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[aria]

Behold, a Cliche Bingo card!



I am even more wildly excited than I might've been, because apparently the response to Cliche Bingo was much greater than the admin expected and they're now cutting off assignments at 400 cards. I am kind of shakingly glad to have made it under the wire, which is kind of silly, but apparently I really care about these silly fic prompts.

At a glance I already see two lines for which I could easily fill in all the squares (hint: they both have the "Families" square in; hello, the excuse I was looking for to write kidfic!) and I kind of love how I see the free square in the middle and immediately think that it must be a section of the cover of Sword of Desire, that romance novel Frannie keeps around.

I kind of want to do a blackout of the card, though. Ahaha. (I am kind of sad I got "tentacles" because really? this is the closest I ever want to get to doing fannish things with tentacles, and I can't really believe I linked it again anyway.) The best part is that not everything on here can be due South fic, so if I want to do a blackout (25 fics? before August 31? WHY NOT) I will have to produce some other things too. \o/

Comments

[sionnain]

Ooh, I signed up for this last night--I hope I get a card!!! Of course I also have to write my kink bingo one. But whatever, I love prompts!! Eeee!

::twirls you::

I will be excited to see what you come up with! Cliches are so fun :)

OMG "QUARANTINE". That one is awesome!!

[aria]

I hope you signed up in time! But even if you didn't, it sounds like you have your hands full with the kink bingo one. (...that sounded a lot more innuendo-y than I meant it to. :D)

*twirls you back!*

I swear, though, I look at this card and I go "TWENTY-FOUR WAYS TO DO EVIL THINGS TO FRASER! :DDD" There might be something wrong with me.

[sionnain]

I signed up sometime last night, but now I....totally can't find my sign-up. But I did! I wonder where it is. ::ponders::

Hahaha, mine will be tormenting the Rays, Kara/Leoben, and probably Darren/Geoffrey because YAY.

...oddly, these are the same pairings for the kink one. REALLY I GUESS I'M PREDICTABLE. :D?

[aria]

Eep. Good luck locating it!

...great, now I am squinting at all my squares and wondering which of them will work for S&A or BSG fic. Thanks a lot. :D


(oh christ I didn't know what to do with the high school/college au and now I think that this is where I write this ridiculous thing I never meant to write about how everyone from the bsg cast gets reincarnated in nyc and leoben lives down the hall from kara and tries to date her because he thinks she's ~special~ and she is so bewildered by it. WHY.)

[anekdot]

DYSTOPIAS!!!!!!

... also while it is awesome, I was unaware that SENSORY DEPRIVATION was a cliche??? the more you know!

[aria]

HOLY SHIT I MISSED THE DYSTOPIAS. SOMEHOW. COULD THIS BE MORE FUCKING AWESOME.

Sares, I think the "sensory deprivation" one just wants to be porn. :D?

[anekdot]

I HAVE NO IDEA I THINK YOU HAVE HIT THE FUCKING BINGO CLICHE JACKPOT!!! -- DUDE ALSO ROBOTS. !!!!

*dying* but-- but-- how can you have PORN when deprived of your senses???

[aria]

The hilarious thing is that one of the bingos I could do is a postage stamp one, ie doing four prompts in an adjacent square and sticking them all in one fic. So in theory I could do a character study in someone who is in a dystopian high school AU with ROBOTS. HOW RIDICULOUS AND KIND OF AWESOME WOULD THAT BE.

*dying dying dying* Because it would probably only be deprivation of one or two senses? Clearly you do not read much porn, young lady.

[schiarire]

errrrotic asphyxiation?

blindfolds?

[china_shop]

Yay, you got one! \o/!!! And oh, so much good there! (I have an F/V tentacle!fic WIP all plotted out. It's just that it's next in line after three other things, and apparently I'm only writing ficlets atm._

[aria]

Yes! I am really ridiculously excited. I may also be envious of your ability to write ficlets, because while I can manage short fic for other things, I am still at the stage of writing due South where almost every idea I have wants to come out 10,000+ words. (Hee, F/V tentacle!fic. Oh my brain. I have no idea what I am going to do with my tentacle prompt, especially since I try to think of anything at all and start having insistent flashbacks to a joke my friends had all of last semester about how CKR is a tentacle monster. Not helpful. XD)

[china_shop]

Heh. Whereas I'm envious of your ability to write medium/long fic, because my brain is currently refusing to manage that. Stoopid brain. I think ficlets require a certain amount of assumed OTP (on my part and on the part of the characters), which is always a little dodgy.

I have no idea what I am going to do with my tentacle prompt, especially since I try to think of anything at all and start having insistent flashbacks to a joke my friends had all of last semester about how CKR is a tentacle monster.

RPF crack, then? *eggs you on*

[aria]

Yeah, ficlets absolutely do require an amount of assumed OTP, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes it's a little tiring when it takes 10,000+ words to get Fraser into bed.

RPF crack, then? *eggs you on*

I, um, it actually probably took me a minute to stop laughing there. One of my completely arbitrary fic lines is No Writing RPF (I have no corresponding line for not reading it, though) but that is HORRIBLY TEMPTING, OH GOD.

[echoes]

THIS MAKES ME SO EXCITED, ARIA. High school/college AU!! Telepathy!! Dystopias!! Everyone thinks we're doing it!! SCARRRSSSS!!

GOD, I LOVE CLICHE-FIC SO MUCH. EVEN IF THESE WERE ALL DUE SOUTH, I WOULD STILL READ THEM, THAT IS THE EXTENT OF MY GLEE.

[aria]

I KNOW RIGHT!

And ahahaha oh sweetie have you seen any due South ever? I mean, if you haven't obviously I think you should, but. THERE WILL BE AT LEAST ONE DOCTOR WHO FIC. AND MAYBE EVEN A MERLIN ONE, HOW IS THAT? :D

[echoes]

Aha, NO I HAVE NOT. Perhaps this summer! I am already sampling The West Wing and Gilmore Girls, AND IT'S NOT LIKE I DON'T HAVE LOTS OF TIME, OR ANYTHING.

THERE WILL BE AT LEAST ONE DOCTOR WHO FIC. AND MAYBE EVEN A MERLIN ONE, HOW IS THAT? :D

♥

[schiarire]

"Quarantine"??

[aria]

Welll, in the Big List O' Cliches, it is under "plot devices," so I suppose there is a HORRIBLE EPIDEMIC and our heroes are trapped alone together! I am unsure but if I am doing a blackout I will think of something.

[schiarire]

:O

The Plague is a fandom cliché! I'M SO HAPPY.

[endofthewest]

AAAAH this looks awesome. ♥ High school AU is my secret vice, so I am jealous.

[luzula]

This is awesome! I totally want to read the dystopia one, and also the robot one. Hmm, there should be more due South science fiction AU:s.

*looks forward to your cliche fics*

[feverbeats]

LET'S DO BLACKOUTS! Ahaha, at least they only have to be 500 words? Oh man, best ficathons ever!

[aria]

Does this mean you made it in and got a card?? I WOULD LOVE TO SEE IT.

[feverbeats]

FUCK YES I DID! Check iiiit:



Fusion! \o/ I have no idea if I'll be able to do all of them, but I'd like to try. You know, on top of all my other ficathons.

[gehayi]

I wish I'd got in before the cut-off. Oh well.

Good luck. This looks massively cool.