Winterfair: Drunken Vor Crawling Races!

[tel]

The first round is closed, and we're left with seven six people to write sonnets fics for. I'm not going to ask you to stop what you're already writing, but right now we need to focus on getting fics for those who wrote and didn't receive one. Take a look at the list! There's no limit to how many people can write these prompts, but if you are writing any of these please drop me a line so I know who still needs writers. I still need a prompt from bookchan (or two, more choice is better at this stage).

My hope is to close Winterfair within three weeks. 

I'll be working on jetta-e's Ceta prompt for now (and, uh, the translation I owe).


rogerstening:
1) Mark, trying to figure out the best Winterfair gift for Kareen, and eventually looking for advice - from everyone except Kareen's mother, who for some reason terrifies him! (Comedy/Romance)
2) A fanfic author gets dropped into Vorkosigan House. 

beatrice_otter:
1) AU where Dr. Duv Galeni stayed a doctor of History instead of an ImpSec officer.
2) AU where Aral's first wife didn't die. Maybe she escaped to Beta and he thinks she's dead, maybe they had a very messy divorce and everybody holds their breath on the rare occasions when they're both in the same room at the same time, maybe they worked through their problems and are still married, maybe something else entirely.

teldreaming:
1) One of Duv's kids forces him to choose between Barrayar and his family.
2) Illyan beta-reads Miles's fanfic edits Lieutenant Vorkosigan's reports (I'd also be happy with the fanfic one)

jetta-e:
1) Adventures of the ghem-warriors who got stuck somehow at Tau Verde local system without any livelihood
2) The childhood or adolescence of Ezar Vorbarra, far down in the line of succession. Before the Cetagandan War but after the re-discovery of Barrayar.

bookchan:
1) Alternate Universe or trope fic. You know, the Band fic, bakery, or High school fic (just a few examples). I have fun reading these and we don't really have them in this fandom that I've noticed. 
2) A fic where Miles didn't become an Auditor either because Gregor didn't offer him the position full time or because Haroche didn't commit treason. What would Miles have ended up doing?  

trope: 

1) Bel Thorne, post-Mirror Dance

2) Mistress Hysopi and Bothari co-parenting. What does she think of him, to agree to this arrangement? As Elena gets older, do they strategize, or are they working on parallel tracks?

Comments

I hope this is ok to do --

[gramina]

I have no idea how this works, and it's not a fic, but your phrasing above made my brain start working, and, well --

Changes

A secret glance, a drifting touch, a hand
Too long on mine, a subtle clue I missed
Until she spoke out plain; until we kissed
I had no thought of any but a man.
That joy brought grief – I knew she still must take
A man to give her standing. She must wed
And build a life apart. We’d share a bed,
But not a life. There was no choice to make.

I never dreamed there’d be another path,
Another life, another choice, a fate
Known and unknown, changing, and still the same –
The mouth that quirks just so, the growing flame
In eyes that catch mine as the hour grows late:
To take this choice, I’ll dare the whole world’s wrath.

Re: I hope this is ok to do --

[tel]

Over 100 words, gorgeous, works for me :)

Want to do a separate post of this?

Re: I hope this is ok to do --

[gramina]

Sure. Um. Just post to the community? Or? (seriously. Have Not Done This Before. :) )

Re: I hope this is ok to do --

[tel]

Sure! Or livejournal's bujold_fic or AO3. I'm not sure if you've been following Winterfair or not (it mostly lives elsewhere but I crosspost and accept fic here). We're in the pinch-hitting stage on Winterfair, the exchange part is done with. But I'm happy to accept your sonnet!

There's also been an impromptu poetry battle going on that's vaguely Winterfair related but has gone beyond that. There's a bunch of recently posted poems here if you're interested: http://archiveofourown.org/collections/vorkosiganpoetrybattle