Journal of Mistress Kat

I… I’m not entirely sure whether I should hang my head in shame or cautiously deploy the victory arms.

*furtive glance*

\o/

Um.

I sort of, entirely without planning to, wrote 3000 words of RPS, Jared/Jensen schmoopy porn to be exact. The file is appropriately named “omg why brain why” until I come up with a title. The fic is with virtualinsomnia for beta now, so there’s still time to run.

While pushkin666 laughs herself sick and possibly does some sort of obscene victory dance, I’ll be over here, praying for my eternal soul.

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In other news: OMG GUESS WHERE I’M GOING THIS WEEKEND!!!

That’s right folks, the right answer is: A Supernatural Fan Meet-Up with the lovely gals from finnchesters!!

I am quite ridiculously excited about this butbutbut… There will be squeeing! And like some amazing games and entertainment organised by oikku and myself! And then we’ll have dinner at an American style diner, thus honouring the Winchester dietary code! Andandand, check out the hilarious name tags razorxrosary made us because she is awesome and I whined begged blackmailed asked!

Will be back on Sunday night, with Tall Tales (ha!) about the event, so expect lots of fangirl flailing and incomprehensible squeeage.

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Finally, have you donated your suggestions to the Embrace the Cliché Project yet? If not, go do it now! We want as many clichés as possible, so please, please pimp the Project to your F-lists. I’m invoking my Pointing Finger of Fandom Love^TM here, for have I not been good to you? Have I not given recs and fics and squeeage? Lo, my friends, go forth and pimp!

Embrace the Cliché Project

The silly fools doing it: entangled_now, iniq, kat_lair

What’s it all about?

Fanfic clichés are beautiful, they really are. Especially when they are about the various improbable and wacky ways you can get your two (or more!) favourite characters together in the sexual and/or romantic sense of the word.

Most fic writers and readers are familiar with some of them: sex pollen, pretending to be a couple, sharing body heat… But wouldn’t it be fantastic if there was a Big List of Fanfic Clichés? And wouldn’t it be even more brilliant if this list was then worked into Big Damn Tables of Fanfic Clichés that you could use to write fics about your favourite couple (or threesome or foursome or…). And imagine if there was a dedicated community where you could claim a couple (or threesome or foursome or…) and different Big Damn Tables of Fanfic Clichés. Wouldn’t it be positively wonderful?

Well, we thought so. Which is why entangled_now, iniq and myself are putting together the Embrace the Cliché Project.

The first step is to compile a list of all possible fanfic clichés and to do that we need your help. Yes, you. Our imagination and knowledge of the wide world fandom/fanfic goes (hard as it is to believe) only so far. Therefore we would like you to comment below with suggestions of the well-used and well-loved fanfic clichés and contrived plot devices that you’ve read and/or written.

We’re concentrating on “pairing clichés” i.e. various ways of getting your chosen people together. You can be as vague or as specific you want, from general prompts to fairly detailed plots. We’re aiming to be panfandom and het/femmeslash/slash friendly. There are of course various clichés that don’t fit all possible fandoms (e.g. those relying on alien influence) or pairings (e.g. those geared more toward the slash end of the spectrum), but don’t worry about being all inclusive in your suggestions. Organising the final list into workable tables will be our problem, not yours.

You can find clichés already submitted on a list under the cut. The list will be regularly updated with your suggestions.

Variation is a spice of life, so even if you see something on the list vaguely similar to what you were planning on suggesting, go ahead and let us know your version of the cliché in question.

Finally, please pimp this post! We want a large representation of clichés and plot devices from different fandoms so go and get your friends involved!