Philedom Olympics 2011: Days 14 & 15: Icons! Fight Club!

[amalnahurriyeh]

83 points
wendelah1

82 points
heartequals

73 points
rustingwillpowr

65 points
littlegreen42

55 points
amalnahurriyeh

40 points
flourish

32 points
pukajen

26 points
yvi

25 points
st_aurafina

24 points
dustyasymptotes

10 points
ghostgum
joy_and_thunder
aurimae

2 points
red_eft

the points spreadsheet, if you want to double-check my math.



OK. Both I suck, and Time Warner Cable sucks for leaving me without internet for most of the day. Anyway.

For May 8, the challenge is to make an icon or banner for an XF fic. The fic doesn't need to be posted on Dreamwidth, but your icon or banner should. It doesn't have to be a fic of your own, or have to have been posted on Dreamwidth.

For May 9th, the challenge is to play in a game of XF Fight Club. (I have cribbed this game, in altered format, from the LJ community rememberlaura; all props go to icedteainthebag for inventing it, or at least putting it into my field of vision. Check it out as they play it here.)

Here's how to play:

1. Post a comment initiating a fight. Basically, you should propose two (or more) characters, episodes, scenarios, props, or other nouns-of-some-sort from the series that you want to have duke it out for victory, and also specify the category. Such as:

Freakiest Mutant: Flukeman vs. The Manbat
Liquid You Would Least Like To Encounter: Black Oil Vs. Scary Green Alien Blood Vs. Monkey Pee
Most Inappropriate-Yet-Hot Kiss: The Red And The Black Vs. The Truth

2. Comment on threads supporting your preferred position. As icedteainthebag says, "Propaganda, vote rigging, bitching, infighting, slurs, anger, mudslinging, macros, and polite discussion are welcome." (Let's try to have two basic principles: 1) Do not actually insult your fellow players, and 2) Assume that things being said are being said in good humor. Let's try not to create a wankstorm.)

3. In tomorrow's post, I will announce THE WINNERS based on number of comments on each side.

4. Points: you get 3 points for initiating a fight, 2 points per comment contributing to it, and, as always, you max out at 10 points.

The game will end...well, when I post the tallies tomorrow, so around 24 hours from now. Assuming the cable gods are with me. *shakes fist*

Comments

[amalnahurriyeh]

I actually want to fight this one out:

Most Inappropriate-Yet-Hot Kiss: The Red And The Black Vs. The Truth

*dammit, why don't I have my Mulder/Krycek icon over here???*

[wendelah1]

I would argue that Krycek kissing Mulder is the most inappropriate kiss. I remember thinking that it seemed to come out of left field (no slash glasses here, sorry). On the other hand, Mulder kissing Scully after being reunited seemed appropriate, even expected. If you think you are going to be executed at dawn, kissing the woman you love is what you do, because you might never have another chance.

As far as hotness, goes I think the Mulder/Krycek comes up short. It was a kiss on the cheek, it was entirely one-sided as far as I could tell. If Krycek had kissed him on the lips...

The kiss in The Truth was smoldering hot, objectively speaking. They looked like they were into it. They looked like they had their tongues shoved down each other's throats, frankly. Good acting, no doubt.

Hot as that kiss was, I thought the hand-kissing was even hotter. I LOVE hand-kissing. There should be more of it in fanfiction.

[heartequals]

I don't even know if I could call The Red and The Black kiss hot, it was just so wtf. And I had slash goggles implanted in my eyeballs so I wouldn't have to waste time putting them on. But that kiss. wtf.

[rustingwillpowr]

I vote for The Truth, mostly because poor Skinner is standing in the background with nothing to do.



I feel uncomfortable for Skinner, which in turn makes me feel uncomfortable for watching them myself.

[rustingwillpowr]

I'm not sure if I get the concept on this one until I see it played out, but I'll give it a shot:

Funniest Song Moment: Scully (Joy to the World [Jeremiah Was a Bullfrog]) vs. Mulder (Theme from Shaft) vs. Reyes (Whalesong)

[heartequals]

ahahaha holy shit I was just about to ask this EXACT question. I'm gonna throw my weight behind Mulder because Scully's performance was more cute than anything and I'm not sure how intentionally Reyes' whalesong was supposed to be. If I could be sure that it was totally just CC dicking with us then yeah, Reyes all the way, but she's just so damn earnest!

[amalnahurriyeh]

I would just like to point out that the common thread to all three of these moments is the look on Scully's face as they occur. It's the Jesus fuck what did I do wrong in my last life to deserve this bullshit look. She wears it a lot.

I'm voting whalesong, because the other two made sense in context.

[lilacsigil]

I vote whalesong because WTF no, Monica!

(also, Mulder DID NOT!) (Anyway, he was drugged.)

[maybe_amanda]

Shaft.

Totally.

[rustingwillpowr]

I kinda wanna go with Mulder on this one, but I just HAFTA go with whalesong. It's embarrassing AND funny.

We're talkin' 'bout Shaft

[wendelah1]

Lord help me but this man is pretty.

[heartequals]

Worst Mulder family death: Samantha vs William vs Teena vs Fox

[wendelah1]

Well, worst in what sense? Worst written? Samantha's death wasn't proved, was it? Starlight? Disappearing from a locked room is totally bogus (how do you do that, by the way? Lock a room in a hospital from the outside? Improbable if not impossible.) so that's questionable to begin with. Teena Mulder committed suicide for no very good reason that I can see, but she did stay dead. Ditto for Bill. Of course, why was he killed? I mean, why then? Why not years earlier, say when he voted against the project? Still and all I vote for Fox because he died, was buried and and then came back from the dead! Which was the cheesiest do-over in tv history in my humble opinion. I hate fake deaths that put the viewers through a wringer for nothing.

[littlegreen42]

Fox Mulder, because he didn't just die and come back from the dead once, he did it multiple times: "The Blessing Way," "Gethsemane" (okay, he faked his own death, but still), "Monday," and, well, the aptly titled "DeadAlive." It reminds me of something I read on Television Without Pity: "Do you remember that time Mulder died? Or that other time Mulder died? Or that other other time Mulder died?"

[flourish]

Samantha. Worst written. Least interesting solution to her death EVER POSSIBLE. WHY.

[rustingwillpowr]

Samantha. Unsatisfying resolution to that storyline for me.

[littlegreen42]

Best Mulder nickname:

Spooky vs. Monster Boy

[wendelah1]

How can there be any doubt? JUST LOOK AT THAT FACE!?!



"Do you think I'm spooky?"

[amalnahurriyeh]

You know what? I'm going with Spooky, because it's a name he actually was given by other people, while Monster Boy is Mulder being sulky and self-pitying, and while that's often hilarious, it's a little schmucky.

[maybe_amanda]

Spooky. I even named my dog that.

[rustingwillpowr]

Spooky!

[lilacsigil]

Best Informer:

Deep Throat vs Mr X vs Marita Covarrubias!

[heartequals]

MR X

HE WROTE HIS SUCCESSOR'S NAME IN HIS OWN FREAKING BLOOD AS HE WAS DYING. BAMF OF THE FREAKING CENTURY.

[rustingwillpowr]

X really, truly scared me back in the day. He get's my vote.

[heartequals]

FAIL. Trying again.

Most Gratuitous Nudity: Skinner shirtless vs Scully robeless (pilot) vs Reyes shirtless

[flourish]

Skinner shirtless.