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prisca made a new multi-medium challenge comm for short fanworks and icons!




sweetandshort is a low-pressure community for creating small fanworks / original works each week.

All fandoms, genres, and ratings are welcome.

Allowed are fics up to 300 words, small poems like haiku or tanka, icons (100x100 px), and small banners up to 200x400 px as long as it is not mentioned otherwise in the challenge rules.

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The monthly schedule will look like this:
1. Monthly prompts 10:20
This challenge will run until the end of the month.

8. Comments Quicky
This challenge will run for one week.

15. Picture Prompt Fun
This challenge will run until the end of the month.

22. Mini Bingo (4 prompts only)
This challenge will run for one week.

29. Amnesty Days for the rest of the month.

Go here to find out more about the challenges.

this banner features an icon by abyss_valkyrie

We have six makers signed up! Thank you all! <3

Here are some of their icons (those who took part in bestof_icons, I took from there, the rest I just chose on my own). Let their styles inspire you to ask them some questions! Or you can simply enjoy the pretty:



aurora_amethyst (ask them in their thread here)




tinny (ask in this thread here)




applepips (ask them in their thread here)




aeriiths (ask them in their thread here)




goodbyebird (ask them in their thread here)




novindalf (ask them in their thread here)





You can of course also still sign up or ask questions of the community as a whole:

https://icontalking.dreamwidth.org/64357.html

With the recent insecurity surrounding LJ's continued accessibility, some comms have moved/are moving/will move to DW. The ones I'm aware of are:



stocklove_ic cross-posted from LJ, participation on both sides


somein30 moving in May, participation will probably remain possible on both sides


your_favourites moved to DW this week, participation now only on DW




P.S: ...and nexticon hasn't seen any entries since February, if anyone feels like getting it unstuck?

I've been busy and haven't had the time to close the current round or start a new one. I will do so as soon as time permits. In the meantime, you can always check out our list of current challenges:

List of current challenges running on DW

List of current challenges running on LJ

I update both lists in the first week of every month. They are sticky at the top of the comm and can also be reached in the tag https://icontalking.dreamwidth.org/tag/current+challenges.

Here are two recs for current challenges on LJ, monthlyinspo and somein30:



Vogue - Show fashion on your icons
https://monthlyinspo.livejournal.com/159130.html


Icon Crossing - Remake some of your old icons into new ones, jsfunction will choose them for you
https://somein30.livejournal.com/90188.html


I know somein30 allows participation without an LJ account, monthlyinspo might too (feel free to ask the mod).

Far be it from me to create more work for jsfunction, but ... wow. This month's challenge at somein30 is the most amazing thing I have ever seen:



somein30




My weekend was a bit busy... and there are already two color challenges running at iconbattles, so I need to come up with another challenge for our comm. I hope to have it up before Friday. <3