Happy Holidays, everyone! Here is the working Master List for the Megamind Advent Calendar Challenge!
Since most people who voted in the
poll seemed to favor all prompts being free for the taking, that is how we will organize the challenge this year. (If things work out well, we may be able to make some alterations next time we do something like this.) This means there will be no need to "call dibs" on any particular prompt (which, admittedly, is easier on me!). However, it also means that there may not be a guaranteed posting for every day in December. I really hope that we get enough participation to at least get close, though!
Posting Rules for the "Advent Calendar Challenge"
- Prompts are up for the taking by anyone. (We might get two or three for the same prompt, or we could get none at all.)
- Prompts are there as suggestions. Some may be more specific than others, but there are no set-in-stone rules to follow. Fill them however you are inspired to!
- Postings will range from December 1 through December 24. Please try to post your submission on the set day, since that will spread all the goodies throughout the entire challenge. (But we're easy-going here, so it's okay to be a little off.)
- You can post your entry directly to the comm, or post a link to your own journal/DA account/tumblr/blog/ff.net account/etc.
- I will un-screen the
prompt post closer to the deadline so you can see who you have created your fanwork for!
- A warning: some prompts are (or could potentially be) NSFW. (I've placed those around the weekends!) ;D
- And, most importantly . . . HAVE FUN!!!
Megamind Holiday Advent Calendar
December 1
- Character: Roxanne, Quote: "That was unexpected." Prompt: a snow globe
- Art: Christmas tree of Evil. Complete with an evil angel on top from evil heaven.
- Megamind's first Christmas.
- Tricking Roxanne into marrying the villain.
- Art: Kid Megamind making inventions of minor destruction.
- Fan art: Megamind and Roxanne enjoying each other's company over a nice cup of hot cocoa
- Megamind sucking on a candy cane suggestively to tease Roxanne.
- Megamind trivia
December 2
- Art: Music Man on-stage
- Create a fanmix for one or more characters. What's on their playlists?
- Fan art: Megamind, Roxanne, and Minion making snow angels
- Megamind offers to help Roxanne clean up her apartment after the movie's events, and does much of it by hand himself, despite typically making the brainbots do everything. Roxanne notices and gives him a reward~ (potentially NSFW?)
- Art: Vice. Just... something with Vice.
- Contrary to general wisdom, Megamind was not a virgin when he met Roxanne. Write about the circumstances surrounding his actual first time. Dirty, sweet, gay, straight, willing, unwilling, whatever you want. (Bonus points for tying it into explaining it to Roxanne later when they're finally together.)
December 3 (Angst Day!)
- Art: Wayne Scott's lonely Christmas. Sitting next to a bachelor's Christmas tree looking sad and drinking a beer or something. Make it pitiful.
- Scenes from "Evil Heaven"
- Megamind: Overlord of the Underworld. Scenes of Megamind being very, very competent as he controls those who exist in the shadows and on the margins. Blackmail, protection rackets, drugs, prostitution, assassination. Whatever seems appropriate. He was the city's Supervillain.
- Dark, Dark, Depressing... The death of a blue world. Describe what Megamind and Minion escaped from. What exactly happened after they left?
- The first time Megamind was responsible for someone's death (not the movie "death" of Metro Man).
- Sad, sad... One of Megamind's brainbots turns vicious and he has to put it down.
- Metro Man is responsible, accidentally, for someone's death. He goes to Megamind to talk about it.
- Funeral scene with Wayne Scott's family and Roxanne who think he's dead.
- Little Megamind is getting older. He's becoming a young man now and it's time his uncles have "the talk" with him. No, not the sex talk. He figured that out pretty quickly from textbooks, TV, and his uncles' dirty magazines. This is the talk about being a colored boy.
- Villain Megamind sits outside Roxanne's home one night, watching her. Just watching and wishing, so bad, that he could just go in and tell her how he feels about her. And that everything would be okay. That she'd let him in. Let him stay. As if he were normal. What he wouldn't give to be normal...
December 4
- Megamind Drinking Game
- Minion finds a girlfriend. (girlfish?)
