ADMIN POST: The Double-Take Challenge

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

Using my amazing adminstrative POWAH, I'm bumping vienna_waits's recently proposed challenge to the top of the list, partly because it's so good, and partly because Vienna is pretty much the only Billy Joel song I can stand my favorite Billy Joel song.

Here's the challenge: At least one character has to be somewhere you wouldn't expect to see him/her (i.e., Fraser sunbathing at a nude beach on Lake Michigan, Welsh just about anywhere other than the 27th, Ray Vecchio at a yoga class, Turnbull at an academic conference, etc.)

Today's Tuesday; challenge responses are due in two weeks, on March 29th at midnight!

Comments

[nigeltde]

Ray Vecchio at a yoga class, Turnbull at an academic conference, etc.

heeeheeeheee! Thank you for this giggle this morning. I look forward to the entries; what an excellent idea!

[elishavah.livejournal.com]

Oh good grief. I first read that as "At least one character has to be naked somewhere you wouldn't expect to see him/her..." Which, well, the Welsh example was very disturbing.

I'd blame nude, sunbathing Fraser, but I don't think that equation adds up right.

[peter-neverland.livejournal.com]

I vote the challenge be updated to the naked one. I would love to see what people come up with for that one.

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

Ahaha. I'm afraid I'll have to insist that nudity be optional! (And we actually did do a naked challenge at some point--Naked Without Sex!)

[aerye.livejournal.com]

Which, well, the Welsh example was very disturbing.

::g:: I laughed out loud at this--disturbing to say the least.

[elishavah.livejournal.com]

Suddenly I'm wondering if this is like the blooper reel, where you have to be initiated into the secret that that's actually what's happening whenever Welsh pulls his blinds shut.

Really, so much relief upon re-reading the entry.

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

t least one character has to be naked somewhere you wouldn't expect

I wouldn't discourage this, though, nosiree bob! (Damn, now I'm thinking about naked Bob...)

[claire.livejournal.com]

Ahahahaha! Ew.

[buzzylittleb.livejournal.com]

But Bob's always unexpected. Hmmmm... Maybe not naked. What does Fraser Sr do for Halloween?

[elishavah.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't normally ask, but if you're not going to discourage, would you be willing to give a lookover to what your encouragement (and evil parenthetical thoughts) caused?

If it's any help, I managed to lose Welsh somewhere in transit.

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

LOL--as I'm only just getting to answer this comment now? (inbox from hell, crazy busy) the answer would have to be no; I'm just swamped and barely getting time to write anything myself! Sorry! (And I saw it came out and did quite well, so yay you!)

[vienna-waits.livejournal.com]

These comments are cracking me up! Naked Bob?!

And Ces knows where my name came from! It is amazing what's taken here on LJ; it was about the 50th name I tried and I was getting desperate. I do lurve me some BJ, though, particularly his older stuff. And "Vienna" is my absolute favorite song of his.

I'm still mulling over some ideas, but I'm pretty sure there won't be any naked Bob in my story. Or naked Welsh. Although that could be very funny if done properly.

[sprat.livejournal.com]

Hello! I have a quick question about community rules: can I post a crossover here, if some of my mc's are Due South-ish?

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

mc=minor characters?

Let me put it this way; by posting to DS_Flashfiction you've got the attention of a DS audience. Is there enough DS content in your story that that isn't abusing their attention? If you think there is, yes, please do post. If it's really not DS or only of minor interest to a DS-primary audience, don't.

[lalejandra.livejournal.com]

Challenge suggestion:

Fraser exploring his sexual boundaries.

Really, need I go further with this? *g* (As a child, as a teenager, at the depot, as an adult... !)

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

ROCK; it's on the list now.

[estrella30.livejournal.com]

hey you!!

two challenge suggestions. Some sort of 'dirty' challenge (people get dirty, talk dirty, dirty cops, etc) and also, how about a challenge where the writing *style* is the challenge. like, the story can be anything, but it has to be written as a fairy tale, or a fable, or in the tone of a film noir story, etc.

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

Dude, I love this; this rocks. Trust the Dirty-minded one to come up with it!

[estrella30.livejournal.com]

hee - yes, the mind, it is dirty indeed.

also, dude, what I would also LOVE is a Vecchio challenge. Any type of story, het, gen, set during the show, post show, Vecchio in Vegas - anything, as long as it's Vecchio-centric.

*smiles and bats eyelashes*

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

We can make that happen for you!