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Tiny promptfic fest
It feels like everybody I know is working their butts off on some huge ficathon or other and feeling that mid-huge-project itch. This is just a little party to leave prompts, request fic, write stuff, and roll around and squee without it needing to be super polished and without having to attach your name to it.
I also want to nod to OMGCP Heartbreak Fest, which is taking prompts right now. We don't want to steal from their pool of prompts, but if you come up with a really juicy angsty prompt, consider dropping it there instead!
In case no one's ever done this before:
I also want to nod to OMGCP Heartbreak Fest, which is taking prompts right now. We don't want to steal from their pool of prompts, but if you come up with a really juicy angsty prompt, consider dropping it there instead!
In case no one's ever done this before:
- Prompts should be OMGCP-centered. They don't need to feature Kent Parson, but they can't bash him. (Acknowledging his character flaws is different than bashing him)
- Post prompts as replies to this post. The subject line should follow the format: Character/character, brief prompt. You can expand on the prompt (please less than 300 words) in the comment itself.
- Post prompt fills as replies to that comment. Fills can be anything--fic, art, meta, filk, fanmixes, moodboards, fiber arts, you name it. Please link to NSFW images or videos instead of embedding them.
- Do not hijack a prompt. Please post your own if something within a prompt inspires you in a different direction
- Multiple people can fill a prompt. You can fill your own prompt. You can post your fills wherever you want. You can do this anonymously or under your own name.
- This is a kink-friendly, non-judgmental, Parse-positive space, and it's actively moderated so don't be an ass.
- Please warn for for common triggers or squicks (RPF, NSFW, noncon, dubcon, character death, underage--comment if there's something you want added to this list) or include "Choose Not to Warn" in your comment subject.
Parse/happy & healthy; Kent post-retirement
Re: Parse/happy & healthy; Kent post-retirement
What isn’t easy is finding things to do with all this time off. Kent’s used to summers being his down time so his first summer of retirement, he’s happy to stay in the same city as his mom and sister after he brings the cup home for his last cup day as a player. He bums around on his sister’s couch, ignoring the fact that he has his own apartment in New York, making her dinner in exchange for annoying her, or so she says, and Kit chewing up the toe of every right shoe in the apartment.
When he’s feeling particularly adventurous, he picks out his favourite snapback and walks the streets, braving the summer tourists to visit those places with crazy milkshakes, or icecreams, or fully loaded tater tot nachos that Buzzfeed recommends but was never on his approved food list. He takes selfies with everything, eyes crossed usually and something almost always on his shirt, to send to Swoops, who’s still got a diet plan to stick to to match the new letter on his jersey. Swoops makes him rank his favourites for when he’s able to break his diet.
But then summer ends and it’s time for training camp. Except, Kent’s not going to training camp. He debates going back to Vegas, but in the end decides to spend a little more time at home. The need to get on the ice with his boys is so strong that he’d think he’d embarrassingly end up driving to camp if he was in the same city. So he stays. His list of places to takes Swoops keeps getting longer.
Kent’s looking for the best hot dog in New York when he ends up at a Mets game. Someone on the internet must’ve been having a laugh because they recommend Citi Field as the place to go, and Kent’s retired you see, so he doesn’t have anything better to do. He gets in line at the box office 15 minutes before the game’s supposed to start, getting a relatively cheap ticket behind third base. It doesn’t matter though; he’s much more concerned with where the food stand is, or if the hot dog will be better if it’s served by the person walking up and down the stairs, than his view of the field.
That was a mistake.
From the first pitch Kent gets sucked in. Sitting next to him is an elderly couple, season ticket holders since 1982 they proudly tell him. She’s got a score card and a tiny nub of a pencil tucked into the band of her visor. He’s got the statistics of every of the players on the field with a blue, white, and orange jersey and lists them off to Kent as easy as if he was talking about the weather.
New York’s best hot dog gets forgotten in exchange for a crash course in American baseball. He asks stupid questions if Alan is to be believed, but Janice is patient when she explains how runs work, how to keep score. The game is over before Kent has a good grasp of what an error is or if how interference works (he keeps getting stuck on the hockey definition but the baseball players aren’t wearing nearly enough padding by hockey standards for it to be the same) but he goes right back to the box office to buy out the season’s tickets for the seat.
Janice and Alan are incredibly pleased to see Kent in his seat at the next home game, three hot dogs with everything balanced carefully on his lap. Janice even gives him the scorecard and pencil, and though his lap is full of eraser bits by the end of the fifth inning, he’s learning.
(this continues with Kent having a really good head for statistics and ending up as one of the best mlb scouts because his ability to read a college player's stats and predict what they can do and because of his own experiences in professional sports. his players are some of the best, and happiest, in the league cause he knows how to take care of young developing athletes (again from his own experience in pro sports))
Re: Parse/happy & healthy; Kent post-retirement
Re: Parse/happy & healthy; Kent post-retirement
Re: Parse/happy & healthy; Kent post-retirement
Re: Parse/happy & healthy; Kent post-retirement