Thanks go out to everyone who participated in the Cliche Fest, from prompting to writing to reading the entries. We had a total of twenty-three new fics created for the fest, which makes my shriveled little heart very happy. Be sure to read the fics over on Dreawidth as well as here! If you have an AO3 account, you can add your fics to the ( Read more... )

Title: You Picked Up the Phone on the Seventeenth Ring
Author: nancybrown
Characters: Jack/Ianto
Rating: NC-17
Words: 2900
Warnings: dodgy descriptions of hypothermia totally used as an excuse for porn
Summary: Jack and Ianto are stranded far from home.
AN: Written for the Torchwood Cliche Fest. tropes: stranded in isolated place, huddling to keep warm, lost ( Read more... )

Title: The Friendly Skies
Author: nancybrown
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Jack/Ianto, Gwen, Alice Guppy/Emily Holroyd
Warnings: character death
Words: 1100
Summary: Jack is having a Monday. Post-Exit Wounds
AN: Written for the Torchwood Cliche Fest, Iron Troper Pentathalon, tropes listed at the bottom. Unbetaed liek whoa ( Read more... )

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Love an old fic that fits the spirit of the fest and you'd like to tell the world about it? Rec it in the comments here. Link the fic, tell us the trope(s) involved. Self-recs are fine. Rec as many fics as you like, together or separately. That one mpreg story? Groundhog Day? Pretending to be married in the suburbs (yes, you can rec the ( Read more... )

The Torchwood Cliché Fest is still taking prompts! Fic posting begins in two days. I've been writing and giggling at my keyboard and I hope you have, too.

Prompting Post ETA: Closed.
Questions Post
List of Prompts (Dreamwidth mirror)

Also, a rec: Five Times the Doctor Encountered a Planet Express Employee, DW/Futurama, because Mondays require

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Welcome to the Torchwood Cliche Fest!

From January 18th to 25th, post your prompts in the comments of this post. All prompts will be collected in the prompts list post. Prompts should be tropes, clichés, and story dice, such as "two characters pretend to be married in the suburbs" or "surprise!mpreg" ( Read more... )

Tomorrow evening, my time (post the SOPA protest, so as not to interfere with anyone participating), the prompts post will go live. Looking for: fiction tropes, cliches, and any plotline that's been overdone like last week's meatloaf. I've got a list of tropes. Scratch through your memories and your recs lists and feel free to add. Mpreg empath ( Read more... )

Leave your prompts of tropes and clichés at the prompting post. Ask any questions at the questions post. Initial list of tropes courtesy of tropeathonSome of these will overlap. Some are staples of 80s-era television. Some go back at least to Shakespeare's time. (Midsummer is a sex pollen comedy.) Some can be downright offensive when handled poorly. ( Read more... )