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Here are the prompts for [community profile] no_true_pair's 2026 Four-Character Mini-Challenge, along with the dates for posting!

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The prompts use numbers so that you can find/replace from your list(s).

2026 Four-Character Mini-Challenge Prompts! )

Feel free to share your favorite combos in the comments!

There are no set minimums for works, and while [community profile] no_true_pair has traditionally been fic/art, if you're inspired to work in another medium, go ahead! Works can be romantic or platonic or the space in-between. The prompts are for inspiration; you don't need to justify how you got from the prompt to the finished product and interpretation is up to you. ^_^
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Happy Saturday!

I'm going to be doing a little maintenance today. It will likely cause a tiny interruption of service (specifically for www.dreamwidth.org) on the order of 2-3 minutes while some settings propagate. If you're on a journal page, that should still work throughout!

If it doesn't work, the rollback plan is pretty quick, I'm just toggling a setting on how traffic gets to the site. I'll update this post if something goes wrong, but don't anticipate any interruption to be longer than 10 minutes even in a rollback situation.

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Me, unmedicated: Blurgh, I don't want to do the thing
Still me, still unmedicated: *struggles to force myself to even START doing the thing*
Me: why can't I do the thiiiiiiiiiing aughhhhhhhhh
If Me manages to start the thing...
Me: *feeling physical and mental and emotional anguish and pain while doing the thing, thereby making it go by even slower* auughhhHHHHHH

Me, yesterday: Blurgh, I don't want to do the thing
Still me, but medicated: *procrastinates a bit, but still starts the thing eventually*
Me, doing the thing: blurghhhh I don't wanna be doing this right now blurghhhhh but I'm doing it (even though I still have to finish it tomorrow)

Me, today, medicated: blurghhhhh I still don't wanna do the thing
Me, poking around the internet for a bit, trying to work up the motivation to work: blurghhhhhh I still don't wanna do the thing but I'm starting to feel like it a little bit just by moving around, I guess I gotta do it aughhhh

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Seriously, the concept of "I don't want to do the thing, but I can still do it" is so foreign to me. What do you mean you can still do it? Even if you don't wanna? And it doesn't feel like pulling teeth, just feeling lazy and unmotivated but still doing it? What? What?