Daily Prompt: April 1, 2021 (CLOSED)

[scarletcorvid]

 Prompt: April Fool's 

Word Count: 100 (minimum)
Points: 5
Bonus: 1000 words (10 points)
Due Date Saturday April 3, 2021

Note: I will be assigning teams shortly (I'm currently working.) I will make sure the points go in the right places. :) 

 

Comments

april fools day; baby sitters club; general audiences; concrit welcome

[mkrobinson]

“I don’t think this is a good idea,” Mary Anne cautioned Kristy and Claudia. She had a feeling that her admonitions would be ignored by the twosome, but still felt the need to press on. “Why do you want to switch the wires to Janine’s computer?”

Janine was Claudia’s older sister, and she was a bonafide, certified, genius. Mr. and Mrs. Kishi had gotten her a computer over the winter break, and Claudia had spent the entire time between then and now complaining about Janine’s use of it. Mary Anne wasn’t sure why. It wasn’t as if Claudia had ever wanted to hang out with Janine when she hadn’t had a computer.

Kristy gave her a knowing gaze. “Because, Mary Anne, it’s a joke.”

“Yeah,” Claudia chimed in. “It’s supposed to be funny. It’s April Fools Day. Janine will get a big kick out of it.”

Mary Anne scrunched up her nose in thought. She hated April Fools Day. Her dad had told her that pranking people was juvenile, and that what people thought would be amusing to them, often wasn’t amusing to others. In fact, he had explained to her that pranks were often cruel. Especially to the victim. Wasn’t Janine a victim?

“I don’t think it’s very funny,” she settled on. “Even though it’s April Fools Day.”

“Well,” Kristy said, after a moment. “We’re doing it. Whether you want to, or not.”

She really didn’t want to. “My dad will get mad at me,” she muttered. Her gaze cast to the ground. Kristy and Claudia would get mad at her too. Mary Anne’s dad, however, was more important. She didn’t want him to say she needed an afterschool sitter again. “I have to go home.”

Re: april fools day; baby sitters club; general audiences; concrit welcome

[aroberuka]

Nice! Mary Anne is me everytime April 1st rolls around xD Good on her for sticking with it too!

[larissabernstein]

Title: April Showers
Author/Team: T'Lara (Larissa Bernstein) / Team Rainbow Fish
Fandom/Original: Star Trek TOS
Rating: teen
Triggers: none
Summary: He was definitely not someone to exploit his privilege and excessively take advantage of luxuries only available to higher ranks in the chain of command, but sometimes, just sometimes, there were undeniable benefits to the accoutrements of captaincy, specifically of the captain’s quarters and the ensuite bathroom.
Link to the fic on AO3: April Showers
ConCrit: Always happy about comments/reviews, ideally on AO3.

[scarletcorvid]

Title: I Want To Believe: Fight The Paperwork
Author/Team: Scarlet Corvid/Team Mockingbird
Fandom/Original: The X-Files
Rating: PG
Triggers: No
Summary: Mulder wants to get out of paperwork as much as he wants to believe in the existence of aliens. That’s a bad combination for April 1st.
ConCrit: (Y/N) Yes

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30430116

[aroberuka]

Title: A Lasting Legacy
Author/Team: aroberuka / Team Mockingbird
Fandom/Original: The Untamed
Rating: G
Triggers: None
Summary: A few days after the Cold Pond Incident, Lan Qiren finds himself unexpectedly beardless, and Lan Xichen decides to cause problems on purpose.
ConCrit: N (pointing out typos/tense issues is always welcome tho!)

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Uncle sat with perfect composure, but no Lan could have failed to recognize the barely-contained indignation, ready to be unleashed on anyone foolish enough to comment on his freshly-shaven chin.

This was no laughing matter, and so Xichen, of course, did not laugh.

Still—he'd have to see, later, if young master Wei had a mind to hear more stories of his mother. After all, it was his duty as a senior to provide guidance to his juniors, and Xichen just so happened to remember a story about frogs in the dormitories that the young man would find particularly enlightening.

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