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.

[heartequals]

Which I guess is my argument for The Truth. Are we talking about the kiss where my pretend boyfriend Skinner was just chilling in the background? Because that was awesome.

[wendelah1]

Was there another kiss in The Truth? I think that has to be the one, but it's been awhile since I last watched. It was pretty epic, wasn't it? It certainly was the most torrid kiss between Moose and Squirrel that didn't end up on the cutting room floor.

I think slashers make a better case for Mulder/Krycek with the eye-sexing.

[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.