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The Smallville X-Title Challenge
| 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.
Reference
- ^ Jump up to: a b "SMALLVILLE FANFIC CHALLENGE: liviapenn — LiveJournal". 2002-04-20. Archived from the original on 2022-04-14.