2014 Kurofai Olympics: Trope claim post!

[reikah]

Hello again guys! It's time to post the tropes we'll be using for this year's Olympics, but first let's check the team lists! This has changed since the last time you saw it so please check the lists carefully to be sure which team you're on!

Team Comedy	Team Drama
animangod mikkeneko uakari bottan cloverfield steadfastsonnet caffeine_buzz	zelinxia farenmaddox eijentu reikah mindlessadri kokochan ereshkigali

These teams were chosen for the optimum mix of veterans and newbies! Our pinch-hitters this go around will be badluck_koi and sotongsotong, both of whom deserve all our thanks for bowing aside for later entrants and who are both guaranteed places next olympics. Let's have a round of applause for them all!

Now, instead of vague one-sentence themes for you to interpret at your leisure, the aim of this olympics is to have a crack at well established fanfic cliches. There are seven cliches/tropes below, and it is, as always, first come first served! To claim a trope, please comment below IN YOUR TEAM THREAD. Do NOT reply to this entry directly!

Please remember that you will be abiding by the comm rules when it comes to posting, ratings, threesomes & moresomes (that is, we have decided to allow pairings of kuro/fai+others, so long as kurogane and fai are the focal point of the fic).

The themes:

[+] Rule 63 {Comedy: cloverfield | Drama: zelinxia} [+] Amnesia {Comedy: uakari | Drama: kokochan} [+] Bodyswap {Comedy: mikkeneko | Drama: farenmaddox} [+] Wing!fic {Comedy: bottan | Drama: eijentu} [+] Mythological creatures AU {Comedy: steadfastsonnet | Drama: reikah} [+] Quarantine {Comedy: animangod | Drama: ereshkigali} [+] Doppelgangers {Comedy: caffeine_buzz | Drama: mindlessadri}

(As with last year, I've included some details of this year's tropes on my journal, [here] for those of you who don't recognize them or aren't familiar with them).

Trope claiming will be open until 0:00 PST/ 8:00AM GMT on Saturday 22nd March, when writing will begin. Please feel free to trade tropes amongst your teams. Anybody who has not claimed a trope by Saturday will be automatically assigned one, so get in while the getting's good! You will have three weeks to write, and fics will be posted started from Saturday 12th April continuing until Saturday 19th. If you are not going to be able to post during this week for any point, please let me know so I can schedule your posting dates accordingly.

That should be everything, but if not, ask your questions in the comments below! Get claiming, and remember, this contest is all about fun! (Also last minute deadline stress.)

Comments

TEAM COMEDY TROPE CLAIM THREAD

[reikah]

Team comedy, sign up here!

Re: TEAM COMEDY TROPE CLAIM THREAD

[uakari]

AMNESIA FOR ME BITCHES

Re: TEAM COMEDY TROPE CLAIM THREAD

[bottan]

Ohhhh, I'd like wingfic, pls~ :D

Re: TEAM COMEDY TROPE CLAIM THREAD

[caffeine_buzz]

I'll take doppelgangers, I think.

Re: TEAM COMEDY TROPE CLAIM THREAD

[cloverfield]

So I'll tentatively put my hand up for rule 63, pending an answer to my question below-

Though honestly I don't care which prompt I get because they're all loltastic :DDDD

(I'm totally not writing this on my phone at work what are you talking about)

Re: TEAM COMEDY TROPE CLAIM THREAD

[animangod]

Quarantine gets no love around here. Since amnesia is taken and Mythological and 63 are wanted ... I'd be okay with it...

TEAM DRAMA TROPE CLAIM THREAD

[reikah]

Team Drama, get your tropes here!

Re: TEAM DRAMA TROPE CLAIM THREAD

[eijentu]

OMG WINGFIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: TEAM DRAMA TROPE CLAIM THREAD

[reikah]

mythological creatures who's surprised i'm not surprised YOU'RE surprised

Re: TEAM DRAMA TROPE CLAIM THREAD

[zelinxia]

Mythological creatures AU!

Amnesia please! I'll happily take Rule 63, though, if no one else wants it.

Re: TEAM DRAMA TROPE CLAIM THREAD

[ereshkigali]

WAIT WHAT I SHOULDN'T HAVE STAYED UP THIS LATE HOW DO I COMMENTS THIS IS SO CONFUSING

IF I AM TEAM DRAMA THEN AMNESIA PLS AND THANK??

Re: TEAM DRAMA TROPE CLAIM THREAD

[mindlessadri]

Quarantine! If it's not taken please don't be taken ;-;

Re: TEAM DRAMA TROPE CLAIM THREAD

[farenmaddox]

Bodyswaaaaaaaaap

Re: TEAM DRAMA TROPE CLAIM THREAD - SWITCHAROO

[zelinxia]

YO TEAM DRAMA, I HAVE A FABULOUS SWITCHAROO IDEA IF EVERYONE'S OKAY WITH IT.

So I'm totally okay with taking Rule 63 since well, that's also one of my staple tropes. Which means ereshkigali gets amnesia --> mindlessadri gets quarantine AND then kokochan gets doppeldangers. And Faren and Reikah keep theirs.

Yes/no?

[reikah]

Any other questions? Comment here! Or anywhere else, it's not like I'm not getting all the comments to this post emailed to me anyway. I'll help if I can!

[cloverfield]

Yo, so is rule 63 one party or both parties or all parties? (Ain't no party like a genderswap party *ω*)

[kokochan]

I have a stupid newbie question. If we write, are we expected to vote? Obviously not for ourselves, but do we grade the stories of others? Or are writers barred from that.

[farenmaddox]

Yes I have a question and it's WHY DO YOU GUYS ALWAYS WAIT UNTIL I'M AT WORK TO HAVE ALL THE FUN ARGUMENTS AND QUALITY ART SUBMISSIONS? ;____;

[badluck_koi]

Formulating ideas for each and everyone of these props as a pinch hitter. But dude! I have a doppleganger fic in progress, and this reminded me to finish my WIPs XD. But at least my problem is the overabundance of plot bunnies.

[ereshkigali]

sorry to ask a silly question so late, but it suddenly occurs to me that I'm not certain whether our submissions should be strictly AU, strictly TRC canon, or whether we can choose whichever suits us best?

Good luck! (ノ＞▽＜。)ノ

[sotongsotong]

Not a question but more of wishing you lot the best of luck! If you guys ever need to ramble during your progress or need someone to help read things through with you, I'm mostly available (though timezones tend to stick it's butt in and confuzzle things =__=)on tumblr at sotong2.tumblr.com!

Really looking forward to what's in store! (*≧▽≦)ﾉｼ))

[zelinxia]

Hmm, here it says 'groundhog day', but in your journal it says 'quarantine'. Which one is it?

[reikah]

hahahaha whoops you saw nothing *jedi hand gesture*

(it's quarantine)

[reikah]

so i broke my keyboard plz forgive slow responses