ADMIN POST: The Cliche Challenge

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

The Cliche Challenge
Okay, this week we're going to do a Cliche Challenge in solidarity with rivkat's Cliche Challenge over in Smallville (details here.) "Approved" cliches include the following:

1 - Trapped in an elevator or other small space
2 - Amnesia
3 - Drunken first-time sex (or as Te puts it, "too drunk to be straight" or "two beer queer")
4 - Waking up hungover in compromising circumstances with no memory of the night before (may be combined with previous)
5 - Hooker fic
6 - The X-Files Memorial Cliche: Two people. One hotel room. One bed. (Or in our case, tent, sleeping bag, or crevasse. *g*)
7 - Forced to have sex (by aliens, bad guys, or in our case, hypothermia *g*)
8 - Undercover at a gay bar (Rivka inexplicably missed this one in her challenge, but I don't think any list of fanfic cliches should be without it)
9 - Sex change – waking up with different equipment
10 - Truth or Dare
11 - Lookalike sex substitute
12 - Sudden disability requires one person to care intimately for the other.

So go on--write that story that you'd frankly be too embarrassed to write if not explicitly challenged to do so! Write all twelve! Combine them in stupid ways! resonant8 and I brainstormed on this last night and came up with plots like "Amnesia Hooker fic!" "Drunk and Disabled!" "Hooker trapped in an elevator!" "Two sex changes, one sleeping bag!" and then, because it was very late and we were kind of giggly, co-wrote our uber entry:

"All right, Vecchio. You chose dare, dare it is," said the gunman; he looked exactly like Fraser, except he was reeking of alcohol and had two antennae growing out of his head. "You're going to have sex with that transsexual hooker in that sleeping bag, or I'm never going to let you out of this hotel room."

The transsexual hooker looked at Ray with pleading eyes under her bloody head bandage. "Ray, it's me. Fraser."

"Fraser?" Was that who he'd picked up at the gay bar last night? "Fraser who?" Ray asked.

THE END

Go to town, kids. It's Saturday by my watch; responses are due next Saturday at midnight.

Comments

[dirty-diana.livejournal.com]

Oh, my God. I love this challenge already. I need to do all twelve.

[the-star-fish.livejournal.com]

Dude, as soon as I can stop laughing long enough to type? I'm on it.

[jenboo.livejournal.com]

I"Two sex changes, one sleeping bag!"

I'm giggling so hard I'm shaking pictureing Fraser/RayK femslash....

[akite.livejournal.com]

I'm going down this list, picking them off with a yeah, did that, that one too. LOL

[chesamus.livejournal.com]

You forgot jealousy - one of them walking in on what appears to be a compromising position,

or Dief engineering the final consummation,

or the oldest cliche in Hollywood He tenderly removes the glasses -Dear God, Ray, you're beautiful...

This is going to be a blast - is there a virtual prize for most cliches incorporated into a single tale?

[theodosia.livejournal.com]

I think in this case, vice is its own reward....

[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

What they're not telling you:

Ces suffered a major head wound and resonant had to nurse her back to health through her alien internet powers. When Ces awoke, she had no idea who she was, but found herself dressed as a hooker...or was that rent boy??? The bed moved, and to her surprise, every character she's ever slashed was also in the bed. Not that she recognized them. "Hmm," she said, noting her baritone voice, "there's got to be a story in this..."

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

Ohmigod. That's PERFECT. Do it, do it!!

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

You're not alone, baby. Amnesia? Check. Trapped in a hotel? Er, yeah. But I can't wait to have a crack at some of the others. *g*

[wildmachinery.livejournal.com]

::snickers:: now, this is a challenge I can get into. if I don't write anything for this, I'm going to be very disappointed in myself.

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

Nope! I'd rather read a good story using one of the 12 cliches well than something that strains to put them all in, badly. But that's just me. (There are a lot of guilty pleasures for me on that list! *g*)

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

Wow. You wrote RPS clichefic! Starring me!! You wacky woman you! *g*

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

Well, I'll be disappointed in you too, so there!

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

Oh, and PS--yes, you have to stick to the 12 approved cliches or some combination thereof!