srs2012 | Main Round 3 (Reply)

Do you hear the people sing?

Shippers, it is hard to express how proud we are of your perseverance. You have braved the storm of conflicting headcanon, and the doldrums of writer’s block; lost some of your fellow sailors to the tyranny of the waves; navigated between the Scylla of close deadlines and the Charybdis of exacting prompts. Stopped your ears against the siren call of digression and prolixity. You have contended with all manner of adversity in order to reach your chosen destination. And currently, your vessel winds its way towards the conclusion of your voyage.

We shall now reveal the third and final theme for main round.

Your theme is: revolution!

Now, this prompt is less specific than the preceding two, in order to give you the opportunity to choose your setting. It can be AU or canon. Conventional or avant-garde. Plot-filled or introspective. In short, it can be anything, so long as it in some way adheres to the given theme.

Likewise, you may choose to interpret ‘revolution’ as loosely or as literally as you wish. Perhaps you plan on treating us to a historical AU, in which Dean and Raphael fight side by side with Rosa Luxemburg as members of the Spartacus League in postwar Germany. Perhaps angelic politics have reached yet another impasse. Or, perhaps one of your characters has experienced an internal revolution, in which all their prior beliefs have been summarily reversed! The choice, as ever, is yours alone.

Entries can be produced by any team member or collaboratively between team members. Remember that Main Round entries can be in any media or combination of two media, but some media have length restrictions:

Written entries must be of length 1000-4000 words.
Graphical entries must be no longer than 10 images or panels.
Combination written and graphical entries must have 1000-4000 words and no more than 4 images or panels.

Images which contain text, such as speech bubbles or captions, should be followed by a transcription of that text, which counts towards the entry’s word count.

The submission deadline for this round is January 26 2013. A countdown to this deadline can be found here. Entries should be submitted in the same format as Main Round 1, to a comm which will be created closer to the deadline.

Important: Any work you produce for this prompt, whether or not it is chosen as your team’s entry, must be kept anonymous until the voting for this round has ended. An anonymous AO3 collection for this round will be created closer to the deadline.

People, good luck. It’s been a pleasure shipping with you.