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???*

[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]

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

[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.

[littlegreen42]

Best Mulder nickname:

Spooky vs. Monster Boy

[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.

[wendelah1]

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



"Do you think I'm spooky?"

[lilacsigil]

I vote whalesong because WTF no, Monica!

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

[lilacsigil]

Best Informer:

Deep Throat vs Mr X vs Marita Covarrubias!

[heartequals]

FAIL. Trying again.

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

[heartequals]

MR X

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

[flourish]

Skinner shirtless.

[flourish]

Er, that posted before I could point out:



The shirtlessness had a plot excuse, and I guess so TECHNICALLY did the pantslessness, but seriously, TELL ME THAT WAS JUSTIFIED OTHER THAN TO SHOW US MITCH PILEGGI'S MR CLEAN MUSCLES.

[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?"

[amalnahurriyeh]

LET ME JUST SECOND THIS.

[amalnahurriyeh]

EW
BLARGH
YUCK

BRB, HAVING SERIOUS ATTACK OF LESBIANISM

[amalnahurriyeh]

Shirtless Reyes. Because why? Because it was a character establishing moment, and set the trend for Monica basically running around in sexy undies on camera for a whole season. Whereas Scully got naked once, and we didn't see an inch of skin again until like season 7.

The less said about naked Skinner, the better.

I would like to point out that Speedo!Mulder should absofuckinglutely be on this list.

[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.

[heartequals]

EXCUSE YOU NAKED SKINNER DESERVES ALL THE WORDS IN THE WORLD. I say this impartially.

I forgot speedo!Mulder, fuck. I KNEW he has a gratuitous nudity moment aghhhhh. Fail. Am I allowed to retroactively add him as an option? Because that is an important option.

Which leads me to my other question, are the question-askers allowed to argue for one side or another on their own question? Or do they have to remain neutral?

[flourish]

Scully's tits when she has to get them out because NEED TO WIRE MYSELF FOR CSM SPYIN' are actually I think the most gratuitous moment on the whole series. It's the most gratuitous because they were like HEY IT'S SEASON SEVEN WE FORGOT HOW TO WRITE TELEVISION EXCUSE ME WHILE WE SHOW YOU SOME TITS.

[flourish]

Skinner is basically the most beefcakey manly man of manly manlitude ever.

Those of us who enjoy beefcakeitude can inform you that this picture is 100% necessary. Here, have another!



Ahhh, Skinner/Krycek goodness!

[flourish]

JUST TALKIN' BOUT SHAFT!

[flourish]

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

[flourish]

Thumbs up on Spooky!

Incidentally, there is an awesome classic x-files vid that I cannot remember the vidder on to "Spooky" by Dusty Springfield. So. WIN!