i may be a bird in a cage but at least it's your cage

Ugh, you guys, after two hours of collating links, I'm nearly blind, but I'm also very happy to announce that the Second Annual Putting The Sports Back In Sports Night Fic Challenge is LIVE! Go! Review the prompts! Claim one! Write a story! Delight me!


Seriously, you have two months between now and the deadline; unless you hate Sports Night, there is no excuse not to write. And definitely no excuse not to pimp this challenge; so pimp away! You'll make me happy if you pimp this challenge, and you want me to be happy, right? *bats eyelashes*

people! go claim prompts for the criminals do it illegally ficathon! or i will cry! you don't want my tears on your conscience, do you? you have until may 31 to claim prompts, and then your stories will be due on august 1. that's two whole months to write about people doing things illegally! come on! do it for me!

first, i want to congratulate herrgooch on whooping everyone's ass in my ncaa tournament pool; no matter what happens tonight, he's got such a lead that no one can catch him, and if ohio state wins (please, god, let ohio state win!), he takes the top two spots. get down with your bad tournament-picking self, mr. gooch! email me and let me know what you'd like as a prize -- fic in any of my fandoms as well as a few others i've never written -- you can always try me for fic about various movies, worst happens i say no -- in is fair game, as is a music spam of your choosing. minervacat at gmail.

okay, people, distract me from the impending thesis doom -- it would have been easier to get notes that said, write more, as opposed to notes that said, write less, and i've made a ton of revisions but i can't stop tweaking it and just let it be, at this point -- by discussing this possibility with me. okay? okay.

back in january, after we went to see smokin' aces, t. and i were talking about our favorite movies of that genre -- the caper flick, the madcap gangster movie, etc, etc. i said, man, i really want to run a ficathon for that kind of movies, and we went on to make a list of movies we thought would qualify.

the italian job (either remake or original). snatch. ocean's 11, 12, or even 13. lock stock and two smoking barrels. sneakers. we put domino on the list, and i added love honour and obey, my favorite black comedy british gangster film, and maggie added the thomas crowne affair. the bond movies might qualify; reservoir dogs and pulp fiction might qualify.

the more i thought about, the more i was entranced with the idea -- get some fic written in small fandoms, plus, you know, criminals! gangsters! capers! car chases! theft! hilarity! WHO DOES NOT LIKE THESE THINGS.

this isn't a sign-up post. this isn't even a promise i'm going to run this. it's just ... an interest gauging post. so if you think that writing fic for one of those movies i listed above, or another movie in a similar genre vein, would be fun, you should answer this poll.

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feel free to ask questions of me regarding this; i'm just sort of still batting the idea around, and i welcome feedback, thoughts, and input.

i'm so scattered today; my brain is in about a million different places, and the list of shit i need to get done this week is expanding at a rate that i do not think is consistent with the rest of the universe. i mean, a to-do list with "finish master's thesis" on it shouldn't be allowed to have any other entries, don't you think? AND YET.

tonight's goals: clean bathroom; finish second draft of thesis; finish one of six thousand unfinished stories on my hard drive (one, say, that is closer to being done than to not being done, not, liek, one of the stories that's got exactly 57 words written on it); watch new doctor who episode. and, you know, that list is not so hefty, and i'm just exhausted thinking about it. i miss sleep. *sad face*

putting the sports back in sports night! the challenge is live (after an incredibly annoying morning spent with google, sports illustrated online, and cursing espn insider's name), and you can sign up here!

if you'd like to pimp this, please link to the community post. AND GO SIGN UP. (sportsbackinsn sportsbackinsn sportsbackinsn!)

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