May Prompts

[sanguinity]

Each month, we'll post a trio of prompts -- a theme, a quote, and a trope -- for you to use as a jumping-off point in whatever medium pleases you. Anything goes, fiction or meta, from drabbles through dissertation chapters on textual analysis. Fic, art, photo-essays, vids, and more are welcome.

• For May, the theme is Weevils. Literal weevils or metaphorical weevils? Weevils that devour the ship's bread, or weevils that fatten the ship's chickens?
  
  
• The quote is from the A&E miniseries episode, "The Examination for Lieutenant," aka "The Fireships":

  Each of us can find a maggot in our past which will happily devour our futures.

  
  
• The trope is Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence. Different first meeting? Everybody lives? What change might you make to canon, and with what effect?

Mix and match the prompts, or use just one! Then come back and share what you made, here or in a new post.

And if you haven't yet, please check out the fills for April:

• tgarnsl: Eosphorus (Hornblower/Bush; T)
  
• colebaltblue: Jack Aubrey Read the Room Wrong (Aubrey/Hornblower, Aubrey/Bush, implied Hornblower/Bush; M)
  
• sanguinity: Solace and Comfort (excerpt) (implied Hornblower/Bush; G)
  
• brewsternorth: Strong, Dark, and Early (Hornblower/Bush; T)

Comments

[sanguinity]

Hooray! The May story you treated us with a sample from -- I'm so looking forward to that one! (And 8600 words, yum! How lucky we are!)

And re self-prompting, please do share your story here! Please make a new post, so that people other than us mods see it. And you're always welcome to post here things you make, whether officially related to a prompt or not.

And I'm sorry about falling down about June prompts -- June is wild for colebaltblue and I because of holmestice (and her June was even more wild than usual because of Life Events), and by the time I realized I was neglecting hmsloop_hotspur we were halfway through the month. So please accept my apologies for that.

[tgarnsl]

No need to apologise; May and June have been hectic months for me too. I figured as much :)

And caveat lector, just because there’s 8600 words that doesn’t mean they’re GOOD words! But I’ll do my best to wrangle the beast into something manageable.

[sanguinity]

If another pair of eyes would help, I'd be happy to beta for you -- just pop me an email at this username at gmail. Either way, good luck with the wrangling!

And I'd hazard a guess that your words are better than your nerves are telling you. Having seen examples of your writing, and having had extensive experience with that doubting voice, both in myself and with friends and acquaintances, I feel well-qualified to say so. ;-)