My picfor1000 assignment for 2015 is a black cat and a castle :

[chamekke]

The challenge 13 theme is "unlucky things" (I guess because it's the 13th challenge), and each participant is given a photograph to inspire any fic as long as it weighs in at exactly 1,000 words. Here's my pic:



Admittedly I did go AWOL on my assignment for the previous 2 years. Well, third time lucky, I say! THIS IS THE YEAR WHERE I BREAK THAT TREND. *determined face*

Luckily this image has tons of potential. I've been toying with various ideas involving (a) Sleepy Hollow, (b) Shirley Jackson (i.e. a postscript story to We Have Always Lived In The Castle, because clearly that IS Jonas outside the Blackwood home), or just maybe (c) Warehouse 13. I figure, in a pinch I can do a fic where an artefact turns the world black and white. You know, the way things were in the olden days.

That said - if your first reaction to the pic is "OMFG this would be perfect for {fandom/plot bunny}", I am definitely all ears! *chinhands*

Not sure how many of you are also doing the challenge? I know draycevixen and severinne have both signed up. How are you faring with your prompt?
 

Comments

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

I'm signed up. My prompt is a broken mirror, so all sorts of possibilities.

I can definitely seeing this work for Sleepy Hollow - and the cat not being a cat at all, but some sort of witch's familiar.

[chamekke.livejournal.com]

Nice one! blythechild was assigned a broken-mirror pic too, although a rather different one (a car's rear view mirror in her case).

I really like your photo for itself, in terms of composition that is, especially the beautiful webby bits where the glass is fractured into smaller pieces. Interesting that your mirror doesn't reflect the photographer... Presumably the subject is angling it a tad to avoid exactly that, but to me it suggests an invisibility spell or a ghost or vampire or something mysterious.

I can definitely seeing this work for Sleepy Hollow - and the cat not being a cat at all, but some sort of witch's familiar.

Definitely a possibility. I've got about 5 bunnies for SH and will add that to the list, thank you!

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's a lovely photo. I was attracted by the way the different pieces were all reflecting different things. I'm thinking of using it for Spooks (MI5) - and the whole not being the image you are protecting.

But first I need to get my SmallFandomBigBang written.

[chamekke.livejournal.com]

As plot bunnies go, that's magnificent.

Good luck with your SmallFandomBigBang! What fandom are you writing in? *proffers a pompom waggle*

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Lewis - it's a casefic.