{"id":27431,"date":"2015-08-07T10:40:13","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T14:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=27431"},"modified":"2015-08-07T10:40:13","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T14:40:13","slug":"flash-fiction-another-x-meets-y-pop-culture-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2015\/08\/07\/flash-fiction-another-x-meets-y-pop-culture-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction: Another X Meets Y Pop Culture Challenge!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve done this one before, and it’s always a blast — roll a d20 or use a random number generator<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, once for each of the two tables below. Then, take each of the results and mash them together in a flash fiction story.<\/p>\n

Note: the goal is not to tell a literal fan-fic story set in those pop culture storyworlds — though, I guess if you wanna do that, hey, YOU DO YOU. The goal is to take the\u00a0spirit\u00a0<\/em>of those two properties and find a story that embodies the weird mashup. (The origins of this particular challenge come from that old Hollywood conceit of pitching your original story to executives as X meets Y — “It’s Dennis the Menace meets Game of Thrones ha ha ha right? Hand me money.”)<\/p>\n

You have, mmm, let’s say 2000 words for this one.<\/p>\n

Due back by next Friday, 8\/14, noon EST.<\/p>\n

Post the story at your online space.<\/p>\n

Give us a linky-poo so we can follow it back.<\/p>\n

Now, the two tables —<\/p>\n

Table X<\/h2>\n
    \n
  1. Scooby Doo<\/li>\n
  2. How I Met Your Mother<\/li>\n
  3. Nightmare on Elm Street<\/li>\n
  4. Terminator<\/li>\n
  5. Star Wars<\/li>\n
  6. Chronicles of Narnia<\/li>\n
  7. The Mothman Prophecies<\/li>\n
  8. Snow Crash<\/li>\n
  9. D&D<\/li>\n
  10. Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/li>\n
  11. My Little Pony<\/li>\n
  12. The Stand<\/li>\n
  13. Captain America<\/li>\n
  14. Inception<\/li>\n
  15. Babylon 5<\/li>\n
  16. District 9<\/li>\n
  17. Princess Mononoke<\/li>\n
  18. Avatar: The Last Airbender \/ Korra<\/li>\n
  19. Twin Peaks<\/li>\n
  20. Mad Max<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Table Y<\/h2>\n
      \n
    1. Dune<\/li>\n
    2. How To Train Your Dragon<\/li>\n
    3. Nightmare Before Christmas<\/li>\n
    4. Invasion of the Body Snatchers<\/li>\n
    5. Gremlins<\/li>\n
    6. Hellraiser<\/li>\n
    7. Indiana Jones<\/li>\n
    8. Toy Story<\/li>\n
    9. Ready Player One<\/li>\n
    10. Discworld<\/li>\n
    11. American Gods<\/li>\n
    12. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea<\/li>\n
    13. Teen Wolf<\/li>\n
    14. Saving Private Ryan<\/li>\n
    15. Donnie Darko<\/li>\n
    16. The Walking Dead<\/li>\n
    17. Princess Bride<\/li>\n
    18. Girl With The Dragon Tattoo<\/li>\n
    19. Snow White<\/li>\n
    20. L.A. Confidential<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      We’ve done this one before, and it’s always a blast — roll a d20 or use a random number generator, once for each of the two tables below. Then, take each of the results and mash them together in a flash fiction story. Note: the goal is not to tell a literal fan-fic story set […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-78r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27431"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27434,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27431\/revisions\/27434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}