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Round 008 Cliché / Theme List

Aug 16, 2009 23:06

Sign-ups are now closed. Once again, for this round, you will be expected to write one or more of the cliché themes, and the standard theme prize will instead go to the writer who manages to cram as many clichés as possible into one fic.

( THEME LIST and RULES )

themes, round 008

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daisy_chan August 17 2009, 04:49:59 UTC

Wait. Do you mean that we must use at least one cliche from this list? Or just a cliche in general as long as we identify it and only the cliches listed here will earn points towards the theme prize?

trixie_chick August 17 2009, 08:06:10 UTC

yes, you must use at least one cliche from this list, in some fashion. some of them are rather general!! ^_^;;;;;

daisy_chan August 18 2009, 03:05:17 UTC

:/ Fail, guys.

trixie_chick August 18 2009, 03:50:28 UTC

there's... nothing there you can work with? =/

daisy_chan August 18 2009, 04:54:13 UTC

I just really don't like the idea of being forced into a mod approved box. I love you guys and all, but the point of cliche round was supposed to be smashing these things apart, not being ushered into the same corner. If the author belives it to be a cliche and wants to rework it, they should be allowed to do so. All that's going to come of this is fifty 'Five Things' fics and readers bleeding from the eyeball.

I thought we were just brainstorming for inspiration in the sign up post. I didn't realize I'd be held hostage to those ideas for the next month.

trixie_chick August 18 2009, 08:13:13 UTC

what? no, no, no, there's no ushering into a corner, no hostaging. take a cliche and rework it, take it and make full use for comedy, do whatever you like... many/most of these are quite general and can be applied in lots of different ways, and that's definitely a challenge in and of itself.

you say If the author believe it to be a cliche, but... looking over the list from the brainstorming, there were plenty of things there that were either... not overly common in hikago fandom, or not specific to hikago fandom... i think this is just a question of semantics. the word "cliche" has to mean something to be specifically applied in a challenge of this nature, and to that end, yes, we mods, with input, decided on a 5x5 list that should hopefully be either inspiring or challenging or at least give people room to work, but what you do with the "cliche" is up to you entirely. blast the cliche to bits, or make people laugh with the soap opera... i, personally at least, have confidence that, if nothing else, fandom will prove that it's ( ... )

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