I Challenge You!

[rivkat]

scribblinlenore and I, in our infinite wisdom, have decided to issue a challenge. Please spread the word: We want cliches. Dozens of 'em. Actually, this dozen:

- Trapped in an elevator or other small space
- Amnesia
- Drunken first-time sex (as Te puts it, "too drunk to be straight" or "two beer queer")
- Waking up hungover in compromising circumstances with no memory of the night before (may be combined with previous)
- Hooker fic - how about some Lex? Y'all have written stories where he reminisces about selling his body just for the hell of it, but we rarely see him do it except with or in front of Lionel. Hooker!Lex without incest, I say. Or Hooker!Clark. Actually, I'm not terribly picky.
- The X-Files Memorial Cliche: Two people. One hotel room. One bed.
- Forced to have sex [by aliens, bad guys, the Kryptonian version of pon farr...]
- Body switching
- Sex change – waking up with different equipment
- Truth or Dare
- Lookalike sex substitute – we've seen Lex do it a dozen times. Give us someone else. Preferably Clark.
- Sudden disability requires one person to care intimately for the other.

We would like at least one entry in each category, and we already have a few stalwart volunteers. If you (you know who you are) don't volunteer, we'll be forced to come after you. With poky sticks. Deadline: the end of August.

I'll also try to link to any preexisting stories to which I'm alerted that fit the guidelines, if the author wants.

Who's going to play?

Unrelatedly, over halfway through the first season of Stargate: SG-1, I have two questions for long-time fans. First, is it a deliberate joke that Scully's dad/the General/Don Davis never says no to any request? He's like the big old sugar daddy of the group. Second, is the SG-1 team ever going to stop destroying irreplaceable alien technology and start capturing it for further analysis? They're worse than the humans in Pohl's Gateway series, who were pretty damn wasteful.

And that episode "Heat," I mean "Hathor," when Daniel points out that most of the cellular residue from Hathor's alien babies is likely to be his and Jack says, reflectively, "Eww"? I loved that moment.

Finally, Evanescence's new video for "Going Under" is up at Launch, and it is quite creepy. The basic conceit is a concert video, only the concertgoers flash in and out of being demonic rather than human in aspect; the glimpses are short enough that one doesn't want to trust one's eyes. Nicely done.

Comments

[lexcorp-hope.livejournal.com]

AHHHHHHHHHHHH, I can't believe you are actually asking people to write "Sudden disability requires one person to care intimately for the other" stories, you and Lenore are total psychos! (I mean that in the most complimentary way possible.) Oh lordy, worst cliche ever. I still have nightmares from X-Files fandom- I don't remember the title, but all I remember is that Mulder sustains a traumatic brain injury, and Scully and Skinner take turns changing his diapers and AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

*runs off screaming into the night*

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

So I take it that's the one I should sign you up for, correct?

We had some beautiful stories about Lionel that followed this pattern, based on canon -- Sarah T. did a couple, I think. You don't have to use diapers.

Then there werealways the "What Really Happened" stories, written I think by a nurse, about the career-ending, life-changing injuries Mulder sustained on a regular basis. Obviously, couldn't be a series, more like a theme.

[lexcorp-hope.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhhhh, you're smooth. So very smooth. Are these stories, in theory, supposed to be good stories using cliches, or are badfic entries allowed? (Because if it's the former, I'm leaning toward forced to have sex, if it's the latter, I can probably handle sudden disability.)

And while we're at the cliche trough:

Lookalike sex substitute - I have one (http://www.anywherebeyond.com/stories/pieces.html); it's Lex, but it's novel (ha!) because there are not one, not two, but three Clark substitutes in this one, plus Lex actually gets Clark!

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Thankyouverramuch. I'd prefer good stories using cliched premises; I'm rather proud of how Switch turned out, for example -- cliches become cliches because they tap into some solid character-exposing situations.

So, forced to have sex it is! I knew I could count on you.

And I like your story. If you don't mind, I'll add a link to it from the challenge page-to-be -- I only want to add retroactively if the author volunteers.

[lexcorp-hope.livejournal.com]

Oh, please do feel free to add it. I totally hadn't realized how... well, cliche the whole idea had become when I wrote it- so I think (I hope!) your theory is right. :)

I'll get to work on forced sex, though I may end up having to write a badfic that covers every single cliche you have, just because the idea is making me giggle. I promise a real story, though. *nod*

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

You've made me so happy, you just don't know. "Fuck or die" is one of my favorites on that list.