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

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

Hey, Rivka! Would you mind terribly if I borrowed your challenge for my ds_flashfiction site, (for due South fic), if I gave you credit for inspiring the challenge? I'd love to get a bunch of cliched fic for my guys. Because I'm a masochist of the first order. *g*

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

But of course. When will the challenge run? I'd love to see the results.

Is there any chance of convincing you to come play in our pond for a bit?

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

I'll be sure to post a link a) when the challenge is announced and b) when the results are all archived in Memories. It will be a week long flashfic challenge over on ds_flashfiction

Is there any chance of convincing you to come play in our pond for a bit?

Having seen all of two whole episodes of SV (though I enjoyed both mightily!) you really don't want me at the moment! I could write clichefic without even trying! *g* But I appreciate the faith. *g*

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

You know, S1 is coming out on DVD. You could be up to speed like *that*. I'll beg; I'm not proud. But anyway, I'm looking forward to the DS versions.