- Art: Roxanne in a sexy Christmas Dress tied to the kidnapping chair with a gift bow stuck on her head. Minion saying, "Merry Christmas, Sir." Megamind either in-scene or represented only by a silhouette as he stands off-stage.
- Fan art: Megamind, Roxanne, and Minion building snowmen
- Minion gets sick and Megamind has to take care of him instead of the other way round.
- Fanart: dani_kin's "Father's and Son's" Warden sleeping on his couch in his office w/ Baby Megamind's blanket
December 5
- Art: Minion swimming in the lake. Roxanne swimming behind with a mermaid tail. Megamind behind, also with a mermaid tail. But instead of swimming along happily, he's yelling at the illustrator for drawing him with a mermaid tail. "I am NOT a mermaid!" (Make his speech bubble a merging of the way the comic books do Minion's speech bubbles and the way it does his. Like, white text on a black speech bubble, but with minion's air bubbles around it.)
- Character: Hal, Quote: "The devil you know. . .", Prompt: a camera
- Fan art: Music Man/Metro Man giving a gift to Megamind
- food fight!
- You are SUCH an alien. Something weird that Megamind does because ... alien!
- Art: Hero!Megamind in white hauling Evil!MetroMan in black back to prison by the collar. Can be a dream.
December 6
- a Megamind LJ mood theme
- Vanity plates for the Megamind characters
- Art: Megamind and Minion fly a kite at a Metro City Kite Festival in the park.
- Evil Megamind, just to show off how smart he is and because he's bored, sends a science journal the correct unified field theory he's figured out, with all the associated proofs. Under his own name, as a lark. He kind of forgets about it, busy as he is with prison breaks, kidnappings, and murder attempts. So, he's shocked when he finds out he's won the Nobel Prize for Physics. While he's still evil! Worse than that, it spurs all kinds of advances in physics and... I don't know... sciencey stuff. Evil Megamind has accidentally started a scientific revolution that has bettered mankind! What will this do to his reputation?!?
- Fan art: Megamind, Roxanne, Minion, and Music Man Christmas caroling
- Fill in the Blank (Fic or Art): Events leading up to the fire truck in the side of the building
December 7 (Crossover Day!)
- In addition to the specific challenges, anyone may post crossover material today!
- Dr Horrible-crossover-picture: Megamind wearing a Bad Horse Shirt, fanboy-like. (Some t-shirt samples
here and
here for inspiration.)
- Art: A Batman-style "Pow!", "Smack!", "Zap!" kind of comic book page featuring Megamind and Minion fighting some bad guys
- Megamind applies for entrance into the Evil League of Evil and corresponds with Bad Horse.
- Art: Megamind dressed as Santa.
- Crossover fanfic: Megamind x The Grinch Who Stole Christmas
- What if, after over indulging of holiday cheer and one too many related movie, a main character (your choice) dreams that they're in one of those movies (again, your choice). You can use whatever Megaverse characters you'd like, and you need not follow the dream version movie to the letter, i.e. George Bailey never had Zuzu's petals in his coat pocket. Be creative, have some fun with it!
- A small fanfiction: A crossover between Megamind and Doctor Who
December 8
- Art: A nativity scene with blue, Megamind people.
- Infuse Roxanne with Metro Man's superpowers!
- Infuse Roxanne with Megamind's super-genius (transform her into a blue, big-headed, bald woman).
- Megamind and Minion discover Minion is actually a female fish, despite raising him as an assumed male. Neither of them realized, as Minion is an alien species with strange anatomy. (I would suggest handling this one with some understanding of trans issues, as it wouldn't be good to upset anyone with stereotyping or joking the wrong way.)
- Fic: Hal gets a comment on his largely ignored blog from someone who claims they work with him and have a crush on him. He assumes the link was broken after ending up at the spam site, and then spends the next day assuming Roxanne sent it. Her efforts to convince him otherwise make him think she's playing hard-to-get, and she ends up just asking Minion to blast him with the amnesia spray before her next kidnapping.
December 9
- Character: Minion, Prompt: Ring-around-the-rosy
- Art: Metro Man asleep in bed with Scarlet draped over him and Vice standing there slack-jawed and hurt.
