Oct. 11th, 2004

marycrawford: 13 hour clock icon (hand)
Harry Potter badfic quote of the day: "She had minimal makeup on and stuck with simple mascara, glittery pink eye- shadow, eyeliner, and clear, shiny lip-gloss."

And then there's this Iolaus story from, believe it or not, the Nifty Archives. (Hence, not worksafe, although my quotes are, I hope.) The sentences are short. They all go like this. The plot is very basic. Also, this is not slash. This is male fantasy. And it shows.

Title: "Bi Hustler". What, you think I'm making this up?
Author: The Fan
Summary: "Iolaus recalls his past as a street hustler, fighter and bisexual adventurer. The bad old days before he met Hercules." Um.

A few quotes:
Hercules was always traveling and Iolaus was his faithful buddy. Iolaus loved this. But Hercules was always getting involved with women. (...) Iolaus seldom got involved with women. He never really felt attracted to a girl.
Iolaus became terrified after what he had done. He had sex with another man.

and then, the finishing touch:
He was so many things. An arrogant, bitter, woman-hating homophobic bisexual male with anger issues and a real ease with the blade. And he was only sixteen years old.

Note how I'm not even going into Iolaus being the son of a wealthy farmer and Hercules having three kids called Hyllos, Heraclitus and Clytemnestra. I'm merciful like that.

Wordcount: 169 so far, plus a bit of plotnoodling. Yes, I'm doing the 100-words-a-day thing like the sheep that I am, but it works - it's gotten me back on a H:tLJ story that has been stuck since July or thereabouts. C'mon, join me! *g*
Total wordcount: 8620. And I don't think I'm even halfway yet.
marycrawford: 13 hour clock icon (nicefishbylanning)
(Suddenly realized I need a Woohoo! icon. All my present ones express, at the most, mild pleasure. I know I'm in a rut, but sheesh. Aaaanyway:)

The Yuletide challenge will return this year! Also known as While We Tell of Yuletide Treasure or the Obscure Fandom Challenge.

I participated last year and it was terrifying tremendous fun. I wrote, I beta'ed, and I was presented with not one, but two wonderful stories, plus a whole archiveful of others to read.

For anyone who doesn't know what in Tartarus I'm talking about: WWTOYT is a cross-fandom story challenge on the Secret Santa model. You submit a bunch of obscure pairings you would really really like someone to write a slash/het/gen story about just for you - and yes, some of those pairings can get pretty damn obscure, which is half the fun - and a second bunch of pairings which you venture to write yourself. The intrepid organisers, [livejournal.com profile] tzikeh and [livejournal.com profile] astolat, will match up one of your requested and offered pairings. You receive notice for whom you are writing a story, so you can go read that person's LJ or website and see what sort of things she likes, if you want; but you don't know who is writing a story for you, or about whom.

And then the stories go live on Christmas morning, still without the writers' names attached, and everybody starts reading and posting recs and trying to figure out who wrote what, and it's just joyful madness all round.

I am urging everyone on my friends list to join in this year, especially the H:tLJ fans - our fandom is so small by now that there is no pairing that doesn't qualify for this challenge, as far as I know. (Xena/Gabrielle is another story.) And of course this is a chance to ask for other pairings, crossovers, anything you've secretly always wanted to read. The more the merrier.

For news updates and further info, I direct you to [livejournal.com profile] yuletide. Go join, please. :-)

ETA that it's not only a cross-fandom challenge but that, as [livejournal.com profile] tzikeh pointed out, slash, het and gen are all equally welcome - it's pan-fannish, in other words. Woohoo!

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