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[turps]

The Dragon challenge authors have been revealed, so I guess I can say that I wrote Seven Plus One Equals None.

It's a crack fic, simple as. I had no ideas for the challenge at all, except for this vague thought of Kevin as Snow White, because it fits. He's dark haired, fair of face ( he is, shut up! ) and of course the dwarves could be sparkly cast. At this point I emailed ephemera and told her, I'm having Snow White thoughts, talk me out of them. She didn't. In fact what she did was bring it up when I was down at nopseud's for a mini sparkly meet up. Now these are the people who birthed Lamp, Pecker and all sorts of insanity. As soon as they were told I knew I'd be writing crack, and I did.

Some people liked the story, others didn't at all. I expected that. I mean, Kevin was the main character, I had Prince and Pete Wentz as two of the dwarves. There's no relationships except for some Kevin/Nick if you squint. Plus, humour is subjective, what I find funny may not translate to other people. But man, I did enjoy writing this. Even thought it wasn't trouble free. I owe nopseud, vaudevilles and mkstranny so much for their advice, support and beta skills. At one point all three beta read for me over night, because I suck and the story was so late. They made me look at the story, change things, add things, just made it better in so many ways. Sadly the gay dwarf orgy didn't make it in there *g*

It isn't an important story. It's not going to strike any hearts or be remembered, but you know. I like JC the online advice giver. I love Snarky, Winky, Twitchy, Emoey, Porno, The Artist Formally Known As Squeaky and Smiley. Joey made a good Avon man and you know Kevin would whip those dwarves into shape. So, I'm glad a couple of other people enjoyed it too, and despite the crit I read, I wouldn't change a thing. Well, maybe add in that orgy. You know dwarves give good head ;)

Thanks goes to pensnest for running such an awesome challenge. There were so many stories I loved this year. Dragons rule!

ETA: Clearing confusion for those that need it. Snarky = Lance. Twitchy = Chris. Winky = Howie. Porno = AJ. Smiley = Brian. Emoey = Pete Wentz. The Artist Formally Known As Squeaky = Prince.

Comments

[trumpeterofdoom.livejournal.com]

That reminds me, I still couldn't tell who the dwarves were. Yes, I suck, I know. I know who Porno and Emoey and TAFKAS and Winky were, but who the hell were Snarky and Twitchy?

This makes me sound so thick. >_

[withdiamonds.livejournal.com]

My feedback was late and short, but I loved this story. I especially loved JC and Lou. Kevin is a perfect Snow White, as he's very fair of face.

Sometimes having fun writing a story is the most important thing of all, really. I had the best time ever writing my Cabbage Patch Kid dolls story, and it's by no means an Important Story. But it was fun.

I thought your story was very imaginatively sparkly-cast, and I'm only sorry about that missing dwarf orgy.

[turps33.livejournal.com]

Kevin as Snow White was one of those ideas that took hold and just wouldn't go. Considering I had nothing else, I just decided to go with it.

I did have fun writing it, and I think that's what I needed at the time. Having so many challenges so close got a little stressful, so something easy was perfect. Saying that though, the rewrites I did contradict the easy part.

Yeah, the dwarf orgy seemed a popular idea *g*

[turps33.livejournal.com]

You're not thick at all, and considering you're the second person who's said that. I guess it was me failing at showing who they were.

Anyway. It was Chris and Lance :)

[msktrnanny.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha. And for me those were the painfully obvious ones! Winky and Porno weren't who I first guessed them to be at all. [and I never actually nailed Emoey as PW, just one of those emopeople.]

[msktrnanny.livejournal.com]

I would have vetoed a dwarf orgy, sorry. :-D I think you did a marvelous job with this story and that it turned out fantasticly! You have a very wonderful creative landscape, I envy that in your writing. Nicely done!!

[ravenbat.livejournal.com]

I'm another that had trouble nailing down who some of the dwarves were. I loved Joey as the Avon rep though.

*hugs*

[turps33.livejournal.com]

I know you would have *g*

I have a very clear image of you on one side, nopseud on the other, both with vastly different ideas about if it should stay.

Thank you. For everything :)

[trumpeterofdoom.livejournal.com]

So where was Brian in all of this? He refused to be in something like this and had his face blurred out like in House of Crack? :)

Anyway, yes. I loved the story because it made me laugh like a hyena when I read it. It turned out even better than what we'd been talking about at nopseud's place.

