disclaimer: All characters and settings herein are property of Disney and Bruckheimer productions. I do not profit from this in the form of monetary or other compensation. No copyright infringement is intended.
Spoilers: Because this is set after Dead Man’s Chest, there are massive DMC SPOILERS!!!

Warnings: This fic wraps up the trilogy, so there is character death herein (also in accordance with requirement group “B”). I don’t kill Jack, but I sort of give him a fate worse than death.

Notes: I did all of requirement group “A” and almost all of requirement group “B.” I think that I actually stuck to canon fairly well, except I did take some creative license by making a this other fic I wrote a while ago part of canon backstory. You don’t have to go and read it, but you should know what it’s about. In a nutshell: between movies, Norrington washes up on Tia Dalma’s beach and she saves his life, plus she shows him what marriage to Elizabeth would have been like. I also sort of fudged Ragetti and Pintel’s first names and I don’t really care if they’re wrong.

Special thanks: I’d like to give a shoutout to everyone who participated in this debate including, but not limited to galadhir and sparrbecuecook; your points of view re: Norrington were incredibly useful in writing this. Finally, I’d like to thank the fine folks who took the time to put the DMC script together.

Haunted Past: Part the First
Haunted Past: Part the Second
Haunted Past: Part the Third
Haunted Past: Part the Fourth

CHALLENGE #12: Draft 1 has ended.

Congratulations to tenacitydrader for doing a fabulous job and being the only one to compete. You may post your fic wherever you want and you will be awarded 1st place.


Get ready for some SPEED everyone.

<3
~Jenwyn

All right my crew, I've come to a decision about #12 -the month long challenge- because I think it is something that everyone would like to try.

The challenge will come to an end this weekend as scheduled, BUT this end will be a "first draft" contest.

What I mean by this is anyone who has a story or who has started a story may enter it for "Challenge 12: DRAFT 1"

( The only requirements will be: )

The new deadline for DRAFT 1 will be 11:59PM EST on SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1st in order to give anyone who wants to start or edit things a chance to enter.


Now, since we have a draft 1... we're also going to have a draft 2 contest.

( Details for this half of the challenge are: )



Just to be clear, you do NOT have to enter both phases of this challenge. You may enter one and be done with it, you may enter Draft 1 and then do editing and enter Draft 2 or you may submit half a story for Draft 1 and leave it as a cliffhanger and then enter Draft 2 with the ending (or you could leave your story as a cliffhanger and not enter Draft 2, but please try and finish for the sake of your fans readers ;) ), but really, do whatever makes you happy.

Hopefully this will allow everyone who wants to the chance to participate in this challenge. Sound good?

If you're going to submit a story for Challenge 12: Draft 1, comment here so I know you read this. Thanks! :)

And as always, comment or email if you have questions. elvensorceress@livejournal.com

Love,
Your Captain
otherwise known as Mod Jenwyn ;)