Introducing MastoDrabble
@MastoDrabble is a fediverse fic challenge in the spirit of the 100 word drabble, but tailored for the 500 character limit of vanilla Mastodon (though all fedizens are welcome). Geared for fandom but any fic is welcome, as long as it is 500 characters or less.
Follow and mention the group to take part. Go ahead and converse in the group, and get started writing a #MastoDrabble!
One idea is to use a 'header' post for titles, hashtags, and the group mention, and reply to that post with your fic, allowing you the full 500 characters (unless your fic will require a CW, but that will be part of the challenge 😈).
The group is listed as 18+ / NSFW.
#MicroFiction and #TootFic already exist on the fediverse. Not trying to reinvent the wheel here, but I've never seen fandom content in those tags, and, you know, we fandom olds don't like to cross the streams.
Also, hashtags don't cover the entire fediverse. Groups, however, will deliver posts to whoever follows them.
So I've created the @[email protected] group to contain a 500 character fic challenge.
The challenge is to write a complete fic within the confines of the default 500 characters vanilla Mastodon provides.
This won't technically be a drabble - in fact, you'll be very lucky if you get 70 words out of it, which is why we're going for characters instead, and you've got up to 500 of them. No more, but you can have less. Glitch (and anyone on an instance with a larger character limit) users will obviously have to be careful not to go over.
Here is an idea for how it could work (and I invite alternative ideas):
Start with a 'header' post, and put the group tag and any hashtags you want in it, plus title, summary, warnings etc. CW if required.
Then reply to that header with your fic. CWs will be counted in your 500 characters so keep that in mind if your fic will require CWs. It's part of the challenge 😈
@MastoDrabble is managed by @[email protected]