it was a dark and horny night...

[gyzym]

EVERYONE STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND CHECK THIS OUT AT ONCE.


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That's right, guys: an Inception Harlequin romance challenge, all for us. AND IT ISN'T EVEN MY BIRTHDAY. The hearts in my eyes, they are reaching epic proportions. I may need to be seen by a doctor.

From the comm:

There are three ways for you to participate:

- If you have a romance novel idea you want to write about/create art for, go for it! Let’s say you have that Nora Roberts’ book about the family of jewel thieves lying around in your attic, and you just can’t stop thinking how great it would be if it starred Ariadne and Yusuf. Have at it! Any genre of romance is fair game – contemporary, Regency, cowboys, paranormal… As long as it features sexy people falling in love, that’s fine!

- If you have your own "original" romance novel idea you’re dying to write, that’s cool, too! If you’ve been dying to write Arthur and Eames as rival scientists who fall in love (or rival bakery owners who fall in love, or rival evil counts who fall in love...), fantastic!

- OR if you’d like, we’ve collected some prompts! These are blurbs from the back of actual romance novels. You can use as much or as little of the prompt as you want. If, for example, the prompt is about a single mother of three who needs cash for an operation for the baby so she sleeps with her boss, and you want that to be Arthur and Eames minus the babies and operation, no problem! If you’d like to use one of the prompts listed below, drop a comment on this post and we’ll mark it as taken. (If they all get taken – eeee! – we’d be happy to go find more!)

THE RULES

♥ All Harlequin Challenge stories must be a minimum of 1,000 words. ART IS ALSO WELCOME!!

♥ When posting/linking your Harlequin Challenge story to the comm, please reference the prompt the story is based on OR the plot/romance novel summary you used.

♥ DEADLINE FOR CHALLENGE STORIES TO BE POSTED IS MARCH 6TH! AND VALENTINE'S DAY FALLS RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE! PERFECT TIME FOR ROMANCE FICS. :DDDDDDD

I am already working on a completely ridiculous COMPLETELY FUCKING RIDICULOUS story for this, because, um, it is the most awesome idea ever, basically. YOU GUYS SHOULD CHECK IT OUT: the post full of incredible prompts actually pulled from real romance novels ishere, or you guys can make like me and allow your brains to spin webs of brilliantly ludicrous cliches. EITHER WAY, I AM ALREADY STUPIDLY EXCITED TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS.

In conclusion: you know you want to do this. THIS IS SO HOT RIGHT NOW.

♥

Comments

[angelgazing.livejournal.com]

IT IS THE BEST KIND OF RIDICULOUS THOUGH. THE KIND OF RIDICULOUS THAT MAKES ME THE HAPPIEST EVER. SO PERFECT. PERFECT.

[gyzym.livejournal.com]

DJFNDF SO RIDICULOUS

[cobweb-diamond.livejournal.com]

SOMEONE PLZ WRITE THE ONE WHERE A PSYCHIC HISTORIAN AND AN ARMY CAPTAIN TRAVEL BACK IN TIME TO ANCIENT ROME, AND THEN... FALL IN LOVE.

I MEAN, I AM ASTONISHED NO ONE ELSE HAS THOUGHT OF THAT DEEPLY OBVIOUS ROMANCE NOVEL IDEA BEFORE.

[gyzym.livejournal.com]

DUDE, I NEED THAT IN MY LIFE

[cobweb-diamond.livejournal.com]

SO DO WE ALL, DUDE.

SO DO WE ALL.

[sejitsu.livejournal.com]

I haven't even clicked the link yet because I'm currently hyperventilating. IN GLEE. At the idea of YOU WRITING FOR THIS.

*passes out*

[gyzym.livejournal.com]

djfnjdskf DO NOT GET EXCITED THIS FIC IS THE MOST RIDICULOUS

[sejitsu.livejournal.com]

IT'S TOO LATE BECAUSE IT'S BY YOU AND SO HOW CAN I NOT GET EXCITED? PLUS YOU REPLIED TO ME. n_n *INCOHERENT WITH GLEE*

I just cannot even explain the face splitting grin I got when I read this post. You don't even know what you've done to me! (You've been unwittingly making my whole week/month/year better without even knowing, I SWEAR) *flail* My sheer excitement overrode my extreme shyness. INSANITY. OwO

THE WAY YOU SAY 'MOST RIDICULOUS' INTRIGUES ME TO NO END. NO END!

[gyzym.livejournal.com]

dkfjdkf I APOLOGIZE PROFUSELY IF YOU HAVE COMMENTED BEFORE AND I HAVE NOT REPLIED, I am hideously awful at answering comments, it is my great shame and I feel terribly guilty about it. It's not you, it's the fact that I have the attention span of a gnat, and then it's been too long and I feel like an asshole and djfnjdskfnds.

IT'S CANADIAN SHACK FIC. IN WHICH ARTHUR IS AN FBI AGENT AND EAMES HAS BEEN FRAMED FOR MURDER, OH GOD, WHAT EVEN IS MY LIFE

[sejitsu.livejournal.com]

Oh, no! That's not how I meant it at all! ^^;; I have, in fact, been a horrible person and not commented on ANY of your fics before (I'm REALLY SHY and the Inception fandom is REALLY HUGE and INSANELY TALENTED). I've only commented on the Master Post to inform you of my intent to stalk your journal. XD

I just meant that I was all shocked and flattered because I've been singing your praises to other people all week, and never expected to get a chance to talk to you~ n_n It's like talking to a celebrityyyyyy! <3

So, anyways.

WHAT, WHAT, WHAT ARE YOU DOING...

AND WHY IS IT SO AWESOME.

No, but seriously.

You have no idea how much I'm going to look forward to reading it. *q* Just the knowledge that you're writing more Eames/Arthur... *FULL OF JOY*

I'm so long-winded. *hangs head*

[foxxcub.livejournal.com]

THAT'S THE OLD SET OF RULES. NOW THERE ARE ACTUALLY THREE, LOL.

[gyzym.livejournal.com]

CRAP. I JUST PULLED THEM FROM THE POST? WHERE SHOULD I BE PULLING THEM FROM?

[foxxcub.livejournal.com]

THEY'RE ON THE POST NOW, I JUST UPDATED AFTER NICHOLE POINTED OUT MY FAIL.

[gyzym.livejournal.com]

FIXED!

[foxxcub.livejournal.com]

\o/

OMG SO EXCITED

[emilianadarling.livejournal.com]

OMG THE DEADLINE IS MY BIRTHDAY. *glee* So many wonderful smutty and strange plotted presents!! <3 <3 <3

Cannot WAIT for yours! I know you will make it AWESOME.