- A good old fashioned bank robbery
- AMV: Megamind x Metro Man "Call Me Maybe"
- Man of Steel, Woman of Tissue: What horrible thing happened when Wayne lost his virginity? And how did that scar him and shape him into the man he became?
December 10
- a picture from a scene in any of Mia Vaan's fics; especially either 'Knocked Up' or 'True Beauty'.
- Metro Man decides heroes are supposed to have a sidekick. (And maybe even a
battle cry!)
- Art: Megamind surrounded by a crowd of kids, all hugging his legs and he just doesn't know what to do.
- Letters to Metro Man. What children ask their hero. "What happens if you have to pee while you're in super speed?" "Can you look through your own eyelids?" "Are you really wearing your underpants over your tights?" "Is your hair invulnerable? How do you cut it?" And include his answers!
December 11
- How did Megs' parents meet?
- A complete prison escape scene from back when Megamind was evil. Something convoluted and tricksy.
- Minion takes karate/yoga/some kind of exercise class
- Fan art: Megamind giving a gift to Music Man/Metro Man
- Art prompt: Megamind with a light sword
- Character: Megamind, Quote: "This is getting ridiculous." Prompt: pronunciation
December 12
- Megamind and Roxanne walking along the sidewalk window-shopping among Christmas decorated storefronts. Make them both bundled up against the cold. Megamind must have a giant, ridiculous-looking, wooly hat.
- Fill in the Blank (fic or art): Minion goes to the motel.
- Fan art: Megamind receiving a gift from Roxanne
- Growing up in prison: Scenes of life on the inside for a little blue boy.
- A day in the life of a brainbot.
- What was the Destructosaur?
December 13
- Drabble Day! (In addition to the specific challenges, anyone may post a 100-word drabble!)
- Art: Minion quivering in terror from a tiny kitty cat.
- Evil Megamind invents a blizzard machine in an attempt to defeat Metro Man once again!
- Fan art: Megamind attempting to make/invent Christmas gifts (possible explosion? ;P)
- Have someone from PETA try to kidnap Minion and liberate him from a life of slavery under his master Megamind.
- Megamind and Metro Man - "The night is young and we have umbrellas in our drinks!"
December 14
- A fanfiction or a picture of Megamind with an evil duck called Dino,
which accidentally looks similar to this one.
- Art: Michaelangelo's Creation of Adam. The one where Adam's reaching a finger up to God's hand? Do this only make Adam into Megamind and God into Metro Man.
- Anything with Wayne and that belt sander
- Describe a time when Megamind, pre-movie, had to call for help from Metro Man.
- Fill in the Blank (fic or art): Megamind's walk back to the lair in the rain
December 15
- Some art work with Megs and Rox kissing under the mistletoe. Might be cute if a brainbot was holding the mistletoe.
- Megamind has a bad dream and seeks comfort. Either from Minion pre-movie, or Roxanne post-movie.
- Fan art: Minion baking Christmas cookies
- Metro Man jerks off with Megamind's cape
- Alternatively, Megamind jerks off with Metro Man's cape
- AMV: Megamind and Ensemble are, "Sexy, Naughty, Bitchy Me"
December 16
- Fan art: Megamind receiving a gift from Minion
- Pre- or -post movie: includes an element of Megs/Roxanne, banter, and a mix-up
- Minion is venomous. He bites Wayne and it actually gets through! And poisons him!
- In shool, the teacher asks the students to write about what they want to be when they grow up and why. This is before Megamind decides he's destined to be a supervillain. What will he tell the class? Also, what does Wayne want to be?
- Megamind trying to run away from his own fangirls.
December 17
- some Megs/Roxanne pre-movie UST
- Fanfic that explains
this picture - Music Man auditions for American Idol. Preferably with lyrics for "I have eyes that can see, right through le-e-ead."
- Fan art: Megamind attempting to decorate a tree or the evil/ex-evil lair for Christmas
- Fill in the Blank (fic or art): Roxanne contemplates Bernard
- a comedy of errors!
December 18
- Art: Zombie Megamind / Zombie Minion / Well, Zombie Anyone, really
- Scenes from Little Gifted School. What happened in the days not shown in the movie between Megamind's first day and his last?
