For the curious, the masochistically bored or the just plain wondering where your porn tree is...

I won't be able to run a challenge this month, as my health has recently gone downhill in a very big way and my calendar is now so full of doctor appointments that it's crying out for mercy. I'm really sorry about this - I wanted to open the challenge back up, I really did, but I'm just not going to have the time or energy for a while. $deity willing, however, I will be able to open it back up next month and then you can all porn away with impunity.

Hope to be back as soon as my health lets me!

I'm late, I'm sorry, real life caught up with me in a major, major way again. But now, the September 2011 challenge is officially over!

No master list this month, because nothing got written. Um, people. Am I doing something wrong here? Am I chasing you all off from wanting to write? Do you all just need a bigger break than I've been giving you? I promise I won't flip out on you or anything, but there's no way I can be aware of these things if nobody tells me. What's going on here?

Also, deviating from the six-weeks-on, two-weeks-off schedule the tree has been following, I'm going to at least postpone it until December, seeing as next month is NaNoWriMo. However, if everyone would rather I postpone it till January and restart it on the new year, I can do that too! Weigh in, if you would? I'd like to make this a friendly place for everyone to porn, and your input is very highly valued in doing such. ♥

Hope to see you all back next round!

Questions about this month's challenge? Suggestions? Etcetera? Leave them here, please!

I know, I'm a week late in getting this up. I'm so sorry, real life took over (family visiting, me fracturing an ankle, having an electrician in to fix some things, yada blah...) but it's slacking off now, so it's tree time! Mea culpa, mea culpa.

WARNING: This comm is anon-friendly, so viewer advisories and the like are turned off. However, you will likely find sexually explicit material here, and you may possibly find content that is disturbing or triggering in some fashion. Please turn back if you are not of age to view sexually explicit material and/or okay with the thought of maybe running across potentially disturbing things. We want the porn tree to be fun for everyone, not a horrific experience!

What we are doing here is a Prompt Tree Challenge. Any fandom is welcome, or for that matter things that aren't usually considered fandoms (historical figures, mythology, whatever you want - go for it! More power to you.) Gen and smut of any type are both welcome. Fanart is welcome, too - but if you post art, please link to it instead of posting it directly in the comments, and use appropriate warnings.

I'll go ahead and try to explain how this'll work. PLEASE READ THE INSTRUCTIONS even if you participated in previous challenges.

( How to tree! )

I'll leave a couple of prompts to start with so you get the general idea. If you're still confused, go ahead and ask questions here; I'll try to respond to them the best I can.

This challenge will run until October 21st, due to me being late getting this up. Let the September 2011 porn tree challenge begin! Happy porning!

I'm sorry I'm late, we've been dealing with a flooded basement and sick pets and life generally dumping crap on us - I've only snagged a bit of free time because it's almost 1 AM and it's my birthday, so I'm going to do this while I'm not running the risk of constantly being interrupted...

Today marks the end of the June 2011 porn tree challenge!

I'm sorry if you guys weren't able to get your prompts in even despite the extension. To that end, I'm going to ask that when the challenge reopens in September, please tell everyone you think might be interested in this challenge. Spread it around. Get more takers. Pimp it out to any fic challenge communities that'll let you do that sort of thing, if you want. More porn is always wonderful! ♥

And now, here's our master list!

( Master list )

If I made any mistakes, forgot anyone's fic or miscredited anyone, please tell me in the comments!

Sorry I'm so late with this reminder, I meant to do it at the beginning of the month but I was busy unpacking, ah-heh.

Anyway. There's only eight more days left to post your prompts, fic or art, everyone! And as I see we haven't had much participation this month either, I'd like to touch upon something I was tossing around when I opened this challenge (granted, it was just in case I was lacking internet in about eight days, but still.) Would you guys like me to go ahead and leave this round open until August? I certainly have no problems with doing so if that's what everyone wants, more time to porn is always great!

Best of luck, now! Let the porn flow! (My but that sounded dirty...)

Questions about this month's challenge? Suggestions? Etcetera? Leave them here, please!

Sorry I'm a little late with getting this up...I'm going to be moving soon, so things are a bit busy.

But it's time for another porn tree challenge!

