Fanfic Contest Discussion Thread

[The Man With All The Cute Boats]

Yeah, I don't really have the time to organize it all. Sorry.

I could judge. Or I could participate, I guess, though I am in a hell of a rut.

[Cherry Lover]

Well, we certainly need someone to organise it. Milbunk probably has the time, but I'm not sure if he has the interest....

[Elf]

. . . So, I got an idea for a Lemon Contest.

We can call it "Fifty Shades of the Dark Side of the Moon: A Lemon Contest".

There can be four categories:  I'll Take Vanilla (Het), Stockings and Scissoring (Yuri), Eyelashes and Buttsex (Yaoi), and Command Spell (Kinky shit).

There can be a winner for each category and then a winner over all.

Like for a prize I could offer a lemon fic with the winner's chosen pairing (or threesome)  with a specific prompt.  Except for like scat or water sports (urine, golden showers etc).  Elf doesn't play that. 

[Xamusel]

I vote for this particular contest to be run. I mean, seriously, this might be able to help me with my lemony content.

[Cherry Lover]

Yeah, this definitely sounds like a good idea.

Who is going to judge it etc.? I assume we'd need people who are capable of fairly judging all the categories, which eliminates most of us, I suspect.

[Elf]

I could judge.

I've written het, yaoi, yuri, and kinky shit before.

Besides, I'm the Mistress of Porn!  Not only will I judge the porn, I'll have critique with it as well.

If we can think of some other prizes, because hey, someone might not want me writing them a story, I think we can do this.  I'd just suggest not even starting to contest until like August.  Gets the BL one out of the way and out of people's minds.

We can have someone's email set up for anonymous entries so I don't know who I'm judging so I can be as fair as possible.

[Cherry Lover]

Well, August sounds quite a long time to wait, and I think Mil runs two contests a year anyway, but I agree we probably can't do it right now. You judging certainly makes sense, the question is whether we want or need other judges as well.

And, yeah, we need other prizes, if only because you can't really be expected to write four stories.... No idea what to pick, though, things like figures tend to have the issue that people only really want figures of characters they like.

As for the e-mail, I can set up a site e-mail address (i.e. a darksidemoon.net address) for the contest, and either have it redirect straight to you or, if that isn't anonymous enough (I think it might not be, you'd still see the e-mail address of the sender I think), have it redirect to me (or anyone else) and then I can forward it to you.

[Elf]

I would suggest at least one or two more judges.  Just so we can get a good average of scores. 

Milbunk does one contest a year, Arashi did another in the Spring/Summer.  So there are technically two fanfic contests on BL, but neither of them are lemons.

As for the prizes, honestly, I think figures are a good idea.  Have four figures and the story to choose from.  Grand Prize gets first pick, then the second highest scored gets second pick and so on and so forth.  That's what F1 did and it worked.

A lot of Type-Moon fans like more than one character.  First time I won second place I got the Aoko, second time I got R. Shiki, and those were the two I wanted most for the contests.  I'm not saying something uber expensive like a figma, but trading figures would work.

[Cherry Lover]

I would suggest at least one or two more judges.  Just so we can get a good average of scores. 

Yeah, the question is who.

Milbunk does one contest a year, Arashi did another in the Spring/Summer.  So there are technically two fanfic contests on BL, but neither of them are lemons.

Yeah, then August seems like it'll just clash with Arashi's. Also, it's a really long time away, and the forum really needs more activity....

As for the prizes, honestly, I think figures are a good idea.  Have four figures and the story to choose from.  Grand Prize gets first pick, then the second highest scored gets second pick and so on and so forth.  That's what F1 did and it worked.

A lot of Type-Moon fans like more than one character.  First time I won second place I got the Aoko, second time I got R. Shiki, and those were the two I wanted most for the contests.  I'm not saying something uber expensive like a figma, but trading figures would work.

Yeah, that does work. Personally I'm unlikely to be interested in anything other than the story, but then I'm likely to enter anyway because I want the contest to work....

I don't know if we have any prizes available, though. I don't have any, and I'm not sure I can think of anyone else who does.

[Elf]

Well, what about getting KAIZA to donate some artwork?

[Cherry Lover]

It's possible, yeah.

[Elf]

Then that could work.

Maybe we could have a Judge's Pick and a Reader's Favorite, one for each prize.

[Alice]

I like this idea. I'll judge if I absolutely have to, though I'd rather participate, especially if there's potentially going to be prizes involved. Would someone like Arashi be interested in donating prizes, though? That'd be one thing we'd have to set up for sure I think.

[Cherry Lover]

Then that could work.

Maybe we could have a Judge's Pick and a Reader's Favorite, one for each prize.

Yeah, that's possible, although with lemon fics it's difficult for most people to judge them all equally. I couldn't judge a gay fic, for example, I just don't find it arousing.

[Elf]

Well, you were wanting to participate anyway, Mike.

Maybe someone could go digging to see if anyone wants to donate any prizes?

(Sorry, I don't have anything to donate and money's kind of tight.  I am offering an Elf story personally written for them though.)