Found in Fanon/Discovered in Canon - Challenge!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

And after a very short rest... *g*... the next Dialj challenge! Not sure how we'll get on now that there're challenges being run over at the_safehouse as well, but let's see how we go and hope that there's room for two challenge sites in Pros! I guess we'll all just have to write/draw/create more... *g*

We thought we'd try something a bit different with our Autumn challenge this year - Found in Fanon/Discovered in Canon. Canon, of course, is anything derived directly and indisputably from the eps - Doyle wears tight jeans, Bodie wears a bracelet, Doyle cooks spaghetti, Bodie has a lock-up containing a car with communication equipment in the boot... and so on. Fanon, on the other hand, is the set of ideas that have grown through written fic that is the author's interpretation of the series - Bodie can't live without Swiss Roll, Doyle last saw his wallet when he was about sixteen, Bodie is incredibly tidy because he's a military man, Doyle wears jewellery while Bodie disdains it... and so on. *g* So....

...if you fancy playing this month, all you need to do is respond below requesting either a Canon or a Fanon prompt - and that is what you shall receive! Then, as ever, use that somehow as inspiration for your piece - writing, drawing, vidding, whatever you care to create for us - and don't forget this is a Pros challenge site, not just a fic site! You can focus on the prompt, base your piece loosely on the prompt, use it as a jumping-off point, eye it up from all sides and decide to do the exact opposite... anything you like! You don't even need a prompt to play (though it'd be nice if you'd comment to say you're thinking about it anyway, so that we can look forward... *g*) - you've always wanted to write a story around something very specific from the eps? Please do, and post it! Always wanted to explode a particular pieces of fanon? Go for it!

The challenge will run between now and the end of October (midnight, Pago Pago time, on the 31st October) - and there may well be mini fanon/canon challenges in between, no, I really mean it this time... *g* .

There's also absolutely no worries about requesting a prompt and then not posting anything - real life happens, that's how it goes, and we're very chilled out about it here. No stress if you answered a challenge ages ago and didn't end up playing - feel free to try it again, and then either post or not post. The fun is supposed to be in the trying - although of course it's very fun for readers/viewers to have things to read/view, so finishing and posting is good too... *g*

So... anyone want to play? *vbg*

(And do let me know if the colours are driving you mad, this challenge - I can't decide if I like their depth and slight purple-ness, or if it's just a terrible mess... I did mention that I'm rubbish at that sort of thing, right?! *g* *eyes November challenge happily*)

Comments

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Always worth another try, you know!

ETA - Speaking of which - scrub that prompt, I've just seen that someone has given it to me up above! Let's try that again... *g*

Right - your fanon prompt is:

Doyle is constantly eating healthily, and is seriously concerned about Bodie's weight as well.

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

Thanks. As soon as I can think about food again I'll get my thinking cap on. *g*

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

You've done a bloody marvellous job here of picking out the fanon things that just make me go HUH?

I'm *really* looking forward to reading these.

Oh, and the new font colour makes the page very easy to read and somehow tones the colour down too. :D

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Good, glad the colour works for you. It was late last night, I was tired... *g*

Glad you're liking the fanon prompts too - so far they're all the really solid, somehow ancient-seeming ones... I always wonder if alot of them came from people who'd not seen the eps, but read alot of fanfic, and focussed on what seemed to them the most obvious attributes... I dunno - how can you love a fandom without knowing and loving the original canon?! But then, I'm the mono-fandom type - I don't even have "slash goggles", cos to me the lads are so obviously in love that I'm seeing them with clear, unclouded vision that needs no special windows right now... and I've not seen any similar relationship with any other couple that I hear of being slashed... *g*

*hugs lads*

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

You'd be surprised how often that happens. I understand it happening a *bit* more in the case of fandoms like The Professionals and Due South, where for years it was very difficult to get hold of the series itself, but we've had people wander into LoM land saying "I've never seen the series but I want to write a story and by the way is Sam the big one or the little one?" I wish I was kidding, but I'm not.

As you know, I'm not monofandom, but I still balk a little at the slasher goggle thing. It's just *not* my default position at all to view everything in slash terms. I love my (two sets of) lads and I think they belong together. End of story. It is confusing, actually, *not* being monofandom, so there is a bit of a wrestling match going on.

*waits turn to hug lads*

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Lol - oh, I was surprised long ago at the number of people who play in fandoms without having seen the original material the fandom was based on! I suppose it's just a different type of fandom - fandom of the fandom, almost! - and I gather that in The Sentinel it actually works better for alot of people that way, because the series itself wasn't as inspiring as the idea of the series. I'm just not currently interested in fanfic in that way - as writing - it's purely, and totally B/D (and through them, other MS/LC roles) that I'm interested in, so I just don't want to read anything else... *g*

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

I'm interested in seeing MS & LC in other roles, just like I'm interested in seeing John Simm and Philip Glenister in other roles, but I'm not particularly interested in fan fiction about those other roles. I suppose it goes along with that part of me that's not an AU fan in general. I don't mind an "alternative take" on things, like one of the lads isn't in CI5, that sort of thing, but that's as far as it goes.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Depends on the role and the story and how they work them together, for me... I prefer a good AU (by which I mean one that keeps the lads in B/D character, but sets them elsewhere, which is tricky to do) because of course in other roles the lads do have other characters/personalities by definition... Some other-role stories/crossovers have got me though - some of the Cassidy ones, Zax... I'd like to read a Chauvelin/Bodie-character story, that said, because I like Chauvelin, but... *g*

[m31andy.livejournal.com]

I would kill (or invade a very small country, perhaps) to read a Chauvelin/Bodie story...