ADMIN: Sickness Challenge

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

For ellex42 and everyone else who's got the flu, we present the Sickness Challenge. ellex42 wants:

"a sickness challenge. Bacterial, viral, mental, emotional illness; serious like cancer, or harmless like a hangnail; food poisoning, PMS, allergies; chronic conditions (like diabetes or McKay's purported hypoglycemia) or temporary ones (like appendicitis or exposure to a harmful substance - paint fumes comes to mind!). I don't care how you do it. Just make 'em sick, so I feel better about being sick."

(H/c junkies, rev your engines. *g* Comedy writers, cue up your bitching Rodneys! There are a couple of you out there I'm a worried about, so maybe warn for, you know, galaxy-wide plagues where everybody dies, ok?)

Today is February 7; stories will be due Feb 21st at midnight eastern.

Comments

[mrshamill.livejournal.com]

There are a couple of you out there I'm a worried about, so maybe warn for, you know, galaxy-wide plagues where everybody dies, ok?)

No! Surely not!

Well, fuck it. ROCKS FALL, EVERYONE DIES!!

skips ahead of the men carrying the straight jacket

[telesilla.livejournal.com]

Hon, this is SF. It's "STARS EXPLODE, EVERYONE DIES!"

[audreyscastle.livejournal.com]

You mean...we can't kill everyone...? *wibbles* But I felt like calling myself "Destroyer of Galaxies" and...I can't do that if I can't destroy one.....

Heh, you know, these challenges would be better for me if they didn't inspire me to write stuff that's much, much longer than 1,000 words.

ADMIN

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

You can TOTALLY kill everyone. *g* Just WARN us please???

[poetryfiend.livejournal.com]

Hmmm wraith-flu, iratus pox, genii poisoning....the possiblities are endless....

Though with this challenge, you could conceivably be accused of started a h/c plague ;)

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

Dude, seriously, though--there's a lot of comedy potential in sickness too: John's headcolds, fun rashes, weird sniffles, allergies to alien sex pollen, etc!

[kensieg.livejournal.com]

love your icon!

Just a warning

[infinimato.livejournal.com]

First person who posts a story where McKay (or anyone) dies from hypoglycemia, unless it's directly related to an insulin injection, gets stuck with 27 syringes.

SUCH a pet peeve of mine

Re: Just a warning

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

Riiiiiight. Because SGA canon is so KNOWN for its MEDICAL and SCIENTIFIC ACCURACY!! *takes breath, rolls eyes, and hugs her stupid, stupid show.)

Re: Just a warning

[poetryfiend.livejournal.com]

Can we have something similar for anaphyleptic shock fics?

[velocitygrass.livejournal.com]

galaxy-wide plagues where everybody dies, ok
Now I'm thinking of The Stand. Everyone's dying. John and Rodney find each other through dreams... *fights off plot bunny*

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

I would pay money for this. I REQUESTED "the Stand" fic for YULETIDE! I ask every year!- sob!

[tzi.livejournal.com]

I have been BEGGING. BEGGING Kat to let me do this. YEARS, I tell you!!!

*whimpers* Pleeeaaaaaaaase? Please please please? ;_; She won't let me. ;_; Pleeaaaase?

[tzi.livejournal.com]

There are a couple of you out there I'm a worried about, so maybe warn for, you know, galaxy-wide plagues where everybody dies, ok?)

OH MY GOD I'M SO SORRY BUT. BUT!!! I'VE BEEN WAITING FOREVER! Ever! EVER! Kat's never let me bring about a galaxy-wide plague before! EEEEEE!!

Oh. I. I think I feel faint.

[laceymcbain.livejournal.com]

Oh, hon, you just go ahead. Kat will get over it. I know she will. *hugs*

[porntestpilot.livejournal.com]

There are a couple of you out there I'm a worried about, so maybe warn for, you know, galaxy-wide plagues where everybody dies, ok?)

I shouldn't be laughing at that and yet...

[hth-the-first.livejournal.com]

Christ, you kill ONE galaxy and suddenly that's what EVERYONE remembers. *g*

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

I wasn't going to name names, but YES, YES, YOU! J'accuse!

[jade-1459.livejournal.com]

Oh my god... I'm going to be spending a collective 10 hours on a bus round trip in the next three days. The possibilities of illness - Galaxy-wide illness - are just so very tempting. Heh, I can't wait to get on the midnight bus now.

