The Smallville X-Title Challenge

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Challenge
Name: The Smallville X-Title Challenge
Date(s): 2002
Moderator(s):
Founder: Liviapenn
Type: fanfiction
Fandom: Smallville
Associated Community: Smallville Slash Archive
URL: The Smallville X-Title Challenge
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The Smallville X-Title Challenge (also the X-Title Challenge) was a challenge in the Smallville fandom, in which participants wrote stories using titles from episodes of The X-Files. It was created in April 2002 by Liviapenn:

[...]

Was chatting & decided to narrow it down a little and finally just get the idea *out* of my head.

*The Smallville X-Title Challenge*

So Smallville occasionally has plots that are, ya know, *vaguely* reminiscent of the X-Files. We're all aware. *grins* So my challenge is, write a short Smallville story (a drabble, a page, whatever you decide) and, for a title, pick the title of an X-Files episode.[1]

Challenge Rules

There was no restriction on length, genre or type of story, nor on duplicating episode titles:

Guidelines

* Slash, gen, het, futurefic, whatever. I'm easy.

* Length: short. A drabble, a page. Well, unless of course you're inspired to write more. Like I'm gonna say no to more long, plotty stories! So basically, any length you want.

* Try not to pick the simple one-word titles like "Home," "Fire," "Alone," and so on. That's too easy! Go for the weird ones like "The Dream King," "Firewalker," "The Field Where I Died," "Paper Hearts," "Oubliette," "All Souls..." you get the picture.

* More than one person can choose the same episode, since you won't be duplicating *plots,* just titles, and I assume people will be inspired in different directions, so even if two stories have the same title, they won't be identical.

* A partial list of X-Files titles can be found here: http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Studio/9013/eptitles.html (also some Lone Gunment and Harsh Realm titles, but let's not do those.)[1]

The works were not archived together but a masterlist was archived at Livia's website.

Fanfics

A total of 77 stories were written. Participants included many of the best-known writers in the fandom. Several authors wrote multiple stories.

fanfic title
fanwriter
Anasazi / crossposting at SSA and AO3 Pablo
Arcadia FayJay
Arcadia valentine
Ascension Livia
Aubrey Maveness Delight
Bad Blood Laura Kaye
[Biogenesis] Allison Skye
Conduit Sepheis
Darkness Falls Ice
[Deep Throat] Caroline M. Baker
Deep Throat Te
Die Hand Die Verletzt Erika
Die Hand Die Verletzt Jayne Leitch
Drive Danvers
El Mundo Gira Zahra
End Game Zahra
[The Erlenmeyer Flask] soo
The Erlenmeyer Flask valentine
Eve Kaye Elizabeth
Extra-Terrestrial Biological Entity (E.B.E.) Caro
Extra-Terrestrial Biological Entity (E.B.E.) northern
Fallen Angel Debra Fran Baker
Fearful Symmetry FayJay
The Field Where I Died Chaos and Raven
The Field Where I Died joan the english chick
The Field Where I Died Beth
Folie á Deux Caroline Corken
Folie á Deux tangledaria
Folie á Deux victoria p.
Genderbender Treacy PurpleSage
Ghost in the Machine BitchWillow
Ghost in the Machine Viridian5
Hell Money FayJay
The Jersey Devil Jayne Leitch
Je Souhaite Karen Colohan
[Je Souhaite] Maveness Delight
Je Souhaite Mei
Kaddish Jen K.
Kitsunegari Basingstoke
Lazarus and Gethsemane LaT
The List Devon
Little Green Men Lapis Lazuli
[Little Green Men] N.
Lord of the Flies Lanning Cook
Memento Mori FayJay
Memento Mori Hel
One Breath Brighid
One Son Jen
Oubliette Kitty Fisher
Oubliette rebecca
Our Town Tara O'Shea
Paper Hearts Isabeau
[Paper Hearts] Jennifus
manum Lizard
Post Modern Prometheus FayJay
Quagmire Pouncer
The Red And The Black Te
Red Museum axis_kill
Sanguinarium Justine
Sein und Zeit Kassie
Signs and Wonders Destina Fortunato
[Small Potatoes] Allison Skye
Syzygy Hope
The Sixth Extinction Laura Jacquez Valentine
The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati Treacy PurpleSage
Talitha Cumi Pouncer
Talitha Cumi Vyola
Teliko Grail
[Tempus Fugit - Time Flies] edie
Tempus Fugit - The Truth wileykit
Tithonus Nestra
Tunguska Pouncer
Two Fathers Erika
Unruhe Te
Via Negativa Brighid
[Via Negativa] Tamashii no Miko
Zero Sum Pearl-o

Reference

  1. ^ a b "SMALLVILLE FANFIC CHALLENGE: liviapenn — LiveJournal". 2002-04-20. Archived from the original on 2022-04-14.