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]

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. ;-)