First Annual Sitcom Laugh-In!

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Ladies and Gentleman, Dudes and Chicas, Introducing the Very First Potentially Annual Multifandom Sitcom Laugh-In Ficathon!

By popular demand! sitcomathon, for the masses!

Rules

In this, the very first ever sitcom fanficathon cum sitcom crossover fanficathon, you'll have 3 months to complete a 500 word story of any sort (het, slash, AU, space pirates, crossover, non-crossover) featuring characters from your favorite sitcoms as requested by your favorite livejournalers!*

You'll list five requests, two of which need to be single-fandom (ie, not crossover) requests using the sitcoms listed on the masterlist below. The other three of your requests can be whatever your everlovin' heart desires, crossover requests (always wanted to see Michael Scott/Frank Burns? Now's your chance!), rare or other sitcoms (want Sam Malone to square off with Perry Cox? Go to town!), or even straight up canonical het pairings from your favorite sitcoms of auld (you want Dharma/Greg? you got it! NO JUDGEMENTS!).

Then we'll do the thing where a couple days after the requests close you'll get someone else's assignment, and should begin to go to town writing some brilliant funny (or angsty, or drahhhmatic, or sci-fi -- just because these are sitcom characters doesn't meen you should feel stressed about makin' your story funny...unless you want to) sitcomfic! You can count on your requester requesting, as above, at least two single fandom requests off the masterlist, so you should be able to write at least one of your persons' thingies. And if you can write one of their more obscure or crossover requests, more power to ya!

*favorite-ness of livejournalers not guaranteed! Void where prohibited.

The Masterlist of Popular Fic'd Sitcoms

M*A*S*H*
Scrubs
Newsradio
The Office (UK)
The Office (US)
Sports Night
Arrested Development
Friends
How I Met Your Mother

The Fine Print

Sign-ups start: July 15th
Sign-ups close: July 30th

Stories due: October 31st (Halloween!)
Stories will be posted at sitcomathon, which y'all should friend and so forth.

Minimum length: 500 words

Sample Entry

Request 1: Single Fandom
Fandom: Scrubs
Request: JD/Cox
Prompt: Shower Shortz

Request 2: Single Fandom
Fandom: Newsradio
Request: Dave/Lisa
Prompt: none

Request 3: any
Fandom(s): Arrested Development
Request: George Michael/Maeby
prompt: none

Request 4: any
Fandom(s): The Office (US)/Caroline in the City
Request: Jim/Richard
prompt: none

Request 5: any
Fandoms: The Mary Tyler Moore show
Request: Mary/Rhoda
prompt: must feature Rhoda's sister

Masterlist fandoms I can write: Scrubs, M*A*S*H, Newsradio, The Office (US), Sports Night
Non listed sitcoms I can write: Cheers, Frasier, It's Like You Know..., The Mary Tyler Moore show, Newhart, Seinfeld, Will and Grace

Call of the Wild

1) I need a co-moderator. I can't do this all on my own, I'm no superman! Please to be volunteering if you can help?
2) Am I missing any (obvious) fandoms off the masterlist? Please don't say Boy Meets World.
3) Pimp, pimp, pimp! You've got fifteen days to PIMP!

SIGN UP HERE!

P.S. I put comments back on this post, but do any of your important signupping over at sitcomathon, woncha? Of course, you know I'll fix you iffen you do it wrong. And feel free to comment re: anything, on either post. The royal we are not fussed by such things.

Comments

[moireach.livejournal.com]

Ohmigod, this idea is MADE OF AWESOME. (If you could hear the number of conversations I've had about why there's no good fic for sitcoms...)

I would be happy to help out with modly duties (tho' with my fic journal, with which I'm about to sign up). I've run ficathons before, so. Yay corralling people, etc. Lemme know if you still need help and with what.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Yup yup yup yup yup! Welcome, Co-Chief Resident! I'll add you to the community management wossname under kyrafic without delay.

[annakovsky.livejournal.com]

I am SO EXCITED about this, you have no idea. I had like 10 requests off the top of my head!! Good work, soldier!

[likethesun2.livejournal.com]

So I was poking around for good summer ficathons.

I NEED LOOK NO FARTHER.

Oh, man, best idea EVER. Now I just need to make sure I feel up to writing enough sitcoms to make my signing up a rational idea. (Hahahaha rationality whatever.)

[likethesun2.livejournal.com]

PS, will be pimping this in my own journal, mash_slash, and whichever Sports Night communities seem logical.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Oh thank god, keep doing so! I pimped to mash100th and inthetallgrass -- but not any others, so go to town, my child!

[sloganeer.livejournal.com]

caroline/richard were so my het otp. i wrote a lot of bad smut when i was 15.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

My het OTP too! Which is funny considering just how, um, not het Richard was...