#sfwc 2025

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Season 2025/26

The drafts for the 2025/26 calenders are already out and there are a few very interesting things about them:

In the summer Grand Prix 2025 Kazakhstan is back! Two competitions for the men in August

Also the first competition on the new hill in Val die Fiemme is also during the SG for the men and women (if they are ready in time)

The first part of the World Cup schedule is nearly identical for the men and women, which was mentioned as an goal during the FIS meeting in May (the end goal being just having one schedule for both)

Falun is on the calender for the men and women, but the certificate is expired for a mens WC competition so hopefully they are able to renew it in time

29./30.11 are on the calender but still open for the women. The men are in Ruka during that time, maybe they will join them

Lake Placid is moved to the first part of the season in early December for the men and women

Womens competitions in GaPa and Oberstdorf during the 4Hills are still on and two competitions are scheduled in Austria also during the 4Hills (But i doubt it will be in Bischofshofen and Innsbruck, due to the still missing lights in Innsbruck)

Unfortunately during the SFWC in Oberstdorf the women are in Sapporo, so no SFWC for them probably😔

On the 28.02 the men are on the Kulm flying and the 28.02 is on the womens schedule but empty, soooo maybeeeee 👀

The womens WC final is in Vikersund again and maybe this time with even more all the women (and i hope they will add Planica so they have a final with the men together on the flying hill ofc)

Looks like a good season with the Olympics of course being the big highlight!

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Short Fiction Weekly Challenge

This is the last new prompt from the Short Fiction Weekly Challenge. The posts rarely collect likes or reblogs even though the blog gained several new followers. I’m not having as much fun as I used to developing new prompts. I think it’s time to have done.

The previous prompt posts will continue at least through 2025. At the end of the year I'll evaluate whether it will continue or go to archived status.

I’ll put a prompt out on Fridays; it just won’t be new.

This week’s SFWC prompt:

Week of December 27, 2024

All Things Must End: Endings can be difficult for a variety of reasons. Are the threads wrapped up? All the arcs complete? Does it feel like the right place to end? Don’t think about potential sequels or continuing serial stories or even chapter ends. This is it. All of it. Writing advice often recommends planning the end of the story when you start. So how does your story end? 

Feel free to continue submitting stories for any prompt.  A masterpiece missed the deadline?  Don’t let it gather electronic dust.  Submit it anyway and Short Fiction Weekly Challenge will publish it.  

This week’s featured previous prompts are: 

Happy Together: Your character encounters numerous others in their story. Who’s special? Who is the one they just want to see happy, preferably with them? It could be their SO but it doesn’t have to be; happiness comes in all flavors and sizes and doesn’t have to involve romance. Or, for that matter, even being outwardly nice. There are lots of relationships (fictional or otherwise) where observers would never know how much the people involved respect and care for each other given how often they throw insults around. This week, write your character and another happy together, in whatever form that happiness takes.  

Corruption: Whether as obvious as offering/accepting a bribe, or as subtle as sending business toward a friend, corruption pervades most every organization. The line between networking and nepotism is often blurry. When has your character encountered corruption? Did they benefit from it, or were they the loser? Did they encourage it, or rely on it, or did they blow the whistle? Were they shocked to find it, or to see it operate, or were they fully expecting it? Were they surprised the organization was more honest than they’d been led to believe?