#mspca walk Prompt Call: "Companion Animals"

[dreamwriters]

This prompt call is officially OPEN!

It will run through Saturday September 7th @ 2PM EST.

I'm looking for prompts on the theme of "companion animals". This includes pets/companion animals, service/emotional support/therapy animals, and animals who serve as sidekick-companions.

Everyone who prompts will get one prompt filled free of charge in the form of either a ficlet (probably between 100-300 words) or a short poem (probably 5-10 lines). One prompt may be fanfiction in which case it will default as your freebie. You can find my fandoms linked to my AO3 account.

In lieu of tips, I'm taking donations to my page for the Walk for Animals which is next weekend September 8th. All donations go toward helping the MSPCA support its mission of advocating for animals in a variety of forms. Using the link above you can donate by card or paypal.

If you'd like to work out an alternate payment (i.e. cash or check), contact me back-channel via message or comment with a way to contact you, and I'll give you the address & information.

My donation goal for the session is $75.




Donations can be used to sponsor additional prompts or possibly add words or lines or some variation of a continuation of a work already posted.

If we meet session goal, I'll unlock a meta post to everyone. For the purposes of this, meta can be anything from a crowdsourced ask-the-author session to background information on one of the universes that appeared in this session to a playlist to collaborative adoption opportunities.

Linkbacks (of up to four unique services) will enter you into a drawing for an additional story which can be used either for this session or held as a coupon for the next session.

Comments

Prompts

[ysabetwordsmith]

* An unusual animal trained for handicap assistance. Could a dolphin navigate for a blind swimmer? Could a pot-bellied pig identify spoiled food for someone without a sense of smell?

* A mixed rescue team of humans and aliens trying to clear a collapsed building with a jumble of different search-and-rescue animals.

* An artificial intelligence secretly adopting abandoned "virtual pets."

I've boosted the signal on DW, LJ, and FB.

[perfectworry]

• magic animal familiars in contemporary settings
• dæmons (is that allowed in a crowdfunding thing?)

I really like this idea about doing a crowdfunded prompt call for a charity organization.

Prompts

[skjam]

Boosted on DW, LJ, FB & Twitter.

1. A companion animal for an intelligent animal (for example, a monkey for a species without thumbs.)

2. A non-magical companion animal in a fantasy setting, and why it might be a better choice than a magical one.

3. Companion animals in a furry setting. Does it ever seem creepy?

Prompts

[satinroseironthorns]

(Love the theme and the idea of a prompt fest for charity, especially the MSPCA.)

*A familiar for a magical person with a disability.

*A human and their companion animal have a supernatural bond.

[raze]

(Great idea for a fund raiser! I will have to examine my funds and see if I can kick something its way. Though, quick note from experience - people with working and service animals may be offended by them being generalized with companion animals, as there are some really significant differences in the way people and society relate to them, and the muddiness thereto creates a hell of a lot of problems for that community.)

Prompt:
A world where companion animals choose their humans rather than the other way around.

Not exactly a prompt…

[thnidu]

…but you can take them as such, or any of them. No offense if you don't. (Here via ysabetwordsmith.)

These are five entries from my blog that involve my cat Ista. The first of them is from about a month after I lost my wife.

advice from Little Bear Woman, 2011-11-11 10:48
I am not a Mobile, 2011-12-27 06:40
I don't understand his problem..., 2012-02-25 02:32
care is required, 2012-09-03 17:35
Old Faceful, 2013-05-19 18:21