The votes are in and counted for the Scrib!Fic Fanart Contest.

And the winner is ... on the other side of this link --> [link]

Well done to the winners and many thanks to all those who entered.

Entrants:

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Voting to be completed via this poll here --> [link]

** THIRD ENTRY NOW UP!**

*After being asked by a couple of people (more than I actually anticipated asking this particular question), I've decided to tweak the rules to allow fanvids, too.*

I have decided to run my very own fanart contest. The rules are very simple: all you need to do to enter is create a piece of fanart based on one of my fanfics ([link]). This could be a scene from a fic, a mini comic, a ‘front cover’ summing up what the fic is about in general, or something else. Traditional art materials, digital art, sketches, oekaki, some photomanips if they’re not just a screencap with a bit of text slapped on - all are welcome. If you have an idea and you’re not sure if it would count, email me and we’ll get any uncertainties cleared up.


*Other Important Rules and Things You Should Know!*

1. Obviously, copying someone else’s artwork or putting your name to someone else’s work and trying to pass it off as your own is a definite no-no. Trying this will earn you disqualification, a slap on the wrist and eternity as fodder for the septic-toothed Rats of Nyeh.


2. Entries should be either emailed to me or put up in a portfolio such as DevArt, Photobucket, ImageShack, some other free image site or your own webpage so I can link to them.


3. Closing date is April 1st 2008. All entries should be in by that date so I can organise them and so voting can begin.


4. As many entries per entrant as you like, though all art should be a result of your own efforts and be based on my fanfiction. There’s no age limit on the fics, either – the one I wrote yesterday or one from seven years ago, the choice is up to you.


5. I’ll go out on a limb and say fanvids are also counted as entries as long as they are based on my fanfiction – but this must be a proper connection and not just some random couple tribute vid for a pairing who appear on the fringes of one of my fics.


6. Please don’t enter years-old art. Art should be specifically for this contest.


*Prizes!*

1st Prize – A fanfic of your choice written by me to your specifications (though keep in mind I do NOT write incest fic or squicky stuff like water-sports, bestiality or scat). That said, my boundaries are pretty broad and forever expanding, so if you want to know in advance whether I’d write your OT5-hermaphrodite-cosplay-smutfic, your ultra-super-fluffy-rot-your-teeth-with-sweetness het couple or your plain ol’ genfic of choice get in touch with me beforehand and I’ll tell you whether I’d do it. You’d also get something nifty in the post (mail to Americans) for your trouble, though I’d figure out closer to the time what that might be based on who won. I like to personalise my prizes.



2nd Prize – A fanfiction flashfic or vignette of your choice.


All entrants will also get a dapper little certificate to commemorate their participation, which can be emailed or snail-mailed to them when the contest is over, based on their preference.


Can anyone think of anything I’ve failed to mention? If so, tell me and I’ll update these rules. Otherwise … drivers, start your engines! I’ll see you on April 1st.


A much better version of these rules with examples, outside links and informative bits and pieces can be found at my LiveJournal here --> [link]

Take your pick and sic that fic!

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Entrants:

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So here’s a thing.

I nearly died today.

I was driving to university this morning for my Continuing Educational Professional Development lecture. I had to be there by 9am, but the roads were a little wet from some light rainfall, so I was taking it slow. I drive past a place called Eccleshall to get to uni, which is out in the country a ways – not quite a require-your-own-septic-tank area, but close. As I’m slowing down to go into a particularly nasty turn, my steering suddenly goes. Since the weather was so dry recently the moisture made the oil on the road there like black ice. Instinctively, I braked, but this was the worst thing I could do as my car is old and immediately locked. I lost control and went over the edge of an embankment. The car rolled over twice, smashing the side window and popping the windscreen when a wooden fence post punched through it. It then somersaulted on its nose over a barb-wire fence and landed in a field facing the opposite direction. The entire left side of the car was crushed, the roof caved in and the bonnet shattered.

The ambulance and people who saw it say I’m lucky to have survived. By rights, the rolling alone should’ve killed me by the weight of the car’s bottom forcing the steering wheel into my abdomen, if not the fence post stabbing me in the face. The car is a complete write-off, the kind of wreck that either explodes or cripples you with neck or spinal injuries.

I have a bump on my head and a cut in my scalp.

That’s it.

I’m a little hazy, as I was understandably disoriented at the time, but apparently I got out of the car and walked across the field to a dog walker who was rushing to see if the car was about to blow up. I walked away. Without a scratch on me. The paramedics and police couldn’t believe it. They strapped me down on a board, put me on a stretcher and put the sirens on to get me to A&E. That’s how seriously they thought my internal injuries would be. After the doctor at the hospital checked me over, you know what he said?

“This is the time we start believing there is a God.”

I may post pictures of the car at some point, just to show how lucky I was, but believe me … I should be dead right now.

I still can’t believe I’m alive.

It sounds like some cut-price superhero, but no, it's actually the nickname I have given myself in light of my graduation photos. I uploaded a couple of them into my scrapbook after several people asked what the hell I look like in real life. The nickname is provided so that people have the gist of what the photos contain.

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The one and only club I plucked up the courage to join: