Re: This may sounds stupid but I have to askshusuMay 30 2006, 21:29:24 UTC
I mentioned to someone below... I'm not gonna enforce that there's two drabbles a post. (The referee is blind!) Or much of anything else other than the community rules. That lack of a co-mod thing will slow me down anyway. So if it adds up to 31 posts, I'd say the challenge was met. ^^
Yes, yes! Just put in your "day 1" etc. tags and all (this is pretty much modeled after mmom's tags. I figured I'd open early in case people wanted to write longer fic.
This is an adorarable idea, given the international characteristic of the Atlantis population, and I definitely think it's ripe for all sorts of possibilities.
However... :)
I feel you should know, if you don't already, that born Americans don't really follow international professional soccer, soccer teams, or World Cup goings-on. Most Americans have never heard of Manchester United, and if you ask your average American right now if we even have a team in the World Cup, I'm pretty sure they'd have no idea.
Not to rain on your parade or anything! It's just like, well, I imagine people in Spain don't get really worked up over which teams get into the American football play-offs, and folks in Scotland probably won't argue about game five of the World Series of babseball. Soccer is like that for us.
You should write whatever you want, of course {g}! But reading about Americans having more than a passing interest or even understanding about who's rooting for which country's soccer team rang very strange to me.
Uh, you should probably know that I am American. ^^;;;; Besides, I spend my weeks trolling the sga_noticeboard member list, and there are quite a few Europeans, including some of exclusively post in German.
And the challenge does allow for fics that have nothing to do with soccer whatsoever. You could have a sliding tackle on the planet of the mud monsters and include kneepads, and that'll fit right in.
Actually for me, that pretty much is the reason why I find the idea ripe for comedic potential. Speaking as a casual football fan, encountering the very phenomenon of the World Cup is very much like going to an offworld mission. :D
I'll admit the idea of bemused (American) characters faced with the international members of this crew (who used to be so sane!) going off the walls for football, as more than a little amusing. :)
Sure. I'm so not enforcing this challenge's rules, other than following the comm's rules. Also, the comm is for non-challenge fanwork too. Have at it :)
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As in drabble have to be 2100 words (an dhence not a drabble? O_o) or 200-100 words?
Sorry, I just want to make it clear. :)
just a pair of boxers with balls on them.
*snickers* I can't be the only one whose mind went to a dirty place... :P
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Oh, my mind is always in a dirty place. *lol*
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Can we post fanworks earlier?
*koffs*
(as like teaser to the comm, if you like)
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Err, does this mean that we have to post at least two dabbles per post?
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But it's not like I'm actually enforcing anything around here. ^^;;;
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However... :)
I feel you should know, if you don't already, that born Americans don't really follow international professional soccer, soccer teams, or World Cup goings-on. Most Americans have never heard of Manchester United, and if you ask your average American right now if we even have a team in the World Cup, I'm pretty sure they'd have no idea.
Not to rain on your parade or anything! It's just like, well, I imagine people in Spain don't get really worked up over which teams get into the American football play-offs, and folks in Scotland probably won't argue about game five of the World Series of babseball. Soccer is like that for us.
You should write whatever you want, of course {g}! But reading about Americans having more than a passing interest or even understanding about who's rooting for which country's soccer team rang very strange to me.
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And the challenge does allow for fics that have nothing to do with soccer whatsoever. You could have a sliding tackle on the planet of the mud monsters and include kneepads, and that'll fit right in.
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some who exclusively
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I'll admit the idea of bemused (American) characters faced with the international members of this crew (who used to be so sane!) going off the walls for football, as more than a little amusing. :)
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I think that would be ok, but I'm not clear.
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