{"id":28640,"date":"2016-02-12T11:40:41","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T16:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=28640"},"modified":"2016-02-12T11:40:41","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T16:40:41","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-revenge-of-x-meets-y-pop-culture-mashup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2016\/02\/12\/flash-fiction-challenge-revenge-of-x-meets-y-pop-culture-mashup\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: Revenge Of X Meets Y Pop Culture Mashup"},"content":{"rendered":"

This’un is another of my favorite challenges, as it\u2019s always a hoot to see the results. Here’s how it works:\u00a0roll a d20 or use a\u00a0random number generator<\/strong><\/a>, once for each of the two tables below. (Or, if you really want, just pick two that tickle your pink parts.)<\/p>\n

Then, take each of the results and mash them together in a flash fiction story.<\/p>\n

The goal is not to tell a literal fan-fic story set in those pop culture storyworlds \u2014 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 \u2014 \u201cIt\u2019s The Flintstones\u00a0meets Nightmare on Elm Street\u00a0ha ha ha right? BOOM NAILED IT.\u201d) So, you might get 50 SHADES OF GREY MEETS D&D or MINECRAFT MEETS THE SHINING or SILENCE OF THE LAMBS MEETS JONNY QUEST and then you have to a tell a story representative of that mashup, not a story that\u00a0literally<\/em> mashes up those properties. Dig it? Dug it? Done.<\/p>\n

You have, oh, let\u2019s say 2000 words for this one.<\/p>\n

Due back by next Friday, 2\/19, noon EST.<\/p>\n

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

Give us a link in the comments below so we can follow it back.<\/p>\n

Now, the two tables \u2013<\/p>\n

Table X<\/h2>\n
    \n
  1. Scooby-Doo<\/li>\n
  2. The Wheel of Time<\/li>\n
  3. Die Hard<\/li>\n
  4. Star Wars<\/li>\n
  5. Silence of the Lambs<\/li>\n
  6. Superman<\/li>\n
  7. Batman<\/li>\n
  8. The Martian<\/li>\n
  9. Godzilla<\/li>\n
  10. Friends<\/li>\n
  11. Gone Girl<\/li>\n
  12. Minecraft<\/li>\n
  13. Neuromancer<\/li>\n
  14. 50 Shades of Grey<\/li>\n
  15. X-Men<\/li>\n
  16. World War Z<\/li>\n
  17. Fast and the Furious<\/li>\n
  18. Sherlock Holmes<\/li>\n
  19. Police Academy<\/li>\n
  20. Alice in Wonderland<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Table Y<\/h2>\n
      \n
    1. Orphan Black<\/li>\n
    2. Paranormal Activity<\/li>\n
    3. Looney Tunes<\/li>\n
    4. Jonny Quest<\/li>\n
    5. Jurassic Park\/World<\/li>\n
    6. The Hunger Games<\/li>\n
    7. The Shining<\/li>\n
    8. Reservoir Dogs<\/li>\n
    9. Planet of the Apes<\/li>\n
    10. Gilmore Girls<\/li>\n
    11. Friday Night Lights<\/li>\n
    12. Dungeons & Dragons<\/li>\n
    13. Transformers<\/li>\n
    14. When Harry Met Sally<\/li>\n
    15. Rosemary’s Baby<\/li>\n
    16. The Muppets<\/li>\n
    17. The Last Starfighter<\/li>\n
    18. Mad Max<\/li>\n
    19. The Purge<\/li>\n
    20. The Fly<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      This’un is another of my favorite challenges, as it\u2019s always a hoot to see the results. Here’s how it works:\u00a0roll a d20 or use a\u00a0random number generator, once for each of the two tables below. (Or, if you really want, just pick two that tickle your pink parts.) Then, take each of the results and […]<\/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-28640","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-7rW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28640","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=28640"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28644,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28640\/revisions\/28644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}