Hey, I don't know if it's been requested before, but can we have a doppleganer (I know it's misspelt) challenge? you know, bringing in a double of a character... maybe Rod revisits our Atlantis? Or our team goes off to the Mensa universe. Or maybe some weird alien technology backfires and suddenly Atlantis gets swamped with doubles and tripples of everyone! (Can you imagine the terror the science team would feel if there were two or three Rodney McKay? Or just how high Sheppard's blood preassure might crawl if suddenly there is a Caldwell looking over his shoulder everywhere he goes? Or maybe a frowning Elizabeth around every corner?)

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

HA--oh, YES, we can have this!

[losyark.livejournal.com]

Little new to this - I'd like to make a challenge request... hope I'm doing this right....

I'd like to see some declassification fic. How badly does the world freak out, or does it? Life-sucking space vampires? Cloning and Roswell Greys and body snatchers? Real-live "Wormhole: X-Treme"? What sorts of press convienings are there? What summits? How many times does John have to wear his dratted dress uniform and how badly does he stick it to his ex? How hard do folks have to fight to stay assigned to the Atlantis Expedition? Who gets dogged by paparazzi? Who goes running for the head of a science program somewhere else in the galaxy and who hides in the north east pier tower? What does Ronan think of Earth and what does "The Daily Show" think of Ronan? Does Atlantis have a revolution for Independance? What sort of vacation packages emerge? Mostly I'm interested to see what sort of spins the SGC/Homeworld Security/IOA etc put on everything, and how similar/different it is to the episodes we've already seen in SG1 involving declassification. (Vapid Tour Guide: "But SG1 isn't personally my favourite gate team." Daniel: o__O;;?)

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

Hee-great idea! It's on the list!

[kodiak-bear.livejournal.com]

I've got a question. I see on the info page if the story exceeds LJ limits, it's all right to post in an alternate place and post the link here with the header information, but my alternate location is simply my journal. Is it preferrable to post the story here with two posts, or would you prefer I post it in two parts at my journal and make only the one post on flashfic with the link?

Thanks in advance for your help!

ADMIN

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

First of all: thanks for asking! And yes, if you're going to post in two parts anyway, then please do post the two parts to sga_flashfic. If you had a website where you could post it all together, we'd let you post there and link, but if its just another LJ, then go ahead and post Pt I of II and Pt II of II.

[seekergeek.livejournal.com]

I'd like to float the idea of a stinky food challenge by the admin. We could have stories of Ronon driving the John and Rodney nuts earthside because he keeps dragging them into Vietnamese restaurants in search of durian because it reminds him of a food from home. Or how the kitchen copes when the team trades for a fruit that winds up smelling like moldy old boots when it ripens after they bring it to Atlantis. Or Rodney discovering the reluctant pleasure of a drink that smells like rancid sweatsocks but has a kickass amount of caffeine and theobromine in it. Or how Laden thinks they are trying to assasinate him at a diplomatic dinner when they serve him a stinky cheese. The possibilities are endless. And stinky.

[kristen999.livejournal.com]

I know its a wee bit early to ask but is there anyway we can extend the deadline for the "Sickness" Challenge to maybe the 2/24?

My co-author and I are very prolific writers, but we fear we will not get the final parts of our fic done in time. Sadly this was one of those growing bunnies and will be around 20,000 words (I know I know I tend to stick to the limits set by other flashfic rules) but this one was too good to pass up.

We promise humor and fun h/c for all of us junkies.

Thank you for you time-
Kristen

[kristen999.livejournal.com]

I'd also like to suggest a 'phobia' challenge for any future ideas.

[blade-girl.livejournal.com]

I'd like to suggest a "Fanfic Cliche" challenge. You know, the kinds of plot elements or character descriptions that probably were wonderful when used by the first ten or twenty writers, but have now become so overused that you grind your teeth when they pop up in a fic you're reading? And the beauty of it is, there are so many to choose from.

The challenge would not be about seeing how many cliches can be crammed into one fic (although you could use as many as you wanted), nor to simply make fun of the cliche and those who tend to use it, but to find a new perspective on the cliche somehow. For example, Rodney's weight - he's often described as being overweight and bulky, and there are plenty of stories about him developing an eating disorder. But what if he's actually the normal one, and everyone around him is getting thinner and thinner...? (I mean, come on! Look at Sheppard... and Teyla... and Elizabeth...)

Challenge Request

[--tk--.livejournal.com]

:),

I can't believe no one has suggested SEX POLLEN challenge. Or did I miss that one? If I did, please point me to it. Come on people, after sickness, we need a pick me up and nothing picks up a reader like sex pollen. :)