[withdiamonds.livejournal.com]

Isn't that funny, how you can get an idea in your head, and part of your brain is going, no way, you can't possibly write that, while the other part is busy writing it?

[turps33.livejournal.com]

As a matter of interest, who did you think they were? Porno and Winky I mean.

I did put clues in about Pete, about Patrick, the blogging and the underaged girls. But obviously they're not much use if you don't know that about him. He was my just because dwarf *g*

[turps33.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I saw that. I fail at dwarf characterisation :)

*mwah*

[turps33.livejournal.com]

Brian was Smiley.

I guess what this shows is I should have taken more time to expand the dwarves. But I was trying to stick close to the actual SW storyline, where Snow is the focus and the dwarves are just there. Then again, considering the story was crack anyway, I should have added in some scenes with just the dwarves.

I'm glad you liked though.

[turps33.livejournal.com]

Yes!

I knew the idea was total crack, but even as I was telling people to talk me out of it I was thinking of how I could frame the story. Some ideas just burrow in, and all you can do is let them free.

[msktrnanny.livejournal.com]

Unless one of my emo-friendly friends was around, I wouldn't know Pete Wentz from any other 7th grade girl teeny tiny man on the street vertically challenged skinny man. Well, except AJ, but I recognize AJ. Who the hell is Patrick? Wait. Don't tell me, I truly don't want to know. The blogging just seems EMO to me and the underage girls go without question. After all, when you're EMO your target audience is people who are as emotional as you, and frankly that's underage girls and women in the throws of menopause.

Well, I actually mentally had them switched, but I think that I wasn't paying the right kind of attention because all the clues were there. My favorite dwarf was The Artist Formerly Known as Squeaky. Even as a dwarf I bet he'd be the skinnest and the shortest. [I believe I hear a shreak of joy from Winky and Porno at that.]

[trumpeterofdoom.livejournal.com]

By the way, I'm toying with the idea of hosting a challenge based on the auctioning off of Lou's assets. Are there any other challenges other than SparklyGlee happening in the summer, and would you join something like that?

[msktrnanny.livejournal.com]

You do not!!

[ravenbat.livejournal.com]

Not totally. I knew AJ was Porno and I had the idea that Chris and Lance were Twitchy and Snarky. The Emo boy and "artist" totally had me thrown though. Plus I kept trying to make JC a dwarf too, which I shouldn't have since he was the online "mirror" - lol.

[turps33.livejournal.com]

OMG! What an awesome challenge! I'd so join.

The only other one I can think of is the JuC swap. Other than that I think the summer is clear.

Do it!

[trumpeterofdoom.livejournal.com]

OMG I REALLY WANT TO. And it'd be damned open as well, people could do intra-band or crossover or GSF-squared or whatever the hell they want! The only stipulation is that they'd all have to be either watching the auction and making fun of it/bidding on the items to reclaim their stuff/stealing stuff from the place. (Two jet skis that were supposed to go on auction got stolen the day before! This is complete crack!)

[turps33.livejournal.com]

Dude! JC would be so insulted to be classed as a dwarf! *g*

Yeah, sadly I ran out of short boybanders for dwarves. So moved away from BSB and Nsync.

[turloughishere.livejournal.com]

You got my feedback I suppose so you already know how much I loved this story!! I laughed all the way through, sometimes just a giggle and sometimes explosive paroxysms :-) JC as the "mirror" was wonderful and loved the dwarves! The only one I never managed to spot was Emoey - I did know he was supposed to be someone from one of the emobands but I had no idea of whom - but the rest of them I got almost at once. I loved all the little details, like the description of the dwarves' house and Justin losing his hair. I know that this is definitely a story I'm going to re-read many times!

[turps33.livejournal.com]

You should!

It's an awesome idea and would work so well. Did you see Raven's post? About how someone in a Steelers jersey bought a BSB wallhanging and wouldn't have an interview? So Chris! And that would fit in your challenge so well!

You know it was Lance stealing those jet skis *g*

I repeat. Do it!

[turps33.livejournal.com]

Thanks :)

[turps33.livejournal.com]

Pete Wentz was written in because I'd ran out of tiny boybanders. Well, I'm sure there's some in other boybands but I didn't know them, and I did sort of know Pete. Who I'm not going to always think of as a vertically challenged skinny man *g*

You know, Howie would have worked as Porno quite nicely. I could have had him shimmying around with only an open shirt on ;)