The DS Badfic Challenge: Prompts are officially CLOSED!!

[estrella30.livejournal.com]

So! It's many hours past midnight friday, but I am HERE! And the prompts? Are C L O S E D.

*throws confetti*

Stay tuned to this space for your assignments come sometime Monday and the rest of the instructions! We've had a LOT of awesome entries for this, guys. This is gonna ROCK!

See you Monday!

Comments

[zeenell]

...why do I keep having flashbacks to the last badfic challange i was in? *coughs* gods - it was so BAD

*can't wait*

This is gonna be a blast

[quiet-aversion.livejournal.com]

Uh. About that. I may or may not be able to write anything, mainly because I've never, ever written dS before (and am a bit too intimidated to try). But another (huge) reason is, I don't know if I'll have time. So, um. : D;;

I'll definitely be able to say by tomorrow night, though. (... ~cough~)

[estrella30.livejournal.com]

hey!

I'm actually doing the pairing on this today so I'll leave you off and then if you realize you have time and want to claim a free one later in the week you can do that. all the instructions will be in the next post!

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Being as there are people who don't want to write, though they delivered a prompt? I would be more than willing to take one of theirs. I kind of misplaced the dates in the finals frenzy, but I would still love to participate.

[estrella30.livejournal.com]

hey!

the way were going to have to work this is to pair everyone off first and then if there are extras or if someone deaults we'll open it up at the end of the week. all the details will be in the next post!

[j-s-cavalcante.livejournal.com]

I actually think it would be good to have a few more prompts than writers, because several of the prompts require specialized knowledge of another fandom. If the person who lands one of the crossover prompts doesn't have such specialized knowledge, it might be a good idea to have some extra prompts available so the writer can be given a different one. I realize this is supposed to be badfic, and we could probably fudge it, but I'm afraid that would disappoint the prompter and maybe quite a few readers.

For example: Harry Potter appears in several prompts. For those of us over, um, 30? 35? 20?...that might be really tough. HP is something my kids and their friends might know about, but...I don't.

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

Hey now, I'm one of the people who gave a HP suggestion, and I'm probably older than you are. Just because they're books read by kids doesn't mean that the fandom is a bunch of youngsters. Especially not the slashy end...

(Anyway, I would be perfectly OK with the recipient faking it or even ignoring that part of the propmt, as the essential element is the Mary-Sue-who's-a-witch. And actually, estrella30, if you're listening, I'd prefer NOT to have an HP-related prompt assigned to me, if you're thinking of doing that to ensure xover knowledge.)

[j-s-cavalcante.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, Isis. I didn't mean any insult! I should have taken the time to be clearer. ::slaps self:: I didn't mean to suggest that HP is all kids' stuff or that the fandom is all kids--I'm already aware it's not.

What I meant, though, was that other fandoms could be kind of challenging for people significantly older (or younger, for that matter) than the target audience who aren't already part of the fandom, because fewer of us will have experience with them, and so randomly assigning them might prove a problem. I could probably get up to speed with an older fandom like Starsky & Hutch, Miami Vice, Batman & Robin, Superman, Highlander, Lord of the Rings, etc., etc., because I am already familiar with the source material, as are a high percentage of media fans my age. By the same token, Nick at Night, TV Land, and other venues have made the baby-boomers' and Gen Xers' shows available to younger fans, but a random group of them is not as likely to know the older stuff well enough to fake it, even in badfic. Is that clearer? I hope. I really didn't mean any insult.

As for my age? One thing I love about Due South is that the main characters (who are about the same age as the actors) are my contemporaries. OK, PG is a year older. CKR is just a few days older than I am.

I'm glad you don't mind if your HP witch morphs into Mary Sue Witch, but I wouldn't want to disappoint a prompter who did care, you know?

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

Hee, you and I and CKR will have to have a joint birthday party on my birthday, as I split the difference between yours.

And I gracefully cede the age crown to you by just under three years.

[j-s-cavalcante.livejournal.com]

Hee, you and I and CKR will have to have a joint birthday party

Yeah, we should be so lucky! Well, we'll celebrate together and we'll celebrate for him in absentia (more's the pity). :)

on my birthday, as I split the difference between yours.

Hey, cool, another Virgo. :) Is your birthday the 17th, then? Party's on!

And I gracefully cede the age crown to you by just under three years.

::wonders if that's a *good* thing:: Well, I don't look (or act...hee!) my age, so I guess I shouldn't worry. Isis of course is immortal, so I guess you don't, either. :) And CKR? Does everybody realize that when he played Newbie on Twitch City, he was like 37 or 38 years old? Going on 17. :)

[marcellapolman.livejournal.com]

Hey Estrella,

I don't envy you, but I hope you're coping with the prompts matching.

If I were you, I wouldn't be too scrupulous about respecting people's preferences. Everybody (besides those who dropped out) agreed to go along with the badfic thing. Everybody in their right minds will anticipate that their prompts will take very unexpected turns. That's the fun of badfic, if I'm correct. If I make sure to address all features of a prompt I can take it anywhere I like, can't I? Take DS/HP crossovers for instance. If I had one of those, I'd make sure Harry, Snipe and Hermione all had a few lines - and then I'd hook up Fraser with Superman, and nobody could sue me.

Says a pathetically monogamous DS-fan, who sends hate-mail to people who dare to picture Fraser in ways that aren't right (i.e. that she considers out-of-character). Badfic-wise I wouldn't hesitate to dress the Mountie in a tutu (and if the blooper reel is anything to go by, he wouldn't protest too much if I did).