Genficathon Revealed!

[greyias]

Ah, April has been such a great month due to the backbreaking efforts of friendshipper, whose hard work has brought us all of the wonderful stories for the first, maybe (hope hope hope) annual sga_genficathon. Not only did she run the comm, post the stories, and ride herd on the authors, but she wound up writing four very awesome stories, one of which has me itching to write a western AU.

(I'm talking about The Great Pegasus Train Robbery, by the by. Go, read, enjoy.)

I wound up writing two myself, both in the humor genre. You're all shocked, I know.

Into the Woods - Which really should be titled "The Ransom of Rodney McKay". I did not intentionally base it on the O. Henry story, "The Ransom of Red Chief", but the idea behind the story cracked me up too much to not try. Zorin, the kidnapper named after a James Bond villain, actually came away from the experience far more whole than I was originally intending to: I really wanted to work in swinging crushing logs, collapsing rope bridges, and Indiana Jones sized boulders in, but alas those seemed too far fetched. Another time, dear Zorin, another time.

The Physicist Bride - A pinch hit for the "self-sacrifice" prompt. Combination of one of my original ideas for the above prompt, and shamelessly inspired by Don Juan McKay and Other Universal Improbabilities by liketheriverrun (I KNEW IT SOTER! DO YOU HEAR ME?) Rodney and his numerous footnotes took over before I could have him and the rest of the team run rampant over the streets of not!Agrabah and make gratuitous Disney references, but I did manage to work in that chandelier swinging action I've been wanting to do for over a year now. Ah, good times.

Aaaaand now... I ought to pick up Big Bang again, but part of me wants to see if I can't finish my first two ficathon attempts that just kept insisting on jumping genres and see if I can't get them posted before April's up.

Comments

[water-soter.livejournal.com]

*snort* yeah yeah! I owe you a fic, *grumble grumble* At least I didn't get so totally mistaken for another author. Well, that actually would have been a compliment, and considering my mess with Ice Crystals, fine, you win! You rule, you are it and all that. *grumble* Ask and thou shall receive!

[greyias.livejournal.com]

Yes, but you see, I was working my evil mojo and trying to throw people off of my scent. By commenting on my own fic they were like "Oh, that can't possibly be hers even though it walks, talks, and acts like a duck". Genius, you see! ;)

No rush on the fic, I can bask in the glory of being write right. (Apparently I can't spell this morning, could be the lack of coffee and breakfast)

[water-soter.livejournal.com]

*skeptical look* Mmhm, whatever you say. I believe you, I do. *crosses fingers behind back* You are an evil mastermind and all that.

Yeah, yeah, bask away. I'll work on that AU of your universe that I showed you. And maybe even the NotWalmart story. If you're good, that is.

[greyias.livejournal.com]

Hey, that wasn't the bet¹! I thought I got to assign you a prompt or something... *pouts*

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[water-soter.livejournal.com]

Hehe, oh now, does I'm going to work on anyway because I owe you, the story I'm going to write for you is your choice. This are just extra little treats. So assign away, you evil person you.

[greyias.livejournal.com]

Oh, do you realize the power you grant me with such a statement? However, I shall be kind and merciful and grant you a choice:

Do you want a normal-person-prompt, or an evil-Greywolf-prompt? The latter has been known to cause extreme bitterness and the occasional confused "What the heck am I supposed to do with this?"

Edit: Choosing the evil-Greywolf-prompt comes with the added bonus of throwing the prompt back at me and making me suffer alongside you with it.

[water-soter.livejournal.com]

Evil-greywolf prompt! I need something to get the creative juices going since my near burnt out with the Genficathon. Since we are related in an evil-twin separated at birth and sent into the future (though I'm beginning to suspect I'm the good one) sort of way . . . well, you get the idea!

[greyias.livejournal.com]

Very well, it cannot be said I do not have mercy. Your prompt is!:

"Laundry day is a very dangerous day."

Double points if you can somehow work the story to where that can also be the summary.

Triple points if it has an action sequence/action-adventure element to it.

[water-soter.livejournal.com]

Explosions? *hopeful look*

[greyias.livejournal.com]

You may explode whatever you want , as long as you address the prompt ;)

[water-soter.livejournal.com]

length? main characters? Genre?

[greyias.livejournal.com]

Any, any, any.



But whatever you can come up with for that prompt ;)

[water-soter.livejournal.com]

Don't forget, tonight NCIS and this friday, Numb3rs and thursday Supernatural

[kristen999.livejournal.com]

Gawd. Despite reading like half the fics posted everyday, I'm of course still behind. Will try to read your second fic in the next day or so, I soooooo loved "Into the Woods" :-P

[greyias.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean! I've read so many yet I'm so behind it's not even funny! Or maybe it is -- having a backlog of quality reading can't be a bad thing. Speaking of, I still have one of yours to catch up on too!

Hee, glad you enjoyed "Into the Woods", pure cracky fun. The other one, er, I have no explanation for other than it was crunch time.

[leesa_perrie]

I loved your two stories - the 'Into the Woods' one especially cracked me up!! Only Rodney, it could only happen to Rodney!!! Poor Zorin!! Though Bride Rodney was a darned funny image too!! LOL!

So, write those ficathon ideas up and then continue with the Big Bang. You can do, I know you can, of course you can, just put daily life onto hold for a bit!!! Go on!! *grins*

[greyias.livejournal.com]

I loved your two stories - the 'Into the Woods' one especially cracked me up!! Only Rodney, it could only happen to Rodney!!! Poor Zorin!!

Poor Zorin got off easy ;) But yes, only Rodney could annoy his kidnapper that much. Originally it was going to be a Five Things fic, sort of like "Five Kidnappings that Did Not Go as Planned"... but Zorin took over, like the James Bond villain that he is (not).

Though Bride Rodney was a darned funny image too!! LOL!

I couldn't resist -- that one came to me when I was trying to help water_soter come up with some alternative prompt ideas. She didn't take it, and when the pinch hit e-mail came... I knew what I had to do! I only wish I could illustrate the chaos that was (not) Rodney's wedding.

So, write those ficathon ideas up and then continue with the Big Bang. You can do, I know you can, of course you can, just put daily life onto hold for a bit!!! Go on!! *grins*

You're my own personal cheerleader!

Oh, if only I could come to work and secretly write all day. But I would never do anything like that at all. I've got the house to myself for the most part this week, so I'll see if I can't get those creative juices flowing and finish off those darned WiPs.