It's St George's Day

[pensnest]

It is also, as it happens, my Adorable Niece's birthday. Happy Birthday, Adorable Niece!

So.

I've been enjoying the wonderful world of popslash for not much more than a year now, and there are many, many things of great goodness here (quite apart from all you lovely people, of course!). There are suddenly transgendered boybanders, sundry animals, wings, lava lamps, bodyswaps, pregnancies, and I know not what. But with all this abundance, there is something missing.

There are not enough DRAGONS.

With your help, I should like to remedy this deficiency. On this entirely appropriate day, I am issuing a Dragon Challenge.

Please - write a story with a dragon of some sort. It can be literal, metaphorical, figurative, or, um, something else. All I ask is that it features at least one member of *NSYNC or BSB as the main character, and that it is at least 500 words long. For the rest, it's up to you.

I should very much like to release the dragon stories into the world on D-Day, that is, 06-06-06. Nice and memorable. (It is, incidentally, also My Birthday.) Deadline will therefore be noon (BST) on June 5th.

Go on. Give it a go. I mean - DRAGONS! (Also, you know this story is going to fit one of the fanfic100 or slashfic25 prompts, don't you?)

Comment below to let me know that you're thinking of participating, and I will email you details on how to submit your story, and a reminder nearer deadline. And you'll be anonymous for, um, at least a week after your story is made available, a whim of mine. I approve of anonymous challenges.

Do pimp this notion far and wide, please. The world needs more Dragon stories.

Comments

[halimede.livejournal.com]

Alone, far far ahead of the trend...

Hey, when you say not enough, have I missed any others? Betty Plotnick's Seahorse story, maybe, I seem to recall it touched on dragons too?

[pensnest]

Ah, I like that! There's also this by turps33. But still, *want more dragons*.

[halimede.livejournal.com]

More is good. :) Dragons are cool. Doubt that I'm going to have both time and inspiration. If I do, I'll definintely remember this post.

[pensnest]

I shall hope that inspiration strikes. :-)

[stellamira]

There's also all the heart can know and sources of calm, both by skeabs. Im not sure if they're still officially available anywhere. Though inofficially, I might be able to help you out.

[pensnest]

Hmm - I don't think I've read those, so unofficial helping out would be very much appreciated.

[stellamira]

unofficial

Whoops. Bad grammar on my part. Anyway, I sent you a zip file. But you already noticed that...

[pensnest]

Yes indeed - and the dragons are very nicely done.

[originalrahrah.livejournal.com]

was searching for skeabs after you mentioned it. gone? is one of those stories the one where lance has the psychic connection with the dragon that protects him? is it on the web somewhere?

[stellamira]

is one of those stories the one where lance has the psychic connection with the dragon that protects him?

Yes, that's Sources of Calm.

is it on the web somewhere?

Hm, I don't know. I haven't found it, but you might be able to find it via the wayback machine. Or I could send it to you as well, if you want.

[ephemera-pop.livejournal.com]

*moth like attraction to challenges*

but - dragons!

[pensnest]

Yay, dragons, indeed! *elbows you gently* Dragons!

Literal, metaphorical or figurative, don't forget.

[topaz119.livejournal.com]

I do have a dragon story...but there's no way it'll get done by June. It's too long and life is too crazy. But this is one more reason to keep poking at it, so I'll keep trucking along and see what happens next.

[pensnest]

Dragon stories are of the good, even if not ready by My Birthday. :-)
And... you never know.

[silveryscrape.livejournal.com]

I'm in. Dammit.

[pensnest]

Yay! Excellent.

[buddleia.livejournal.com]

Count me in!

[pensnest]

Yay! Excellent.

(I hope I am forgiven for traumatising you with lamps...)

[raynedanser.livejournal.com]

Oh HELL . . .. What's another challenge? *facepalm* I'm in.

[pensnest]

Splendid. :-)

[patchworkdragon.livejournal.com]

Need you ask? Cannot resist a deadline, or a dragon :)

[pensnest]

That's what I like to see! Splendid.

[turps33.livejournal.com]

YAY! You've posted about it!

Dragons!

It's a challenge, as if I'd say no. I'm in :)

[pensnest]

Splendid! Glad to have you.

And icon love...

[ninjetti75.livejournal.com]

Heeee.

I managed to resist for a while, but really, some of my best stuff has been for challenges, and I have a challenge of my own coming up soon, so I'd feel bad if I wanted people to join mine but refused to join others myself, right?

So count me in!

*g*

[pensnest]

Excellent! Glad to have you.

[glendaglamazon.livejournal.com]

Because I can combine this with slashfic25 and the more prompts the better, count me in. Hmm...dragons...

[pensnest]

Splendid! I'll email you details tomorrow (or possibly Saturday).

[(Anonymous)]

La, la, la, oh, what the heck. Why not? I'm in. Stupid, but in.

[pensnest]

I'm delighted to have another participant - but I can't email you as you signed up anonymously...

[sola-fiamma.livejournal.com]

Aaagh! I kept wondering why I hadn't heard from you. I thought :sob: that you were shunning me and scorning my popslash. The weepage was frightful, I tell you. And I meant to come back and check, but kept not doing it, and, yes. I am the anonymous doofus. My email, which I also forgot to give you, is solafiamma(AT)gmail.com.

Am I too late?

[pensnest]

Aha! No, indeed, not too late at all. Glad to have you along.:-)

[ravenbat.livejournal.com]

I've been sitting on my hands trying to keep myself from joining the challenge... but *sigh* I have to give in, the temptation is making me nuttier than usual.

[pensnest]

Well, it is *dragons*, after all! Glad to have you along.

[beckyo.livejournal.com]

I'm addicted to challenges. I'm in! Anything that feeds my bunnies can't be all bad!

We're leaving May 27 for a two week trip, but I"ll have it in by then.

[pensnest]

Splendid. Glad to have you along.

[curly-kew.livejournal.com]

Okay, my 16 yr. old writer daughter is a dragon expert and I am a BSB freak, so, thanks to the lead here from beckyo, I'm going to tentatively say we're in??? LOL I emailed her and hopefully we can put together a cute joint effort.

We'll see how her teenaged angst is feeling today, whether she accepts or rejects old mom's idea.

[pensnest]

Splendid! My daughter shares the sparkly joy with me, but unfortunately isn't one for writing stories.

And I *love* your icon.

[msktrnanny.livejournal.com]

Erm, ok. Me.

:o)

[pensnest]

Excellent! Glad to have you along.

[nopseud]

I'ma have a dragon story for you, after all :-)

[pensnest]

Woot!

[-eggroll-.livejournal.com]

Is it too late to sign up for the dragon challenge? I seem to have started one this morning :)

[pensnest]

Hey, if you can get it done in time, that's great! I'll email you details of how to submit the story.

[pensnest]

Ah - ixnay on the emails, can you let me have your email address so I can send you details? Cheers.

[-eggroll-.livejournal.com]

Awesome! My email address is audrysrev (at) yahoo (dot) com.

[pensnest]

Splendid - email is on its way.

[-eggroll-.livejournal.com]

So, I'm retarded. My email address is audrysrevolution (at) yahoo (dot) com. Sorry!