WARNING: This comm is anon-friendly, so viewer advisories and the like are turned off. However, you will likely find sexually explicit material here, and you may possibly find content that is disturbing or triggering in some fashion. Please turn back if you are not of age to view sexually explicit material and/or okay with the thought of maybe running across potentially disturbing things. We want the porn tree to be fun for everyone, not a horrific experience!

What we are doing here is a Prompt Tree Challenge. Any fandom is welcome, or for that matter things that aren't usually considered fandoms (historical figures, mythology, whatever you want - go for it! More power to you.) Gen and smut of any type are both welcome. Fanart is welcome, too - but if you post art, please link to it instead of posting it directly in the comments, and use appropriate warnings.

I'll go ahead and try to explain how this'll work. PLEASE READ THE INSTRUCTIONS even if you participated in previous challenges.

( How to tree! )

I'll leave a prompt or two to start with so you get the general idea. If you're still confused, go ahead and ask questions here; I'll try to respond to them the best I can.

This challenge will run until July 15th, provided I have internet access then. (If not, it may well run till August!) August 1st, due to extension request. Let the June 2011 porn tree challenge begin! Happy porning!

And here's our master list. As usual, if I missed anyone's fic or miscredited someone, let me know in the comments, please!

( Master list )

Well, since no one weighed in on extensions or the like - I'm going to assume not many people saw this month's challenge, which is alright, there's always next time--

As of now, the April 2011 porn tree challenge is officially over.

I'll have the master list up...uh...very soon. In the next half hour, probably. Stay tuned for that.

I hope more people come out to play for the next challenge! ♥

It seems we have a remarkably tiny turnout this month, and only one week remaining.

Therefore, I have a question!

Would you guys like me to extend the challenge? End of May? Middle of June? Or should I cancel it and restart it next month? Or even something else? Weigh in! Let me know. I'm flexible.

Questions about this month's challenge? Suggestions? Etcetera? Leave them here, please!

(I'm starting this a day early because, well, tomorrow is April Fool's, and that never quite occurred to me when I was plotting the challenge - but no mind...)

It's time for another porn tree challenge!

WARNING: This comm is anon-friendly, so viewer advisories and the like are turned off. However, you will likely find sexually explicit material here, and you may possibly find content that is disturbing or triggering in some fashion. Please turn back if you are not of age to view sexually explicit material and/or okay with the thought of maybe running across potentially disturbing things. We want the porn tree to be fun for everyone, not a horrific experience!

What we are doing here is a Prompt Tree Challenge. Any fandom is welcome, or for that matter things that aren't usually considered fandoms (historical figures, mythology, whatever you want - go for it! More power to you.) Gen and smut of any type are both welcome. Fanart is welcome, too - but if you post art, please link to it instead of posting it directly in the comments, and use appropriate warnings.

I'll go ahead and try to explain how this'll work. PLEASE READ THE INSTRUCTIONS even if you participated in previous challenges; I've implemented a few more tiny changes.

( How to tree! )

I'll leave a couple of prompts to start with so you get the general idea. If you're still confused, go ahead and ask questions here; I'll try to respond to them the best I can.

This challenge will run until May 15th. Let the April 2011 porn tree challenge begin, if a bit early! Happy porning!

Here's our master list for this round. If I missed anyone's fic or miscredited someone, let me know in the comments, please!

( Master list )

I'm a bit late, I know, I apologize--

But the January 2011 Porn Tree Challenge is, as of now, over and closed!

I will still accept submissions up until ten after the hour (and yes, I will be checking timestamps!), but no later, and I'll have the master list up later today.

I hope you enjoyed the porn tree this month, and that I see you all back in April!

...And about that...since no one weighed in on the previous question post about scheduling, I've decided it'll be simpler (since the porn tree is still fairly small) to run a month-and-a-half challenge, with two weeks after every challenge to gather prompts and post the master list. (This will mean the next challenge will run all of April and half of May, then I'll take the second half of May to gather prompts, rinse and repeat afterward.) If anyone has any complaints about this, please do feel free to tell me.

Thank you all for your participation! ♥

Hello everyone!