- Pirate AU
- Megamind lays an egg. (Make Dal Niente write it.) ;)
- A character envisioning his/her future (canon-compliant)
December 19
- Icons with cool cropping and/or use of brushes/effects
- Fan art: Roxanne receiving a gift from Minion
- Art: Restaurant scene, but this time with Megamind undisguised. Have fun with the expressions of the crowd at the tables around them.
- Something with Space Dad and Space step-mom and Hal during his training.
- Megamind and/or Roxanne see a therapist.
December 20
- Megamind meets the family! When Roxanne brings Megamind home for Christmas.
- High school-aged Megamind and Metro Man are competing for the Student of the Year Award. Wayne wants it to impress his Dad, and Megamind is in it to get some respect. (Megamind x Metro Man friendship)
- Megamind gets injured in battle and is bleeding. He's afraid of doctors, so Roxanne takes him home (Apt or Lair) and nurses him back to health herself.
- Megamind "fixes" or "improves" something belonging to Roxanne - either to her chagrin or to her delight! You choose!
December 21
- Doom Syndicate Day! - In addition to the specific challenges, anyone may post something relating to the Doom Syndicate!
- Art: Space Dad meets Hot Flash. She, of course, doesn't know who he is and he's all like, "Errr....". Maybe space step-mom can tap her on the shoulder and tell her he's taken or something. :)
- Art: Hal Stuart in Megamind's jail cell.
- We are somewhat familiar with other members of Metrocity's criminal society, (i.e. the Doom Syndicate) but who might some of the other heroes be?
- Dark thoughts. Roxanne is going through a tough time in her life and keeping up the pretense of dating Wayne and being the perfect local celebrity it taking its toll. Sometimes she is really, really tempted to throw it all away for the chance to cause some mindless destruction. Being good is supposed to make you happy. Why is it she's so miserable? But, is the life of a supervillain really all that bad? Megamind is living completely outside of society and he always seems so happy.
December 22
- a 100-word drabble inspired by
this picture - Kid Megamind is kidnapped by unethical government scientists and taken to Nevada for research. How does he get back to Minion and Metrocity?
- Megamind makes a sex robot to f#%* him.
- One of my all-time favorite themes in fiction is redemption. (Which is probably why I loved the movie so much!) Please write a story of redemption! It can be for any character, for any reason, pre- or post-film, long and plotty, or short and sweet . . . but please, redeem someone!
December 23
- Metro Man and Megamind - "Best of . . ." banter!
- Fan art: Roxanne receiving a gift from Megamind
- A video using movie clips and Adam Sandler's "
Santa Song (Santa Doesn't Like Bad Boys)"
- Plot twist: Roxanne's parents actually LIKE Megamind and accept him. Maybe reluctantly at first.
- Megamind and Roxanne talking dirty to each other for the first time. Bonus if its after the movie's events, and includes a lot of blushing and giggling. OR phone sex.
December 24
- Loose-Ends Day - Is there anything you've been working on but haven't completed? Is there something you've been wanting to do but haven't gotten around to it yet? (A fic? A vid? A piece of art you've wanted to do?) Finish it up, polish it off, and post it today!
- Art: Megamind, Minion, and Roxanne sitting under the Christmas tree exchanging gifts
- Roxanne can't sleep, so she goes out into the lair and finds Megamind doing something she never would have expected! *gasp*
- Megamind and Warden fluff. Father/Son after-movie fluff. Megamind needs a father figure...!
- Megamind, the villain, leaves an unsigned Christmas gift wrapped in blue and black on the balcony for Roxanne. What is it? How does she react?
And, of course, once all that holiday eggnog has been drunk, there's also the . . .
Holiday After-Party! - Begins January 2
Sometimes people can't make the official deadline, especially around the busy holiday season. So, naturally there's a holiday after-party! Which means -
A) If a prompt has not been filled that looks intriguing . . .
or
B) If a prompt already has been filled, but you're still dying to do it . . .
Start posting them here! The Megamind Holiday After-Party runs until . . . whenever! :D
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