Our new challenge is our fifty-fourth:

AMNESTY

During amnesty challenges, you can post works for any of the challenges we've had to date:

The Lost Hour, Triangle, Anywhere But Here, Stages, Five Things, Do-Over, Genre, Drag, Communication, Self-Portrait, Breakfast, Performance Anxiety, Double, Role Reversal, Win or Lose, Old Friends, Mythology, Wire, Cliché, Secrets, Borrowed Title, School, Ghosts and Gore, Warmth, Interruptions, Solitary, Apology, Season, Masks, Elusive or Ephemeral, Introductions, Diamonds and Pearls, The Other Side, Purgatory, Horoscope, Candles, Not What It Looks Like, Games, Comfort, Teaching, Technology, Dangling, Kids, Silver Lining, Stuck, Spicy, Bruise, Entertaining, Backward, Photo, Washing, Transformation, Trapped, Red, Teamwork, Z, Weather, Seven, Resolutions, History, Lost and Found, Telephone, Rough, Question, Revision, Jewelry, Element, Shinies, Flight, Fight, Drugs, Monsters, Health and Fitness, Hot Water, Family, Doorway, Puzzles, Enemies, Footwear, Exploration, Music, Sweet & Sour, Haunted, Choices, Mirror, Disaster, Contraband, Kindness, Sea Life, Burn, Fast-Forward, Fancy, Arithmetic, Stripes, Locked, Chemistry, Unidentified Object, Refusal, Wager, Punch, Midnight, Dancing, Flavor, United, Scales, The End of the World, Sleepless, Floating, Identity, Cake, Cheating, Date, Dirty, Hit the Wall, Air, Relative, Hand, Gift, Fortune, On the Outside, Memory, Metal, Voice, Up, One Night Only, Ink, Wish, Shot, Hide and Seek, Wolf, Rose, Whistle, Egg, Crack, Numbers, Suitcase, Ball, House, Honor/Honour, Step, Honey, Confession, Station, Keeping Score, Rock, Villain, Square, Naked, New, Dog, Lever, Party, Together, Apple, Mending, Paper, Shoulder, Rush, Pool, Abandon, Tree, Fast or Slow, Toes, Thief, Loud, Glass, Best, Disguise, Messenger, Pair, 24 Hours, Glue, Name, Check, Office, Rude, Drive, Ice, Murder, Stretch, Drinking Alone, Blanket, Slice, Fall, Diary, Breakdown, Butt, Hunt, Generosity, Ring, Witness, Truth or Dare, Language, On Top, Wave, Did What Where?, Ship, Prediction, Knock, Bar, Feed, Green, Eye, Never, Mountain, Variation, Customs, Book, Promise, Reflect, Key, Throw, Note, Restraint, Wings, Point, Light, Cave, Hungry, Magic, Shelter, Pin or Pen, Deal, Take the Wheel, Yarn, Shower, Heart, Law/Lore, It's a Trap!, Cloud, Advice, Cross, Street, Whisper, Match, Over/Under, Tomorrow, Decoration, Box, Cup, Spy, Background, Crush, Coincidence, Circle, Paint, Play, Sideways, Cat, Yesterday, Switch, Bloom, Gravity, Travel, Sharp, Moon, Jam, Safe, Tape, Duck, Rumour, Iron, Nightmare, Prize, Relief, Drop, Debt, Wrap, Roof, Squeak, Gold, Correct, Button

See this gdoc spreadsheet for a complete list of prompts (sheet 1 listed by date; sheet 2 alphabetical & linked)

Of course, you're always welcome to post multiple works to any challenge if you finish them before the challenge closes, but that isn't always possible. So dust off those unfinished works and half-formed ideas -- now is the time!

In amnesty rounds, please include the challenge you are posting for in the subject line of your post (eg, Truth or Dare: Leverage: Fanmix: Dark Side of the Moon).

Each work created for this challenge should be posted as a new entry to the comm. Posting starts now and continues up until the challenge ends at 4pm Pacific Time on Monday, March 1st. No sign-up required.

Mods will tag your work with fandom, media and challenge. When you've posted entries to three consecutive challenges, you will earn a name tag, and we'll go back and tag all your previous entries with your name.

All kinds of fanworks in all fandoms are welcome. Please have a look at our guidelines before you play. If you have any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to contact a mod. And if you have any suggestions for future challenges, you can leave them in the comments of this post.

Also, keep an eye out for the next ffw_social post, which will go up in the next couple of days. If you haven't joined the comm yet, it's never too late to come and check it out. (Remember, posts are locked, which means you have to join to see them.)

Finally, we have ELEVEN new badges, courtesy of our wonderful Badge Wrangler, teaotter!

First up, we're introducing silver and gold streak badges. Until now, if you accidentally or by necessity broke a streak, there was nothing to do but start again, and you couldn't apply for a streak badge until you'd surpassed your previous streak. These silver and gold badges are intended to fill that gap. You can only earn a silver version of a badge if you've already earned the regular one, and you can only earn the gold if you've already earned the silver. For example, if you have the 6 Challenge Streak, but not the 12 Challenge Streak, and you start again, you can work towards the 6 Challenge Streak (Silver) and then the regular 12 Challenge Streak.

We now have silver and gold badges for 6, 12 and 36 challenge steaks:



Note that these badges apply for current and future streaks only. (If you started a new streak a while back and are still going strong, you may be eligible for one or more of these right now.)

We've added three new long streak badges for 8, 9, and 10 years:

- The Indomitable (288 Challenge / 8 year Streak)

- The Resolute (324 Challenge / 9 year Streak)

- The Steadfast (360 Challenge / 10 year Streak)

And we've got two new badges for 500 and 600 Posted Works.



Check out the Badge post for details about these and our other badges.