Just reminding you all that you have until February 28th to get your prompts and stories in. That's two more weeks. The challenge will officially close at midnight on March 1st, Central Standard Time, but I'm not going to yell if you post a story up to about ten minutes after (to allow for time discrepancies and the like.) Make sure to get those posts made if you're still planning on participating!

I'm also thinking that I'm going to take the porn tree to an every-other-month schedule now - we'll have March off so I can gather the filled prompts and make the master list, launch a new challenge in April, have May off to compile the list...etc etc. Alternately, if everyone would prefer a bit more time to write, I can make the challenges run for a month and a half and use the last two weeks of every other month for compiling the list (that is, let the next challenge run all of April and the first two weeks of May, then take the last two weeks of May for compilation.) Or heck, I'm open to suggestions. What would you guys prefer?

Okay, so as we all know, there are some DAMN HUGE video game series...es...es...out there. The Phantasy Star franchise, the .hack franchise, the Final Fantasy franchise, etcetera. It gets a little too confusing to lump these all together under one "(name) series" heading, and so after talking it out a bit with branewurms, I think we've come up with a viable idea for preventing all of this from getting lumped together.

This is where you, o faithful writers, come into the picture. I'll explain the two choices we're kicking around, and you'll vote for one or the other, to be implemented next round. Also feel free to offer suggestions if you like!

Option 1: A separate top-level comment for each game in the series. Example: one comment for Final Fantasy IV, one for Final Fantasy VII, one for Final Fantasy XIII...you get the point. Advantage: each game is kept neatly separate. Disadvantage: mess of different top-level comments for what's basically the same thing*, especially if the franchise is HUGE.

Option 2: One single top-level comment for the entire series, with subheadings (second-level comments) for each game in the series. Example: one comment titled "Phantasy Star series", and then underneath that comment, leave second-level comments naming each game - Phantasy Star IV, Phantasy Star Portable, etcetera. It's basically Option 1 with the addition of a single heading that brings the whole series together. Advantage: groups all the games in the series together, but still keeps them separate. Disadvantage: might be rather confusing, and some of us would probably forget to do it.

So, which would you guys rather have done? And if I haven't made something clear, do feel free to ask. God knows my mind isn't the sharpest tack in the box today.

(* cypher made a very good point - I phrased this rather badly. Not all games within a franchise tend to be the same, set in the same world and with the same characters and all; it was more of a blanket statement, when I know damn well that the most that games within a franchise tend to share is a similar bit of title. My sincerest apologies - I didn't mean to confuse anyone!)

Questions about this month's challenge? Suggestions? Etcetera? Leave them here, please!

Hello, folks! I'm merikuru; I'll be taking over for the lovely branewurms in setting up these prompt challenges for the next $timeperiod.

WARNING: This comm is anon-friendly, so viewer advisories and the like are turned off. However, you will likely find sexually explicit material here, and you may possibly find content that is disturbing or triggering in some fashion. Please turn back if you are not of age to view sexually explicit material and/or okay with the thought of maybe running across potentially disturbing things. We want the porn tree to be fun for everyone, not a horrific experience!

What we are doing here is a Prompt Tree Challenge. Any fandom is welcome, or for that matter things that aren't usually considered fandoms (historical figures, mythology, whatever you want - go for it! More power to you.) Gen and smut of any type are both welcome. Fanart is welcome, too - but if you post art, please link to it instead of posting it directly in the comments, and use appropriate warnings.

I'll go ahead and try to explain how this'll work. PLEASE READ THE INSTRUCTIONS even if you participated in previous challenges - things have changed around a little bit since, and it's been a while, so it's likely a good idea to re-familiarize yourself with the rules.

( How to tree! )

I'll leave a couple of prompts to start with so you get the general idea. If you're still confused, go ahead and ask questions here; I'll try to respond to them the best I can.

This challenge will run until the end of February. That gives you guys a bit over a month to get to writing, but I'll certainly extend it if there aren't many takers and/or people request me to do so. So, let the January 2011 porn tree challenge...BEGIN! *fires off noisemaker*

Alrighty, challenge post is closed! I left it open even longer than I said, but we still didn't get much. Oh well, I suppose everyone was busy with getting back to school and such.

( And here's our master list of fic... )

Please let me know if I left any out, screwed up any links or names, etc.!