ADMIN: The Apocalypse Challenge
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ds_flashfictionThis is the way the world ends.
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pearl_o, once said, "You know what fandom really needs? Stories about everybody dying in five or ten years of an influenza pandemic!!! Something like: 'In 2010, the world gets struck with influenza on the scale of 1918 or so' and then people all write that story."
We're not going to limit this challenge to the flu, or nuclear war, or some kind of science-fiction Big Brother government taking over--though hey, please, I hope somebody writes these. We're also not going to limit this to 2010: if you want to, say, set the characters in 1914 or 1939 or some other historically terrifying date for real, you knock yourself out. We're not even going to define "apocalypse" for you--if you choose to do not the big bombs exploding kind but the small, emotionally significant kind of world-ending, please go ahead. Feel free to metaphorize.
Most of all, write 'em happy or sad as you please (and yes, that's right, I don't expect all the apocalypse stories to result in unhappy endings! The end of the world can be a party, or an opportunity for heroism, or something to escape from...etc.)
It's January 22nd by my watch; stories will be due February 5th at midnight eastern.
Edited to add: I have been reminded, and I agree--could we please have deathfic warnings, please? Or use your common sense, if you don't want to be specific (which I totally understand)--if part of the thrill of the story is "upsetting material", say, "Hey, this story has upsetting material in it" or something like that, to give a head's up to them that wants it. Thanks!
Our favorite whacked-out girl,
pearl_o, once said, "You know what fandom really needs? Stories about everybody dying in five or ten years of an influenza pandemic!!! Something like: 'In 2010, the world gets struck with influenza on the scale of 1918 or so' and then people all write that story."We're not going to limit this challenge to the flu, or nuclear war, or some kind of science-fiction Big Brother government taking over--though hey, please, I hope somebody writes these. We're also not going to limit this to 2010: if you want to, say, set the characters in 1914 or 1939 or some other historically terrifying date for real, you knock yourself out. We're not even going to define "apocalypse" for you--if you choose to do not the big bombs exploding kind but the small, emotionally significant kind of world-ending, please go ahead. Feel free to metaphorize.
Most of all, write 'em happy or sad as you please (and yes, that's right, I don't expect all the apocalypse stories to result in unhappy endings! The end of the world can be a party, or an opportunity for heroism, or something to escape from...etc.)
It's January 22nd by my watch; stories will be due February 5th at midnight eastern.
Edited to add: I have been reminded, and I agree--could we please have deathfic warnings, please? Or use your common sense, if you don't want to be specific (which I totally understand)--if part of the thrill of the story is "upsetting material", say, "Hey, this story has upsetting material in it" or something like that, to give a head's up to them that wants it. Thanks!
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Date: 2006-01-25 08:48 am (UTC)A paint challenge -- painting, painters, paintings, watercolors, acrylics, oils, tempera, fingerpaint, modelpaint, housepaint, consulate-paint, six-coats-of-black-enamel-on-the-GTO-paint, any kind of paint.
I'd also include fingernail polish, face paint (Due South needs more mimes!), Frannie's art class, and Turnbull's portrait of the Queen. :D
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Date: 2006-01-25 06:11 pm (UTC)