Meanttobe 2015 -- A New Round Begins!

[tebtosca.livejournal.com]

Happy new year, Meanttobers! Last year was a rousing success, so I'm happy to announce another round for this year.


Important Dates:

Sun, January 18: Summaries posted with comments locked for 24 hours
Mon, January 19: Claims Open at 12pm EST
Tue, January 20: Second round claims open 12pm EST
May 1-31: Open posting

Open posting will last the entire month of May.



The Rules:

- All fic must be at least 1000 words.
- Art must be at least one complete piece
- Vids must be at least one minute long
- New rule: ALL PAIRINGS ARE WELCOME.
- All genres are acceptable -- RPS or SPN; slash, gen, het, or femslash
-Each prompt can be claimed by one writer and/or one artist. A writer and artist can sign up TOGETHER to do one prompt, but please sign up in the same comment.
-Only one claim per person, per round.
-Happy ending is MANDATORY

The deliciously talented quickreaver revamped her amazing art made just for this comm for new promo banners! Please feel free to use them to spread the word about our HAPPY ENDING (I leave it to you guys to decide whether it's the schmoopy or porny kind. I prefer both!)



<center><a href="http://spn-meanttobe.livejournal.com/36704.html"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/yzoJB7i.jpg" border="0"></a> <user site="livejournal.com" user="spn_meanttobe"> The Harlequin Challenge: Claims Open January 19th!</center>





<center><a href="http://spn-meanttobe.livejournal.com/36704.html"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/hE2Nk4f.jpg" border="0"></a> <user site="livejournal.com" user="spn_meanttobe"> The Harlequin Challenge: Claims Open January 19th!</center>



<center><a href="http://spn-meanttobe.livejournal.com/36704.html"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/9dIrkj2.jpg" border="0"></a> <user site="livejournal.com" user="spn_meanttobe"> The Harlequin Challenge: Claims Open January 19th!</center>

Let me know in the comments if there are any questions or concerns, and welcome to a new round! ♥

Comments

[rose-the-hat.livejournal.com]

All pairings now? I liked when it was just J2 better. Oh well. Seems like J2 popularity is shrinking even in their own fandom.

Also, I can't see the banners. Maybe because of AdBlock?

[tebtosca.livejournal.com]

This challenge has never been restricted to only J2 as a pairing, although I'm sure the mass majority of contributions will be them. No need to disparage people who might be inspired to write/art something else. This is a happy challenge!

[brokenhighways.livejournal.com]

That my brain automatically read 'All fic must be at least 1000 words' as 10,000 words pretty much sums up why me signing up for this is a bad idea. :P

I'll probably be back on Tuesday.

[tebtosca.livejournal.com]

LOL you'll be back, c'mon! :D

[cassiopeia7.livejournal.com]

tebtosca, thank you so much for bringing Meanttobe back for a second round! Count me in!!

. . . have I ever mentioned that you rock?

[tebtosca.livejournal.com]

no, YOU rock! <3333

[whiskyboys.livejournal.com]

I've been looking forward to this announcement! This is the one and only challenge this year that I'm definitely doing! I can't wait to see the summaries. Thank you for doing this again :)

[tebtosca.livejournal.com]

Woot! So happy you are participating! <3

[quickreaver.livejournal.com]

OMG, is your userhead exploding?? :D How did you get that? I LOVE IT.

[dugindeep.livejournal.com]

ALL PAIRINGS WELCOME?!?!?

Can I write Danneel/everyone?

[tebtosca.livejournal.com]

as long as there is a happy ending #WinkWink

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Happily Ever After - yay! Thanks for running this again, I'm in!

[tebtosca.livejournal.com]

My pleasure -- hope you play!

[sanshal.livejournal.com]

Yay!
(just discovered this comm last year and boy am I hooked!!!)

[tebtosca.livejournal.com]

Yay, welcome back!

[hybridshade.livejournal.com]

Eeeeee so here for thissss! \o/

[tebtosca.livejournal.com]

Woot! Welcome <3

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

i told myself i wouldn't art for any challenges

for several months while i took time out to get my mojo back

but i am so tempted

what are you doing to me

[tebtosca.livejournal.com]

*evol modly cackle*

DO THIS ONE! It's a happy challenge with open posting -- low stress :D

[firesign10.livejournal.com]

Man, I'm so torn!! I had so much fun writing for this last year. Aaahhh!!!

[tebtosca.livejournal.com]

And you'll have a blast again!

[flawlessglitch.livejournal.com]

I haven't written something in SO long but this looks like such fun and I remember how great last year was from a reader point of view so... I might just have to join in this time.

Thanks for running such a fun challenge! This is awesome :)

[tebtosca.livejournal.com]

You definitely need to join us!

[wendy.livejournal.com]

♥!

[tebtosca.livejournal.com]

*smooch*

[angelus2hot]

I just saw your pimpage over at supernaturalart and before I squee and bounce around I want to make sure I've read the rules right.

Fics must be at least 1,000 words

All pairings are welcome.

So I could write Dean with anyone... Say with Sam or Benny or Cas or Jo, etc...?

[tebtosca.livejournal.com]

Yup! You can write (or art or vid) any pairing you like, based off of the summary you claim

[vexed_wench]

This does sound like fun. I'm glad I saw the ad for it.

[amypond45.livejournal.com]

Oh wow! I wanna play! But I'm confused -- did I miss the sign ups? Was I supposed to submit a summary?

[tebtosca.livejournal.com]

I will be posting 100 summaries in a few hours from actual Harlequin romance novels. You'll have 24 hours to pick the ones you like and then when the claiming post goes up on Monday, it's first come, first served. Pretty much exactly like Big Bang. Make sense?

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

I'm doing this round if it kills me, lol!

[angelus2hot]

I'm so happy you decided to do this! And it won't kill you, I won't let it. :D It's going to be fun!!

[angelus2hot]

I have a quick question. How close to the summaries does the story have to be?

[tebtosca.livejournal.com]

As close as you want it to be! Totally open to interpretation how you want to use it :)

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

I was hoping to do art for 3 different authors - hope this is ok....!

[tebtosca.livejournal.com]

I let it go because you were doing collabs, but left the prompts open for additional art if someone wants to do it. Because, hey, I'm not going to turn down extra schmoopy art haha

[angelus2hot]

A quick question about art. I was wondering what type of art was allowed. Manips/Wallpapers or only hand drawn? I really, really want to do art for 21. The Gladiator but I can't draw a straight line.

[tebtosca.livejournal.com]

All art is allowed!