Moon-lines and Apple-pathways

pulped_fictions, a community for writers of original fiction, is running a summer event to coincide with the Olympics! I was in on the brainstorming, and let me assure you: it looks like lots of fun. :D

If you have lofty goals of putting out a pile of words this summer, there's a marathon event to keep you inspired! Less time? Well, the Heptathlon is composed of seven smaller challenges, all of which can be completed in just a little of your spare time. (Also: only participate in those challenges which interest you!)

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Who wants to come and play this new challenge I cooked up with ladybracknell? The format is similar to Kink (or Schmoop) Bingo. You'll get a card (peek under the cut!) containing 25 fairy tale prompts--themes, tropes, characters, settings, and stories common to fairy tales.

( Sample card: )

pulped_fictions is a members-only closed community for writers and artists of original works. If you're not a member and would like to play, get in touch and I'll recommend you for membership!

(You know when I start using Phish lyrics to title my entries, I have nothing in particular to talk about.)

First, the business!

• It seems I have set a goal of finishing 1,000 words of my femgenficathon fic by tomorrow. What time tomorrow: I am not sure. Number of words I have written so far: 0. Who wants to write with me tonight?!
  
• Going to the SPLASH PARK with my friend, her adorable two year-old, another friend and her friend and her adorable four year-old TOMORROW. There will be a water slide. HELLZ YEAH!
  
• I will be making my foreign language post for that 15 Day meme I never finished this weekend. I promise.
  
• I picked the first major harvest from my garden today! Two heads of Chinese cabbage, a bunch of swiss chard, a lovely yellow squash, a yellow Hungarian pepper, and one little mini cucumber that fell off the vine while I was messing with it.

BEHOLD: ( Vegetable goodness! )

I also seem to have picked up another meme from somewhere lemniciate. This one is about my journal. ( Read more... )

Last but not least:

The first entry for originalfic_las was due today, and I used my first skip. I just couldn't come up with anything! I promise, though, I will do better in the future. Promise.

In the meantime, I will be voting in this round, and you should, too! There are many good reasons to do so, not the least of which is all the AWESOME WARNINGS posted with the fic!

My attention was drawn to the warnings by the lovely ladylovelace when she pointed out that one author chose to warn for: "a little language, gays (no slash)." GAYS! The author warned for GAYS! I'll have to lodge a complaint as soon as I finish laughing my ass off.

Here are some examples of the other high quality warnings on offer:

Mild innuendo
body horror
brief mention of drug lab
f/f relationships (if not your cup of tea, apologies)
The word 'shit'
hints at a male/male relationship
implied death
Adultery

I'm sure most of these people are well-meaning and just trying to be safe rather than sorry, but seriously: what word do these people live in that they really think someone is going to be shocked and appalled at "mild innuendo"??? Haven't they ever been--oh, I don't know--on THE INTERNET before? There's a lot more than innuendo out there.

And what is 'body horror'? Is it one of those "if you have to ask, you don't want to know" type of things?

TWO MORE people warned for "teh gayz".

LOL at warning for "the word 'shit'". (But did they warn for the warning???)

We now have to warn for even the MENTION of death?

And adultery? Really?

Ay yi yi!

Because I COULD NOT RESIST requesting the Amy/Rory story I've always wanted from housemaid79, I have gotten myself into this:

The first TEN people to comment in this post get to request that I write a drabble of any pairing/character of their choosing (and a prompt, please). In return, they have to post this in their journal, regardless of their ability level. (If you absolutely can't write, maybe find a creative alternative?)

I have a limited knowledge of fandoms, but I'll try my best for whatever you want to prompt. Have at it, folks!

I present you with homework!

Since so many of you expressed interest in researching slash fiction as a sociological phenomenon, I present you here with a reading list of sources I found online. Unfortunately, I can't use any of them for my assignment, because they don't come from academic, peer-reviewed journals, but they all seem very interesting.

I found all of these articles through Google scholar, and I would point anyone interested in researching further in that direction. (You will have to pay for certain articles, but all of those I've listed below are accessible for free.)

I haven't read any of them yet, because I am supposedly working on my actual research assignment.

So, here we go:

Queering cyberspace : fan fiction communities as Ssaces for expressing and exploring sexuality: this is a PDF file of a book chapter.

Inventing a universe: Reading and writing internet fan fiction : a link to a graduate dissertation. On fanfiction. Yep.

Slashing Harry Potter: a special present for all the Potter fans on my flist to make up for me dissing it. Don't let the fact that the abstract is in German dissuade you; once you click on the PDF file, the article is in English.

And finally:
Queering Popular Culture: Female Spectators and the Appeal of Writing Slash Fan Fiction: this one took a bit of sleuthing to track down. I'd seen it cited on several other works, but it took me forever to find it. My gift to you! I can't wait to read it, this is exactly the sort of research I was looking for.

Enjoy, my nerdy little slash friends!

Note to self: you are not allowed to buy cowboy boots. You do not, in the strictest sense of the word, need cowboy boots. You have to buy books for school, and gas for the car so you can get to school and also to your job so that you can buy more books and gas. It doesn't matter that they're on sale and quite a good price and they actually have your size and OMG LOOK HOW GORGEOUS THEY ARE! None of that. Now put your debit card away, and move on.

Ahem.

So anyway, for the first time in a long time, I have an idea for an original (not fanfic) story. The more I think about it, the more I'm falling in love with the idea, but I'm a bit nervous about starting it for a couple of reasons:
( Reasons and more behind the cut! )