ADMIN: The Coping Mechanism Challenge

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

elementalv suggested a "coping mechanism" challenge, noting that "Pegasus has to be a psychoanalyst's wet dream, and Team Atlantis probably goes through coping mechanisms like they were popcorn (with lots of butter and salt and a cold orange soda Coke to wash it down)."

While she provided a link to a whole huge list of coping mechanisms, all fabulous and potentially challenge-worthy, I thought it would be best to limit them to five: that way, we get the chance to someday do Coping Mechanism II: Electric Bugaloo with five different mechanisms, plus also we might get some 5 Things stories from some of you willing to take on all of them. *g*

So let's call our five coping mechanisms for this challenge: DENIAL, AVOIDANCE, REPRESSION, SUBSTITUTION, AND FANTASY.

DENIAL - refusing to acknowledge that an event has occurred.

AVOIDANCE - mentally or physically avoiding something that causes distress.

REPRESSION - subconsciously hiding uncomfortable thoughts.

SUBSTITUTION - replacing one thing with another.

FANTASY - escaping reality into a world of possibility.

You only have to do one of them, but feel free to use more or to write five stories on five themes, or to give five characters the five symptoms. Denial, meet Repression! Fantasy, meet Avoidance, etc.

It's May 2; the challenge will not close before May 16th at midnight.

Comments

[celli]

plus also we might get some 5 Things stories from some of you willing to take on all of them.

...you have my attention. (Damn you.)

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

mwah mwah mwah mwah mwah--five kisses for you, baby! *g*

[linziday.livejournal.com]

Oooh! Excellent challenge idea. *does happy writer dance*

[harriet-spy.livejournal.com]

Awww, bugfuck John icon. *pets him*

[the-emef.livejournal.com]

omg best. challenge. ever.

(says the ever-enthusiastic reader)

[malnpudl.livejournal.com]

I was just reading a fascinating article New research opens a window on the minds of plants (http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0303/p01s03-usgn.html) about how plants appear to respond to their environment in ways that meet many definitions of intelligence.

This looks like inspiration for SGA fic to me. The show's budget limited it mostly to humanoid "alien" species, but fic lifts that limitation. How about an "inhuman intelligence" challenge in which the SGA folks encounter or explore life forms that are entirely unlike us, whether animal, vegetable, mineral, or something even stranger?

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

Awesome. I love love love this.

[linziday.livejournal.com]

Um... any chance the deadline for this challenge could be delayed a bit?

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

Always! How long do you need?

[linziday.livejournal.com]

Weeks! (But a few days would do. :D

[linziday.livejournal.com]

Okay, fic is coming tonight if you don't mind keeping the challenge open for a few more hours.... *types furiously*

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

Pas de problem!

[linziday.livejournal.com]

Posted! :D Thank you.

[enviropony.livejournal.com]

Okay, so we've had some challenges that involved or resulted in pictures or images (Post Secret, Documentation, etc.), but what about a broader Picture challenge? Give words to a picture, whether it's a screen cap from SGA, or an image of something totally unrelated. Describe an image that a character has, or creates, or sees in someone else's possession. Attach a story to the pictures in Rodney's quarters, or the painting Ronon took from Sateda, or tell us what Lorne did with the one he was working on during "Sunday."

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

This is an awesome idea.