Disclaimer: The Twilight idea and the characters and the books all belong to Stephenie Meyer. My original characters and story are my own, but that's about it.

Contest:

Slash Backslash One-Shot Contest
Hosted by: Pastiche Pen and AngstGoddess003

Ahem.

The premise for this contest is that PastyP and AngstyG basically, pretty much, kinda-sorta-maybe... want more boy love. More Edward slash peen. More Jasper bent over. More soft Carlisle kisses against scruffy chins. (Pastiche wouldn't mind more pack stuff, either. Angst wouldn't mind more vamp stuff.) You get it. Also a general sweep of our fandom's slash shows that there's like zero vampire boy slash, not much pack slash, and while JasperxEdward seems to be doing okay, well... we quite simply want more.

More more more, om nom nom.

We're greedy that way. Anyhoo, we're specifically being not-picky about this contest--Twilight needs more slash. Period. So, purty plez, be creative, push the envelope. There's no lemon requirement--though we like them (the good ones). Naturally, the two of us like dark, angsty shit with a dose of humor--but we're also looking to blow these pairings. I mean blow the genre WIDE OPEN. Dammit. Still sounds pervy. Fuck. Anyhoo, this time round, we're only doing "pairs" of boys, because TwiSlash Unveiled is hosting a contest for polyamory right now (so send your 2+ love over to them). We'll have public voting and some judges picks. AG will make the winners some nifty banners. And your slash will drooled over by many. Especially... us.

Rules and Guidelines

-Submissions will be accepted from October 15 12:00 AM EDT to November 31 11:59 PM EDT.

-Entries must be between 2,000 - 10,000 words in length. This includes header and the FFn bloat.

-Entries may be vampy, Canon, AU, AH and any genre (e.g., angst, humor, family, suspense).

-Entries must be rated appropriately.

-Any and all Male/Male pairings accepted. Any rating accepted.

-Dude if you're going there--and I mean butt secks--our rule is lubrication or disqualification. Pretty simple. It ain't vag.

-No Rape please. No incest (adoption doesn't count.) No bestiality (Wolves don't count.)

-Collaborations are welcome.

-Please have your shiz beta'd. We encourage any author with need for a beta to check out Project Team Beta.

-Limit of ONE ENTRY per author per character pairing. (eg. You can enter with a Jasper/Edward and a Carlisle/Emmett)

-Entries will be accepted from fanfiction.net (FFn), LiveJournal (LJ), and Twilighted (T’ed). See submission guidelines below.

-Any non-FFn entries will only be linked on the contest profile for viewing. Consider using LazyJournal to generate any LJ entries.

-Entries must be a new story.

-We're cool with expansion of one-shots after the fact, but please keep in mind that one-shots are judged largely on their ability to exist solely as a one-shot.

Submitting an Entry

Once your one-shot is posted on either FFn, LJ, or Twilighted, please PM us at the Slash Backslash profile page with the story name, or email the links toslash@tlydf.com. You must use the contest header provided below.

SLASH BACKSLASH ONE-SHOT CONTEST
Story Name:
Pen name:
Pairing:
Disclaimer:
To see other entries in the “SLASH BACKSLASH” contest, please visit the C2: http://www.fanfiction.net/c2/74941/3/0/1/

Voting

-After the submission deadline has passed, there will be two open/public voting rounds featuring all validated entries.

-Voting Round One Begins: December 7th, 2009.

Awards:

Holy cowz... Sin and Incivility won an Indie!! Yay!

My Recent Harry/Draco Addiction. . . It's embarrassing how much sleep this cost me. So, yeah, I have been indecently spoiled by the caliber Harry Potter slash. If you're interested, I recommend you check out: 1. Top 25 Harry x Draco Classics I adored at least 20/25 of these. Lettered and A Thousand Beautiful Things are at the top. A few of these fics are no longer available since their authors departed for real publishing. 2. Owned by Jordan Grant - BDSM slave fic. Her characterization of past and present Draco just blows my mind. And the smut... Bring a fan and a bucket of ice water. I just loved this fic. She just finished it, and I did my version of a "squee" at her. 3. Mirabella - I EFFING LOVE THIS AUTHOR. No one makes me laugh harder. I recommend EVERYTHING she writes, especially the veela and vampire Harry fics. She's sorta something of an inspiration for me to write PSPV... cuz she writes smart crack, which is like cocaine, I guess? "Ficoke?" Maybe? Uh, I'll stop now... 4. Nightingale by michi_thekiller. Told in past and present, Harry and Draco hated each other and beat the crap out of eachother (Fight Club style) until it reached a point where the tension went so high that they jumped each other--but then the war happened. The writing is amazing, and this story made me lose it at the end. I've never flipped out so much at the end of a fic. EVER. I just bawled. Needless to say, it gets a bit slow from 1/4-1/2 way points, but it is worth it in the end. 5. For you Rob lovers, Minisinoo writes Aorist Subjunctive, a CedricxHarry, which is like... funtuckulously awesome. She has a CedricxHermione one, too.

Status:

I am working on EPOV to Sin & Incivility. It's called The Price of Permanence. Also, I am working on PSVP as a continuous, insane little project. I expect it to come in bursts, honestly, given that it's just its own funky animal. Finally, I'm eventually going to write a slash fic... Otherwise my life has been populated with excessive gchat, blog articles and beta'ing. I really have been lost to Harry Potter for the last several months, so asking me to read your fic is not all that useful--I'm not even reading my Twilight alert list, which is baaaaaad. Finally, I beta the juggernaut that is Wide Awake for AG (and whatever else she sends me), and also I beta for the awesome sirenastarot and spenderific sunshinelollypops.

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Thank you all for your wonderful reviews!

Pastiche