Cliche Bingo

[donutsweeper]

Clichés. We love 'em. Bodyswap, genderswap, telepathy, amnesia, Aliens Made Them Do It, Fuck or Die, Hypothermia, alternate universes -- in fandom, if a story's worth telling, it's worth telling many, many times.

And so we bring you Cliché Bingo. The aim is twofold: firstly, to bring more cliché fic into the world (because you can never have enough bodyswap stories) and, secondly, to encourage people to look again at well-worn clichés, and maybe think of fresh new twists on them.

My card:



The rules. The sign-up post, if anyone's interested.

Comments

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I decided not to ask for gen, since I figured most prompts could be interpreted that way. But YAY! We can have a lot of fun with these I think!! (And my wildcard guy does look awful scary!)

question- do you know how to set the card up as a table so the prompts can me turned into clickable links?

[jadesfire.livejournal.com]

I don't know if that's even possible with a Jpeg. Since friendshipper who made them is on my flist, I'll ask when I post mine. But you might have to write an html table (I have a template somewhere) for that to work.

I have mine, except I'm not on my computer and don't know my Photobucket password. I'm off to wrestle with LJ's Scrapbook which I HATE, using a computer with a space bar that doesn't work properly *hits it* (you have to do that to make it work...)

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Oooh, that's an idea but I don't know how to make a html table, I'd appreciate your template when you get a chance. No rush obviously.

Computers. Sometimes they make everything SO much more difficult, don't they?

[jadesfire.livejournal.com]

My thumbs hurt from hitting it, and I've only been typing for 15 mins *sigh*

Well, I've just posted mine (which I'm delighted with, because apparently cliche fic is ALL I WRITE *facepalm), so I'll let you know, and also work on the html ;)

Going back to the Gen thing, I would have been fairly happy with most of the 'universal' prompts, but probably would have struggled with "F*** or die", and with the way my luck goes, it wasn't worth the risk...

[travels-in-time.livejournal.com]

Well, you could always write the "...or die" ending. That'd be new and interesting! And if it's Jack, it's not like it's a big deal...

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I got "Character Death" as a prompt. Would Jack count?

[travels-in-time.livejournal.com]

Jack counts for EVERYTHING. Come on, he's a cliche prompt table all by himself!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

He totally, totally is. LGotta love him

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

seriously, I looked at the cliches I got and thought they were pretty much what I write! If I got f** or die I was going to write a curse bomb story (where all people could do was say obscure curses) or something like that